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SolarWinds Government Case Study

Department of State Case Study

Introduction

This case study of a state & local government is based on a July 2018 survey of SolarWinds Government customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

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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
    • Lack of visibility into system/server health
    • The difficulty of determining whether a security incident occurred and what happened during the breach
    • Inadequate automation of compliance reporting

Use Case

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

  • Regular user in the following SolarWinds product areas:
    • Network Management
    • Systems, Application, Server, and Storage Monitoring
    • Security and Compliance
  • Uses SolarWinds products across multiple departments/locations, but not whole agency
  • Agency use cases for leveraging SolarWinds products:
    • To monitor network performance
    • To troubleshoot network problems or outages
    • To resolve configuration issues

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with SolarWinds:

  • Results they were able to produce using SolarWinds products:
    • Improve resolution rates for networking performance and capacity issues
    • Improve system and application monitoring and troubleshooting
    • Improve NIST FISMA / RMF / DISA STIGS compliance
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Network Performance Monitor
    • Network Configuration Manager
    • NetFlow Traffic Analyzer

Organization Profile

The organization featured in this case study asked to have its name publicly blinded because publicly endorsing vendors is against their policies.

TechValidate stands behind the authenticity of this data.

Organization Size:
Federal

Industry:
Government

About SolarWinds Government

SolarWinds delivers powerful, affordable, and easy-to-use IT solutions to US Federal and other Government agencies to monitor and manage networks and systems, streamline support operations, and ensure security and compliance.

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Source: TechValidate survey of a Federal Government Organization
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  Published: Sep. 28, 2018   TVID: 9EA-886-986




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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