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Sandia National Laboratories Case Study

Introduction

This case study of Sandia National Laboratories is based on a September 2020 survey of SolarWinds customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

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Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select SolarWinds:

  • IT challenges their agency faced prior to implementing SolarWinds products:
    • Not having the tools to troubleshoot network problems or outages
    • No centralized configuration backs, or any way to monitor configuration changes

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of SolarWinds that the surveyed organization uses:

  • Regular user in the following SolarWinds product area:
    • Network management
  • Uses SolarWinds products across whole organization
  • Agency use cases for leveraging SolarWinds products:
    • To monitor network performance
    • To troubleshoot network problems or outages
    • To resolve configuration issues
    • To monitor system/server health
    • To plan for network and datacenter modernizations
  • They deploy SolarWinds to monitor 5,001-10,000 objects.

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with SolarWinds:

  • Results they were able to produce using SolarWinds products:
    • Improve configuration management
    • Improve system and application monitoring and troubleshooting
    • Improve log tracking and management
    • Improve log tracking and management
    • Improve NIST FISMA / RMF / DISA STIGS compliance
    • Provide planners with performance and capacity data to support modernization efforts
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Network Performance Monitor
    • Engineer’s Toolset
    • Serv-U Managed File Transfer Server
  • Purchased their SolarWinds products because of:
    • Multi-vendor support
    • Experience with other SolarWinds products
    • Scalability / Able to support our growth

Organization Profile

Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories

Organization Size:
State & Local

Industry:
Government

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Source: Greg Mullins, Sr Solutions Architect, Sandia National Laboratories
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  Published: Oct. 28, 2020   TVID: 22E-59A-5E3




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