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SAN Monitoring Tools Grow Up: Page 4 of 4

"What we're doing is helping to analyze what precisely is going on in the packet when there are interoperability issues," she says. "In the old Ethernet days, they didn't have ways to troubleshoot what was going wrong until they got the protocol analyzers."

Predating NetScout's entry into the SAN monitoring market are two other providers of hardware probes, Finisar Corp.