TechValidate Research on SolarWinds


SolarWinds Case Study

Virginia State Government Case Study

Introduction

This case study of a state & local government is based on an October 2020 survey of SolarWinds customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select SolarWinds:

  • IT challenges their agency faced prior to implementing SolarWinds products:
    • Not having the tools to troubleshoot network problems or outages
    • The difficulty of providing end-user and systems support from a central location

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of SolarWinds that the surveyed organization uses:

  • Regular user in the following SolarWinds product areas:
    • Network management
  • Uses SolarWinds products across multiple departments / locations, but not whole organization
  • Agency use cases for leveraging SolarWinds products:
    • To troubleshoot network problems or outages
    • To resolve configuration issues
  • They deploy SolarWinds to monitor 5,001-10,000 objects.

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with SolarWinds:

  • Results they were able to produce using SolarWinds products:
    • Improve configuration management
    • Improve log tracking and management
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Network Configuration Manager




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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