Why Highlight is essential

Now...

As enterprises use more network IT, they increasingly expect it to run itself while they focus on running their business. This puts pressure on service providers to prove delivery of an ever more complex array of service level agreements (SLAs).

Key to this is providing information about network and application performance in a format that is easy to share with enterprise managers.

This is what Highlight does.

...and in the very near future

Many enterprises are moving rapidly towards cloud computing. Advantages include lower capital costs, automatic application upgrades, a much smaller IT footprint and thus less need for in-house IT specialists.

But the cloud is invisible and enterprises will no longer own their own applications. Instead they'll have to rely on often multiple SLAs with providers of services and applications.

To make the cloud a fully auditable environment, enterprises will demand visibility of their cloud activities and proof of delivery of the services they're paying for.

Highlight provides both.

An extra dimension to cloud relationships

If you're an enterprise manager, the last place you want to be is in the dark. If you've invested in the cloud, you need to see how well that investment is performing, via regular monitoring of all services.

Monitoring that you can trust and that is easy to use and understand. Data that isn't just for engineers, and that shows you where there is room for improvement.

Much the same applies if you're a service or application provider. Your success depends on proving on demand that your SLAs are solid gold. And you in turn need visibility of the cloud service delivery chain, to ensure that your own performance isn't being impaired by problems elsewhere.

Highlight lets everyone in the cloud speak the same language. It encourages client-provider communication and helps keep relationships efficient, problem-free and productive.

Setting the standard

By design, and because netEvidence has industry-leading experience in network monitoring, Highlight plays an important role as a harmoniser of standards throughout the cloud.

Everyone sees exactly the same data in the same clear, graphical format. And as an independent source of information, Highlight provides neutral ground on which everyone can meet and agree on what is happening and what actions might be needed.

Highlight helps create a stronger cloud community by bringing enterprises and providers together in more constructive and productive partnerships.

Key Highlight benefits

• Cost effective

  Highlight is delivered as a subscription-based service in three package options - Standard, Enterprise and Premium.

• Trusted independence

  Highlight is trusted and proven worldwide. It's the exclusive product of an independent, privately-funded company with a 14-year track record. Neither it nor netEvidence are part of or dependent on any other company, product or platform.

• Easy implementation

  Highlight is itself part of the cloud, so implementation is very simple. Once Highlight has access to all appropriate services, subscribers use their normal browsers to get clear and on-demand visibility of network and application performance.

• Unrivalled clarity of data and reporting

  No other tool gives you this level of usability and accessibility. Highlight was conceived and developed to encourage all parties to share information and act as partners in a drive for continuous improvement.

• Full, unlimited visibility

  Highlight delivers:

  • Network infrastructure visibility
  • Host visibility
  • Cloud service visibility (for example email and VoIP)
  • Application visibility.

Click here to read more about Highlight's features and benefits