Health Services Company Relies on Entuity

Case Studies


With $1.7 billion in annual revenues, a health services company, headquartered in Connecticut, 是美国最大的行为保健十大赌博正规老平台提供商.S., serving more than 2,000 corporations, health plans, insurance companies, labor unions, and state, county and municipal governments. 他们的愿景是通过为会员提供高质量的十大赌博正规老平台来帮助个人改善他们的福祉, clinically appropriate, affordable health care, tailored to each individual’s needs, while managing costs responsibly.

Highlights

  • Focuses IT resources on business objectives
  • Improves network utilization
  • 防止广泛的病毒攻击和潜在的十大赌博正规老平台中断
  • Decreases MTTR by two-thirds
  • Improves development stress testing
  • Uses expansive reporting to improve forecast accuracy of network bandwidth and utilization
  • Prevents developing service problems
  • Communicates success effectively

Business Needs

对于这家医疗十大赌博正规老平台公司来说,IT运营至关重要. 无论是完成将办公室迁移到中央平台的挑战性任务,还是整合冗余网络, IT Operations must maintain 24-hour, 每周七天为客户提供资源和信息. 正如IT运营高级副总裁解释的那样:“我们的目标是管理网络以支持我们的业务. To ensure 100% access to our business systems, we need to know what equipment we have, 没有使用的是什么?如何识别潜在的问题区域,以便有效地管理流量和带宽.”

During the first attempt at consolidation, 迁移后的办公室开始消耗大量带宽, creating performance issues. 基本的网络工具几乎没有提供报告功能, 使得it运营部门无法确定问题的根源. “我们意识到,要继续迁移,我们需要更多的网络管理解决方案. We needed network fault detection, network performance monitoring, network inventory discovery & 管理和深度报告功能在一个解决方案中,”他说.

在实现目标的过程中,该公司面临着几个挑战:

  • Network consolidation; elimination of redundancies, taking advantage of equipment trade-ins and lower costs
  • 一致,可靠的报告,以支持和管理100%的访问
  • 库存管理,以确定资源容量和有效利用带宽
  • 对应用程序进行压力测试,并跟踪和报告结果
  • Maintenance of high level of service for all customers

As the network engineer at the company explains:

“使用Entuity,我们可以将故障、性能和库存管理整合到一个工具中. This makes our work more effective. 而不是集成和使用两个或三个工具,我们很容易学会并使用一个. Our team is now more responsive to customer requests.”

帮助VP和他的团队选择Entuity的解决方案的关键是Entuity使用集中式存储库合并并关联了三个操作规程, a powerful analytics engine, presentation and notification and unprecedented reporting.

“使用Entuity,我们可以将故障、性能和库存管理整合到一个工具中. This makes our work more effective. 而不是集成和使用两个或三个工具,我们很容易学会并使用一个. Our team is now more responsive to customer requests.”

The Results

Securing the Entuity resource management reports, the company recently identified a rampant computer virus, preventing widespread infection within the company.

“Entuity跟踪交换机和路由器上的MAC和IP地址的能力被证明是一个非常有用的功能,” according to the head network engineer. 他们的网络传感器检测到病毒扫描并确定了受感染的IP地址. “我们在Entuity中输入了IP地址,然后点击一个按钮, 确定哪些pc和端口被感染,以及它们的位置. Entuity允许我们快速关闭受感染的端口和交换机. To move so quickly was invaluable. We experienced little impact to our network and services.”

The results of using Entuity include:

Improved Mean Time to Repair (MTTR): 随着Entuity的实现,IT运维团队估计它已经减少了 MTTR of problems involving PCs, servers and switches by two-thirds, 释放宝贵资源,提高生产力.

Enhanced Support of Development: IT运维更有效地支持他们的开发团队. 利用Entuity,团队可以在应用程序发布到生产环境之前对其进行压力测试. 网络工程师深入研究并确定开发十大赌博正规老平台器使用的端口. Once this is determined, 工程师在压力测试期间跟踪十大赌博正规老平台器和端口利用率(活动量),以确定可能出现瓶颈或带宽问题的位置. With Entuity, IT运营部门负责发现网络中的故障,并主动增加带宽, preventing problems in production.

Impact Analysis: According to the senior VP, “Entuity使我们能够实时查看整合对广域网的影响. 随着我们整合工作的继续,我们会主动评估我们所处的位置,并利用这种分析来预测未来的需求. 我们计划在我们的内部网上显示性能报告,以便业务单位可以随时查看系统可用性,管理层可以确定IT操作的执行情况. With greater visibility for the entire organization, 我们有效地防止十大赌博正规老平台中断,并传达我们的有效性.”

Summary of Results Achieved with Entuity

  • Focused IT resources on business objectives
  • Improved network utilization
  • 防止了广泛的病毒攻击和潜在的十大赌博正规老平台中断
  • Decreased MTTR by two-thirds
  • Improved development stress testing
  • 使用扩展报告来提高网络带宽和利用率的预测准确性
  • Prevented developing service problems
  • Communicated success effectively

“Entuity愿意成为真正的合作伙伴,这为我们提供了影响产品规划的能力, 进一步帮助我们实现更好的网络运营和可用性的目标.”
– Senior VP of IT Operations

About Entuity
Entuity takes the work out of network management. Our highly automated, Uni企业级解决方案将深度网络洞察置于您的指尖, 使IT人员能够专注于战略项目,并轻松地与主要框架和网络环境集成. Entuity的支持和十大赌博正规老平台团队经常因其快速反应而受到称赞, 网络专业知识和参与特殊活动. 由两位金融行业的高级IT主管于1997年创立, Entuity总部设在伦敦,美国业务设在波士顿.