APPLICATION PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT The Next Generation

Visibility – who is doing what, when? Prioritization – protect what’s mission-critical, restrict what’s not Acceleration – local caching of bandwidth- heavy content Security – protect internal assets from external threats What is Application Performance Management?

Applications Have Changed…

…Legacy Solutions Have Not Internet

Identify (more) Applications Encrypted P2P Anonymous Proxies Integrate with AD and/or LDAP Keep pace with changes in technology Ease of use – administration & reporting One administrator, many boxes Different tropes (?) for different folks Plays well with others Next-Generation Requirements

Set firewall policies based on application, regardless of port, protocol, SSL encryption, or other evasive tactic. Palo Alto Networks currently offers over 1,000 layer-7 signatures, as well as IPS and URL Filtering capabilities. Next-Gen At the Edge

Exinda’s shaping solution offers over 2,500 application signatures, a heuristics engine to catch encrypted P2P traffic, and significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership than legacy shapers. Next-Gen In the Data Path

The Next-Generation Data Path Internet

Dave Inman VistaOne THANK YOU.