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INTERVIEW
Savvius develops a range of hardware and software
solutions designed to improve network performance and
enable organisations to analyse, troubleshoot, optimise,
and secure their networks. With 25 years of experience in
the fields of network performance, diagnostics and forensic
investigations, Savvius is at the forefront of analytics.
What have been the most significant industry
changes over the past five years?
Over the past five years we’ve witnessed several
technological innovations that have, and will continue to
shape the industry for many years to come. These include
mobile computing and cellular data (continuous interactive
connectivity), virtual machines, cloud computing (such as
SDN) and the ubiquity of cloud services (e.g. SaaS); wireless
networks as the first hop to the infrastructure, network speed
increases, IoT where people and ‘things’ are connected and
security where more devices, bring more availability but also
more vulnerabilities.
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What are the main challenges for your sector?
As networks become faster and more data-intensive,
one of the main challenges for Network Performance
Monitoring (NPM) vendors has been the ability to develop
network forensics tools. These provide visibility and
actionable data to help IT teams diagnose and troubleshoot
network issues while providing insight into security
investigations. A great deal of expertise is required to build
solutions that can automate the collection and storage of
the right packet data for these tasks.
In addition, as new requirements such as GDPR are
introduced in Europe, vendors, and enterprises, of all sizes
will find it difficult to stay in front of these changing privacy
and security laws. Other challenges for the NPM market
include the difficulty of automating network performance
monitoring while maintaining visibility and, providing
actionable analytics while ensuring overall network security.
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Optimised
connectivity
By Larry Zulch, President & CEO,
Savvius Inc
www.savvius.com
In an evolving industry with
heavier data demands network
performance is more important
than ever
Where do you see the data centre industry
heading in the future?
In the future, we believe that the number of data centres
will start to decline as operations move from on-premise
facilities to huge data centres run by cloud service providers.
These service providers will face increasing pressure to offer
reliable, high-speed access to data, with dynamic service
flexibility to easily ramp capacity up or down for clients. As
the surviving data centre operators grow, they will need to
provide improved analytics, controls and transparency. Data
centres that provide better QoS and SLA transparency will
have a competitive advantage. There will also continue to be
a growing need for big data analytics capabilities, and data
security will be of paramount importance.
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What will be the market drivers for the future?
In Europe especially, the rollout of GDPR will certainly
be one driver of investment in new tools and solutions. Apart
from regulatory changes, the importance of keeping up with
network speeds and the volume of network transactions will
only grow, and network downtime will become even more
expensive, and damaging, to business.
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