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NetScout (News - Alert) has announced the company’s nGenius Integrated Agent for the Cisco Unified Computing System Express platform.

For all the network traffic traversing the Cisco (News - Alert) UCS Express platform, the nGenius Integrated Agent for Cisco UCS Express monitors and performs real-time deep packet analysis. This provides visibility into site-to-data center, site-to-cloud and site-to-site service traffic. Combining metrics from nGenius hardware and software-based intelligent data sources distributed across the service delivery environment for real-time and historical analysis and reporting, the nGenius Integrated Agent feeds high-definition application and network performance measurements into the nGenius Service Assurance Solution, the company stated in a press release.

“The increasing convergence of IT services and infrastructure drives the need for a more unified and automated approach to managing service delivery. With the emergence of the lean branch-office architecture, the IT organization needs pervasive visibility that is consistent end-to-end across the enterprise network to assure service delivery for all applications and users," said Steven Shalita (News - Alert), vice president, marketing, NetScout. "By leveraging the service hosting capabilities of Cisco's UCS Express, NetScout is removing the operational and cost obstacles.”

For hosting essential infrastructure services and mission-critical business applications in the lean branch office, Cisco UCS Express is a converged computing, virtualization, and networking platform. Dramatically reducing capital and operational costs associated with achieving visibility in remote branch locations, leveraging the Cisco UCS Express platform as an intelligent instrumentation point, nGenius Integrated Agent eliminates the need for dedicated, standalone network-based monitoring hardware.

Recently, the company announced that it has acquired Simena (News - Alert) LLC. The value of the deal was not disclosed. A leader in unified service delivery management, NetScout Systems offers end-to-end network and application assurance solutions that enable IT staff to predict, preempt and resolve network and service delivery problems. Its solutions, which include NetScout nGenius and Sniffer, also facilitate network infrastructure optimization and capacity planning.