The Packet Scoop

PacketTrap is saving our customers money, and in a down economy nothing is more important than ensuring your company is running efficiently at peak performance. The IT department is always looked upon to tighten budgets and reduce costs. Although PacketTrap is known as the more affordable and robust alternative to overly complex network management systems, here’s a few other ways that we impact the bottom line of our customers.

Management Productivity Gains: Network management software delivers reductions in three of six primary IT functions: installation / configuration, troubleshooting, and user support. Taken together, these three areas account for over 54% of overall IT management time. In the first year after a network management system implementation, it is generally accepted that .9 full time equivalents (FTEs) of the IT staff can be redeployed to focus on other activities. Assuming a $81,000 annual salary per network engineer, saving could approach $72,000 in the first year alone

Reclaim Your Network: Until a network management system is implemented many times it is difficult to receive a granular transparent inspection of the inefficiencies in the network. Perspective provides a detailed view into server capacity and network bandwidth challenges. By freeing space on servers and allocating free bandwidth to more critical applications, Perspective users are eliminating numbers of physical servers and reducing general bandwidth charges. Further, justify IT budgets with Perspective management reports: capacity reports & graphs are perfect to help your management understand the need for new or continued IT investments.

Virtualization Management: Reduce costs by implementing a virtualized environment and use PacketTrap to manage virtual machines and physical hosts. Perspective’s Virtualization Module makes it easy to monitor your virtual environment and ensures everything is running smoothly. It automatically discovers your host ESX servers and associated guest virtual machines and provides insight into key statistics like status, CPU, memory, and interface traffic.

VoIP Management: With VoIP service, you can cancel your traditional phone service through your local telephone company and place all of your telephone calls over your broadband Internet connection. VoIP technology can also save money on long-distance charges. In the past phone systems were not necessarily under the purview of the IT department. VoIP systems are. With extra work now on our plate, Perspective provides a granular inspections of VoIP data as it traverses your network and alerts you immediately when bottlenecks occur to ensure you discover problems before your users do.

Happy savings!
Steve