BigFix Scalability
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Frans Dreyer
Security Solutions Architect at Thuthukani Technology Solutions
You can do 250,000 endpoints with a machine that's got 32 bits of RAM and about 300 GB of disc space. That's the one thing about BigFix that makes it unique. The way you can easily scale is great. That's a biggie. Scalability is absolutely amazing.
I'm a little bit out of that department now, however, in Africa, in which that market is small, we've got between 20 or 30 customers. The big ones we have about 10,000 endpoints that we manage for them, and we are three people. There is only one team lead and two junior techs and we manage all the endpoints for them. Some of those endpoints are on the internet. Even if you're not on a corporate network, we can still monitor your environment on the same site. We can even give instructions in case of emergency to say, "Download this patch," or "Apply this patch," or "Change this compliance status," et cetera, with a GPO Microsoft directory.
View full review »The solution is not user-based but device based. We have 46,000 devices running 24/7. Since it’s a management tool, we manage it 24/7. We use it to its maximum capacity.
In terms of scalability, I would give the solution an eight on ten. It is scalable, but we need to purchase additional licenses. From a technical perspective, I would say eight. However, from a financial standpoint, it may be considered lower. Adding more devices requires purchasing more licenses, so in terms of the financial aspect, I would rate it around six or seven.
View full review »The solution has high scalability. Most of our clients are the big ones like National Banking.
I rate the solution’s scalability a nine out of ten.
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It is definitely scalable. We are managing around 20,000 servers with it, and we have more than 100 users. We are providing web report access to application users as well. We create a job and provide access to different teams, such as the monitoring team, backup team, and security team to deploy the job. So, it is definitely scalable.
View full review »I give the scalability of BigFix an eight out of ten.
View full review »The solution has scaled well for what we are doing.
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reviewer1956723
Automation Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Considering the fact that the company I work for is pretty big, if that's the product they're using for their server management, I would say it's offering pretty good scalability. It's a very scalable application for managing servers. Some people use it for one or two servers, or maybe 30 or 40. We use it for pretty much all the servers managed here, and to my knowledge, that's about 7,000. It used to be 10,000. However, we decommissioned a bunch of irrelevant servers.
We do not plan to expand usage just yet.
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reviewer2123019
IT Manager at a tech consulting company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I rate the scalability of BigFix an eight out of ten.
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Jim Skidmore
VP of Solutions at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
We never had any challenges with scalability. Some of our customers had tens of thousands of endpoints.
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Jaspreet-Singh
Security Administrator at Dev Information Tech Pvt Ltd
It is a scalable solution. Scalability is relatively easy to achieve with BigFix. We already have a capacity planning guide in place that outlines predefined steps to check and scale the environment. It provides guidelines for designing the infrastructure to meet scalability requirements.
Currently, I'm working with a large enterprise that uses BigFix.
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reviewer1719546
Senior System Administrator at a legal firm with 201-500 employees
BigFix is simple to scale, we are using the solution regularly. We use it every other week whenever we have meetings, we rely on it.
We have approximately 10 technicians and 3,000 users who receive a patch or use the solution in some way.
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reviewer2139978
Team Manager with 201-500 employees
I'm not sure how many people are using the solution in our organization.
The scalability is okay. I'd rate the solution seven or eight out of ten in terms of the ease of scaling. My experience with scaling has been pretty good.
View full review »The scalability of BigFix is good. How deployment is not that large in size. The exercises that we do are pretty limited.
We have approximately 30 administrators using this solution.
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Paul Aage Aasheim
Marketing Coordinator and Project Manager at Attend IT AS
I have found BigFix to be highly scalable. BigFix can be used on 10 computers, 10,000 and 1,000,000 computers. It doesn't matter the number of computers.
We have approximately 50 people using this solution in my organization. We use the solution daily.
BigFix is suitable for both SMB and enterprise customers.
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BigFixAddb6e
BigFix Admin / Win SysAdmin at Costco Wholesale
Scalability is amazing. We have over 10,000 systems and could easily add to that without a performance hit. We'd have to increase our relay structure to keep it manageable but I don't think we'd have any problems.
View full review »Scalability is another factor which must be taken into account at the design stage, keeping in mind the endpoints and how one wishes for them to grow. The endpoints will govern how one provisions the infrastructure. Since the license is only subscription-based, if a person provisions his infrastructure correctly, he may scale up easily.
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Nagaraj Sheshachalam
Lead Cyber Security engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It supports most of the applications. It is pretty good in terms of scalability.
