Table of Contents
Ovum view
The importance of enterprise networks
The critical role of networking in businesses
- Business applications are the lifeblood of modern enterprises
- Increasing dependence of applications on networking
- The impact of convergence
- Increasing demands on IT departments
- The business impact of poor performing applications
- Ovum survey with large enterprises
The opportunity for managed performance optimisation services
Table of figures
- Figure 1. Key demographics of the survey
- Figure 2. The main WAN technologies used by enterprises in survey
- Figure 3. Types of traffic carried over enterprise networks
- Figure 4. The critical role of networking on the enterprise
- Figure 5. Important staff and resourcing issues
- Figure 6. Current use of performance monitoring tools
- Figure 7. Adequacy of the tools and other information available
- Figure 8. Willingness to pay for additional performance improvement and
optimisation features
- Figure 9. Use of third-party managed services for monitoring or optimising
the performance of business critical applications?
- Figure 10. Type of managed service provider used for applications
monitoring and optimisation
- Figure 11. The major benefits from using a managed service provider/third
party to assist in monitoring or improving business critical applications
- Figure 12. Features expected in a managed network optimisation service
- Figure 13. Reasons for enterprises not considering managed services for
applications monitoring and optimisation
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