Verax NMS is a highly scalable, integrated IT service assurance solution for cross-silos management & monitoring of networks, data centers, applications and clouds.

1. Verax Systems
IT Service Assurance with Verax NMS
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2. Verax NMS
Verax Network Management
System is a highly scalable IT service
assurance solution for integrated
management & monitoring of
networks, data centers, applications
and clouds
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3. Who is it for?
Metro Area Networks
National optical networks
Communication Service Providers (CSPs)
E-commerce and Web 2.0 services
Private WANs (utilities, banks, logistics)
Data centers
Cloud services and SaaS service providers
HealthCare / Pharmaceutical
Government and education
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4. Market state by analysts
The element-based network management era is over. Today,
network management teams need to manage and understand
network-related issues across silos such as servers, storage,
security, databases, and applications. They need to manage
complex and dynamic IP networks to connect customers,
vendors, and employees. Forrester sees the traditional network
management space becoming service-oriented: The attention is
on the service that is being delivered to the business.
Innovations such as IT automation and Web services
management techniques, and best practices such as ITIL, have
changed the network management market and will continue to
shape it in the years to come.
Forrester report on The Network Management Software Market
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5. NMS market overview by Verax Systems
Features
IBM
HP
Big Four
BMC CA
Verax
SolarWinds
IP Switch
Commercial
Paessler
OpenNMS
Nagios Open source
Cacti
Source: Internal Verax Systems Study TCO
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6. NMS market overview
• Event processing focused
• Support for IT automation via business rules
• Out of the box integration with other systems (e.g. trouble ticketing)
Big Four • Service orientation
• Extensibility via plugins (e.g. MPLS, cloud)
• Rich integration features
• Enterprise and telco grade scalability and stability
• Ease of installation and configuration
• Device monitoring with elements of service monitoring
• Intelligent monitoring (e.g. capable of monitoring of device elements despite
Commercial moving OIDs)
• Business aspects (better featured solutions)
• No extensibility
• Monitoring only
• Simple sensor oriented
• Limited scalability
Open source • Limited integration options
• No extensibility (only new sensors)
• No event processing
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7. Benefits of Integrated Service Assurance Solution
Businesses experiencing IT downtime can cause as much as
5% of annual revenues loss
Integrated Service Assurance solution can help to increase IT
availability reducing the loss by 80%
Other benefits include:
Improved operational efficiency
Automated calculation of IT service metrics for
availability and performance
Automation of repeatable tasks for improved
operational efficiency
Gathering of infrastructure business intelligence input in
order to facilitate better decision making
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8. Key differentiators
First NMS designed for ease of use and high user experience
developed in the Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology
Integrated solution for applications, systems and networks
Service focused - enables operators to view status of their
business services (e.g. an internet store) rather than individual
components
Flexibility:
device plugins
user-configurable business reports
user-defined business rules
Vendor independent: rich library of plugins (more than 1900 types
of devices and application) ranging from CISCO routers to IBM
WebSphere application servers
SOA-ready for integration with third party systems directly or via
ESB products
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9. For more information on
Verax NMS please visit:
veraxsystems.com/en/products/nms
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