Solution Overview

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

Find and resolve application problems before they become incidents

At A Glance

SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) monitors your applications and their supporting infrastructure, whether they are running on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. Do not let slow applications and downtime impact your end-users and business services. Pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack.

Features Overview

  • Get started in minutes
  • Monitor across cloud environments
  • Application-centric monitoring
  • Identify the root cause of application problems
  • Built-in virtualization monitoring
  • Storage performance and health

Key Features

Get started in minutes

Automatic application discovery and dependency mapping.

Download, install, automatically discover your environment, and start monitoring in about an hour. No professional services required.

Application-centric monitoring

Built-in templates provide best practices.

Apply a template for AD, Java, XenApp, IBM WebSphere, Lync, and hundreds of other applications, and start monitoring immediately.

Monitor across cloud environments

Unified server and application monitoring across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.

Provide end-to-end visibility and performance monitoring of your server and applications using agent and agentless based technologies. Monitor across multiple data centers, remote locations, or cloud (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, etc.).

Identify the root cause of application problems

Application-centric infrastructure dependency mapping.

With the AppStack™ dashboard, you can quickly pinpoint the root cause of application issues within physical and virtual server environments. Identify where application issues originate in just a few seconds.

Built-in virtualization monitoring

Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX health and performance metrics.

Monitor the health and availability of virtual hosts and guests alongside physical servers. Integration with SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager provides deeper insight to troubleshoot virtualization issues.

Storage performance and health

Server volume monitoring and capacity planning.

Monitor server storage volumes, disk usage, and capacity metrics out of the box. Integration with SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor provides deeper insight to troubleshoot storage issues in SAN and NAS environments.

