TechValidate Research on SolarWinds


SolarWinds Government Case Study

UK Environment Agency Case Study

Introduction

This case study of a central government is based on a February 2017 survey of SolarWinds Government customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

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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
    • Not having the tools to troubleshoot network problems or outages
    • Lack of visibility into system/server health
    • 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, 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 support end-users and systems from a central location
  • Favorite SolarWinds product is:
    • Network Performance Monitor

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with SolarWinds Government:

  • Saw the following result after using SolarWinds products:
    • Can correlate network, server, and application issues to resolve performance problems
  • Purchased their SolarWinds’ products because of:
    • Multi-vendor support




About This Data

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

TechValidate verifies the identity and organizational affiliation of all participants that contribute to published research data. When research participants so desire, we also guarantee their anonymity so that they may share information honestly and freely.


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