Enterprises are increasingly facing multiple network monitoring challenges, like tracking, monitoring, and improving network performance. Addressing these challenges with a Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) solution helps an organization avoid various network monitoring challenges with proactive strategies. PeerSpot real users of Network Traffic Analysis note the advantages of this type of solution for their organizations and clients.
If your company is evaluating various Network Traffic Analysis solutions, then you may need to figure out if the value proposition is profitable. ROI is most often measured by a ratio between net income and investment. It can also be quantifiably measured by the value a solution provides.
With NTA solutions, there are other ways to measure the benefits that an NTA solution can provide besides using the ratio between net income and investment, including mean time to repair (MTTR), reducing internal resources, and eliminating external services for automation.
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1) MTTR
Saving time when isolating issues is a quick and easy way to see ROI. An NTA solution can keep a data center running smoothly, avoiding downtime or outages. Finding and isolating issues quickly can keep a business running without interruption, maintaining customer confidence in the solution. John Boake, a Senior Monitoring Engineer at a large financial services firm, explains the connection that MTTR from ExtraHop Reveal(x) had on his organization’s ROI, “The mean time to repair is reduced dramatically because you can quickly isolate where the problem is. I can quickly say the problem is not a network-related problem. It’s a server-related problem or an application-related problem. The return on investment on this one is probably seen in the first year of purchase.”
2) Eliminating External Services
If you are outsourcing your monitoring services, purchasing a Network Traffic Analysis solution can have a measurable impact. The annual cost of eliminating those external services minus the annual cost of licensing an NTA solution is quantifiable and can help justify the purchase of an NTA solution. Bobby Wittenberg, a Network Engineer at medium-sized financial services firm, describes how switching to Auvik from an external monitoring service saved annual costs for his firm, “GNCU had kind of outsourced the network part to two different organizations. One of those organizations just did the monitoring and management piece. They were charging us about 100K a year for that managed service. By implementing Auvik, we basically duplicated what they were doing, which has a very measurable impact. I didn't have access to their platform, so I needed something that I could use to monitor and manage the network. So, by getting rid of that managed service provider, we saved approximately 100K a year.”
3) Reduced Internal Resources
Organizational spend on internal resources for technology can be a huge budgetary drain. Reducing staff dedicated to applications or devices can provide a company with significant operational savings. A Founder and Director at a small tech services company, reviewing Darktrace, discusses how the addition of machine learning in Network Traffic Analysis provides value-add to the company’s operations, “Its unsupervised machine learning has reduced our team's effort. Both Darktrace and Vectra work on unsupervised machine learning that learns the behavior or develops a profile on its own, which allows our security team to do some other tasks rather than spending time on Darktrace or Vectra.”
Implementing an NTA solution can have cost benefits in addition to a traditional return on investment. Real users on PeerSpot offer a look into different organizations, providing perspectives on what generates value for them. Learn more by downloading our free report.
