{"id":1461,"date":"2017-10-03T19:47:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T19:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/network-monitoring\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2021-05-12T19:27:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:27:21","slug":"whats-changed-gartners-2017-magic-quadrant-for-network-performance-monitoring-and-diagnostics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/network-monitoring\/whats-changed-gartners-2017-magic-quadrant-for-network-performance-monitoring-and-diagnostics\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Changed: Gartner\u2019s 2017 Magic Quadrant For Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Analyst house Gartner, Inc. has released the latest iteration of its annual Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (NPMD) Magic Quadrant (MQ) report.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Check out this year’s version of the Magic Quadrant here!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In the 2017 MQ for NPMD, available here<\/a>, Gartner evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 17 vendors that it considers most significant in the NPMD market while providing readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant), which plots out the vendors; the Y-axis represents the vendor’s ability to execute, and the X-axis represents the completeness of the vendor’s vision. The graph is divided into four quadrants: leaders, visionaries, niche players, and challengers. But to clarify,\u00a0Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in its research publications.<\/p>\n

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This is the fourth iteration of the NPMD MQ released since 2014; since the first iteration, the NPMD market has innovated itself in order to enhance the analytics and performance of the software. These vendors are essential in helping I&O leaders support more complex technologies, capable of providing support for software-defined environments. NPMD solutions are also experimenting with cloud-monitoring systems and network analytics to support the gaps in cloud migration for future networks.<\/p>\n

At Solutions Review, we read the report, available to Gartner subscribers here<\/a>, and pulled a few of what we considered the most important takeaways and key changes since the 2016 IGA MQ.<\/p>\n

What is NPMD?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

According to Gartner, NPMD vendors have sets of tools that “allow IT operations to understand the performance of application, network, and infrastructure components” to accomplish the goals of monitoring network traffic and infrastructure, while finding “performance optimization opportunities for your network.” The Magic Quadrant was graphed based on the aggregated data collected from the performance and execution of the following functions:<\/p>\n