Resources

Cubic Transportation system ensures efficient and seamless service to NSW Opal Card holders with SolarWinds
Cubic manages the Opal® card system for Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW). Jeff Shaw discusses why they implemented SolarWinds to monitor the infrastructure environment required to support the Opal system.
Network Monitoring – The Perfect IT Remedy
An Australian Not-for-Profit Healthcare agency, comprised of six member organisations needed network visibility across Cisco devices as well as the monitoring of WAN performance. They were looking for a cost-effective solution to work over a large geographic region. They chose SolarWinds.
SolarWinds supports high levels of patient care in Lincolnshire
SolarWinds® solutions are helping the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust to meet the 24/7 challenge of looking after thousands of patients at seven widely dispersed hospitals.
Best-in-Breed Monitoring
A large US-based health care organization looked to reduce their overall IT management costs while at the same time improving coverage by replacing IBM® Tivoli.
Dramatic Improvements in Uptime by Switching to SolarWinds
A US based media distribution company with five data centers containing around 150 servers and 250 network devices replaced HP® network monitoring with SolarWinds® and got even more than they thought they would.
SolarWinds Helps Combat Industrial Cyber Threats
A leading provider of industrial cyber security solutions that focuses on protecting process industry facilities recommends SolarWinds IT management solutions to combat the growing risk of industrial cyber security threats and vulnerabilities.
Modularity, Scalability, and Reporting Helps Marina Bay Sands
When looking for a solution to replace PRTG, Marina Bay Sands sought out a modular and scalable family of products with advanced alerting and reporting that could be easily implemented.
Norway’s largest auto glass company sees clearly with the help of SolarWinds
Andr. L. Riis AS is the largest supplier and fitter of windscreens in Norway. Erik Olne, Andr. L. Riis AS CIO joined the company three years ago and began an intensive renewal program to modernize the company’s IT infrastructure. As the rebuilding phase came to an end, Olne and his team turned their attention to network performance and began looking for a software solution that would help to analyze and maintain their newly built infrastructure.
IPM to the rescue in Air Rarotonga’s remote site challenges
Working at one of the world’s most remote sites, Air Rarotonga’s IT Manager, Marcus Gleinig experiences problems of distance, latency, cyclones, power cuts and scarce resources that most IT professionals could scarcely even imagine. When it came to needing network tools, the resourceful Marcus knew where to go – straight to SolarWinds, for IP Monitor. This solution alerts him as soon as the company’s far flung network develops problems, so he can address these before the phone starts ringing with user complaints.
NetSuite Selects SolarWinds for Global, End-to-End IT Infrastructure Management
NetSuite uses SolarWinds to achieve global, end-to-end operational efficiency. Once SolarWinds products were implemented, NetSuite’s IT Team saw significant improvement in visibility, stability and understanding of their environmen.
SolarWinds dulls congested network pain for anaesthetists in Australia and New Zealand
The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) has eased its network pains after implementing SolarWinds solutions. Congestion on the network was affecting traffic flow and communications, and a lack of network visibility meant IT management could not isolate the problem. The college deployed SolarWinds’ Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and Server and Application Monitor (SAM) with excellent results.
How SolarWinds saves Immofori from staff downtime
Sven Meinks believes that if the computer systems running financial services companies AG Services Deutschland and Service Advisors Deutschland were to crash, it would take only two hours before their combined staff of 130 were unable to work or serve their customers. Fortunately Sven has implemented SolarWinds solutions which provide critical pre-emptive warning of possible network problems, and as a result there have been no systems failures.
SolarWinds helps realestate.com.au to meet 99.99 per cent uptime targets
When IT professionals in the REA Group began to build a 90 per cent virtualised private cloud to accommodate realestate.com.au, Australia’s leading web site for residential property, they chose a range of SolarWinds networking and application monitoring tools to help them. It was a critical project as the site attracts more than 20.4 million Visits a month. But SolarWinds’ solutions helped the IT team to meet their 99.99 per cent uptime target and have also empowered engineers to make better informed decisions by delivering new levels of transparency and enabling better systems access.
Server & Application Monitor Reduces Troubleshooting Time at Munters from Days to Minutes
Before using SAM, Munters lacked visibility and it would take multiple work days to chase down where problems were coming from – and that was if they were lucky and had an incident where they could look at time stamps. Sometimes they could narrow it down to a specific server, but never get to the root cause. Now, with Server & Application Monitor, it takes about a minute to look at all the components across their network, application and database environment to determine the occurrence of a problem and isolate the root cause.
Server & Application Monitor Reduces Troubleshooting Time at Munters from Days to Minutes
Solodow and his team needed a simple-to-use solution that could monitor all their servers – both physical and virtual – and all the applications across its campuses.
Forest Home No Longer Hears “Email is Down” After Deploying SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
