Networking Monitor Savvius Improves Visibility into Network Apps

Savvius, which has specialized in making networking operations instrumentation for nearly three decades, May 8 unveiled a new version of its frontline product that gives enterprises the ability to more effectively analyze and control network traffic generated by key business applications. Spotlight 2.0 can monitor a list of SaaS applications–including Office 365, Salesforce, Citrix and others–and custom applications written by in-house application teams. New user-defined dashboards in the platform allow IT professionals to view, in real time, the network segments or traffic types of greatest interest and then, if desired, drill down to packet-level analytics. In addition, Savvius said, Spotlight 2.0’s performance has been enhanced over previous versions, achieving more than 35 Gbps in a 1U appliance with four 10G interfaces. The changes in Version 2.0 improve Spotlight’s ability to assemble every packet of monitored network traffic into data streams that are analyzed in real time. Spotlight 2.0, with the ability to monitor SaaS apps, now enables users to define, name and have a network view of any application, including custom applications, that can be uniquely identified by a combination of port, protocol and server IP address.