The OPNET exhibit at InterOp was extremely busy despite the show appearing smaller overall than in prior years. I just attended an interesting break-out talk: “Big Data, Big Visibility, Big Control” by Ixia. Former Anue Systems CTO, Chip Webb, and VP of Marketing & Strategy, Larry Hart, co-presented a history of Big Data enablers and trends. They also explained how Ixia is enabling 3rd party Big Data analytics by providing them with the right traffic at the right time. Security, network management, and application performance management use cases were introduced.
Guest speaker Todd Kaloudis, OPNET’s SVP of Business Development, followed with a presentation titled “A Big Data Approach to Application Performance Management,” that included a demonstration of OPNET’s new Unified Dashboards. The demo featured end-user experience information with run-time application dependency maps on the same screen. A drill-down workflow was shown from “end-user experience SLA violation” to “code-level traces through multiple servers,” all pulled up instantly using a Google-search kind of interface.
Todd mentioned that the APM Xpert suite collects and stores user transactions using a variety of techniques including passive network collection (leveraging traffic access solution from partners including Ixia/Anue), code-level traces from production servers, transaction performance as measured in web browsers, and on client end-systems. He also showed us that Big Data storage, indexing, and search techniques enable the OPNET suite to pinpoint performance bottlenecks, as well as open up collaboration between development and operations teams by giving them a common dataset to review -- actual user transactions.
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