| Industrial-Strength Customer Support OPNET's Application & Network Management |
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December 28, 2007 -- Imagine a multinational enterprise that relies heavily upon Web applications for its business. Visualize, moreover, that performance issues with one of these Web applications begins to affect customer access to information and services. As many CIOs and network managers understand instinctively and intimately, the process of identifying and resolving performance problems that involve sophisticated, multitier applications can be extremely difficult indeed; the process at times can be akin to searching for the proverbial "needle in a haystack."... |
| Testing IP Communications, Inside and Out |
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November 2007 -- Interaction among devices in a network topology determines service quality. Network elements are wildly different in nature: IP phones, soft phones, routers, switches, firewalls, gateways, session border controller, applications session controllers, etc. Therefore, the testing of individual devices is only useful up to a point... |
| The connection between management and performance Assessment of an application prior to deployment can help prevent problems |
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November 2007 -- When an application performance problem arises, many users and IT staff generally assume, "It must be the network." Frequently, however, the problem is not network-related, and hit-and-miss troubleshooting efforts waste valuable time and resources. Meanwhile, performance continues to suffer... |
| OPNET acquires Network Physics for $10 million | |
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October 22, 2007 -- Network management vendor OPNET on Monday announced it has acquired Network Physics for $10 million in a deal that will give OPNET the tools it needs to manage end-to-end application performance... |
| OPNET Ranked in America's 200 Best Small Companies List by Forbes |
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October 11, 2007 -- Our 200 Best Small Companies in America must pass through a gauntlet to qualify for the list. We judged candidates--all with revenue of $5 million to $750 million and share prices above $5 as of Oct. 1--according to return on equity, as well as sustained sales and net profit growth over 12-month and five-year periods. Too much debt, signs of a downturn in the future or a whiff of legal troubles are all disqualifiers... |
| OPNET Featured in Forbes.com |
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October 11, 2007 -- If you believe that the network trend still has legs, consider shares of a smaller company on the software side: OPNET Technologies (nasdaq: OPNT - news - people ). The Bethesda, Md., outfit ranks 167 on our list of America's 200 Best Small Companies, published Thursday. |
| Vendors On Call..And You Didn't Even Buy Their Software |
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October 03, 2007 -- Established software vendor OPNET Technologies has taken an interesting approach to help organizations solve the vexing problems of application performance management. While nearly all of the big enterprise software vendors are trying to solve this problem by selling software, OPNET launched a service called STAR 24 (Special Team for Application Responsiveness)... |
| Add Wireless Access Throughout Your SME With Careful Planning & The Right Tools, Employees Can Unplug Safely |
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September 21, 2007 -- The pace of business has steadily been driving demand for wireless within an enterprise, as executives seek to use Internet-connected laptops during meetings and employees appreciate the ability to check PDAs and other devices from anywhere within a building... |
| OPNET's New IPv6 Planning and Operations Module | |
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September 6, 2007 -- OPNET recently released a new IPv6 Planning and Operations module with several facilities for facilitating IPv6 implementations. This module is an add-on to its IT Guru Network Planner and SP Guru Network Planner modeling applications... |
| U.S. agencies: More application testing needed | |
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August 29, 2007 -- Two U.S. government agencies are embracing performance-engineering processes and application testing throughout the development cycle as a way to avoid costly fixes after deployment, officials there said Wednesday... |
| OPNETWORK is a class act |
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August 30, 2007 -- OPNET has a new IPv6 planning and analysis module for their network modeling platform, and invited me to their OPNETWORK technology conference to get some hands-on time with it. I'll report on my experiences with the tool in the next post; but I was so surprised and impressed by the conference itself, I'd like to first tell you about that... |
| OPNET wins Air Force net-centric subcontract | |
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July 2007 -- OPNET has won a $5 million subcontract from NCI Information Systems Inc. to assist the Air Force with network analysis and related requirements. Under the subcontract terms, OPNET of Bethesda, Md., will conduct network and application performance assessments at 27 Air Force bases over the next three years using its off-the-shelf software and best practice methodologies... |
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| OPNET Ranked in The Post 200 | |
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May 14, 2007 -- The Post 200 starts with a list of the 125 largest public companies with headquarters in the District and its suburbs. Completing the 200 are the 20 largest financial institutions in Maryland, Virginia and the District; the 15 largest private companies headquartered in the metro area; and the 20 largest public companies each in Maryland and Virginia with headquarters outside the metro area... |
| Ensuring a Successful IPv6 Transition with OPNET | |
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March 2007 -- Over the past few years, organizations have been anticipating the need to migrate their current IPv4 network infrastructure to IPv6. For many, the time has finally arrived. The availability of IPv4 32-bit network addresses is significantly constrained and, as a result, the US Office of Management and Budget has mandated that all government agencies be IPv6 compliant by June 2008... |
| Interview
with Marc Cohen, OPNET CEO, featured in Network Computing Achieving an End-to-End View of Application Performance |
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February 2007 -- OPNET defines application performance management and optimization more broadly than most solution vendors. The end-to-end performance of networked applications depends on complex interactions among applications, servers, and networks. Effective application performance management requires taking a true "end-to-end" view by understanding the application from these multiple perspectives... |