Overview

AppNeta was launched in the spring of 2011, by the team and technology of Apparent Networks, Inc. AppNeta is headquartered in Wellesley Hills

Wellesley, Massachusetts

Wellesley is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of Greater Boston. The population was 27,982 at the time of the 2010 census.It is best known as the home of Wellesley College and Babson College...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

, with the Research and Development team based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

AppNeta delivers instant-value network performance management solutions required to drive exceptional application performance across all data center, cloud, remote office and mobile environments. AppNeta’s award-winning PathView Cloud solutions leverage a zero administration, cloud-based service to meet the performance demands of today’s distributed network infrastructure and mainstream network-dependent applications including unified communications, cloud services and virtual service delivery. With more than 1,000 customers worldwide, AppNeta provides unmatched end-to-end performance insight to network engineers and IT outsourcers, enabling predictable and efficient delivery of today’s business-critical application services from wherever they originate to wherever they are consumed.

AppNeta is privately held, and backed by top-tier venture investors, including Bain Capital Ventures

Bain Capital Ventures

Bain Capital Ventures is the Boston-based venture capital affiliate of Bain Capital. Bain Capital Ventures' history dates back to 1984, with investments in over 110 early and growth stage companies such as Staples, DoubleClick, Aspect Development, Shopping.com, Taleo Corporation, SolarWinds,...

, JMI Equities

JMI Equity

JMI Equity is a growth equity firm focused on investing in leading software, internet, business services and healthcare IT companies. JMI provides capital for growth, recapitalizations, acquisitions and buyouts. Founded in 1992, JMI has invested in more than 100 companies throughout North...

, Egan-Managed Capital and Business Development Bank of Canada. The Company currently employs 55 people. The PathView Cloud technology has been successfully deployed by large enterprises worldwide, managed service providers and tier-one technology vendors to assure end-user quality of experience. Customers include 3Com

3Com

3Com was a pioneering digital electronics manufacturer best known for its computer network infrastructure products. The company was co-founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Howard Charney, Bruce Borden, and Greg Shaw...

, ACS

Affiliated Computer Services

Affiliated Computer Services Inc. provides information technology services as well as business process outsourcing solutions to businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. ACS is based in Dallas, Texas and the current CEO is Lynn Blodgett. ACS is ranked at number 341 on the 2010...

, Bell

Bell Canada

Bell Canada is a major Canadian telecommunications company. Including its subsidiaries such as Bell Aliant, Northwestel, Télébec, and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local exchange carrier for telephone and DSL Internet services in most of Canada east of Manitoba and in the northern territories,...

, Boeing

Boeing

The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...

, Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

, Fujitsu

Fujitsu

is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues....

, Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...

, IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

, Network Appliance

Network Appliance

NetApp, Inc. , formerly Network Appliance, Inc., is a proprietary computer storage and data management company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is a member of the NASDAQ-100 and is also Fortune magazine's fifth best place to work...

, Nortel

Nortel

Nortel Networks Corporation, formerly known as Northern Telecom Limited and sometimes known simply as Nortel, was a multinational telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada...

, Siemens

Siemens

Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...

, Symantec

Symantec

Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...

, TELUS

TELUS

Telus is a national telecommunications company in Canada that provides a wide range of telecommunications products and services including internet access, voice, entertainment, video, and satellite television. The company is based in Burnaby, British Columbia, part of Greater Vancouver...

 and Toshiba

Toshiba

is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...

. The AppNeta website is located at http://www.appneta.com. They can also be found on Facebook.

Technology

AppNeta’s PathView Cloud solution provides unmatched insight into and across networks for monitoring and troubleshooting performance sensitive applications including VoIP, Video conferencing, Virtualization, EHR, IP Storage and Disaster Recovery, and other cloud-based services. The zero-administration network management service immediately enables visibility into how an application will perform on any network, including all security and traffic shaping technologies. The PathView Cloud network performance management technology and cloud-based service includes:

• PathView Cloud: Cloud-based network performance service for assessing, monitoring and troubleshooting network problems; enables Active bandwidth monitoring and end-to-end Qos verification.

• AppView Voice: An add-on module that enables network engineers to test a network's capacity to handle VoIP traffic by simulating a specified amount of synthetic voice traffic over the network in question.

• AppView Web: An add-on module that monitors key performance metrics of any website. Used by end users to monitor company websites as well as managed service providers to monitor customer websites.

• FlowView: An add-on for PathView Cloud that provides traffic and flow analysis of network user activities. It allows network engineers insight into network bottlenecks, usage patterns and user activities. FlowView Plus offers the capability to remotely capture network traffic at the exact location and time that performance fluctuations occur. PathView Cloud and FlowView enable network engineers to have greater visibility into identifying and troubleshooting network performance issues.

The company’s solutions use patented dispersion analysis to measure the total capacity, utilization, and ability of any network to deliver performance critical applications such as voice, video

Videoconferencing

Videoconferencing is the conduct of a videoconference by a set of telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously...

, virtualization

Hardware virtualization

Computer hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers or operating systems. It hides the physical characteristics of a computing platform from users, instead showing another abstract computing platform...

, IP storage

Storage area network

A storage area network is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. SANs are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes, accessible to servers so that the devices appear like locally attached devices...

, and cloud based services

Software as a Service

Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...

. The products provide highly accurate performance visibility across any Local Area Network

Län

Län and lääni refer to the administrative divisions used in Sweden and previously in Finland. The provinces of Finland were abolished on January 1, 2010....

, private Wide Area Network, or the public Internet

WAN

WAN may refer to:* Wide area network * World Association of Newspapers* Wanborough railway station in England, which has the station code WAN...

, without capturing or impacting existing traffic.

Awards

• “Best Use of Cloud Delivery” by the Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Radar™ Report for Application-Aware Network Performance Management (ANPM) Q3 2010.
• "Strong Value" by the Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Radar™ Report for Application-Aware Network Performance Management (ANPM) Q3 2010.
• "Tech Innovator" by the Xchange Technology Innovator Awards in the managed services category
• "Customer Enhancement Value of the Year 2010" by Frost & Sullivan
• "2010 Excellence Award" by Unified Communications

Executives

• Jim Melvin, Chief Executive Officer
• Matt Stevens, Chief Technology Officer
• David O’ Connor, Chief Financial Officer
• Greg Casale, Vice President of Business Development
• Fred Klassen, Vice President, Networking Technologies and Co-founder

Board of Directors

• Jack Sweeney, Executive Chairman
• Jim Melvin, Chief Executive Officer, AppNeta
• Alan Matthews, Rapid 7
• J. Benjamin Nye, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures
• Andrew Lugsdin, Director, BDC Venture Capital
• Michael Shanahan, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Egan Managed Capital
• Jit Sinha, Principal, JMI Equity

Investors

• Bain Capital Ventures
• Egan-Managed Capital
• JMI Equity
• Business Development Bank of Canada

External links

• http://www.AppNeta.com
• http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P3302/11p02/11p02.asp
• http://www.channelpartnersonline.com/news/2010/09/apparent-networks-release-cloud-based-voip-testin.aspx