TechValidate Research on SolarWinds Network Management

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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Satisfaction Rating

Andy Andreatta, a Senior Network Engineer at EverBank, would be likely to recommend SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer for this reason:

NTA provides NetFlow data in a useful way. It is one of the better NetFlow tools out there.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Testimonial

My favorite feature of NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is:

The Types of Service (ToS) summary. It has helped me to prioritize and identify traffic and confirm the proper classification of traffic from different endpoints.

Michael Sprandel, Network Administrator, Glencoe Regional Health Services

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Satisfaction Rating

Michael Sprandel, a Network Administrator at Glencoe Regional Health Services, would be very likely to recommend SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer for this reason:

NTA works very well to give graphical information that is easy to understand.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Satisfaction Rating

Brian McCollam, a Sr. Network Engineer at Keck Medicine of USC, would be very likely to recommend SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer for this reason:

SolarWinds NTA gives superior insight to network traffic at conversation, endpoint and application levels.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Satisfaction Rating

Gavin Lau, a Systems Engineer at Kryterion, would be very likely to recommend SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer for this reason:

Very useful to analyze traffic / package types / protocols from endpoint to endpoint.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Fact

Evergreen Park School District 124 gets to the root cause of a bandwidth issue ten times faster since using NetFlow Traffic Analyzer versus using no flow analysis tool.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Satisfaction Rating

Steven Korpal, a Network Administrator at Evergreen Park School District 124, would be very likely to recommend SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer for this reason:

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is a crucial in-depth view of traffic going through the network from a centralized viewpoint.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Statistic

84% of surveyed IT organizations purchased NetFlow Traffic Analyzer to solve challenges with identifying the cause of bandwidth spikes.

84%

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

We collect NetFlow data from our network choke points and use that data to help us make decisions about bandwidth use policies and QoS.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

If you already have NPM, it’s pretty much a no-brainer to get NTA.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

We track our network connection between our data center and our clients to make sure they do not lose connection to their servers.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

It helps track down issues between our clients and our headquarters.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

To help with troubleshooting.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

Useful tool for monitoring and troubleshooting.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

Tracking bandwidth is the biggest use of this product for us.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

It helps us to very quickly see what servers are using up data.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

We have traffic coming through a closed circuit from outside agencies to an unsecured application. During a recent malware hit, we had no idea which agency the malware came from. With NetFlow, we can get source IP addresses once we track down the offending flow.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

It is easy to manage and configure.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

Investigation of bandwidth spikes.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

It is a good tool for traffic analysis.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

To analyze how is traffic utilization is from any internal and external standpoint.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

Great product that will help you a lot if you work in the networking field.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

We set it up to monitor bandwidth usage on our firewall.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

We utilize NTA for viewing application use and where an application is being used at a given time. This capability allowed me to implement a more strict QOS system to Netflix users.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

Make sure you have NETFLOW capable switches. We have NETFLOW Lite, which is painful as it doesnt view every packet but a portion of a stream instead.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

We use it in our main office to monitor our bandwidth and traffic utilization.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

It is very helpful in determining the cause or source of network congestion.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

To see what’s using up bandwidth and to troubleshoot performance problems.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

Works well, nice graphs, and easy to drill down into details.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

We used it to identify what device caused the traffic spikes.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

It gives you great insight to see who and what is actually going over your network.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

Monitoring traffic flow across WAN interfaces to validate user traffic, using bandwidth utilization per application to adjust QoS policies, investigating top talkers for high bandwidth utilization, and monitoring odd traffic on the network.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

Buy it.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

To monitor internal LAN and WAN bandwidth utilization.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

Very solid product and easy to use!

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

Still early in our usage, but I think it will be a great product for us once fully implemented.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

If you don’t already have a tool, get NTA!

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

We use it for troubleshooting and evaluating patterns.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

It’s helpful to get a more in depth look into the network.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

To analyze which application eats up the most bandwidth and to optimize traffic accordingly.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

A very self-explanatory tool which can be used with very minimal training and experience.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

Primarily NTA is used to monitor spikes in traffic and apply policies to endpoints using our IPS based on the flows. As a secondary function, we use it to monitor traffic patterns at our industry trade show, where bandwidth is limited and very expensive.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

SolarWinds support articles make configuring the flow policies simple on your firewall, and the NTA service provides deep visibility.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

To see in detail, what kinds of traffic is causing bottlenecks at our branch locations and our main site.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

NTA will give you the host name and IP of a device that is sending and receiving traffic from a NetFlow source.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

For network traffic analysis.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

Give it a try.

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses NTA:

To troubleshoot network slowness, and gain insight into historical data and trends.

What would you tell another network admin or engineer about NTA?

Decent product, providing critical network information.




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