When Josh was searching for a monitoring solution, he looked at open source solutions and read product reviews on forums. It was important to find a cost effective solution because Forest Home is a non-profit organization. Because Forest Home was already using Network Performance Monitor (NPM), it was an easy decision to choose Server & Application Monitor (SAM).
Carilion Clinic
SolarWinds Displaces SCOM, Achieves 100 Percent Monitoring Coverage of Windows Servers for Carilion Clinic in Two Days.
Datasheet: SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Troubleshoot application performance issues faster and reduce downtime. Find out why the server is running slow, and forecast when it will run out of capacity. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor supports monitoring over 200 applications and multi-vendor servers out of the box. You can easily extend monitoring to any custom or home-grown application.
SolarWinds Overview Brochure
SolarWinds: IT Management That’s Powerful, Affordable, & Easy-to-Use!
Applications & Vendors Supported with Server & Application Monitor
Server & Application Monitor supports multiple hardware vendors including Dell®, HP®, and IBM System x®, and over 150 applications. This document provides a list of the common applications supported by Server & Application Monitor.
SolarWinds End-of-Life Policy
This End-of-Life (EOL) Policy defines the terms and conditions and timeframes for which changes to Maintenance will occur following an End-of-Life Announcement.
VPAT Datasheet: Server & Application Monitor
Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for Server & Application Monitor (SAM).
Is It The Network Or The Application?
Users in different locations of an organization (main office & branch office) are reporting slow performance of intranet sites. What is causing the problem and why? Is it the network, the applications, or the infrastructure that needs troubleshooting, or a combination? Learn how you can solve this problem with SolarWinds NPM and SAM.
Why is the Email Slow?
You can now find and fix email performance issues before your end-users call up the service desk and raise trouble tickets. No more finger pointing between network and systems teams. Check out this intuitive infographic and find out how you can easily pinpoint the root cause of email issues for faster resolution.
Troubleshoot SharePoint issues faster with AppStack
You get alerted on a slow website transaction on the SharePoint® portal. How can you find out what really caused the slow transaction and track down the issue to its root cause across various the layers of the IT stack?
Infographic: The ROI of Unified Visibility for Systems Management
Do you find your days are spent in reactive mode vs. working on project that will proactively improve business outcomes? If so, check out this infographic to learn how integrated visibility to server & application performance can impact your day. How much could you improve mean time to repair? How much time could you save if you didn’t have to fight fires?
What’s the Best Way To Monitor Your Servers & Application?
SolarWinds conducted a survey of United States Server & Application Monitor customers in October 2014. According to the 580 customers who responded to the survey, implementing the software yielded positive business results and increased productivity. Check out the infographic for additional findings.
Continuous Monitoring: Managing the Unpredictable Human Element of Cybersecurity
SolarWinds® partnered with leading government research provider Market Connections to survey 200 federal IT and IT security professionals to find out their top cybersecurity concerns and the obstacles they face when implementing IT security strategies. View the infographic for data on Security Event Detection, Continuous Monitoring Implementation and return on investment, top obstacles and frustrations, and cybersecurity threats and threat sources.
Network Troubleshooting and Problem Identification
No matter how carefully you’ve planned your network design, how much redundancy is built in or how proactive you are in your monitoring, network problems are bound to arise. When that happens, you need the steps and tools to troubleshoot the problem quickly and minimize impact to your users. This paper provides basic guidance on overall troubleshooting and takes a closer look at five common issues.
Application Playbook: SQL Server Monitoring for IT Pros
Database performance is critical to maintain high application performance. SQL Server® is one widely-used database that needs comprehensive monitoring to identify performance issues. Find out what all key metrics need to be monitored on SQL Server for faster troubleshooting, and how to write good queries and develop an execution plan.
Application Playbook: Exchange Monitoring for IT Pros
Are you an Exchange administrator putting out fires every day? Read this ebook to learn some tips and best practices to help you be proactive, set up the right monitoring discipline needed to bring the situation under control. Become the master of your Exchange environment and troubleshoot performance issues faster than ever!.
Buyer’s Guide: Why SolarWinds SAM is a Smart Investment for Your IT Team
Explore the various benefits SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor brings to your IT team in terms of increased efficiency, faster time to troubleshoot applications, and monitoring automation. Learn how your organization can benefit financially and economically by using Server & Application Monitor.
Selecting a Next Generation Monitoring Tool – A Deep Dive
System complexity and the number of applications supported have exploded over the last several years. IT professional are struggling to keep up with properly monitoring the IT stack. This Gleanster Research white paper outlines the key attributes for the ideal end-to-end, next generation systems monitoring and alerting tool.
4 Essential Skills to Master Your Virtual Universe
In this eBook, SolarWinds Head Geek, Kong Yang, defines the 4 essentials skills to master as a virtualization administrators: Discovery, Alerting, Remediation and Troubleshooting. Virt admins will learn the what, why, and how behind mastering these skills with real world examples and best practices.
