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SolarWinds Government Case Study

Florida Higher Education Case Study

Introduction

This case study of a educational institution is based on a September 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.

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“Business requirements drive the products we use.”

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
    • Not having the tools to troubleshoot network problems or outages
    • Lack of visibility into system/server health
    • Lack of visibility into application or database performance

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 cases for leveraging SolarWinds’ products:
    • To monitor network performance
    • To troubleshoot network problems or outages
    • To monitor system/server health
    • To monitor application and database 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
    • Improve resolution rates for networking performance and capacity issues
    • Improve system and application monitoring and troubleshooting
    • Provide better service levels to the organization
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Network Performance Monitor
    • Server & Application Monitor
  • Realized a return on investment payback period of 10 to 12 months with SolarWinds products
  • Purchased their SolarWinds products because of:
    • Multi-vendor support
    • Best value

Organization Profile

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

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Industry:
Educational Institution

About SolarWinds Government

SolarWinds delivers powerful, affordable, and easy-to-use IT solutions to government and education to monitor 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 Educational Institution
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  Published: Oct. 28, 2020   TVID: C35-9EC-727




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