WhatsUp Gold Resources - Case Studies
"When comparing SolarWinds Orion and WhatsUp Gold, the choice to go with WhatsUp Gold was an extremely easy one to make."
Doug Carter, Assistant Manager of IT, Toyotetsu North America
Toyotetsu North America decided to implement WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition to monitor their network, spanning across four facilities, from one central location. Utilizing the versatile alerting and notification capabilities, the team of two network managers was able to effectively manage their network and ensure that it was running around the clock.
"WhatsUp's ability to scale with our company has been impressive; we started with 22 devices under management and now use WhatsUp to monitor over 2,500 different devices all across the United States."
Dave Perrill, President of BHI
BHI was able to seamlessly integrate WhatsUp Gold into their existing applications thanks to the SQL back-end support. They were also able to stay organized and centralized by monitoring their entire infrastructure from two primary network operation centers.
"WhatsUp Gold provides us with 360° visibility, actionable intelligence and complete control of our network."
O'Neill Global IT Service and Infrastructure Manager, Peter Maljaars
WhatsUp Gold has provided O'Neill with powerful discovery, mapping, SNMP and WMI monitoring, alerting, notification and reporting capabilities.
"It's just a beautiful product."
Mark Fouraker, Technologist, CareerBuilder
CareerBuilder originally chose WhatsUp® Gold to solve their basic network monitoring needs. As they've matured, WhatsUp Gold has grown to continually meet and exceed their expectations. Today they use WhatsUp Gold Distributed for multi-site enterprise networks.
"The ceaseless damage control provided by WhatsUp Gold never failed in monitoring the only working civilian network of an entire nation. We couldn't have done our job in Iraq without WhatsUp Gold doing its job."
Dana Beausoleil Defense Information Systems Agency (contractor) Computer Interoperability Systems Inspector
Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), under the direction of The United States Army Central Command (CENTCOM), chose WhatsUp Gold for around -the-clock monitoring of applications, servers, devices, and network resources.
"We wanted to move towards a more proactive stance at monitoring our network and WhatsUp Gold is perfect for this."
bss third line support engineer, Paul Davidson
bss looked at Microsoft Network Monitor and Message Orientated Middleware (MOM) solutions before choosing Ipswitch's WhatsUp Gold v11 Premium.
"When I find a product that I like that works the way WhatsUp Gold does, I tell everyone."
Frederick Brenz, Network-WAN/Telecom Manager, Cypress - Fairbanks Independent School District
Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD) chose WhatsUp Gold for its comprehensive yet easy-to-use real-time visibility into the status and performance of their network.
"We have three buildings about four miles apart. When a user notifies us of a problem, WhatsUp Gold can quickly and easily identify whether it's a site issue. WUG allows us to save a great deal of time by not having to travel to each site."
Deepu Vijayanath, IT Manager, Proteans
Proteans chose WhatsUp Gold to identify issues quickly, save time, and achieve financial savings.
"..the SQL server we use to monitor incident response in the event of a nuclear event went down...If we didn't resolve the issue through WhatsUp Gold and there was an incident, we would have lost important tools for the agency's response."
Thomas Magee, Regional Network Manager, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The NRC chose WhatsUp Gold to ensure fast, accurate notification and internal network communication among sites.
"WhatsUp is like a virtual employee, assisting us wherever possible."
Andreas Stiglbauer, Medical IT Department Head, Linz General Hospital
Installation of WhatsUp Gold, gradual integration of the corresponding medical segments' network components, and integration of the physical parameters for the server rooms.
"We have already achieved our ROI with WhatsUp Gold in less than six months."
Dany Briard, IT Implementation & Operations Coordinator, Cascades Tissue Group
Cascades chose WhatsUp Gold to create customized views of paper mills and warehouses and to monitor unique devices, including bar code readers.
"Ipswitch WhatsUp has become a very important colleague for us! The medical staff now see a lot less of us, which they appreciate and we are now able to be proactive rather than reactive."
Frank Beckers, IT Professional, UMCG
Ipswitch WhatsUp provides organizations such as UMCG with a comprehensive, easy to implement and easy to use network management solution.
"I want WhatsUp Gold to be the notification service one-stop shop for all my applications and hardware."
Bruce McMillan, Manager of Emerging Technologies, Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc
Solvay Pharmaceuticals (Solvay) chose WhatsUp Gold to ensure their production environment was constantly being monitored for device, network and temperature issues that, left unattended, could directly result in lost revenue.
"The reason we're always using WhatsUp Gold is the front page console - it's more intuitive. It's becoming our help desk dashboard and that says a lot."
Albert Stadler, Director of Infrastructure and Security, Missouri Southern State University
MSSU chose WhatsUp Gold to create an accurate picture of their network while ensuring that network administrators aren't getting paged for non-critical services.
"Currently we don't allow anyone into the console for security reasons, but what WhatsUp Gold gives you is the Web interface that mimics the console. So our team can get the console view from the Web interface without being in the console itself."
Mark Harsma, Network Technologist, BEK Communications
BEK chose WhatsUp Gold to keep its critical technology working in order to focus on meeting the complex requirements of its commercial and residential customers.