WAN Governance

Full of emptiness?

Again, some good food from the Easynet and Ipanema Technologies "Killer Apps 2012" survey. To the question "How often is your data network utilized to its full network transmission capacity?" only 17% of the respondent said "regularly". It is occasionally the case for 45% and very infrequently for 26% of them. And still, a large proportion (82%) acknowledges performance issues for their business critical applications.

This clearly indicates that network bandwidth is not the only problem (or solution) to application performance. Because of the growing dynamicity and unpredictability of the traffic, getting full real-time control about how the network resource is shared among the many applications and users across the enterprise is a key requirement to drive the IT with maximum efficiency while guaranteeing performance and productivity. Full of emptiness? May be not, rather full and empty at the same time…

Béatrice Piquer-Durand

Flying blind (Killer Apps 2012 survey)

67% of the 500+ respondents of the recent Easynet and Ipanema Technologies "Killer Apps 2012" survey (CIO, IT and Network managers) said they know how many applications are running across their corporate networks.

Nearly the same number of respondents (69%) said they don't know how much bandwidth each of these applications consumes.

The best interpretation we found of this apparent contradictory situation is that IT people know which applications are in use in their company… while they have no clue how they fly from the datacenter (or the cloud) to the branches where people make use of them.

In a way, enterprises know that they don't know… which is a good start. Application visibility, the first step of IT and WAN governance, remains a strategic need for IT managers who want to drive their IT with a clean and transparent wind shield…

Béatrice Piquer-Durand