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SolarWinds Government Case Study

General Dynamics Mission Systems Case Study

Introduction

This case study of General Dynamics Mission Systems is based on a September 2017 survey of SolarWinds Government customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

We use quite a few of SolarWinds applications to manage networks for our customers.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company 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 company uses:

  • Regular user in the following SolarWinds product area:
    • Network Management
  • Agency use case for leveraging SolarWinds products:
    • For U.S. Army Mobile Networks

Results

The surveyed company 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
    • Improve resolution rates for networking performance and capacity issues
    • Improve configuration management
    • Improve system and application monitoring and troubleshooting
    • Improve log tracking and management
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Network Performance Monitor
    • Network Configuration Manager
  • Purchased their SolarWinds products because of:
    • Customer recommended /required




About This Data

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

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