TechValidate Research on SolarWinds


SolarWinds Case Study

US Army Case Study

Introduction

This case study of a federal government is based on an October 2020 survey of SolarWinds customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Network Performance Monitor is the product I use, along with the toolset.”

Challenges

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

  • IT challenge 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
    • Systems, applications, servers, and storage monitoring
  • Uses SolarWinds products within department / location
  • Agency use case for leveraging SolarWinds products:
    • To troubleshoot network problems or outages
  • 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
    • Improve system and application monitoring and troubleshooting
  • Favorite SolarWinds product:
    • Network Performance Monitor




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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