Survey Findings Reveal the Importance of Network Visibility for Today’s Complex Networks

LONDON & COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--INFOSEC EUROPE – Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced the results of a study of 150 IT professionals which reveals the attitudes of 150 IT professionals from various industries on the impact that complex and growing networks have on network visibility and monitoring, network and application performance, security, and compliance. The study, conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), confirms that the complexity of modern enterprise networks is increasing due to data center consolidation, server virtualization/private cloud, compute layer virtualization, new application architectures, and the shift to dense 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) or higher network speeds, and that these factors necessitate deeper levels of network visibility to aid in the management and troubleshooting of these networks. Of particular note, more than two-thirds (69%) of respondents stated that they expect the number of requests to capture network data (including metadata and packet-level data) to increase dramatically, driven by the needs of a variety of IT groups including network architecture, security, compliance, applications, and IT audit teams.