Emulex Launching Endace Fusion Ecosystem Program

Emulex Corporation announced the Endace Fusion Ecosystem
program, which is designed to provide a simple framework for partners to
interoperate and integrate with the Emulex line of Endace products, starting
with the EndaceProbe Intelligent Network Recorder (INR).

Initial partners in
the Fusion Ecosystem program include Compuware Corporation, SevOne, Inc. and Velocimetrics Ltd.

The Endace Fusion Ecosystem program recognizes that providing the right data to
Network Operations (NetOps) and Security Operations (SecOps) personnel is
critical to identifying and correcting network issues. The Endace Fusion program is focused
primarily on applications and partners who provide complementary capabilities
to those of the Endace portfolio, resulting in integrated tools that simplify
NetOps/SecOps workload. The program
fosters the integration of tools within the network, security, and performance
monitoring ecosystem to better monitor and maintain network health, and to
reduce resolution time for network and security incidents.

"As part of our strategy to enable
the network and application performance management (NPM and APM) industries, we
have created the Endace Fusion Ecosystem program to enable EndaceProbe INR
customers to extract more value from their investments with their current
management and monitoring tools," said Mike Riley, SVP and GM, Endace
division, Emulex. "This program is
the first step in integrating the Emulex line of Endace products with
complementary partner solutions, which is essential to providing customers with
an overall solution that can pass data between them, or work on a single set of
data, seamlessly. This enables a simplified workflow and quicker time to
problem resolution for NetOps and SecOps specialists."

The Endace Fusion Ecosystem program is
focused on select partners nominated by customers and brings together three
different aspects of the network recording ecosystem:

• Fusion Connectors are designed to facilitate streamlined workflows from a
  network, application or security event generated in a dashboard to the detailed
  network data related to the event. By deploying Fusion Connectors for their
  monitoring tools, organizations can drive down their time-to-resolution (TTR)
  and reduce the risk/impact of unplanned network downtime and security breaches.
  Fusion Connectors are enabled by the Endace RESTful API, which encourages
  developers and application vendors to develop Fusion Connectors for their
  applications.
• The Endace Application Dock allows customers to run open source, custom or
  third-party vendor tools in a virtual environment on EndaceProbe INRs.
• Fusion Alliances are collaborative industry relationships with complementary
  technology vendors that deliver solutions proven to help EndaceProbe INR
  customers extract more value from their investments.

"As the leader in application
performance management, we understand the value of simple and efficient issue
resolution of network and application issues, and keeping mission-critical
networks running smoothly for our customers," said Steve Tack, VP of product
management, Compuware’s APM business unit. "Through the Endace Fusion Ecosystem program, Compuware APM will
leverage the Endace high-speed, lossless data acquisition architecture to
automate the collection, retrieval and display of trace file-level data in the
highest speed networking environments. We look forward to releasing a Compuware
Fusion Connector later this year."

"The network is the lifeblood of our
customers’ business and any performance degradation can easily cost millions of
dollars," said Casey Murray, VP global strategic alliances, SevOne.
"We look forward to leveraging the
Fusion Connector with our application aware performance monitoring platform to
help drive down customers’ time-to-resolution (TTR) and reduce their risk of
unplanned network downtime."

"Endace Application Dock provides
the best hardware hosting platform for our trade flow analytics application.
Our recent win at a large financial customer was largely due to our ability to
offer our application running in the Endace Application Dock on an EndaceProbe
INR," said Paul Spencer, COO of Velocimetrics.