11 July 2017

Savvius says its new Spotlight application provides visibility into the specific information needed to significantly reduce MTTR of network issues. 

Available as an option on the firm’s Omnipliance T300, M200 and C100 devices, Spotlight is also available as what Savvius describes as a “high-performance” standalone 1U appliance (pictured).

According to the firm, up until now network monitoring and management products were “limited” to presenting summary information based either on aggregated packet-level metrics or on one-sided flow data that were missing critical measurements such as quality and latency. 

It says Spotlight takes advantage of “dramatic” increases in compute capability now available in the Omnipliances range to apply packet-based expert analysis to every single flow in the monitored traffic, even when hundreds of thousands of flows are being created each second.

The new application has been designed to specifically identify the poorest-performing aspects of a network by assembling two-way flows and evaluating each one for TCP quality, VoIP quality, application latency, network latency, and more. It allows IT teams to intuitively map and navigate the network, enabling them to zoom in on specific segments or poor-performing servers or nodes with actionable details for faster MTTR.

Savvius says Spotlight also has applications for network security. It can sift through millions of flows in real-time to identify any that violate IT policies or have characteristics deemed suspicious or worth investigating. Users can gain instant visibility of traffic to or from any IP address, and focus on flows of greatest interest by defining filters. They can then instantly home in on trouble spots, and use a single-click ‘Investigate’ button (on the Omnipliance) for packet-level forensic investigations.