Paessler AG: Provider of powerful, yet easy-to-use Network Monitoring Software

Andrew Timms, Sales Director for APAC

Network devices such as IT routers, switches and intrusion prevention tools like firewalls form the backbone of corporate networks, and are vital for the day-to-day operations of a business. Any failure in their functioning can bring havoc and result in productivity and revenue loss from business downtimes. Managing these devices together, however, is a daunting task and needs specialized software to detect and notify potential failures. The fact that network devices come from several different vendors—some of them being developed with proprietary technology—further exacerbates the situation and makes it hard to manage together effectively. To that end, network monitoring software largely reduces network outages and facilitates businesses to operate without any such unexpected downtimes. To provide enterprises with efficient network monitoring software, Dirk Paessler established Paessler AG in 1997. His motive behind founding the company was to offer scalable solutions that take the worry out of network availability and performance issues and let organizations concentrate on their core business instead. Today, the company provides its award winning PRTG Network Monitor (PRTG), an easy-to-use, comprehensive and yet powerful network monitoring software, to countless organizations and has positioned itself as a leading vendor in the network monitoring space.

Headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany, Paessler constantly works on PRTG to improve its usability and add new features to help customers manage their networks better.

Already in use at enterprises and organizations of all sizes and industries, PRTG enables IT teams to gain a clear, comprehensive and real-time view of the performance, traffic, status, and availability of the IT infrastructure. PRTG helps system administrators keep networks and applications up and running by ensuring peak performance at all times and at any given circumstance. Andrew Timms, Sales Director for APAC at Paessler adds, “Our monitoring solution disburdens system administrators from most of the arduous, time-consuming and cumbersome daily tasks, and helps them make informed decisions in real-time.” Paessler partners with some of the leading technology vendors such as Amazon, Cisco and VMware to ensure the best performance, compatibility and reliability of its solutions across platforms. Such partnerships allow its customers to monitor several technology platforms with PRTG at no extra-cost or effort. With its integrated monitoring solutions for IT infrastructural needs, Paessler has gained worldwide visibility and accolades from several quarters. Its technical prowess is vindicated by the awards it has won to date, including ‘Software Vendor of the Year, CRN Awards 2015’, ‘Deloitte Technology Fast 50, 2014’, ‘MicroScope ACEs, 2014 as Software Technology of the Year’, and ‘Network Management Product of the Year’ and ‘Product of the Year’ at the Network Computing Awards 2014, among others.

Paessler’s monitoring solution disburdens system administrators from most of the arduous, time-consuming and cumbersome daily tasks, and helps informed decision-making

Andrew Timms, says, “Our services are intuitive and comprehensive, transparent and yet fairly priced in a single licensing model.” This trust and consistency in pricing has helped Paessler proudly create a clientele comprising of some of the premium clients in the industry, which includes Hume Bank, Vodafone, Runge ICT, Trowers & Hamlins, The Westgate School, 7Eleven and many more. The company uses feedback, ideas and suggestions from current users to draw inspirations for its next phase of innovation and growth.

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Paessler and Flowmon Networks team up to deliver advanced reliability and security for IT networks

IT monitoring specialist Paessler and Flowmon Networks have integrated their solutions to bring together comprehensive IT monitoring capabilities with AI-powered analysis and advanced security features. The integration ensures availability, performance, and security for IT environments.

For IT specialists using Flowmon together with PRTG, the new integration offers significant benefits:

— Extensive IT monitoring, combined with in-depth flow analysis, joined to deliver maximum transparency

— Detection of unusual behaviour, insider threats and DDoS attacks, monitor firewalls, virus scanners, and backups

— Monitoring Flowmon with PRTG assures availability based on PRTGs included failover

PRTG Network Monitor by Paessler monitors IT infrastructure, network performance and applications as well as cloud services or virtual environments. Using conventional monitoring methods and protocols, as well as a powerful API, it has become one of the most common solutions for extensive IT monitoring.

The Flowmon Networks solution monitors and analyses network and cloud traffic detecting anomalies using a spectrum of methods all deployed simultaneously. It combines machine learning and behaviour analysis seeking indicators of compromise to uncover malicious behaviours or data breaches.

The integration is technically based on two PRTG custom sensors:

— An SNMP sensor that monitors Flowmon appliances

— A Python Script sensor to display monitoring values from Flowmon in PRTG

The combination of the two solutions gives the user insights into network performance issues and security threats in addition to information on the status of every device in the organisation. The events appear on the dashboard and are grouped by severity to enable instant prioritisation and fast response. When an unusual incident happens, PRTG alerts the user, who can then switch to Flowmon for root-cause analysis. PRTG also monitors every Flowmon appliance deployed so that the user always knows that all relevant components of Flowmon are up and working.

We are excited to collaborate with Paessler. Several synergies between our solutions promise a great benefit to all who desire their digital environment to be more transparent, reliable, and secure, says Pavel Minarik, CTO at Flowmon Networks.

Integrating Flowmon with PRTG creates a new level of insights from both solutions, bringing together a broad overview with in-depth analytics making it even easier for our customers to keep their IT up and running and secure, explains Steven Feurer, CTO at Paessler. We found a partner that fits so well with Paessler, from a business view as well as from a technical perspective, he added.

If you would like to find out more about the integration of PRTG and Flowmon, please do join us for our webinar Integrating Flowmon and PRTG guarantees IT performance and maximises security on Wednesday 16th September at 3 pm CEST (GMT+2).