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SolarWinds Government Case Study

City University of New York Case Study

Introduction

This case study of mail.cuny.edu 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
    • Lack of visibility into system/server health
    • Lack of visibility into application or database performance
    • The difficulty of providing end-user and systems support from a central location

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
    • Performance and management of databases
    • WPM
  • Uses SolarWinds products throughout the organization
  • Agency use cases for leveraging SolarWinds products:
    • Network performance monitoring
    • Troubleshooting network problems or failures
    • Troubleshooting configuration issues
    • Monitoring the integrity of systems/servers
    • Monitoring the integrity of applications and databases
    • Troubleshooting the application stack/infrastructure
    • Monitoring Security Incidents and Vulnerabilities, and Improving Compliance
    • Centralized support for end users and systems

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with SolarWinds Government:

  • Results they were able to produce using SolarWinds products:
    • Correlate network, server, and application issues to resolve performance problems
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Server & Application Monitor
    • Web Performance Monitor
    • Database Performance Analyzer
  • Realized a return on investment payback period of 10 to 12 months with SolarWinds products
  • Purchased their SolarWinds products because of:
    • Ease of use
    • Affordability
    • Best quality price report
    • Recommendation from a colleague




About This Data

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

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