In our organization, we don't have more than 10 users. We use this tool on client-specific applications, and it is purchased by the client, and that's why we don't have many users in our organization.
We have plans to increase its usage, but it depends on the budget. If most of the application owners agree to the budget, we can probably use it extensively.
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Joshua Hickok
Senior Security Consultant at Tech Data Corporation
Scalability is awesome. For one, it supports around a quarter of a million endpoints, which is a lot. It's also very easy to stand up relays anywhere in the world. It's incredibly scalable.
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Benedikt Sanders
Application administrator with 201-500 employees
The end users are all the teams. We have a Windows team, Linux team, application team, et cetera. All the teams work with the outputs of this tool. There might be 40 to 50 people or something working with this product.
You can have relays, and then you can scale it. It's a scalable system.
I work with it regularly, every week.
View full review »This is a scalable solution. They are releasing a lot of improvements in the latest versions of BigFix. That will help us monitor how the tool is performing and if it would require change or increase of the hardware or the environment to make it run in a smoother way. The scalability has improved a lot.
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Paul Aage Aasheim
Marketing Coordinator and Project Manager at Attend IT AS
The scalability is excellent!. The BigFix solution is organized like a pyramid with the main master server at top. From there BigFix use relays to distribute Fixlets and Tasks to the clients. You can organize your hierarchy to fit your organization. The number of endpoints should not pass 5000 clients pr. relay before you set up a new relay. The funnie matter of fact is that a relay can use workstation with a lot of disk space - It does need to be a Windows-server, it can also be a Linux server or a workstation. From my point of view, this is really remarkable, because how many endpoint management systems can handle everything from a small office with 10 computers to multitenant conglormerat with 300 000 endpoints with only one, yes 1 server? Waht you need at your backroom is a SQL-server that is able to handle all the data...
View full review »Around 500 users are using the solution in our organization.
I rate the solution an eight or nine out of ten for scalability.
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Inderjeet-Singh
Administrator at ATOS
We can scale up or down according to our needs.
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BigFixBrad
Engineer with 10,001+ employees
It's very scalable.
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ProductLfae0
Product Line Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Scalability is good.
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Sean Seymour
Senior Developer at Jack in the Box
The scalability seems solid. We're a smaller customer. We have about 16,000 endpoints, whereas other companies have hundreds of thousands.
View full review »It seems to be very scalable. We went from roughly 24-25,000 assets to 50,000 PCs in five years. So, we're looking to grow and it seems like it's very capable to handle what we have in store.
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reviewer2123019
IT Manager at a tech consulting company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I give the scalability an eight out of ten.
View full review »BigFix has been scalable.
We have approximately 30 users who use the solution.
If the support is available for Linux, we would like to increase our usage.
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Daniel-Mitchell
Senior Server Systems Enigineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's been scalable for us. We've taken it from physical to virtual, from virtual to cloud, from on-prem to off-prem seamlessly.
View full review »It's very scalable. Extremely scalable. Customization is always a big issue for us so we're always able to grow with it.
View full review »Scalability is also really great. We have a very small client base in comparison to what we could potentially do, so scalability is wonderful.
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Mohamed Irfan M
Network Security Administrator at IBM
The scalability is fine.
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Informat76c6
Information Security Systems Specialist at a university with 10,001+ employees
We manage about 75,000 systems, most of them in a single instance and we have not run into serious performance issues at that scale. I have some concerns around the root server and the number of relays checking into it. We may be running into some performance issues there, but they're not impacting the functionality at this time.
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Endpoint84a2
Endpoint Management Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
It'll scale almost as big as you need it. You just throw hardware at it.
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DataSecu4c81
Data Security Officer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The product is very scalable, but it can also be very complex. If you don't set things up right then you could have problems. You just need to know what you're doing.
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LeadsSys47c3
Leads Systems Analyst at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
We're pushing the limits of the tool. We've got over 250,000 devices in our environment; probably one of the larger customers. There are a few that are larger. But we're also doing a lot with the tool that I think other customers aren't. We're doing software distribution as well as patch management. We're also doing inventory and software usage analysis. I don't know of too many other customers that are doing that.
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Mark Poulson
Principle Consulting Architect at GNE
I've worked with customers that have a couple thousand endpoints to a couple hundred thousand endpoints. I've also looked at other competing technologies out there, and it is definitely one of the leading tools on the marketplace in terms of the scalability performance.
View full review »Scalability is excellent. There are people here who are using BigFix in much larger deployments than what we have. We're not small by any means but we're also not the largest out there. We know we can trust with confidence that we'll scale up well over time.
