A Business Case For NetRule: Why model your IT network infrastructure?

Fire Fighting vs. Fire Prevention

For CIOs, CFOs, Executives, and Senior IT Management the answer is clear: To affectively manage one of your organization's most mission critical assets - the IT network infrastructure. The collective productivity of your organization is achieved by individual output, which in turn, rests upon the organization's LAN/WAN network. This commonly taken-for-granted-fact is not received well when an organizations users experience poor network performance. The potential bottlenecks causing poor performance are many.

• Can these bottlenecks be predicted before they occur and disrupt individual and organization's productivity?
• How can these bottlenecks be identified when they occur?

The answer is YES and NetRule is the tool for identification, prediction, and prevention. Using NetRule, an organization's IT network management staff can predict performance bottlenecks from planned and unplanned network events.

Planned events may be:

• Deployment of new applications
• Staff increase or decrease
• Introduction of new technology into the network

Unplanned events may be:

• Failure of a particular network component (and the ripple effect this failure has on existing capacity to operate the network in a degraded yet user-acceptable mode)
• Denial of Service

Whether planned or unplanned, NetRule offers senior and executive management the peace of mind that their senior network management staff is anticipating these events with sound recommendations to maintain acceptable user-service levels. Furthermore, NetRule provides objective budget justification data for needed expenditures and avoids the seat-of-the-pants or back-of-the-envelope type overbuilding expenditure requests.

Bottom Line: Spend less time and resources preventing the fires versus constantly trying to put them out!