BlueCat Gateway vs. SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability

It is well suited for quick manual updates, not too many as the interface could stand an overhaul. Not an easy interface to use when doing research - reverse lookups. Results aren't always accurate. The search capability could be a bit more robust, expanding the search capability into the comments area would help.

Incentivized

- For small teams serving big organizations - it's a really simple tool to install and set up relatively quickly. - the new installer is also great - I don't have to understand what modules need to be installed; it's all streamlined. - The HCO Licensing allows you to run the Additional polling engines at a scale where the previous licensing model didn't. We can deploy APEs in locations now, which would not have been worth the investment in previously as there weren't enough devices in that location/region to spend the $$$$ on an APE License.

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• Deployment capability made easy
• Navigation in the web application
• Organization of objects

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• Automated dependency mapping is a big hit.
• High availability is extremely simple to implement.
• Simple to use and drill into issues.
• Analysis of growth patterns driving the recommendation engine.

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• Page rendering speed / access of data
• Number of clicks it takes to get to the page you need can be cumbersome
• Feels a bit outdated at times / standard html website interface

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• Can be complex to setup
• Is strongest with network resources
• Assumes a fairly large amount of base knowledge

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- decent ease of use - good training materials - good documentation - acceptable level of expected knowledge

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BlueCat is the only DNS manager platform that I've had experience with. We had one prior to this, but it was before I had the need to interact with it doing one of the tasks I do now. I remember the switchover to BlueCat - not everyone was impressed with it, but so far my experience with it has been positive.

Incentivized

Solarwinds has the best overlap of the two others I've mentioned - the other two tools (Datadog and Dynatrace) are great in their own way but Solarwinds is just good at everything; if I had to pick one tool of the above, it would be Solarwinds for the compatibility and ease of use, the other tools are more focused on being great at certain things while Solarwinds is the jack of all trades.

Incentivized

• It has had a great impact on reducing deployment times
• Made my job easier by providing an understandable interface
• Makes day to day tasks easier

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• one license requiring 1 PO to be raised
• sharing costs between departments for monitoring under one platform using APEs

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