With more than twenty years of network management industry experience, Kelley has extensive expertise to draw from while discussing application and network performance trends, news and best practices. As NetScout’s CTO, Kelley works directly with Fortune 1000 customers to help set the company’s strategic technology direction, and will use these frequent interactions to provide insight to the blog’s readers.

The key objectives of the Performance Zone are:

• To serve as a resource for anyone interested in the management of application performance over enterprise and service provider networks, by sharing Kelley’s knowledge as a longtime innovator in the space.
• To establish an open channel of communication between a senior NetScout executive and its customers, partners and the media, fostering a dialogue on various issues impacting network and application performance management for large enterprises and service providers.

Examples of current posts on the Performance Zone include:

• A common mistake made by IT professionals when implementing network management systems
• The increase in next generation network and MPLS deployments in the enterprise market.

Bruce Kelley joined NetScout in 2000, following its acquisition of NextPoint Networks, which he co-founded in 1996. As NextPoint’s CTO he led the development of service level management and application performance products that won numerous industry awards, including Best of Show at Interop. Prior to NextPoint, Kelley held various engineering positions at Digital Equipment Corporation from 1982 to 1996, including the prestigious Consultant Software Engineer position and the post of Technical Director within Digital’s Network Management Engineering Group. Kelley is also the recipient of two patents in network and performance management.

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