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SolarWinds Government Case Study

US Army Research Laboratory Case Study

Introduction

This case study of US Army Research Laboratory is based on a September 2017 survey of SolarWinds Government customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

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
    • Lack of visibility into application or database performance

Use Case

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

  • Regular user in the following SolarWinds product areas:
    • Network Management
    • Systems, Application, Server, and Storage Monitoring
  • 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 monitor system / server health
    • To monitor application and database health

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 configuration management
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Network Performance Monitor
    • Network Configuration Manager
    • Server & Application Monitor
    • IP Address Manager
  • Purchased their SolarWinds products because of:
    • Cost effectiveness
    • Scalability / ability to support our growth




About This Data

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

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