NetScout to acquire mgmt. vendor Quantiva

Network and application performance management vendor NetScout Monday announced its plans to acquire anomaly detection vendor Quantiva for about $9 million.

NetScout, best known for its nGenius WAN probes and performance management software, will incorporate Quantiva's real-time performance metrics and anomaly detection software into its products in the next year or so. With just six staffers at Quantiva -- five of which are engineers -- NetScout says it will absorb the team to integrate the products. NetScout expects to release new, integrated products in the second half of 2006.

Anil Singhal, president and CEO of NetScout Systems, says the coupling of NetScout and Quantiva technology will provide customers with more automated technologies.

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Network and application performance management vendor NetScout Monday announced its plans to acquire anomaly detection vendor Quantiva for about $9 million.

NetScout, best known for its nGenius WAN probes and performance management software, will incorporate Quantiva's real-time performance metrics and anomaly detection software into its products in the next year or so. With just six staffers at Quantiva -- five of which are engineers -- NetScout says it will absorb the team to integrate the products. NetScout expects to release new, integrated products in the second half of 2006.

Anil Singhal, president and CEO of NetScout Systems, says the coupling of NetScout and Quantiva technology will provide customers with more automated technologies.

"NetScout collects a lot of data, but currently users have to set their own performance thresholds," Singhal says. "With Quantiva, we will be delivering much more intelligent alarms, and the software will set the thresholds for customers automatically."

Quantiva says its product, Quantiva Analysis System (QAS), can save diagnostic time, and reduce slow time and downtime. QAS can identify from where transaction errors originate by monitoring a customer's internal network, the supporting carrier networks and the end-user desktop initiating the transaction. The company says it is able to deliver a “real traffic flow model.” The conclusions drawn by QAS describe problems and identify locations of the offending servers or devices. In the past, QAS was delivered as a hosted service from the company's Princeton, N.J., location. NetScout will maintain that location going forward.

NetScout, which competes with the likes of Concord Communications, says the added technology will enable its products to detect problems more quickly than competitive offerings.

The acquisition, NetScout's first in about five years, is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close early in NetScout's first quarter of fiscal 2006.