TechValidate Research on SolarWinds


SolarWinds Case Study

Institute of Higher Education

Introduction

This case study of a educational institution is based on an October 2022 survey of SolarWinds customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

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:
    • Lack of visibility into the problems leading to network performance or capacity issues

Use Case

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

  • Regular user in the following SolarWinds product areas:
    • Network management
  • Uses SolarWinds products within department / location
  • Agency use cases for leveraging SolarWinds products:
    • To monitor network performance
    • To monitor system/server health
  • They deploy SolarWinds to monitor 200-500 objects.

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with SolarWinds:

  • Results they were able to produce using SolarWinds products:
    • Correlate network, server, and application issues to resolve performance problems
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Network Performance Monitor
    • Server & Application Monitor
    • Web Performance Monitor
  • Purchased their SolarWinds products because of:
    • Ease of use
    • Scalability / Able to support our growth
    • Colleague recommendation




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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