SolarWinds vs Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold – Feature Comparison
IT pros must perform due diligence when selecting a monitoring vendor. If you are comparing SolarWinds against WhatsUp Gold, AcutalTech Media’s technical team has done a lot of the leg work for you. This short paper provides a detailed feature comparison for server, application and virtualization monitoring capabilities.
Internet Information Services (IIS) Implementation Best Practices: Security, Load Testing, Scalability, Load Balancing
In order to have a responsive and resilient website, there are critical decisions you should make in the planning process with regard to security, load testing, load balancing and scalability. In this paper, Terri Donahue, Microsoft IIS MVP, outlines specific decisions and tasks you should perform to effectively plan and implement your IIS environment.
IT Management Scalability for the Enterprise
Understand IT management scalability for your growing enterprise networks, and learn various deployment options for scaling up SolarWinds IT management solutions. Learn what all factors impact network management system (NMS) scalability, how you can failover your NMS and ensure NMS high availability, and how you can deploy your NMS across multiple geographies and customer locations and get centralized NOC view for IT management.
EMA Research Report: Comparing SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
In order to assist enterprises in identifying optimal solutions for effective server monitoring, Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA™) analysts conducted primary research comparing server monitoring products from SolarWinds and Microsoft.
Deep Packet Inspection for Quality of Experience Monitoring
The IT industry is increasingly recognizing and leveraging the value and utility of packet-level analysis – also called Deep Packet Inspection or just Packet Analysis – for quickly and accurately identifying the true source and nature of network and application reliability and performance problems.
The Stand: SolarWinds on Continuous Monitoring
Continuous monitoring is recognized as a powerful tool for identifying and mitigating potential threats to an agency’s infrastructure. But that’s just one aspect of its value, says SolarWinds. Continuous monitoring also can provide information technology professionals with invaluable insight into the health of that infrastructure. It’s all about dual use.
Continuous Monitoring: Managing the Unpredictable Human Element of Cybersecurity
SolarWinds® partnered with leading government research provider Market Connections to survey 200 federal IT and IT security professionals to find out their top cybersecurity concerns and the obstacles they face when implementing IT security strategies. Download the whitepaper for an in-depth analysis of the survey, regarding data on Security Event Detection, Continuous Monitoring Implementation and return on investment, top obstacles and frustrations, and cybersecurity threats and threat sources.
Case Studies
Cubic Transportation system ensures efficient and seamless service to NSW Opal Card holders with SolarWinds
Cubic manages the Opal® card system for Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW). Jeff Shaw discusses why they implemented SolarWinds to monitor the infrastructure environment required to support the Opal system.
Network Monitoring – The Perfect IT Remedy
An Australian Not-for-Profit Healthcare agency, comprised of six member organisations needed network visibility across Cisco devices as well as the monitoring of WAN performance. They were looking for a cost-effective solution to work over a large geographic region. They chose SolarWinds.
SolarWinds supports high levels of patient care in Lincolnshire
SolarWinds® solutions are helping the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust to meet the 24/7 challenge of looking after thousands of patients at seven widely dispersed hospitals.
Best-in-Breed Monitoring
A large US-based health care organization looked to reduce their overall IT management costs while at the same time improving coverage by replacing IBM® Tivoli.
Dramatic Improvements in Uptime by Switching to SolarWinds
A US based media distribution company with five data centers containing around 150 servers and 250 network devices replaced HP® network monitoring with SolarWinds® and got even more than they thought they would.
SolarWinds Helps Combat Industrial Cyber Threats
A leading provider of industrial cyber security solutions that focuses on protecting process industry facilities recommends SolarWinds IT management solutions to combat the growing risk of industrial cyber security threats and vulnerabilities.
Modularity, Scalability, and Reporting Helps Marina Bay Sands
When looking for a solution to replace PRTG, Marina Bay Sands sought out a modular and scalable family of products with advanced alerting and reporting that could be easily implemented.
Norway’s largest auto glass company sees clearly with the help of SolarWinds
Andr. L. Riis AS is the largest supplier and fitter of windscreens in Norway. Erik Olne, Andr. L. Riis AS CIO joined the company three years ago and began an intensive renewal program to modernize the company’s IT infrastructure. As the rebuilding phase came to an end, Olne and his team turned their attention to network performance and began looking for a software solution that would help to analyze and maintain their newly built infrastructure.
IPM to the rescue in Air Rarotonga’s remote site challenges
Working at one of the world’s most remote sites, Air Rarotonga’s IT Manager, Marcus Gleinig experiences problems of distance, latency, cyclones, power cuts and scarce resources that most IT professionals could scarcely even imagine. When it came to needing network tools, the resourceful Marcus knew where to go – straight to SolarWinds, for IP Monitor. This solution alerts him as soon as the company’s far flung network develops problems, so he can address these before the phone starts ringing with user complaints.
NetSuite Selects SolarWinds for Global, End-to-End IT Infrastructure Management
