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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics

Published: 01 February 2016

Summary

NPMD solutions play a key role in helping IT ops support increasingly complex technologies and services with network visibility, detection of performance issues and root cause analysis. Vendors continue to innovate with operational analytics, integrated GUIs and more flexible deployment options.

Included in Full Research

  • Vendor Strengths and Cautions
    • Automic
    • CA Technologies
    • Cisco
    • Corvil
    • Flowmon Networks
    • Genie Networks
    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    • InfoVista
    • NetScout Systems
    • NetScout Systems (Fluke Networks)
    • Niksun
    • Paessler
    • Riverbed
    • SevOne
    • SolarWinds
    • Viavi Solutions
  • Vendors Added and Dropped
    • Added
    • Dropped
  • Product-Related Criteria
  • Non-Product-Related Criteria
  • Ability to Execute
  • Completeness of Vision
  • Quadrant Descriptions
    • Leaders
    • Challengers
    • Visionaries
    • Niche Players
  • NPMD: A Mature Market Evolves in Response to New Demands
    • SNMP Polling
    • Flow-Based Technology
    • Packet-Based Technology
  • Adjacent and Overlapping Markets
    • Application Performance Monitoring
    • Infrastructure Monitoring
    • IT Operations Analytics
    • Network Packet Brokers

Analysts:

Sanjit Ganguli,  Vivek Bhalla

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