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Network Engineers and Developers Must Collaborate on WAN Applications |
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December 2, 2008 — A network manager's life would be so much simpler if he could just tell application developers how to write those pesky applications better... You've heard this one before. The enterprise spends a ton of cash building a super-important application. But when that application rolls out on the wide area network (WAN), the network manager's phone rings off the hook. End users are having a terrible experience with the new application. It takes forever to do anything, and transactions keep timing out... |
| OPNET Says It Helps Users Do More With Less |
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November 19, 2008 — Despite a dismal spending climate, companies and governments still need to run programs over their computer networks. OPNET (OPNT) CEO Marc Cohen is happy to help. OPNET Technologies, which makes software that ensures applications run smoothly, is one of the few small-cap software stocks holding up in the current downturn... |
| OPNET, Riverbed Share a Box |
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November 18, 2008 — As businesses become more distributed and the number of branch offices climbs, enterprise IT teams are becoming keen on reducing the number of appliances they have to deploy in each remote environment... |
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OPNET Tech to Sustain Growth |
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October 27, 2008 — OPNET Technologies, Inc. (OPNT) is a provider of management software for networks and applications. OPNET focuses on analytics rather than managing and reporting, where traditional management tools focus. With its analytical capabilities, OPNET solutions provide powerful modeling tools to rapidly troubleshoot and resolve performance problems and even prevent problems before they occur... |
| What do you think of OPNET's ACE Live/Analyst? |
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October 7, 2008 — This week we turn our spotlight on OPNET customers to gather their opinions of the ACE application performance management solutions they use. Since OPNET is an old timer with thousands of customers ranging from the FDA to GEICO, we anticipate a lively exchange... |
| OPNET Ranked in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program |
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September 24, 2008 — Winners are selected based on percentage revenue growth over five years from 2003 to 2007. To be considered, Technology Fast 50 entrants must: have operating revenues of at least $50,000 in 2003 and at least $5,000,000 in 2007; be headquartered in Maryland; be a "technology company," defined as a company that owns proprietary technology that contributes to a significant portion of its operating revenues; or devotes a significant proportion of revenues to the research and development of technology.... |
| Broader Panorama handles bigger deployments |
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September 1, 2008 — Too often, enterprise developers are charged with monitoring their deployed applications for faults and usage spikes. Too often, they find it hard to gather data proactively across very large server deployments, so their job becomes forensics on crashed applications rather than monitoring of apps in trouble... |
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Healthy VoIP Nets—Part XXXVII—Network Management Architectures: OPNET |
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August 5, 2008 — OPNET Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, is a provider of solutions for managing networks and applications, with products supporting four key areas: application performance management, network operations, capacity management, and network research and development... |
| Riverbed's partnership spree yields manageability, security gains
Microsoft, OPNET and NetScout are among Riverbed's latest partners |
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July 31, 2008 — Riverbed Technology last week announced the latest in a string of partnerships designed to strengthen the company's WAN optimization offerings (Compare Application Acceleration and WAN Traffic Optimization products). Its new deal with Microsoft is aimed at improving the performance of Windows applications and protocols..... |
| OPNET Named 2008 WiMAX Distinction Award Winner |
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June 30, 2008 — Technology Marketing Corporation, an integrated global media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online, announced winners of its first WiMAX Distinction Award presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. The 2008 WiMAX Distinction Awards have been granted to companies who were able to demonstrate a commitment to innovation in the WiMAX space... |
| Riverbed, OPNET partner to give better WAN visibility |
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June 24, 2008 — Riverbed is teaming up with OPNET to give customers greater insight into what's happening on the WAN so they can better plan for bandwidth and resolve service-level agreement issues more quickly with service providers... |
| WiMAX Forum Debuts New Certified Training Course at WiMAX Forum Global Congress |
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June 5, 2008 — The WiMAX Forum today introduced its new certified training course, the WiMAX Forum Core Network Engineer Certification Boot Camp™, the first of which will be held during the WiMAX Forum Global Congress in Amsterdam from June 16-19, 2008. The training session will provide hands-on experience with WiMAX™ core-network equipment while providing the WiMAX ecosystem with verifiably trained and qualified staff from the only training course series endorsed by the WiMAX Forum... |
| OPNET Ranked in The Washington Post 200 |
