Product Reviews: Application, Storage, and Network Management Software
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
Eric B. Rux gives SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor a 4/5. "You get a lot of bang for your buck. Creating network maps is easy and intuitive; dashboard puts the information you need at your fingertips. If you want a first-rate network management tool...Orion NPM is pretty amazing."
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Track down bandwidth hogs easily with SolarWinds Network Monitoring Software
Reviewer Brandon Carroll writes: " SolarWinds Orion...was easy to set up with no major assistance. Since I’ve had it running, I have a new depth of visibility into the workings of my network. If I had not had the visibility into the network that Solarwinds Orion provided I would have spent a lot more time tracking down my bandwidth offender." Read the review »
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SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 4.0 Rides Herd VMware Management
ReviewerCameron Sturdevant states, "... Virtualization Manager is well worth adding to any organization’s management toolkit." Read the review »
SolarWinds User Device Tracker
Ethan Banks reviews User Device Tracker. "To me, if you already own NPM and are managing a network of any size, UDT is a no-brainer add-on.... I’ve already recommended to my boss that we should get it." Read the review »
SolarWinds Storage Profiler
SolarWinds' Reviewer Brien M. Posey gives Storage Profiler 4.8 out of 5 stars. Read the review »
SolarWinds Tames Wild Storage with Storage Profiler
Frank Ohlhorst reviews Storage Profiler: In a nutshell, Storage Profiler combines SRM capabilities with storage monitoring, alerting, discovery, reporting, mapping, capacity planning and file analysis into an easy to use management suite that supports multivendor, heterogeneous networks. Ease of use is accomplished with a comprehensive, browser driven dashboard that offers drill down capabilities, active alerting and real-time statistics in a simple to comprehend management screen.
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Solarwinds Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
Brandon Carroll reviews Orion NPM v 10.1, says "install is easy as pie." Read the Review »
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 4.0 Rides Herd VMware Management
ReviewerCameron Sturdevant states, "... Virtualization Manager is well worth adding to any organization’s management toolkit." Read the review »
SolarWinds User Device Tracker
Ethan Banks reviews User Device Tracker. "To me, if you already own NPM and are managing a network of any size, UDT is a no-brainer add-on.... I’ve already recommended to my boss that we should get it." Read the review »
SolarWinds Storage Profiler
SolarWinds' Reviewer Brien M. Posey gives Storage Profiler 4.8 out of 5 stars. Read the review »
SolarWinds Tames Wild Storage with Storage Profiler
Frank Ohlhorst reviews Storage Profiler: In a nutshell, Storage Profiler combines SRM capabilities with storage monitoring, alerting, discovery, reporting, mapping, capacity planning and file analysis into an easy to use management suite that supports multivendor, heterogeneous networks. Ease of use is accomplished with a comprehensive, browser driven dashboard that offers drill down capabilities, active alerting and real-time statistics in a simple to comprehend management screen.
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SolarWinds Launches New Affordable Application Performance Monitor Tool
Frank Ohlhorst takes the new SolarWinds Application Performance Monitor (APM) for a spin, says "...if you are in the business of keeping applications alive and available, APM becomes one of those must have utilities." Read the Review »
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SolarWinds Storage Profiler 4.12
Reviewer Dave Mitchell gives SolarWinds Storage Profiler five out of six stars. Read the Review »
Solarwinds Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
Brandon Carroll reviews Orion NPM v 10.1, says "install is easy as pie." Read the Review »
SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor 10.1
Network Management Software recently declared Orion NPM 10 the “king of the ring” against five other competitors in their Autumn NMS Smackdown. And now with the latest release of Orion NPM 10.1, they’ve taken a deeper dive into evaluating the product. Read the review »
Network Management Software Autumn Smackdown
Network Management Software organized a head-to-head comparison of the top six network management suites, including OpenNMS, WUG, Intermapper, ManageEngine and PathviewCloud. Read on to find out why SolarWinds Orion beat out the rest. Read review »
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SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor
Derek Schauland reviews Orion NPM v10: The application will give you a very comprehensive view of your environment. The reporting and mapping features alone will likely be a great help in getting others within your organization to see just what the network looks like and where its limits are. This could be a big step toward proactive correction of issues that pop up. Read review »
SolarWinds Orion Network Configuration Manager
Peter Stephenson reviews Orion NCM v5.5 Read the review »
