Delaware-based SevOne, Inc. is making waves with its new flagship offering, SevOne Performance Appliance Solution (PAS). PAS is a performance management solution designed to significantly lower product costs, increase reporting speed and scale to encompass millions of network elements.

 
The solution is based on a peer-to-peer architecture, a design that SevOne CEO Michael Phelan believes sets his company’s solution apart, and enables PAS to more rapidly collect data, while enhancing scalability and raising performance levels.
 
“Legacy performance management systems fail to scale,” Phelan explained, “because of high cost and because their distributed architecture is based around hierarchical models and not on modern Peer-2-Peer and grid concepts. Thus they lack the scalability to meet the demands of SOA-based applications where more real-time awareness is needed.”
 
The appliance was created to answer network managers’ needs by delivering real-time information to enable them to keep their networks and applications up and running. According to company officials, the device leverages three key technological elements: SNMP to track performance and analyze data; flow-based technologies to drill down to the level of individual conversations; and Cisco’s (News - Alert) IP SLA solution, which enables SevOne to create and graph end-to end network measurements, thus providing a validation of performance.
 
Hawaiian Telcom, that state’s leading telecommunications provider, offering local and long distance service, high-speed Internet, and wireless services to more than 500,000 island residences and businesses, has standardized on the company’s Performance Appliance Solution. The solution enables a more proactive approach to monitoring and management of the network’s capacity for growth. It also allows Hawaiian Telcom to meet its service level agreements to businesses, and reduce churn among its residential customer base.
 
The solution offers network managers real-time visibility into the status of any network element, as well as enabling administrators to log into any SevOne appliance and retrieve data from across the entire IT infrastructure.
 
Based on the open SOAP API, each appliance offers up to one full year of detailed data storage capacity as well as rapid feature customization.
 
Jay Scott performance engineer at Alere, believes that one key benefit is the ability to rapidly arrive at the information network managers are seeking.
 
“With SevOne’s Quick Status View, administrators can jump on the system and if they’re questioning the health of a particular server, all they have to do is type in the device to get CPU utilization, memory driver, traffic patterns and other reports. From there it’s pretty much point-and-click on what you want to look at or drill down on.”
 
The SevOne Performance Appliance is currently shipping with pricing that starts under $25,000.
 
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