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Network and Bandwidth Management, Monitoring & Reporting

Affordable, Easy-to-Use Network Performance Management

You've got a tough job. Your mission – which yes, you already chose to accept – is to deliver 100% availability of all network resources and to keep a close eye on the performance of every device, server and application in your infrastructure while, of course, everything is constantly changing. It's not easy. But if you could design a network monitoring solution to make your life easier, what would it be? Quick to set up? Elegantly simple to use? Scalable to accommodate your network growth? Supported by a global community of network engineers like you? And inexpensive?

SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) delivers award-winning fault and performance management that is built to affordably manage networks of all sizes with expandable modules and scalability engines. Orion NPM is available as an onsite monitoring solution or subscription based by TechnologyUS, starting with just one device.

Orion NPM enables you to quickly detect, diagnose and resolve network performance problems and outages. It offers out-of-the-box network-centric views that are designed to deliver the critical information network engineers need. And Orion NPM is the easiest product of its kind to use and maintain, meaning you will spend more time actually managing networks, not supporting Orion NPM. Orion NPM highlights include:

  • Monitors and analyzes real-time, in-depth network performance metrics for routers, switches, servers, and any other SNMP-enabled devices
  • Provides a highly intuitive, customizable web interface with point-and-click simplicity that supports multiple views by user and department, as well as cutting-edge map views and “Top 10” views of your global network
  • Gets you up and running in less than an hour with Orion NPM's do-it-yourself deployment
  • Enables advanced alerting for correlated events, sustained conditions, and complex combinations of device states
  • Scales to accommodate growth and management needs with a hot standby engine, multiple polling engines, and additional web servers
  • Extends management capabilities to NetFlow traffic analysis and monitoring of VoIP performance, wireless devices, applications and servers
  • Leverages a Universal Device Poller to monitor any SNMP-enabled device
  • Delivers integrated community support , delivering the assistance you need from thousands of network engineers on Thwack, SolarWinds community

TechnologyUS Orion NPM (PDF)

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The Barracuda Link Balancer routes and manages traffic across multiple Internet connections. Designed to scale for high bandwidth requirements and provide business continuity for an organization, the Barracuda Link Balancer optimizes the use of multiple Internet links, such as T1s, T3s, DSL and cable connections from one or multiple Internet service providers.

The Barracuda Load Balancer is a scalable and comprehensive solution for distributing network traffic across multiple servers. The Barracuda Load Balancer offers network administrators reliability, speed and security through session persistence with cookie data, SSL acceleration and network intrusion prevention.

Barracuda Link Balancer Barracuda Load Balancer
  • Aggregates Internet connection links
  • Automated failover
  • Bandwidth management
  • Quality of Service (QoS) for Internet applications
  • Traditional firewall
  • Sites with high traffic such as Web, FTP, streaming media
  • Hosted applications using thin-client architecture
  • Other IP services requiring optimal performanceincluding SMTP, DNS, RADIUS, and TFTP

Easy to Use The Barracuda Link Balancer combines numerous features to ensure available bandwidth from Internet connections. By aggregating client and server Internet bandwidth, the Barracuda Link Balancer provides optimal access to multiple high speed connections while automatic failover ensures reliable connectivity to any of the available Internet links. With bandwidth management and Quality of Service (QoS) features, the Barracuda Link Balancer prioritizes bandwidth to mission critical requests for Internet connectivity.

Link Balancer Architecture

The Barracuda Link Balancer features an easy-to-use Web user interface, creating an intuitive and cost-effective administration tool for the integrated hardware and software solution. The Web user interface allows administrators to define, manage and control bandwidth settings across the network.

By aggregating multiple Internet links from one or many ISPs, the Barracuda Link Balancer reduces the need to purchase multiple high speed and high cost links to handle the daily Internet usage.

The Barracuda Load Balancer’s integrated Service Monitor ensures that servers and their associated applications are operational. In the event of server or application failure, the Barracuda Load Balancer facilitates automatic failover to ensure continuous availability. The Barracuda Load Balancer also assists in orchestrating scheduled maintenance windows on specific servers while maintaining application availability through other servers in the server farm.

To mitigate risks associated with failures of the load balancers themselves, two Barracuda Load Balancers can be deployed in an active/passive configuration. In the event of failure of a primary active Barracuda Load Balancer, the secondary Barracuda Load Balancer will automatically activate and assume the identity of the primary load balancer so as to maintain application availability.

Load Balancer Architecture

The Barracuda Load Balancer is extremely easy to deploy, featuring automatic discovery and configuration tools through an intuitive Web interface. To minimize ongoing administration associated with security, the Barracuda Load Balancer automatically receives current intrusion prevention and security updates from Barracuda Central, an advanced 24/7 security operations center that works to continuously monitor and block the latest Internet threats.

The Barracuda Load Balancer also facilitates automatic configuration through a Web-based application programming interface (API) and system monitoring through SNMP.

While price and complexity have historically restricted some organizations from deploying load balancers, the Barracuda Load Balancer is designed for organizations of all sizes. With no per port or per server license fees, the Barracuda Load Balancer is the most affordable enterprise-grade load balancing solution in its class.

For further assistance or to start your company's Network and Bandwidth Management, Monitoring & Reporting, please contact a TechnologyUS sales representative at 858.427.4464 or Request a Demonstration