Performance Management Solutions for State & Local Government
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NetScout Solution for State & Local Government
The role that IT plays in today's state and local government administration is vital. Almost every new initiative, regardless of its origin, has an IT impact. Improving IT operational efficiencies and increasing its impact on e-government services, such as on-line tax information and filings to unemployment insurance applications, must be a top priority to help reduce the effect of tight fiscal constraints.
The NetScout Solution provides a comprehensive view of application and network performance management, empowering IT to deliver more efficient network services to constituents. With nGenius’ single unified system you can:
- Assure timely delivery of state and local government business services and applications across distributed networks
- Troubleshoot network problems and degradations affecting state residents in real time
- Manage and control the cost of network operations in times of tight tax revenues and budget cycles
IT Challenges Faced by State & Local Government
State and local governments have a tremendous opportunity to leverage the reach and availability of the Internet to streamline inter-agency cooperation and deliver web-accessible services – such as online motor vehicle and voter registrations or managing food stamp programs. State-wide networks between agency offices and state houses have increased communications between all branches of the government, easing the budget process, improving efficiencies of services, and improving state-wide employee productivity.
However, state and local governments are also being asked to do more with less. The slow economy, rising health care costs, declining tax revenues and reduced help from the Federal Government have created a growing budget problem for many states. Local governments, heavily reliant on states for aid, are experiencing similar problems.
A Unified Performance Management Solution
NetScout's Performance Management Solution supports state and local government's efficiency and productivity initiatives by helping to decrease operational costs and complexity. The NetScout System, a single unified performance management system, addresses five core performance management disciplines and was designed with expandability in mind:
- application and network monitoring
- capacity planning
- troubleshooting
- fault detection and prevention
- service-level management
As government initiatives and mandates change, the NetScout Solution can flexibly expand to meet the new demands placed on the infrastructure. The nGenius Performance Manager depends on CDM Technology, nGenius Probes and nGenius Collectors for NetFlow to quickly support new applications and technologies, ensuring you have unparalleled application flow visibility and control.
In critical locations throughout the government network where there are high concentrations of conversations or in front of essential business servers, there may be a requirement for both application-level monitoring and analysis as well as continuous data capture for troubleshooting and deep data mining. In this case, the nGenius InfiniStreams, the next generation of nGenius AFMons and Sniffer InfiniStreams, can be deployed to provide an efficient and scalable solution for real-time proactive monitoring and post-event problem analysis.
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| NetScout’s NewsPaper feature is designed to ease the task of managing and reporting on network and application service levels. This chart shows worst-performing response times by applications, locations, and servers.
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