Solarwinds Orion Network Management

As our WAN and LAN managed services portfolio have been increasing in recent times we took the decision to invest in the best network management suite in the market at the moment. We'd been trialling Solarwinds Orion for the best part of a year, and we have taken the decision to roll it out across the whole of our estate, starting with our own equipment and then rolling out to the rest of the world during the Summer of 2011. We're very impressed with Solarwinds as a company and their products are very detailed (also read expensive!) We can monitor pretty much anything, and also manage our Cisco estate very well from one location. I can't see Orion replacing some of the other monitoring we already do for example Nagios, but augmenting it and giving us reporting and detailed analysis. I have to add that we have no plans to give our customers access to it yet, we have a lot more trialling to do, and because of the costs involved it is something we are reviewing financially as part of our managed services offerings in the future.