Large Petroleum Corporation Turns to Colasoft for Network Performance Assurance
Highlights
Challenge
- Optimization of production and business process by data collection and integration.
- Difficult to pinpoint and troubleshoot network problems with the huge network scale and complex applications.
Solution
- nChronos Appliance for network performance analysis
- UPM Appliance realized the centralized management
Result
- Realized the metrics analysis of network and business.
- Give the trend and top ranking for prevention in advance, warning in the process and retrospective network analysis.
Customer Profile
This petroleum Corporation is a super-large state-owned enterprise in the top 10 of the Fortune 500. In addition to petroleum business and engineering service, they also provide many other integrated energy solutions.
The IT department of the corporation has completed the professional information system. After the completion of office automation, network platform, financial management and other information infrastructure, a huge network scale of 3 data centers and 12 regional centers has been formed.
The Challenge
Limited Insight to Efficiently Optimize Network Service
The corporation information construction mainly realizes the optimization of production process and business process through the data collection and integration in production process, and guides the company to reasonably allocate sources.
With the continuous development of network information system, a variety of business applications continually join the system.
Due to the huge network scale and complex applications, it will be difficult to pinpoint and troubleshoot the problems in the first time once a network problem occurs, which seriously affects the business running and growing.
This requires more intelligent and efficient network operation and maintenance means.
Solution & Action
Real-time Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis / Long-term Retrospective Network Analysis
Colasoft Network Performance Management and Diagnosis Solution covers customer’s entire network business, including 3 data centers and 12 regional centers.
nChronos Appliance have been deployed in all the important nodes of data centers. Through the systems, the comprehensive traffic analysis and monitoring of the data centers is realized.
At the same time, the network performance management platform UPM realized the centralized management of multiple nChronos servers.
The probes captured traffic from the data center and analyzed network performance in real time. In addition, nChronos recorded network packets 7x24, and provided suspicious activity alarms.
Result & Value
Improved Customer Network Stability and Reliability
In customer’s IT system, Colasoft Network Performance Management and Diagnosis Solution has realized the metrics analysis of network and business. The solution monitored the global network, each link of backbone network and network and service performance of business system. Besides, it showed the trend and top ranking of each metric parameter in periodicity or specific time area.
Colasoft Network Performance Management and Diagnosis Solution played the role of prevention in advance, warning in the process, retrospective analysis, problems location, problems cause analysis and so on. It has helped the IT team improve the network stability and reliability.