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You've just added a new application to your Storage Area Network and now all applications are experiencing performance problems, need help?

Traditionally, different network technologies have been used for storage farms -- voice and data - and each application used a different protocol. The convergence of protocols onto IP has collapsed these networks onto a single network. So, understanding why an application is not performing well requires visibility into the network. Typically, enterprises deploy Protocol Analyzers, but that's not economically feasible for deployment across a large Wide Area Network. By deploying Applications Performance Management capabilities at each site, you can see how applications are performing today as well as how they've performed over the past two weeks - in one-second granularity. To learn more about this solution, go to Global Crossing's blog at http://blogs.globalcrossing.com/node/191.