APPLICATION PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT The Next Generation.

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

The Next Generation

• Visibility – who is doing what, when?• Prioritization – protect what’s mission-critical, restrict what’s not• Acceleration – local caching of bandwidth-heavy content• Security – protect internal assets from external threats

What is Application Performance Management?

Applications Have Changed…

…Legacy Solutions Have Not

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• Identify (more) Applications• Encrypted P2P• Anonymous Proxies

• Integrate with AD and/or LDAP• Keep pace with changes in technology• Ease of use – administration & reporting

• One administrator, many boxes• Different tropes (?) for different folks• Plays well with others

Next-Generation Requirements

Set firewall policies based on application, regardless of port, protocol, SSL encryption, or other evasive tactic. Palo Alto Networks currently offers over 1,000 layer-7 signatures, as well as IPS and URL Filtering capabilities.

Next-Gen At the Edge

Exinda’s shaping solution offers over 2,500 application signatures, a heuristics engine to catch encrypted P2P traffic, and significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership than legacy shapers.

Next-Gen In the Data Path

The Next-Generation Data Path

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Dave InmanVistaOne [email protected]@v1DInman

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