NetDialog Overview

 The continued evolution of the Enterprise IT Landscape and the changing nature of how businesses and users interact and transact online has put increasing pressures on IT network performance and application infrastructures. As a result organizations acquire increasing levels of bandwidth from their service providers and introduce new generations of network devices in order to cope with growing network traffic and an ever-increasing number of third party applications. The following factors in particular contribute to this new challenge:

• End users are becoming more mobile and geographically dispersed, requiring more efficient and advanced remote access solutions as users require office-like (LAN) connectivity and security.
• A trend to consolidate data centers, leaving fewer global hubs and longer distances to end-point users (whether in an office or not).
• Companies run more and more web based applications, including Internet and Extranet solutions to improve efficiency in their business processes. The introduction of Software as a Service and ‘web 2.0’ bandwidth hungry applications such as video is accelerating the strain on the network to a level where business critical applications are being restricted by non-core applications or even applications being run for personal use.
• Outsourcing is a trend that has grown since the 90s, with major corporations outsourcing many parts of their IT systems. CIO’s are finding it more and more complicated to manage all outsourced applications and even more challenging to measure the efficiency of the applications. This has created the need for management of those applications and service providers.