NetSuite uses SolarWinds to achieve global, end-to-end operational efficiency. Once SolarWinds products were implemented, NetSuite’s IT Team saw significant improvement in visibility, stability and understanding of their environmen.
SolarWinds dulls congested network pain for anaesthetists in Australia and New Zealand
The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) has eased its network pains after implementing SolarWinds solutions. Congestion on the network was affecting traffic flow and communications, and a lack of network visibility meant IT management could not isolate the problem. The college deployed SolarWinds’ Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and Server and Application Monitor (SAM) with excellent results.
How SolarWinds saves Immofori from staff downtime
Sven Meinks believes that if the computer systems running financial services companies AG Services Deutschland and Service Advisors Deutschland were to crash, it would take only two hours before their combined staff of 130 were unable to work or serve their customers. Fortunately Sven has implemented SolarWinds solutions which provide critical pre-emptive warning of possible network problems, and as a result there have been no systems failures.
SolarWinds helps realestate.com.au to meet 99.99 per cent uptime targets
When IT professionals in the REA Group began to build a 90 per cent virtualised private cloud to accommodate realestate.com.au, Australia’s leading web site for residential property, they chose a range of SolarWinds networking and application monitoring tools to help them. It was a critical project as the site attracts more than 20.4 million Visits a month. But SolarWinds’ solutions helped the IT team to meet their 99.99 per cent uptime target and have also empowered engineers to make better informed decisions by delivering new levels of transparency and enabling better systems access.
Server & Application Monitor Reduces Troubleshooting Time at Munters from Days to Minutes
Before using SAM, Munters lacked visibility and it would take multiple work days to chase down where problems were coming from – and that was if they were lucky and had an incident where they could look at time stamps. Sometimes they could narrow it down to a specific server, but never get to the root cause. Now, with Server & Application Monitor, it takes about a minute to look at all the components across their network, application and database environment to determine the occurrence of a problem and isolate the root cause.
Server & Application Monitor Reduces Troubleshooting Time at Munters from Days to Minutes
Solodow and his team needed a simple-to-use solution that could monitor all their servers – both physical and virtual – and all the applications across its campuses.
Forest Home No Longer Hears “Email is Down” After Deploying SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
When Josh was searching for a monitoring solution, he looked at open source solutions and read product reviews on forums. It was important to find a cost effective solution because Forest Home is a non-profit organization. Because Forest Home was already using Network Performance Monitor (NPM), it was an easy decision to choose Server & Application Monitor (SAM).
Carilion Clinic
SolarWinds Displaces SCOM, Achieves 100 Percent Monitoring Coverage of Windows Servers for Carilion Clinic in Two Days.
Data Sheets
Datasheet: SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Troubleshoot application performance issues faster and reduce downtime. Find out why the server is running slow, and forecast when it will run out of capacity. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor supports monitoring over 200 applications and multi-vendor servers out of the box. You can easily extend monitoring to any custom or home-grown application.
SolarWinds Overview Brochure
SolarWinds: IT Management That’s Powerful, Affordable, & Easy-to-Use!
Applications & Vendors Supported with Server & Application Monitor
Server & Application Monitor supports multiple hardware vendors including Dell®, HP®, and IBM System x®, and over 150 applications. This document provides a list of the common applications supported by Server & Application Monitor.
SolarWinds End-of-Life Policy
This End-of-Life (EOL) Policy defines the terms and conditions and timeframes for which changes to Maintenance will occur following an End-of-Life Announcement.
VPAT Datasheet: Server & Application Monitor
Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for Server & Application Monitor (SAM).
Infographics
Is It The Network Or The Application?
Users in different locations of an organization (main office & branch office) are reporting slow performance of intranet sites. What is causing the problem and why? Is it the network, the applications, or the infrastructure that needs troubleshooting, or a combination? Learn how you can solve this problem with SolarWinds NPM and SAM.
Why is the Email Slow?
You can now find and fix email performance issues before your end-users call up the service desk and raise trouble tickets. No more finger pointing between network and systems teams. Check out this intuitive infographic and find out how you can easily pinpoint the root cause of email issues for faster resolution.
Troubleshoot SharePoint issues faster with AppStack
You get alerted on a slow website transaction on the SharePoint® portal. How can you find out what really caused the slow transaction and track down the issue to its root cause across various the layers of the IT stack?
Infographic: The ROI of Unified Visibility for Systems Management
Do you find your days are spent in reactive mode vs. working on project that will proactively improve business outcomes? If so, check out this infographic to learn how integrated visibility to server & application performance can impact your day. How much could you improve mean time to repair? How much time could you save if you didn’t have to fight fires?
What’s the Best Way To Monitor Your Servers & Application?
