Fluke Networks Visual Performance Manager Receives Award

Everett, Washington – April 17, 2009 – Fluke Networks today announced that their Visual Performance Manager product received a Silver Award in the WAN Performance Management Products category of the SearchEnterpriseWAN.com 2009 Product Leadership Awards.

According to SearchEnterpriseWAN.com: “Visual Performance Manager received at least four out of five stars in this category from nearly 70% of respondents, and also garnered at least four stars from 63% of users for its ability to measure application quality/experience. Readers also praised the product's capabilities in logging, monitoring and reporting, with 66% giving it four or more stars.”

Visual Performance Manager is a unified system that provides networked application performance management, offering effective management of application availability and response time analytics. With the newest 5.0 version, Visual Performance Manager helps network managers pinpoint root cause of application performance issues in just three clicks.

“It is an honor to be named as one of the ‘Product Leadership Award’ winners,” said Scott Allen, Vice President of Marketing for the Performance Management Business Unit at Fluke Networks. “As the management of networked application performance becomes increasingly complex, having complete end-to-end visibility is imperative for identifying problems before they affect end-users and for ensuring delivery of critical business services. This award is further validation of our work to provide customers with effective solutions to meet the challenge.”

The awards include three wide-area networking product categories and recognize 10 products that enterprise IT professionals should consider adding to their "A" lists when evaluating networking products. Winning products were selected by 500 networking professionals based on their assessment of products currently deployed within their own WANs. Participants were asked to evaluate the products according to defined product-specific criteria, with cumulative scores calculated for each product. SearchEnterpriseWAN.com editors used these scores to determine Gold, Silver and Bronze award winners for the industry's best wide-area networking products.