Change Management

If there are frequent changes to your network… You need Ipanema!

Your network spans several countries and has become the critical infrastructure that binds your organization together. Your large network is constantly changing with new application roll-outs and nomad end-users.
 

New applications or updates to existing applications are being rolled-out with increasing frequency. Each time this happens, you have to worry about the new application’s performance and its impact on the existing traffic flows. You need to plan ahead to do a “what if” scenario, rewrite new policies and finally monitor and adjust them - which are all time-consuming activities.

In addition to the almost continuous roll-out of new applications, you have an increasingly nomad workforce. They’re white collar workers who move around from location to location with their laptops, expecting the same applications performance regardless of their location. They sometimes even cripple the performance of the site where they’re working.

• How can you assure application performance faced with these constant changes in application flow?
• Should you spend hours constantly re-writing network policies?
• Should you massively over-provision your links?
• Or should you just give-up?

None of the above! Thanks to the Ipanema Solution managing change is easy. The system only requires high-level application performance objectives, not the need to constantly rewrite policies. You only need to classify your applications, from most critical to least critical and to enter the resource requirements for each user of each application. Even the most complex networks don’t require more than 30 parameters to be configured. Once you have done so, the system is self-configuring and will adapt to any network configuration. Changes in traffic patterns are immediately recognized and fed back into the optimization, thus guaranteeing the performance of critical applications. Consultants with laptops from your headquarters will no longer cripple the traffic flows of a plant.

Similarly, rolling-out a new application is just as easy. You only have to enter a few parameters: criticality and performance expected! The rest is taken care of automatically! According to Marc Paolantonacci, AFT IFTIM’s CIO, “If we want to change the objective or add an application, nothing could be easier! There is only one parameter to add in the central server and that’s it. The rest is managed by the system.”

With the Ipanema Solution, no more tedious policy re-writing, no more crippling performance of critical applications, no more overworked network managers, no more unhappy end-users!