Distributed enterprises are spending more of their IT budgets just to keep business applications up and running.
In parallel the proliferation of harmful or non-essential apps — from banner ads to P2P applications — continues to escalate and consume bandwidth,
so incremental network and bandwidth upgrades don’t always solve performance issues. To clearly see and control what applications are consuming your
bandwidth, you need intelligent visibility across your extended network.
Blue Coat Application Performance Monitoring technologies are designed to help you discover, classify and prioritize applications, content and user
access in real time, including business-critical content, malware and recreational traffic such as iTunes, YouTube and IM. With granular application
visibility, you can:
• Auto-discover and classify 600+ applications including custom developed applications
• Shape and report bandwidth at the application level, according to business requirements
• Measure user response times and proactively set performance thresholds
• Monitor voice and video quality in real time
• Manage, meter or block recreational application traffic to reclaim network bandwidth
• Set and maintain service-level agreements for business critical applications
• Discover, classify and prioritize applications, content and user access
Blue Coat provides detailed insight into all your applications by leveraging the most advanced Layer 7+ technologies.
These technologies include features that help you identify and control even the most evasive applications, including
those that port-hop. You can even sub-classify key enterprise applications like SAP, Oracle and Citrix to better focus on business processes.
With this detailed data, you can classify and prioritize traffic to ensure your critical applications are always available and
delivered as expected. You can also monitor other factors that impact the user experience, such as network and server delays,
so you can get your applications back up to speed quickly.
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