Service providers and enterprises must be able to monitor the health of their networks, as well as the services and applications they deliver over those infrastructures, if they are to ensure end-user quality and satisfaction. To do this, they must be able to collect performance data from an often growing and complex network and applications architecture consisting of multivendor network equipment and a variety of protocols and application types including wireless.

What’s needed is a robust yet flexible IT performance management framework that can scale to support the largest, most complex IT infrastructures, and chart, analyze and report on these dynamic environments, as well as application traffic, in real time.

InfoVista’s VistaFoundation® provides a platform for unified network and service performance management—and specifically for InfoVista’s VistaInsight® for Networks, VistaInsight® for Servers, and VistaInsight® for IP Telephony solutions. The platform provides the ability to:

• Collect network, service and application performance data from virtually any resource in large, complex network and IT infrastructures
• Instantly discover new or reconfigured IT resources when changes are made to network and application server environments
• Associate services to the underlying resources that support them, thereby helping to more readily identify bottlenecks and other causes of service disruption
• Present actionable information on service performance within a dynamic portal environment
• Support critical network performance management capabilities, such as network troubleshooting, capacity monitoring, service level monitoring and customer reporting
• Comprehensively interface with broadband access, mobile data, VPN and WAN optimization service environments

It also interoperates with InfoVista’s 5View™ Service Data Manager application performance management platform to provide a unified perspective on NetFlow monitoring, application monitoring, and application response time management.