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SolarWinds Government Case Study

Berklee College of Music Case Study

Introduction

This case study of Berklee College of Music is based on a March 2019 survey of SolarWinds Government customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

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Challenges

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

  • 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

Use Case

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

  • Regular user in the following SolarWind product areas:
    • Network management
    • Systems, applications, servers, and storage monitoring
  • Uses SolarWinds products throughout the company
  • Agency use cases for leveraging SolarWinds products:
    • Network performance monitoring
    • Troubleshooting network problems or failures
    • Monitoring the integrity of applications and databases

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with SolarWinds Government:

  • Results they were able to produce using SolarWinds products:
    • Improve resolution rates for networking performance and capacity issues
    • Improve log tracking and management
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Network Performance Monitor
    • Server & Application Monitor
    • Virtualization Manager
  • Realized a return on investment payback period of 4 to 6 months with SolarWinds products
  • Purchased their SolarWinds products because of:
    • Ease of use
    • Integration with other SolarWinds products




About This Data

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

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