SolarWinds NCM is an awesome product. I would rate it a nine out of ten because it is quite better than the solution. It can manage anything. The interface is much easier than the solution. It handles the surge in the latency better than the solution. Better user-interface, interface and device monitoring, better performance monitoring and management and more out of the box monitoring features.

The managed services side is moving to IBM and the IT side will remain with HPE. This was a management decision. There are limitations on the number of connections and on device support. New devices have to be released by HPE. You cannot connect to it directly because it doesn't integrate with all of the applications. That cancels performance.

I evaluated this product this product before I chose it.

We are thinking about migrating to SolarWinds because of some of the issues we have been experiencing.

We are considering both NetBrain and Nectar Services, for a couple of the features that NNMi does not have.

We've worked with CA and IBM, and they're still part of our architecture.

No

We evaluate other solutions on do it in regular basis. Basically, we check the markets to see what’s there. We have HPE now and we use test cases to check the market; is any new solution available and, based on those test cases, HPE wins or HPE does not. So far it's winning.

Last year we evaluated SevOne. It wasn't so bad and it provided similar features like Network Node Manager. But that additional value was not high enough. So we are eager to implement it because implementation is a big job and it can take month to do. If we saw that it was really, in some way, much better than Network Node Manager and it was worthy to implement it, we would have done so.

No, it was already chosen when I started at my current employer.