Emulex announced the Endace Fusion Ecosystem program, which is designed to provide a simple framework for partners to interoperate and integrate with the Emulex line of Endace products, starting with the EndaceProbe Intelligent Network Recorder (INR).

Initial partners in the Fusion Ecosystem program include Compuware, SevOne, and Velocimetrics.

The Endace Fusion Ecosystem program recognizes that providing the right data to Network Operations (NetOps) and Security Operations (SecOps) personnel is critical to identifying and correcting network issues.

The Endace Fusion program is focused primarily on applications and partners who provide complementary capabilities to those of the Endace portfolio, resulting in integrated tools that simplify NetOps/SecOps workload.

The program fosters the integration of tools within the network, security, and performance monitoring ecosystem to better monitor and maintain network health, and to reduce resolution time for network and security incidents.

“As part of our strategy to enable the network and application performance management (NPM and APM) industries, we have created the Endace Fusion Ecosystem program to enable EndaceProbe INR customers to extract more value from their investments with their current management and monitoring tools,” said Mike Riley, Sr. VP and GM, Endace division, Emulex. “This program is the first step in integrating the Emulex line of Endace products with complementary partner solutions, which is essential to providing customers with an overall solution that can pass data between them, or work on a single set of data, seamlessly. This enables a simplified workflow and quicker time to problem resolution for NetOps and SecOps specialists.”

The Endace Fusion Ecosystem program is focused on select partners nominated by customers and brings together three different aspects of the network recording ecosystem:

· Fusion Connectors are designed to facilitate streamlined workflows from a network, application or security event generated in a dashboard to the detailed network data related to the event. By deploying Fusion Connectors for their monitoring tools, organizations can drive down their time-to-resolution (TTR) and reduce the risk/impact of unplanned network downtime and security breaches. Fusion Connectors are enabled by the Endace RESTful API, which encourages developers and application vendors to develop Fusion Connectors for their applications.

· The Endace Application Dock allows customers to run open source, custom or third-party vendor tools in a virtual environment on EndaceProbe INRs.

· Fusion Alliances are collaborative industry relationships with complementary technology vendors that deliver solutions proven to help EndaceProbe INR customers extract more value from their investments.

“Through the Endace Fusion Ecosystem program, Compuware APM will leverage the Endace high-speed, lossless data acquisition architecture to automate the collection, retrieval and display of trace file-level data in the highest speed networking environments. We look forward to releasing a Compuware Fusion Connector later this year,” said Steve Tack, VP of Product Management for Compuware’s APM business unit.