What is Nexvu? (Nexvu Analyzer)

The Nexvu Analyzer is an extremely easy to deploy, agent-less software/appliance that provides unprecedented real-time visibility into the real and virtual IT network! It is like the traffic helicopter that watches all traffic on the (information) highway without introducing any of its own. It can identify bottlenecks, traffic jams, rogue activity, alternate routes, etc. from a single location!

Today, Nexvu has an industry-leading suite of network-based analyzers that offer the most comprehensive view of application and network performance management, detailed troubleshooting (OSI layers 2-7), root cause analysis, capacity planning, & proactive service level management for both the real and virtual network. Nexvu’s management platform collects, analyzes and correlates performance, health and utilization data across the monitored IT infrastructure, detects abnormalities, isolates the root cause and delivers early warnings of degrading performance before services are impacted - thereby ensuring that highest quality of User Experience & Employee Productivity and hence higher PROFITABILITY is consistently delivered across the enterprise.

Application response time, round-trip network delay, server responsiveness, database transactions per second and number of turns, are all attempts to measure how well an IT infrastructure is performing and some of the key metrics that Nexvu is collecting and analyzing. Immediate benefits of such a platform can be realized by measuring and base-lining the current user experience. More importantly, IT departments now have a way to determine if a notable change in a currently monitored metric, such as network utilization, or a major IT upgrade, is having an impact where it counts most -- the end-user.

This significantly enhanced visibility also enables IT organizations to mitigate risk from planned and unplanned changes, take measured & proactive steps to optimize application performance, effectively manage asset and energy utilization, compliance, security, business services & predictive analytics at the lowest possible cost.

The Nexvu Analyzer is also available as a virtual appliance in addition to the more commonly used physical appliance. Nexvu is a VMWare Technology Alliance Partner and is certified on VMware installations, i.e. the Nexvu Analyzer is available as a software appliance for VMWare applications. In this case, Nexvu passively monitors the network traffic on vNet and analyzes it for health, utilization and performance information. We are in the process of formally certifying Nexvu for Citrix's XenServer and Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization platform as well.

The key differentiating features of the Nexvu Analyzer include:

• Real-time measurement, monitoring and visualization of network-based applications
• Ultimate data granularity using NetFlow technology
• Discrete analysis of applications at each layer (2-7)
• Collection of over 35 unique metrics for every application - cost, health, utilization & performance
• Highly customizable alerts & reporting
• Out of the box support for 3000+ applications & protocols - with the ability to add custom protocols.

• Proactively monitor the performance, health and utilization of networks, applications and network based services against established service level agreements (SLAs).
• Plan and optimize purchase of technology resources such as network bandwidth, server hardware, application licenses and client devices.
• Engineer 'Network Friendly' Applications prior to deployment.
• Quickly isolate the source of production problems to the network, server or application.