Cadence Bank, N.A., a regional financial services company serving consumer, commercial and business customers across the southern and southwest United States, has recently adapted Fluke Network’s Visual Performance Manager (VPM), to gain network and application visibility across distributed locations.

Cadence Bank has grown vastly through acquisition and with this the company has been facing unique challenges of combining and overlying completely different hardware, applications, and third-party service providers. To overcome these obstacles, Cadence IT team finalized on Visual Performance Manager, after a thorough evaluation.           

Visual Performance Manager is a distributed system that spans the entire delivery infrastructure for complex multi-tiered networked application architectures. This solution is used as a self-managed solution by private enterprises with a distributed network environment and multiple data centers as well as a Managed Service for many of the top global service providers including AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Level 3, XO Communications (News - Alert).

The deployment of VPM is helping the bank to classify interactions between cloud-based services and the network, expose performance bottlenecks, and solve problems with key financial service applications. This new deployment is catering to the needs of nearly 1,500 employees spread across more than 100 locations.

In addition, VPN solution provides complete visibility into network traffic, VoIP monitoring and troubleshooting, and QoS/CoS monitoring and reporting.        

"VPM provides us visibility and access to information that allows our team to save time and money when integrating new networks, optimizing existing ones, and isolating IT problems across the organization," said Jonathan Hay, vice president and director of network engineering at Cadence Bank. "It helps eliminate manual correlations of data and gives us a clear line of sight into network and application performance problems so we can more easily meet IT objectives and get a better understanding of the landscape and impact to end-users."

Cadence Bank is expanding with new users and locations and plans to use VPM to proactively add circuits to sites that are over-utilized, allowing them to improve key financial service applications.

"VPM gives us a level of insight we previously didn't have and will allow our team to work more collaboratively to solve IT challenges," said Mickey Parker, senior vice president and director of network services at Cadence. "It's already proven itself an indispensable system and the go-to resource when evaluating problems, planning changes, or taking the pulse of key systems."