JDSU's Network Instruments Unveils Observer Platform 17 for Simplified Performance Management and Application Troubleshooting

MILPITAS, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 30, 2014) - Network Instruments, a business unit of JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU), has announced the latest edition of its cornerstone Observer® Performance Management Platform. Observer Platform 17 provides network managers and engineers a comprehensive, intuitive approach to:

• Proactively pinpoint performance problems and optimize services.
• Integrate monitoring into the deployment of IT initiatives, including cloud, service orchestration and security. 
• Easily manage access and share performance data with IT teams and business units.
• Quickly assess and optimize user experience with web services. 

This comprehensive performance management solution also features redesigned, easy-to-use interfaces and workflows, expanded web user visibility, increased transactional intelligence, and enhanced integration with third-party tools and applications.

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"The Observer 17 release uniquely positions the Platform for the future of IT and the network manager's evolving role as a primary enabler of technology adoption throughout the enterprise and as a key troubleshooter," said Charles Thompson, chief technology officer for Network Instruments. "Other IT teams are looking to the network team for greater application troubleshooting and support. Utilizing the newest features in Observer, they are well prepared for their constantly changing role by achieving quicker root-cause analysis, understanding applications in-depth, and easily sharing performance data with non-network teams."

Key enhancements include:

• Intuitive, drag-and-drop interface and streamlined workflows transform Network Performance Management from an ad hoc practice to a proactive, collaborative process. IT can now manage, monitor, and assess performance in two clicks.
• Third-party system integration via Representational State Transfer (RESTful) APIs facilitate easier sharing of performance intelligence with other groups, as well as integration of monitoring technologies for successful service orchestration for cloud, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and virtual deployments.
• Enhanced Web Services Analytics provide greater insight into how end users are experiencing web services through expanded client-based and comparative details.
• Deeper transaction-level intelligence and correlative analysis allow for quicker and more effective application troubleshooting. With access to greater granularity, network teams are able to more easily assess relationships between transaction details and other performance variables for a higher degree of actionable insights.

The new Observer Platform features allow network professionals a more productive tool to stay on top of key IT trends and challenges such as: