While I likely used a different solution in the past, I cannot recall what it would have been.

I did not previously use a different solution. 

I used IBM SevOne Network Performance Management but found DX Performance Management when I converted the sub-one product and the data insights product, it's more useful for the end users with a simpler user interface.

Lifecycle came into that. We had an old tool. It was either refresh and get new hardware, update to the current version, or look at alternatives, and other solutions that were in the market. So we took the opportunity, based on our standard lifecycle driver, to look at various tools. We had some other tools that were native in our environment and did a comparison between several different solutions. And ultimately settle with CA. 

We were using a different CA solution. Specifically, we were using a product called eHealth.

The reason why we migrated was a recommendation from CA. Their focus was going to be on the CA Performance Management product, and less on eHealth. They were trying to migrate users away from eHealth.

We use DX Spectrum for full management and DX Performance Management to correct performance data.

Previously we were using multiple products, multiple individual point solutions, and it was getting to the point where it was really difficult to maintain every one of those individual products. That's the reason we looked at Performance Management, because it gave us one location, one place to do all of group administration, and to build dashboards, and device administration, inventory counts, things like that. So it really reduced our overall administrative overhead.

Before this solution, CA didn't have an equivalent solution and we used open-source solutions. But the capabilities weren't there in the open-source solutions. With this solution, we reduced about 15 performance management to only five machines. The open-source tools were not able to deliver this performance.

We switched because there were multiple other solutions, and we were already using CA Spectrum, so the natural progression was to go to CA and use their performance management tool, also known as CAPC, Performance Center. We used multiple tools. We had NetCool out there, we had SolarWinds out there, CiscoWorks, numerous tools.

NetQoS was acquired by CA.

Our prior solution was dated and in need of refresh. We switched to the CA solution after going through a proof of concept and rating it against two other competitors.

I wasn't involved in any decision on that. But it's all based on management's decision.

We were previously using eHealth and APG.

We had InfoVista when NetFlow was an emerging technology. CA really stood out and that’s why we brought them in.

We did not have anything previously, except maybe something along the lines of the free MRTG. But previous to that, we were on a Unix-based system. The biggest thing is trying to tie them all into a centralized database, or a CMDB, which is a project that we're still working on, making progress on, so that everything feeds from a centralized database and is aware of configuration items. That way we can interconnect all these applications so that we can add automation and things of that nature.

Yes, CA eHealth. We switched because eHealth went EOL.

Previously we used eHealth which is a CA-owned product. We moved because they are phasing out eHealth.

Previously, we used CA eHealth, which was changed to CA PM.

We always use CA.

We haven’t used a different solution.