Orion Network Configuration Manager Combats Unknown threats with Knowledge
According to reviewer Frank Ohlhorst,"Administrators will find that Orion NCM is much more than a change management tool, the additional features, ease of use and ability to integrate with Orion NPM make the product a unique entry in a growing field of change management solutions, while providing administrators with the most important element of all – Knowledge." Read the review »
A Look at Solar Winds Orion IPSLA Manager
Reviewer Frank Ohlhorst states, "...Orion IP SLA Manager is a must have tool for those supporting cisco powered networks that carry voice as well as other information across multiple sites." Read the review »
Orion Netflow Traffic Analyzer Keeps your Network’s Blood Flowing
Frank Ohlhorst reviews the current release of Orion NTA's improved features. Franks says, "...many of which are “must haves” for harried administrators, including flow-monitoring support for Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA), Application Mapping and the ability to build groups based upon IP Addresses." Read the review »
SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor
According to reviewer Frank Ohlhorst, "For those running large heterogeneous networks, Orion NPM may very well be the must-have management tool today." Read the review »
Review: SolarWinds LANSurveyor 10
Mapping out your network with Visio alone isn't ideal. LANSurveyor, from SolarWinds, diagrams and maps your entire network automatically. NetworkManagementSoftware.com takes an in-depth look at how LANSurveyor handles the task. Read review »
SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor 9.5
Aaron Leskiw, CCNA, and head technical writer at NetworkManagementSoftware.com, provides an in-depth review of Solarwinds’ Orion Network Performance Manager. Are the expanded features enough to merit the cost over basic tools? Aaron finds the expanded features do indeed pay off... Read review...»
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Do You Know What’s About to Bring Down Your Network?
Joseph Moran, veteran technology writer and co-author of "Getting StartED with Windows 7," reviews SolarWinds ipMonitor. Moran writes that ipMonitor has a "simple, straightforward setup" and how "SolarWinds makes it easy to get ipMonitor up and running." Read the review »
SolarWinds Free Tools awarded 5 stars by LaoWei Software Depot
SolarWinds NetFlow Configurator, SolarWinds TFTP Server and SolarWinds Advanced Subnet Calculator all receive top honors.
SolarWinds Orion - Management Made EasyNetwork Computing
Midsize enterprises looking for a feature-rich and cost-friendly network-management product that enhances performance- and fault-management features need look no further. Read the review »
Orion VoIP Monitor earns recognition - awarded five stars by DownloadRage
VoIP Monitor enables you to measure and track the performance of voice quality across Wide Area Networks (WANs), where it matters most. Leveraging Cisco® IP SLAs, VoIP Monitor collects and analyzes VoIP performance statistics including MOS, jitter, network latency, packet loss and other important quality of service (QoS) metrics. These features enable you to proactively find the root cause of VoIP performance degradation and measure expected voice quality in advance of a VoIP deployment. Orion VoIP Monitor also simplifies the configuration of IP SLA on Cisco routers – in fact, it can automatically configure the routers to collect VoIP QoS statistics without you ever having to lift a finger. VoIP Monitor delivers these powerful capabilities in an affordable, easy-to-deploy and user-friendly interface that offers the familiarity of Orion. VoIP Monitor ensures that every word is crystal clear with robust capabilities, such as:
- Collecting and analyzing VoIP performance statistics, including MOS, jitter, network latency, packet loss, and other important QoS metrics
- Facilitating capacity planning for existing multi-vendor VoIP deployments and measuring voice quality in advance of new VoIP deployments
- Automatically configuring IP SLA on Cisco routers
SolarWinds Redefines Network Configuration ManagementeWeek
According to Frank Ohlhorst at eWeek, "Orion NCM 5.0 is a tremendous improvement over the previous product, Cirrus Configuration Manager, providing solution providers with a powerful tool for imposing change management over complex network infrastructures." Read the review »
Review: SolarWinds Gets It Right With Orion 9CRN
CRN reviewer, Samara Lynn, highlights Orion NPM’s ease of installation, detail-rich interface (“Orion 9 has a winning design here—lots of detail without looking cluttered.”) and embedded Thwack message thread as outstanding elements. CRN concludes that Orion NPM is “a great tool for monitoring mid- to enterprise-level networks.” Read the review »
TechWorld Recommends SolarWinds ipMonitor v9.0TechWorld
Techworld recognizes SolarWinds' ipMonitor as "top of the heap" among "the paid-for SMB system monitoring packages on the market right now." Read the review »
SolarWinds Orion Network Performance MonitorWindows IT Pro
Windows IT Pro reviewer, John Green, says "whether you want basic enterprise network monitoring or a full suite of network diagnostic tools and monitors, I recommend Orion 9 for its full feature set and ease of use." Read the review »