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Securityabc9
Security
Scalability is very good. It's scaled to our current needs.
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reviewer1335204
Technical Support Analyst at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
It is scalable. It is able to handle up to 250,000 devices. So, you should be fine with anything under that.
I work with all kinds of customers. I have small customers with 30 endpoints, and I also have a couple of big customers with 30,000 or 40,000 endpoints.
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Securitye35b
Security Engineer at a university with 1-10 employees
Scalability is awesome. We've gone from twenty thousand machines to seventy thousand machines and there's plenty of room for lots more.
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BigFixAdcb76
BigFix Admin at a performing arts with 10,001+ employees
We're in the tens of thousands and we're under twenty thousand endpoints. It's been pretty easy to maintain.
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Technolo49bf
Technology Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability seems to be fine.
View full review »There were no issues with scalability. When we added more systems then originally scoped, all that was needed was a new relay. Since our IBM BigFix server is on a VM, we also added two CPUs and more RAM (currently at 16GB).
View full review »The scalability is even better because all you have to do is just whip up another server, and boom, you can support another thousand clients. And that takes a whole five minutes.
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Technica91c3
Technical Engineer at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees
It's very scalable. We've had mergers that have come in and put a relay out there, and immediately get the information back for their clients. It's very scalable, we don't have to worry about putting too much burden on our other servers.
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Ben Cotton
Founder at CyFIR
Scalability is very good.
View full review »It is scalable. We have, for example, 7000 servers communicating with only three or four structured servers on the BigFix environment and it responds very quickly for everything we do.
View full review »No scalability issues. We have customers ranging from 250 endpoints to over 100,000 endpoints.
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ITEngine2f5e
IT Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very scalable. It handles it effortlessly for our needs.
View full review »Scalability could be better. I know they're improving it. They are talking about it. They preached about it a lot at a recent IBM conference, specifically. We are kind of looking forward to that.
View full review »This solution scales well.
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ServerSy231e
Server Systems Engineer
We haven't encountered any issues with scalability.
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Musa YAKASIZ
Senior System Engineer at Platin Bilisim
BigFix is scalable and reliable. It has been good for our organization.
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reviewer1014810
System Administrator at a university with 10,001+ employees
Scalability is good. From my other experience using the relays and things like that, it scales pretty widely. We have a pretty good amount of endpoints and it works well for us.
View full review »Scalability is also good.
View full review »We're using it on Windows and have used it on Linux. It worked well on Linux and now, we are actively moving to test it on the AIX.
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AshishYadav
Banker at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The scalability of BigFix isn't bad.
View full review »With regards to scalability, it's come a long way. I've only been working with it for about two years, and in those two years, it's evolved so much.
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ITManagebec3
IT Manager at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
It scales well, this is a great product.
View full review »I manage and control the relays and everything, so it's easy to put new relays up and configure them.
View full review »We have had scalability issues because we bend the laws of the physics for the tool. For some of our reporting needs, we've had to go and take our databases and put it in big data, only because we have so many different environments that we don't have one single pane of glass way of taking all of our environments and comparing it all together. We have to take the data outside and then still leverage the tool inside to give us all of the feeds, so that we can have one enterprise view across all of our different instances. That's just because of the number of machines that we have. It doesn't allow us to just take advantage of one environment.
View full review »BigFix can scale up to 250,000 endpoints on one server.
View full review »I don't know about scalability because I'm not using it for a larger scale.
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SystemAnbeb8
System Analysis at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Scalability is very good. We're a smaller client in the BigFix realm. We're 4,500 clients around just the servers but it's very good for us.
View full review »No issues. It can well support clients, even if it is more than 100,000, easily and efficiently.
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Fernando Martinez
Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalability is really great because we have the ability to scale the solution no matter how many endpoints we have. The last updates came with a lot of improvements regarding the scalability.
View full review »Yes, we did find some “quirks” and had to get creative, but we were able to work within the solution to streamline transfer speeds to not saturate networks between sites when synchronizing enormous install packages to our relays scattered around the country. Also, we could not easily scale the management to multiple tenants as we hoped and as we were able to do with other products in the past.
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Onyegbule Uche
Technical Consultant at activedge
It's very scalable. The highest I did was between 9000 to 11,000 networks and I didn't lose any performance with that.
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Tony Trama
Director of Security Solutions at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
There have been no scalability issues.
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Mathieu FABIEN
CTO at LE GROUPE NOVA
BigFix is easy to scale.
View full review »No issues.
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