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NetScout Director of Solutions Marketing Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

Michael Segal, Director of Solutions Marketing at NetScout, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

Segal is a seasoned product management, product marketing and business development professional with experience in all aspects of product and solution marketing. Technical areas of expertise include cloud, virtualization, security, IP networking, mobility, Wi-Fi / wireless, and VoIP / UC. He is a lead product innovator and holds three patents in the areas of networking and wireless mobility.

NetScout is an industry leader for advanced network, application and service performance management solutions, providing high-quality performance analytics and operational intelligence solutions that facilitate the evolution toward new computing paradigms, including cloud and mobility. NetScout assures service delivery quality, performance and availability for some of the world’s largest, most demanding and complex Internet protocol (IP) based service delivery environments. NetScout enables organizations to minimize risk in their service delivery and maximize return on investment while taking advantage of major computing trends including virtualization, cloud, mobility and big data. The technology help users in various roles to: quickly analyze data, achieve real-time visibility into and intelligence about their organization's operations, identify service delivery issues early, improve service levels, reduce operational costs, mitigate security risks, and drive better business decisions.

NetScout is deployed in over 20,000+ enterprise customers worldwide in addition to over 165 service providers deployed across 48 countries. 92% of Fortune 100 companies use NetScout technology and the company has been ranked #1 in IDC market share for the past five consecutive years. Today, NetScout is recognized as a market leader in Unified Service Delivery Management solutions focused on assuring service delivery for the world’s most demanding and complex service delivery environments.

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NetScout Director of Solutions Marketing Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
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Michael Segal, Director of Solutions Marketing at NetScout, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

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NetScout is an industry leader for advanced network, application and service performance management solutions, providing high-quality performance analytics and operational intelligence solutions that facilitate the evolution toward new computing paradigms, including cloud and mobility. NetScout assures service delivery quality, performance and availability for some of the world’s largest, most demanding and complex Internet protocol (IP) based service delivery environments. NetScout enables organizations to minimize risk in their service delivery and maximize return on investment while taking advantage of major computing trends including virtualization, cloud, mobility and big data. The technology help users in various roles to: quickly analyze data, achieve real-time visibility into and intelligence about their organization's operations, identify service delivery issues early, improve service levels, reduce operational costs, mitigate security risks, and drive better business decisions.

NetScout is deployed in over 20,000+ enterprise customers worldwide in addition to over 165 service providers deployed across 48 countries. 92% of Fortune 100 companies use NetScout technology and the company has been ranked #1 in IDC market share for the past five consecutive years. Today, NetScout is recognized as a market leader in Unified Service Delivery Management solutions focused on assuring service delivery for the world’s most demanding and complex service delivery environments.

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