cPacket
Networks today announced cClear technology for performance monitoring
and optimization across physical and virtual realms of modern networks.
This becomes increasingly important with the trend toward application
delivery in the cloud, which poses new operational challenges of more
distributed, virtual, and complex infrastructure. cClear is the first
unified solution for real-time monitoring in mixed environments of
physical and virtual resources.
"While
virtual networks enable flexible resource allocation, efficient use of
these resources depends on the underlying physical implementation," said
Dr. Rony Kay, founder and CEO of cPacket. "Optimizing data centers
requires correlated performance metrics across the virtual overlays and
physical network connectivity. Also troubleshooting of intermittent
applications requires insight into specific traffic in the virtual
tunnels. Therefore, unified real-time visibility across both the virtual
and physical boundaries becomes a must."
Existing
network performance monitoring tools only provide limited information
of average link utilization, which masks reliability issues like
bottlenecks, spikes, microbursts, jitter, and inconsistent user
experience. cClear is the first technology to provide a correlated
performance mapping of physical links, virtual tunnels, and applications
behavior in real-time.
cPacket's
unique hardware-software architecture delivers advanced analytics and
real-time visibility beyond what was previously possible. At the heart
of this novel architecture are cPacket's Smart Ports, which are
high-speed and cost-effective distributed sensors based on the company's
algorithmic chip. cClear technology correlates information from
multiple Smart Ports to identify intricate dependencies between the
virtual overlays and the underlying physical network connectivity.
Having a granular view of the performance of both the physical and
virtual environments allows network managers to monitor traffic
behaviors, identify critical bottlenecks, and make fact-driven
decisions.
cClear is available to existing customers of cPacket's cVu-NG devices and SPIFEE centralized dashboard at no additional charge.
"The
promise of virtualised networking is flexible and agile resource
allocation," said Dr. Kay. "But consistent application delivery depends
on solid understanding of actual traffic behavior. cPacket's new
technology provides a correlated performance mapping across cloudy
virtual and physical infrastructure to enable higher operational
efficiency and improved end-user experience."