Enterprise-Class Management Success with SolarWinds Solutions: Five Case Studies
An ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) White Paper
SolarWinds long ago recognized these core requirements and evolved their solutions through the Orion family of products. They also continue to refine and add to that base of capabilities on a regular
basis through a rapid release cycle and tight interactions with their customer community. The following five case examples come from the healthy and growing base of large enterprise organizations who are benefiting from SolarWinds IT management products in their operations environments.
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Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software
By Valdis Filks and Robert E. Passmore, Gartner, Inc.
SolarWinds has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Challengers" quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software" report.* The full report is available here: http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/solarwinds/206340.html. More information on SolarWinds storage resource management products is available here: http://www.solarwinds.com/products/data-storage-management.aspx.
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Storage Switzerland - Addressing Storage Performance Challenges in the Virtual Server Environment
By Eric Slack, Senior Analyst
Server virtualization is causing performance problems for users, especially within the storage infrastructure. The complexity and abstraction with the way server virtualization deals with storage has created a new resource problem, storage IOPS, and rendered the existing management tools less effective. In lieu of simply adding more storage, we need to be smarter with the way we address storage performance challenges, which requires cross domain information and better tools to monitor and
manage this dynamic environment.
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Storage Switzerland - SolarWinds Storage Profiler
By George Crump, Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst
The Storage Resource Manager (SRM) market has consolidated more quickly than the storage market itself, and in most cases the companies are acquired by an array manufacturer. This has created a quandary for users as the acquired products have become focused on their new companies hardware, often at the expense of multi-vendor storage support or visibility into the complete infrastructure. One of the lone remaining independent storage resource management tools is SolarWinds Storage Profiler.
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Storage Switzerland - Managing The Risk Caused by Server Virtualization
By George Crump, Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst
Server virtualization is a powerful new weapon in the battle
to drive cost out of the data center while at the same time
increasing IT responsiveness to the organization. The ability to share all available resources across multiple workloads and to move those workloads across the environment has broken down the silos within IT departments of server, application, network and storage. Read how George Crump's report on help solve these problems through increased visibility into virtualized environments.
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Storage Switzerland – Storage I/O Management in Virtualized Environments
By George Crump, Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst
Server virtualization takes a group of servers that have modest storage I/O requirements and then consolidates them into a few virtualized hosts. Those servers, because of their minimal requirements, were allowing CPU, Memory, Storage I/O and Network I/O resources go unused, which made them a prime target for server virtualization in the first place. The challenge however, is that the I/O those modest servers generated, when combined onto a single host, often created a ‘resource consuming monster’. Read George Crump’s report to gain insight on developing a storage I/O management skill set, including having the right solutions in place like SolarWinds Profiler suite.
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i360Gov Special Report - Redefining 'Making Do'
How state and local governments are overcoming budgetary shortfalls to streamline IT operations, improve services.
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EMA Radar™ for Application-Aware Network Performance Management Q3 2010 – SolarWinds Vendor Profile
by Jim Frey, Research Director Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
The recently released EMA Radar Report™ titled, EMA Radar™ for Application-Aware Network Performance Management (ANPM) Q3 2010 highlights SolarWinds Orion suite of products’ affordability, feature set and customer community as key reasons for the “Strong Value” ranking. SolarWinds also secures kudos for the company’s unique effort to build a large and engaged customer community. This commitment has earned SolarWinds the "Cost Efficiency Bonus Award."
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Choosing the Right Enterprise Network Management Solution!
Leveraging the right enterprise network management solution removes the blind spots in the network and improves overall network stability and reliability.
This ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) white paper is meant to serve as a guide to help decision makers purchasing or re-assessing their existing network management solutions. This paper discusses the challenges and the most widely available solution providers and how these tools can help achieve and deliver both reliability and performance on enterprise networks. We’ll provide a higher level overview to determine if a solution is a good fit taking into account the following criteria: pricing, scalability, stability, ease of maintenance, customization, licensing, evaluation testing, functionality, and support options.
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Why SolarWinds has Achieved Mainstream Credibility Among Enterprise Buyers: Five Case Studies
An Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA™) White Paper
Leading analyst group EMA wrote this report long before we became aware of it and we couldn't have been more pleased to hear the feedback they captured from a growing list of enterprise customers. We think the report says it all, so here's an excerpt to whet your appetite:
"This report looks at five examples of SolarWinds' portfolio adoptions in mid-tier businesses, and large enterprises and service providers in context with overall business and operational objectives, as well as each company's IT infrastructure and management investment environments. It should be stressed that these case studies came out of EMA research not directed at SolarWinds portfolios in particular, but rather at network and application management requirements more broadly, which makes the examples in many respects all the more compelling."
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The Network Management Software Market: Network Management Is The Key Enabler For Business Agility
by Evelyn Hubbert, Forrester Research
The element-based network management era is over. Today, network management teams need to manage and understand network-related issues across silos such as servers, storage, security, databases, and applications. They need to manage complex and dynamic IP networks to connect customers, vendors, and employees. Forrester sees the traditional network management space becoming service-oriented: The attention is on the service that is being delivered to the business. Innovations such as IT automation and Web services management techniques, and best practices such as ITIL, have changed the network management market and will continue to shape it in the years to come.
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A Guide to Stabilizing Your Network
by Jeffrey Nudler, Enterprise Management Associates
Get ahead of persistent performance issues and hard-to-diagnose network problems with this insightful report authored by a respected industry expert. This report offers six real-world steps that will stabilize performance on your network and allow you and your staff to take a more proactive approach to network management. You will learn how to convert network monitoring data into actionable information to improve network performance and determine behavioral patterns to facilitate developing long-term strategies.
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Network Management on a Budget – Do More with Less
by Dennis Drogseth, Enterprise Management Associates
Get valuable tips and guidelines on adopting the right network management solutions for mid-market environments. In this report, industry analyst Dennis Drogseth provides network engineers and IT planners with essential advice on how to define and implement a solid network management environment without sacrificing budgets or the integrity of the network.
This report provides:
- Insights on Market Trends
- Recommendations on Technologies
- Process-related Best Practices
- Usability Requirements to Consider
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