TechValidate Research on SolarWinds Network Management

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For the cost of the maintenance on the old software to cover 40 nodes, we were able to cover all of our devices (less than 200) in a dashboard that includes our monitoring software (NPM). That is a win-win-win.

Security Engineer, Medium Enterprise Banking Company

We have had a turn over of support personnel in the last two years. Using NCM has made our support model consistent and easier to pass information forward to the new teams. Also, it provides for a single location to review configurations and history for individual locations.

IT Manager, S&P 500 Chemicals Company

NCM has made it easy to push out large configuration changes to multiple similar devices in one push. Before, we would log into each device and make the change, now we only have to do it once, and monitor the outcome.

Kent Kassube, Network Administrator, U.S. Venture, Inc.

We’ve consolidated three network management/monitoring tools into one platform. Coupled with a change in the network engineer position and hiring someone with SolarWinds experience, we’re getting outstanding value and great results using NCM.

Chief Information Officer, Membership Organization

With SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, we can schedule weekly backups of all our network devices for months or even years. It also help us find vulnerabilities and errors in changes.

Network Administrator, Medium Enterprise Telecommunications Services Company

We are using SolarWinds NCM mostly for its configuration backup purposes. When we have a switch, router, or firewall failure, NCM assures we have a current backup that we can easily restore to a spare device. This is the invaluable part of NCM for my organization as it limits downtime; this is especially true with firewalls that might have complex VPN configurations and Access Lists.

IT Director, Non Profit

From IT to IT, GET IT, you wont regret it.

Sam Namiq, Network Administrator, IDSolutions

You have to know that something is broken or congested before you can fix it. Proactive monitoring with SolarWinds Network ends up reducing downtime or even mitigating problems before they result in downtime.

Network Engineer, Small Business Telecommunications Services Company

There’s nothing better for proactively monitoring a network. Other products may be cheaper but there’s a reason for that. The extra money spent on SolarWinds more than pays for itself in better visibility and reduced downtime.

Network Engineer, Large Enterprise Food Company

For the cost, SolarWinds monitors your network better than any other tool.

Chad Fogg, Network Engineer, Research Now

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor Customer Statistic

79% of surveyed IT organizations were able to gain greater visibility into the availability and performance of their network using SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor.

79%

62% of surveyed IT organizations reduced network downtime and improved network availability and reliability with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor.

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor:

The NPM Summary which provides detailed information on high utilization.

Would you recommend SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor?

Yes, its a great tool and provides a ton of features that are easy to use and implement in our network.

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor:

The ability to get instant information of network issues before end users call and complain. Being able to map all of our devices and access points saves a lot of time in troubleshooting issues. It’s just a great tool!

Would you recommend SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor?

I have not had or seen a better network monitoring tool and don’t expect to!
Solarwinds keeps up to date on all network hardware and software and builds that into their products.

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor Customer Statistic

67% of surveyed IT organizations reduced time to resolution once an issue had been identified with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor.

67%

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor:

Active Alerts – to quickly resolve the issues before it takes down the system. Bandwidth – to quickly monitor the high bandwidth usage and alert users about network slowness. Errors and Discards – to get to know how well the hardware is functioning and if we need to upgrade the equipment.

Would you recommend SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor?

Yes, I would and have recommended Solarwinds NPM as it is the easiest tool to quickly get the view of the network and resolve issues ASAP. Plus Solarwinds other tools work amazing with NPM.

69% of surveyed IT organizations reduced time to resolution once an issue had been identified with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor.

69%

I can SEE my network! Before NPM I used MRTG, but it is nothing compared to what NPM can do. I can find trouble before problems happen, and if not, I can customize NPM to add new alerts on what I need.

Denis Piche, Network Administrator, UQAT

[SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is] the best network monitoring tool available. It is easy to add new devices and select elements for monitoring.

Pete Wheeler, Network Administrator, ASSA ABLOY AB

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor:

Visibility to the network and to provide alerting to the staff of ongoing issues and resolutions.

Would you recommend SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor?

I would recommend it to others. It’s so very customizable, and that makes it fit our business needs.

SolarWinds IP Address Manager Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses SolarWinds IP Address Manager:

We use it to keep track of IPs in our organization and subnets. We also like to be able to see DHCP scope utilization at a glance.

Would you recommend SolarWinds IP Address Manager?

Yeah, I find that being able to add a DHCP server and have it read in the scopes is very helpful.

SolarWinds IP Address Manager Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses SolarWinds IP Address Manager:

We have it polling the network every 18 hours so it picks up IP addresses that may only be used at certain times of the day/night. All the IT technicians have access to it to allocate IP addresses and are no longer reliant on 1 or 2 people issuing them from spreadsheets.

Would you recommend SolarWinds IP Address Manager?

I would recommend SolarWinds IP Address Manager as it makes life simpler for all the IT technicians.

5/5 Stars

What is the biggest benefit of using SolarWinds network monitoring products?

Network visbility

How would you describe SolarWinds network monitoring products to a colleague?

It’s just the best network monitoring tool in the market!

Robert Birkett, an IT/Systems Administrator at Integrys Energy Group, Inc., is very likely to recommend SolarWinds Network Monitoring for the following reason:

Unless you need a complete suite of tools such as HP OpenView or Tivoli, which are extravagantly expensive, this is the product that would fit the majority of medium sized businesses.

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses SolarWinds IP Address Manager:

We use IPAM to monitor address space usage and identify free static IP addresses, as well as to occasionally troubleshoot a problem.

Would you recommend SolarWinds IP Address Manager?

I’d recommend IPAM because it’s reliable, features are always being added, it’s automated, and it’s fairly inexpensive.

A Network Administrator of a medium enterprise construction company is very likely to recommend* SolarWinds IP Address Manager for the following reason:

“SolarWinds IP is a good place to record your IP addresses and manage your DHCP and DNS. It’s constantly updating itself so you can leave it to its own devices, unless there are issues or you need to tweak it a bit. You can tell everything about what is on a particular subnet and, being a civil engineering company, we have loads.”

*Based on a response of 9 to the question “On a scale of 0-10, how likely would you be to recommend SolarWinds IP Address Manager?”

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses SolarWinds IP Address Manager:

SolarWinds IP was the perfect tool for managing and assigning static IP addresses. A side benefit was seeing when an IP address space was heavily used.

Would you recommend SolarWinds IP Address Manager?

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses SolarWinds IP Address Manager:

We use SolarWinds IP for inventory control and reporting.

Would you recommend SolarWinds IP Address Manager?

We would because of the value it brings to network managers and administrators.

SolarWinds IP Address Manager Customer Satisfaction

79% of IT organizations are likely to recommend SolarWinds IP Address Manager.*

*Based on respondents who rated their likelihood to recommend as 7 or higher on a scale of 0 to 10.

SolarWinds IP Address Manager Customer Satisfaction

4/5 Stars



65% of surveyed IT organizations rated SolarWinds IP Address Manager as 4 stars or higher.




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