TechValidate Research on SolarWinds


SolarWinds Case Study

Government Contractor Case Study

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 aerospace & defense company is based on a September 2020 survey of SolarWinds customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

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Challenges

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

  • IT challenges their agency faced prior to implementing SolarWinds products:
    • Lack of visibility into the problems leading to network performance or capacity issues
    • Lack of visibility into system/server health

Use Case

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

  • Regular user in the following SolarWinds product areas:
    • Systems, applications, servers, and storage monitoring
    • Security and compliance
  • Uses SolarWinds products within department / location
  • Agency use cases for leveraging SolarWinds products:
    • To monitor system/server health
    • To monitor application and database health
    • To monitor security incidents and vulnerabilities and improve compliance
  • They deploy SolarWinds to monitor 1,001-5,000 objects.

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with SolarWinds:

  • Results they were able to produce using SolarWinds products:
    • Improve system and application monitoring and troubleshooting
    • Improve log tracking and management
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Server & Application Monitor
    • Virtualization Manager
    • Security Event Manager
  • Realized a return on investment within 4 to 6 months with SolarWinds products




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of SolarWinds by TechValidate.

TechValidate verifies the identity and organizational affiliation of all participants that contribute to published research data. When research participants so desire, we also guarantee their anonymity so that they may share information honestly and freely.


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