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May 12, 2008 — The Post 200 starts with a list of the 100 largest public companies with headquarters in the District and its suburbs. The other half of the list is made up of many of the largest private companies, banks and nonprofit groups headquartered in the metropolitan area, as well as the region's largest employers, law firms and lobbying organizations... |
| Riverbed Partners to Provide Best-of-Breed Network Visibility |
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May 5, 2008 — Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced that it is expanding its partner ecosystem and alliances with select visibility partners within the Riverbed Technology Alliance (RTA). Working together, Riverbed and partners AlterPoint, OPNET, Mazu Networks, NetDialog, and SolarWinds provide enterprises with complementary and compatibility-tested solutions to develop a comprehensive, best-of-breed strategy for managing their global business... |
| Is User Monitoring The Next Wave In Enterprise App Management? |
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April 26, 2008 — Large enterprises have spent mountains of cash tracking how their complex, multitier applications perform while traversing the network. But unless you're managing end-user data at the packet level, you're not getting the full picture of how customers and employees are affected by performance degradations—and when it comes right down to it, all the high-level metrics in the world don't matter if end users are lighting up the help desk complaining of sluggish performance while customers abandon their shopping carts... |
| OPNET introduces .NET support in Panorama |
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April 16, 2008 — A mature Java EE application analytics and monitoring solution has been ported to Microsoft's .NET platform. OPNET Technologies made OPNET Panorama 5.0 generally available on March 25. For the first time, Panorama provides life-cycle performance management for .NET and Java, as well as Java environments within multi-tier infrastructures.... |
| Wall Street Expanding Virtual Horizons |
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April 7, 2008 — Virtualization, in one form or another, has been around almost as long as computers. When the term arose in the 1960s, it referred to the partitioning of mainframe computers. But virtualization soon became a way to let people stop worrying about the inner workings of their hardware... |
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| Cool Technology of the Week |
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April 3, 2008 — One of the challenges of being a CIO is the "application is slow, can you fix it" phone call. Generally, the network is blamed first, but there are many layers that all need to be examined - desktop, network, server, storage, database, active directory, internet service provider etc. For example, a complaint about email slowness can be caused by a multitude of factors... |
| OPNET Nominated for SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal's "Readers' Choice Awards" OPNET IT Guru Systems Planner VM Quick Predict Nominated for Best Virtualization Platform Capacity Planning |
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March 11, 2008 — With IT Guru Systems Planner Virtual Machine Quick Predict (VMQP), users can quickly predict the performance impact of server consolidation and P2V virtualization, enabling IT enterprises to make qualified decisions and investments regarding virtualization. IT Guru Systems Planner VMQP features guided workflows for users to assess the workload of current servers, and predict whether resources can be utilized more efficiently through virtualization... |
| Network monitoring and management market shakedown Vendors scramble to provide suites of tools to do it all |
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March 11, 2008 — Consolidation is the order of the day in the network monitoring and management market. Companies are either building or buying technology to manufacture comprehensive software suites that can address more and more functions. Network fault vendors are adding performance management capabilities and protocol analysis players want to beef their network knowledge... |
| Solution Helps AEGON Transfer Files Globally |
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March 1, 2008 — Considering the heightened state of security that exists in the post-9/11 world, few people would relish the prospect of getting unusual-looking electronic equipment to pass through customs unimpeded on a regular basis. Gary Bales, a senior programmer and analyst for the investment group of The Hague, Netherlands-based life insurer AEGON, certainly doesn't... |
| More management vendors take on virtualization Virtualization is the latest technology every management vendor touts as its most recent must-have feature |
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February 27, 2008 — Management software makers never get a moment's rest. As soon as a new technology takes off, they must get to work ramping up their management suites to tackle availability, fault and performance for the leading-edge trend. Virtualization is the latest disruptive technology that every management vendor is touting as its most recent must-have feature — meaning their applications can manage, optimize, provision, protect and care for virtual environments... |
| OPNET Announces Enhanced Capability for Ensuring Successful Server Virtualization Initiatives
IT Guru Systems Planner Release 14.5 Accelerates Planning for Virtual Server Deployments |
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February 21, 2008 — OPNET Technologies announced new capabilities for IT Guru Systems Planner, a software solution for managing systems capacity across physical and virtual servers. This latest release introduces Virtual Machine Quick Predict (VMQP) to quickly predict the performance impact of server consolidation and virtualization, enabling IT enterprises to make qualified decisions and investments regarding virtualization... |