SolarWinds conducted a survey of United States Server & Application Monitor customers in October 2014. According to the 580 customers who responded to the survey, implementing the software yielded positive business results and increased productivity. Check out the infographic for additional findings.
Continuous Monitoring: Managing the Unpredictable Human Element of Cybersecurity
SolarWinds® partnered with leading government research provider Market Connections to survey 200 federal IT and IT security professionals to find out their top cybersecurity concerns and the obstacles they face when implementing IT security strategies. View the infographic for data on Security Event Detection, Continuous Monitoring Implementation and return on investment, top obstacles and frustrations, and cybersecurity threats and threat sources.
White Papers
Network Troubleshooting and Problem Identification
No matter how carefully you’ve planned your network design, how much redundancy is built in or how proactive you are in your monitoring, network problems are bound to arise. When that happens, you need the steps and tools to troubleshoot the problem quickly and minimize impact to your users. This paper provides basic guidance on overall troubleshooting and takes a closer look at five common issues.
Application Playbook: SQL Server Monitoring for IT Pros
Database performance is critical to maintain high application performance. SQL Server® is one widely-used database that needs comprehensive monitoring to identify performance issues. Find out what all key metrics need to be monitored on SQL Server for faster troubleshooting, and how to write good queries and develop an execution plan.
Application Playbook: Exchange Monitoring for IT Pros
Are you an Exchange administrator putting out fires every day? Read this ebook to learn some tips and best practices to help you be proactive, set up the right monitoring discipline needed to bring the situation under control. Become the master of your Exchange environment and troubleshoot performance issues faster than ever!.
Buyer’s Guide: Why SolarWinds SAM is a Smart Investment for Your IT Team
Explore the various benefits SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor brings to your IT team in terms of increased efficiency, faster time to troubleshoot applications, and monitoring automation. Learn how your organization can benefit financially and economically by using Server & Application Monitor.
Selecting a Next Generation Monitoring Tool – A Deep Dive
System complexity and the number of applications supported have exploded over the last several years. IT professional are struggling to keep up with properly monitoring the IT stack. This Gleanster Research white paper outlines the key attributes for the ideal end-to-end, next generation systems monitoring and alerting tool.
4 Essential Skills to Master Your Virtual Universe
In this eBook, SolarWinds Head Geek, Kong Yang, defines the 4 essentials skills to master as a virtualization administrators: Discovery, Alerting, Remediation and Troubleshooting. Virt admins will learn the what, why, and how behind mastering these skills with real world examples and best practices.
SolarWinds vs Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold – Feature Comparison
IT pros must perform due diligence when selecting a monitoring vendor. If you are comparing SolarWinds against WhatsUp Gold, AcutalTech Media’s technical team has done a lot of the leg work for you. This short paper provides a detailed feature comparison for server, application and virtualization monitoring capabilities.
Internet Information Services (IIS) Implementation Best Practices: Security, Load Testing, Scalability, Load Balancing
In order to have a responsive and resilient website, there are critical decisions you should make in the planning process with regard to security, load testing, load balancing and scalability. In this paper, Terri Donahue, Microsoft IIS MVP, outlines specific decisions and tasks you should perform to effectively plan and implement your IIS environment.
IT Management Scalability for the Enterprise
Understand IT management scalability for your growing enterprise networks, and learn various deployment options for scaling up SolarWinds IT management solutions. Learn what all factors impact network management system (NMS) scalability, how you can failover your NMS and ensure NMS high availability, and how you can deploy your NMS across multiple geographies and customer locations and get centralized NOC view for IT management.
EMA Research Report: Comparing SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
In order to assist enterprises in identifying optimal solutions for effective server monitoring, Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA™) analysts conducted primary research comparing server monitoring products from SolarWinds and Microsoft.
Deep Packet Inspection for Quality of Experience Monitoring
The IT industry is increasingly recognizing and leveraging the value and utility of packet-level analysis – also called Deep Packet Inspection or just Packet Analysis – for quickly and accurately identifying the true source and nature of network and application reliability and performance problems.
The Stand: SolarWinds on Continuous Monitoring
Continuous monitoring is recognized as a powerful tool for identifying and mitigating potential threats to an agency’s infrastructure. But that’s just one aspect of its value, says SolarWinds. Continuous monitoring also can provide information technology professionals with invaluable insight into the health of that infrastructure. It’s all about dual use.
Continuous Monitoring: Managing the Unpredictable Human Element of Cybersecurity
SolarWinds® partnered with leading government research provider Market Connections to survey 200 federal IT and IT security professionals to find out their top cybersecurity concerns and the obstacles they face when implementing IT security strategies. Download the whitepaper for an in-depth analysis of the survey, regarding data on Security Event Detection, Continuous Monitoring Implementation and return on investment, top obstacles and frustrations, and cybersecurity threats and threat sources.