Network Analytics: Evaluating Solutions. Extracting Value.

Network Analytics: Evaluating Solutions. Extracting Value.

This IDC Perspective discusses the importance of network analytics. Visibility and control have become vital across all areas of IT — from networking to computing, from security to development, from operations to engineering, and from problem resolution to business innovation. In-depth information and insights within singular technology areas (e.g., networking) and across multiple disciplines (e.g., NetOps and SecOps) enable infrastructure and application to work in concert cost effectively — providing for not only high-quality service capabilities and levels but also ready adaption to new demands and changes driven by accelerating digital business road maps. Network analytics performs a vital role in ensuring the network is not only resilient but also ready for anything. To deliver on the full promise of network analytics, solutions and solution suppliers must be judged across a wide variety of both technical and practical criteria. The comprehensive solution results from a complete examination."The move to the digital business model has heightened the criticality of the network infrastructure. No longer simply serving internal workers, the network is now serving smart end devices, external partners, and end customers directly. In addition, the network is required to support onrushing digital innovation, bringing more technologies, sites, connections, threats, traffic, and workloads to the network infrastructure. Here, advanced network analytics solutions — both systems and services —serve to bolster the integrity and impact of on-premises network components, public communications and cloud services, and networking and IT staff and teamwork. The challenge is matching the right solution and supplier to all your present and future network and digital demands."— Mark Leary, research director, Network Analytics and Automation, IDC.

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