Navigating the Network Observability Landscape: Insights from the 2024 SPARK Matrix™ Network Observability Report
Businesses are rapidly adopting digital transformations such as cloud migrations, software as a service (SaaS), and unified communications as a service (UCaaS) to gain a competitive edge. These advancements enable seamless communication and agility but also introduce complexity to network environments. This complexity makes troubleshooting network slowdowns and outages, which can impact employees and customers, a major challenge.
Network observability solutions and best practices offer an answer. By providing deep insights into network traffic and application performance, these tools help IT teams quickly pinpoint issues and restore smooth operations.
NETSCOUT, for instance, leverages deep packet inspection (DPI) technology within its network observability solutions. DPI provides granular visibility into network traffic, enabling IT to identify the root cause of problems—whether it’s a specific application, user, or device—even within complex hybrid environments. This translates to faster resolution times and minimizes disruptions to critical business operations.
Quadrant Knowledge Solutions, a global advisory and consulting firm, offers an executive overview of the market with market dynamics and trends to gain insights and use cases from vendors positioned in SPARK Matrix™. NETSCOUT has been positioned in Quadrant’s SPARK Matrix™ research for three consecutive years, a testament to NETSCOUT’s ability to provide DPI in networks at any scale. NETSCOUT’s nGenius Enterprise Performance Management solution architecture empowers real-time analysis and feature extraction directly at the data source, offering unparalleled operational insights.
Market researcher and author Harsha K of Quadrant Knowledge Solutions led and published the recent research report “SPARK Matrix™: Network Observability, 2024.” This comprehensive report focuses on a global market analysis of key vendors and their functionalities and competitive advantages and includes strategies for optimizing/managing network infrastructure and application performance. By focusing on these crucial decision criteria for executives, the SPARK Matrix provides valuable insights to guide strategic network observability choices.
“Strong observability in today’s complex environments are a necessity and the network and cloud observability market and vendors are continuing to evolve to support new technologies and business critical applications,” writes Harsha K. “This makes it essential to track these vendors and the new capabilities being introduced to support emerging IT demand and changes in infrastructure technologies. The latest ‘SPARK Matrix™: Network Observability’ report continues in this tradition, helping IT organizations make critical business decisions and solve complicated problems to meet their unique business goals by providing rich analysis on capabilities and providers.”
The “SPARK Matrix™: Network Observability, 2024” report is available now. Learn more about the network observability market and vendor landscape at Quadrant Knowledge Solutions.