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Over 7 years ago

Answered a question: PRTG vs. SolarWinds: Which is a better Network Monitoring Tool?

I used both products. Without even thinking twice I will go with PRTG. Solarwinds will take you weeks to finish configuration and tweaking to your environment. I didn't like the user interface, too much data, difficult to navigate. It is way more expensive than PRTG. And…

About 8 years ago

Commented on If you are in a virtualized environment, there is nothing better than Veeam One but the alerts need better descriptions.

I like VMTurbo Ops, right now I am using SCOM to monitor our infrastructure.

About 8 years ago

Commented on If you are in a virtualized environment, there is nothing better than Veeam One but the alerts need better descriptions.

Hi Jonathan, I am still using the product. I am using to monitor networking and storage but only in relation to hypervisor. If you want to monitor just your networking or storage, this is not product for you, I will go with PRTG , it is cheap and got much better recently.

Over 8 years ago

Contributed a review of Barracuda Phone System [EOL]: It saved us a lot of money when we switched from a hosted solution to Barracuda on-premises.

Over 8 years ago

Contributed a review of PRTG Network Monitor: We can monitor everything from one place and get email or SMS notifications.

Almost 9 years ago

Contributed a review of FreeNAS: Its support for Hyper-V clusters needs improving, but you can present the storage as CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, etc.

Almost 9 years ago

Contributed a review of Hyper-V: You can automate the deployment of a new Hyper-V host, but the networking part is difficult to setup.

Almost 9 years ago

Contributed a review of Meraki MS Switches: It has an automatic firmware upgrade, but it doesn't have an upgrade path for the hardware.

Almost 9 years ago

Answered a question: VMware vs. Hyper-V - Which do you prefer?

HyperV. I am using HyperV past few years without any problems, before I used VMware. In my last two companies I migrated the infrastructure from VMware to HyperV. One big reason is the cost. VMware is still very expensive. HyperV is coming for free. If you have budget , it…

Almost 9 years ago

Contributed a review of Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN: We can use a single dashboard to manage our 5 offices in different parts of the world.

Almost 9 years ago

Contributed a review of Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN: We can use a single dashboard to manage our 5 offices in different parts of the world.

Almost 9 years ago

Contributed a review of Veeam Backup & Replication: It allows VM replication from one data center to another for DR.

Almost 9 years ago

Contributed a review of Veeam Backup & Replication: It allows VM replication from one data center to another for DR.

Almost 9 years ago

Contributed a review of Meraki MX: I can have the firewall up and running and configured in one hour, but to scale, you need to buy the next model as there is no upgrade path.

About 9 years ago

Contributed a review of Veeam ONE: If you are in a virtualized environment, there is nothing better than Veeam One but the alerts need better descriptions.