New Challenges for IT

The number of business-critical applications is growing and the application architectures are increasingly distributed, resulting in greater dependency on the network for effective, reliable application delivery. In addition, due to security, regulatory, and economic considerations, enterprises are deploying initiatives such as data center consolidation, virtualization, and WAN optimization, to maximize the value of their IT investments.

The Cisco Network Application Performance Analysis (NAPA) solution responds to these challenges by helping you:

• Monitor application performance levels
• Accelerate problem detection and resolution with intelligent troubleshooting
• Preempt performance issues with threshold-based, proactive alerts
• Effectively apply control and optimization mechanisms, such as QoS and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS), to improve application performance
• Gain detailed insight into network performance, while undertaking initiatives such as new application roll-out, WAN optimization, and data center consolidation

Solution Benefits

The Cisco NAPA Solution uses the intelligence inherent in your Cisco network to provide a broad view of both network and application performance. It offers advanced application performance analytics and network-aware mediation capabilities that transform performance data into actionable information for network managers.

Benefits of Cisco NAPA include:

• Improved application performance
• Increased operational efficiency and productivity
• Reduced application delivery risk
• Access to Cisco Advanced Services

Featured Products:

Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM)
The Cisco NAM is a core component of the NAPA solution. The NAM portfolio offers network-aware instrumentation and mediation for performance monitoring, traffic analysis, and troubleshooting throughout your Cisco network.

Cisco Advanced Services

Cisco offers a suite of services to supplement enterprise expertise. These services enable enterprises to effectively utilize the Cisco network application performance analysis solutions in support of deployment of new services, applications and technologies, tune performance, properly size capacity to support planned growth, achieve service level compliance, and ensure network survivability and robust security.

Services include:

• Application Performance Troubleshooting
• Application Performance Optimization
• Performance and Capacity Management
• Cisco NAM Deployment

All of these services are custom scoped transactional services and delivered under Cisco Statement of Work. Availability of these customer scoped services varies by region. Contact your local Cisco account manager about availability in your area.