NetCrunch and NETSCOUT vSTREAM compete in network monitoring and management. NETSCOUT vSTREAM holds an advantage due to comprehensive capabilities, making it preferable despite NetCrunch's strengths in pricing and support.
Features: NetCrunch provides automatic network discovery, visual mapping, and flexible monitoring solutions. NETSCOUT vSTREAM offers in-depth traffic analysis, performance management, and detailed data insights.
Room for Improvement: NetCrunch can enhance traffic analysis, data granularity, and integration capabilities. NETSCOUT vSTREAM could improve pricing transparency, initial setup costs, and post-deployment assistance.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NETSCOUT vSTREAM integrates seamlessly with existing infrastructures and provides reliable service support. NetCrunch emphasizes straightforward deployment and immediate post-deployment assistance, offering better client support during the deployment phase.
Pricing and ROI: NetCrunch offers competitive setup costs and a satisfying return on investment. NETSCOUT vSTREAM, though often more expensive upfront, provides superior long-term value through enhanced data processing and analysis capabilities.
NetCrunch is the complete network monitoring solution for monitoring traffic, topology, devices, systems, logs, and services. It's policy, and template-based configuration makes managing thousands of nodes a breeze. It automatically generates layer-2 maps and manages monitoring dependencies. NetCrunch supports major operating systems, virtualization platforms, and the Cloud. Complete SNMP support with 8,700+ MIBs included and a built-in MIB compiler.
The vSTREAM virtual appliance complements existing Adaptive Session Intelligence (ASI)-based instrumentation to provide the same level of visibility within virtualized and cloud infrastructures that is already possible in physical environments. The vSTREAM virtual appliance is ideal for monitoring service-critical traffic running within virtualized or cloud infrastructures, either locally on a host or as an aggregation point for multiple hosts. With complete visibility across physical, virtual and cloud networks, the vSTREAM virtual appliance presents real-time views of end-to-end call trace data and network-wide KPIs, to protect the reliability and availability of networks and application services.
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