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Colasoft Announces Release of UPM Network Performance Management Platform v6.0 With New Interface

Chengdu, China, July 2, 2020 - Colasoft Co., Ltd., a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the launch of UPM Unified Performance Management Platform v6.0. UPM is a network performance management platform that can comprehensively monitor the service quality of all nodes of business systems, quickly find and locate issues affecting key business performance and stability. It is designed to improve operation efficiency and capability of network troubleshooting, and provides analysis ability such as business-centric network grooming, real-time network performance monitoring, and rapid issues location around the enterprise business network.

To improve the user experience and make it easier to use, UPM 6.0 adds a top navigation bar on the top of the interface. When users select a specific item in main menu in the left of the interface, the top navigation bar will display all tabs of selected item synchronously. Users can quickly switch between each tabs to facilitate operation.

Object analysis also provided in the new version, and its configuration is similar to that of custom metric monitoring. With custom analysis views, users can monitor and analyze relevant metrics of specified IPs or applications they care about.

Time sequence analysis for packet decoding is available in UPM 6.0. The optimization is a follow-up to online decoding feature which has been provided in v5.6. Users no longer need to download and analyze packets with expert analyzer or other tools.

The latest release of UPM features:

Add alert setting in custom metric monitoring charts.
Support template feature in custom metric monitoring.
Add new components such as dashboard and top chart in custom metric monitoring.
Add TCP conversation and UDP conversation in custom metric monitoring.
Add SNMP in custom metric monitoring.
Add object analysis feature bases on IP and application.
Support time sequence in packet decoding.
Add no traffic alarm for link, application, segment and IP.
Add MAC address abnormal access alarm.
Add TCP/UDP conversation multi-segment analysis.
Support batch adding probes.

An evaluation version of UPM v6.0 is available for download at http://www.colasoft.com/download/products/upm.php

About Colasoft

Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. For more information about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit our web site at www.colasoft.com.

Colasoft Announces Release of nChronos Network Performance Analysis System v6.0 with Packet Truncating

Chengdu, China, June 24, 2020 - Colasoft Co., Ltd., a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the launch of nChronos Network Performance Analysis System v6.0. nChronos designed for 24x7 network packets capturing, analysis and storage, dedicated to the sustainable, efficient and safe running of networks, and provides a reliable data basis for determining constructive suggestions for enterprise profit growth.

nChronos v6.0 optimizes packet truncating which to helps users to save server storage. The new Packet Truncating feature is for configuring rules based on application, protocol and VLAN. Besides, the new version added server information migration that is a way improve work efficiency.

The latest release of nChronos features:

Packets can be truncated based on applications, protocols, VLAN/VPN tags.
Abnormal access alarm supports MAC address.
Console configurations can be migrated.
TCP long connection can be identified.
No-traffic alarm is added for links, network segments, applications, and IPs.
Add version configuration for NetFlow interface configuration.
Add ICMP packet loss Rate for link analysis.
Add reset rate, response rate and no response rate for application analysis.
Add transactions per second peak and transactions per second peak baseline for transaction analysis.

An evaluation version of nChronos v6.0 is available for download at http://www.colasoft.com/download/products/nchronos.php

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Colasoft Sends Qualified Masks to Customers and Partners to Help Fight COVID-19

Chengdu, China, April 8, 2020 - Colasoft always pay attention to the health and safety of our customers and partners. Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak from early 2020, Colasoft has provided thousands of qualified disposable face masks to our customers and partners in South Korea, Brazil, Thailand, Indonesia and Nepal to help them fight the coronavirus.

Colasoft is willing to respond to urgent needs of all the customers and partners and spare no effort to provide support and help. “We will continue to do our best to do more to fight the epidemic,” said Kang Lin, CEO of Colasoft. “We sincerely hope that all things we do, however small they are, will help our customers and partners.”

If you are a Colasoft customer or partner and need any help, please contact Colasoft at service@colasoft.com.

Colasoft Recognized in New Gartner Market Guide for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics

Chengdu, China, March 25, 2020 - Colasoft Co., Ltd., a visionary provider of network performance monitoring and diagnostics solutions, today announced that it has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the brandnew Gartner "Market Guide for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics" report. Previously, Colasoft was named as a Visionary for two consecutive years when Gartner produced a Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics. As the explanation by Gartner, a visionary understand where the market is going or have a vision for changing market rules.

“As a visionary in NPMD, we are pleased to see that Colasoft solution has been listed in the new report by Gartner again,” said Kang Lin, CEO of Colasoft. “Colasoft has invested in providing performance analysis as a service and expanding the use of its products across broader IT operations teams. In the near future, we intend to invest in an ML engine for analysis of performance metrics.”

The Colasoft NPMD solution consists of three components: Unified Performance Management (UPM), nChronos and Capsa. UPM is the visualization layer that delivers business-oriented performance views, network path analysis, and performance issue detection, all based on data collected by nChronos. nChronos provides packet capture with historical and real-time analysis of application-oriented performance metrics for every TCP conversation. Capsa Enterprise is a network analyzer that provides packet sniffing and capture when application decoding and deep domain analysis are required. A limited version of Capsa Enterprise, Capsa Free, is also available to download.

Gartner indicates the Strategic Planning Assumption to disclose the importance of NPMD solution, "By 2024, 50 percent of network operations teams will be required to rearchitect their network monitoring stack, due to the impact of hybrid networking, which will be a significant increase from 20 percent in 2019," wrote by Gartner analyst Josh Chessman.

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Colasoft Announces Release of Capsa Network Analyzer v13 with Merging of Network Profile and Analysis Profile

Chengdu, China, February 26, 2020 - Colasoft Co., Ltd., a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the release of Capsa Network Analyzer v13, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis and network troubleshooting.

The new Capsa 13 merges all the settings of Network Profile and Analysis Profile to Analysis Settings. The change provides user more flexibility in analysis configurations when analyzing traffic. Besides, it provides a new feature to identify the names and types of the device corresponding to the specific IPs.

The latest release of Capsa features:

Internet IP device identification feature is added.
Replay analysis supports wireless packets decryption.
Users can locate related conversations from the Diagnosis Details tab.

Capsa v13 is compatible with Windows 7/8/10 and Windows Server 2008/2012. Click Here to download a full functional trial for 30 days.

About Capsa

Capsa is an easy-to-use packet sniffer (network analyzer or network sniffer) for network monitoring and troubleshooting purposes. It performs real-time packet capturing, 24x7 network monitoring, reliable network forensics, advanced protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosing. By giving you insights into all of your network's operations, Capsa makes it easy to isolate and solve network problems, identify network bottleneck and bandwidth use, and detect network vulnerabilities.

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