3. Rick Coloccia, Network Manager, Sunny Geneseo, 15 years in IT

Favorite Product: Plixer's Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer

Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer Provides incredibly detailed network utilization information for the users and applications that are causing the most traffic. Using Cisco's NetFlow Technology (an IOS software feature found in an ever increasing number of switches and routers), Scrutinizer is able to retrieve the traffic details you need and present them in a detailed graphical view.

"Scrutinizer is one of the only utilities available that allows us to easily and quickly drill down into host protocols from a single interface to see all traffic passing to and from the campus. It even has a brilliant reporting feature that allows us to overlay our campus network schematic on a Google map to get an accurate, spatial representation of core equipment, zoom in and out, and see real-time link utilization with drill-down capability." Peter Rounds, Syracuse University .