DX Performance Management vs NetBrain comparison

The compared Broadcom and NetBrain solutions aren't in the same category. Broadcom is ranked #2 in DXNO , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 27.1% mindshare in the category. NetBrain is ranked #17 in NT , and holds a 3.1% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of NetBrain users who would recommend it.

DX Performance Management

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96% willing to recommend

NetBrain

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between DX Performance Management and NetBrain based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two DX NetOps solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

DX Performance Management

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure Capacity Planning (1st), Network Monitoring Software (43rd), DX NetOps (2nd)

NetBrain

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Troubleshooting (17th), Network Automation (5th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Network Management solutions, they serve different purposes. DX Performance Management is designed for DX NetOps and holds a mindshare of 27.1%, down 37.5% compared to last year.
NetBrain, on the other hand, focuses on Network Troubleshooting, holds 3.1% mindshare, up 2.5% since last year.

DX NetOps Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
DX Performance Management	27.1%
AppNeta by Broadcom	34.7%
DX Spectrum	24.3%
Other	13.899999999999991%

DX NetOps

Network Troubleshooting Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
NetBrain	3.1%
Wireshark	14.3%
AirMagnet Survey PRO	10.3%
Other	72.3%

Network Troubleshooting

Featured Reviews

reviewer1810893

Senior IT Operations Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Flexibility and detailed performance stats enable effective network monitoring

Spectrum is very good at monitoring all network faults and configurations. It enables me to take action based on network issues. The Performance Management provides detailed network performance stats, including CPU, memory, and interface bandwidth. Additionally, Spectrum is flexible and allows me to organize and treat devices uniquely without impacting other devices.

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Deborah Gamelin

Vice President at Asset Track for Cloud, LLC

Good monitoring and troubleshoot capabilities, improves overall network traffic visibility

In my organization, we had 130,000 network devices that needed to be brought into the solution and mapped. NetBrain can handle the scale but the engineers that manage those devices have to go in and update all of them to allow NetBrain permission to poll them. It can get a little stressful for everybody when you're trying to roll out new stuff when you've got other issues that have to be addressed with other devices. In some cases, our devices had no automation at all. One example is the Cisco 3650. Right now, if you went through the inventory list, you see that we have different versions running. Some are on one version, whereas others are on another version. The problem with upgrading them is that they need to be done overnight because we don't want to disrupt any network traffic during business hours. Consequently, it could take us years to upgrade the versions before we can even get them onto these new tools. This may be an internal issue but it's a big one when you have a lot of devices. Even if you had 10,000 devices, it's still an issue. You have to consider the compatibility of the device against the tool, and being able to use certain commands to upgrade it.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Considering all these factors, it's really a good and easy product for analyzing your network performance, health status, and the quality of services."

"Since the implementation of the tool, it has cut down on probably 60% of our outages and letting us know what is going on."

"The biggest selling point is putting the power of creating dashboards and reports into end users' hands."

"In the last three years, it has had a great improvement in its stability; it is great that it works and we have had no outages in this time."

"The most valuable of CA Performance Management is consolidated network infrastructure monitoring and reporting."

"Great dashboards and good integration with other solutions."

"What is most useful is visibility."

"It is very easy to add devices; just be aware that it requires SNMP to be enabled."

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"NetBrain is a very simple tool."

"This tool is exactly what we wanted and needed."

"Other advice to users considering the solution would be: go with NetBrain."

"Once it's up and running and you don't have the strange requirements I had, and you just want some basic maps, it'll work."

"NetBrain is faster, better and level sets the engineering technical sets."

"Enables maps to be drawn out."

"This product has good network monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can click once and have a link test, see your network, and get an overall view of your network and its state."

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Cons

"This solution is not very scalable."

"This tool gathers so much data, which makes it hard to convert over. To upgrade it, you really need the solution backed up."

"For CA PM, there should be a way of easily migrating the reports coming from eHealth going to CA Performance Center, since CA PC is replacing eHealth."

"What we want to see: More integration inside of Spectrum and integration of role-based access."

"One of the greatest challenges we have encountered are the polling cycles."

"CA PM can be complex to build and configure. Creating the folders / groups / sites required establishing many rule sets."

"I think it would be helpful having a more comprehensive set of certifications so that I could natively deploy devices to my environment and the tool would immediately recognize and immediately be able to provide relevant performance information without a lot of tuning on my part."

"Install is done as root, which is a security no-no, and the database IO requirements were not stated correctly, which lead to a year of instability."

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"It's okay on the value, a bit expensive for just maps, but makes it a lot easier to see things visually and take it from there."

"When I used the installed product before, I wasn't very satisfied with the support."

"Each device needs to be configured to allow NetBrain to poll for the information it needs, which can be very time-consuming for a large network."

"Licensing is based on a per-device basis, which means that it can get very expensive if you have a large number of devices."

"The solution could integrate more automation."

"Support needs to improve for the installed product and some of the reporting could be more flexible to provide more complete cataloging."

"Netbrain must get AWS functionality done."

"If you're comparing NetBrain as an NDR, I would rate it as a four or five, however, NetBrain has a different aspect of looking at things within the network."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Do your homework and know how many devices you will be managing out of the gate. Be sure to project what your growth will be each year."

"We purchase a license to use the solution every three years and we have multiple contracts. They have been increasing the price annually. We have a baseline for three years and then we need to pay the difference from the baseline, and we are in the process of negotiating a new price for all the licenses we need. The price overall is affordable."

"We were looking at other vendors in the marketplace for NetFlow, and CA just beat everybody else in price, cost, and the size to implement. "

"The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices."

"They should provide more scalable licensing for the product."

"I like the licensing model because it's device-based."

"The product is expensive, but less expensive than some of the competition and worth the price."

"Licensing is based on a per-device basis, which means that it can get very expensive if you have a large number of devices."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Large Enterprise	25

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with DX Performance Management?

Spectrum's topology view sometimes does not rebuild automatically when a device is shut down and reconnected. It requires manual discovery and rebuilding of the topology, which I hope can be improved.

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What is your primary use case for DX Performance Management?

I have used Spectrum for monitoring all network faults, configurations, and troubleshooting network issues. It provides network performance stats, such as CPU, memory, and interface bandwidth detai...

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What advice do you have for others considering DX Performance Management?

I would recommend this solution based on its functionality, flexibility, customizability, and ease of use. Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. I am just a customer and not a par...

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Also Known As

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Overview

CA Performance Management is a comprehensive and highly scalable network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It was built to meet the unique demands of big data and modern networks architectures, including highly dynamic and complex hybrid cloud and software-defined networks (SDN).

The platform is design to reduce complexity inherent in modern networks built across numerous technology stacks through advanced network performance monitoring and relationship mapping for improved operational assurance.

Combined with CA Virtual Network Assurance, the platform extends operator visibility through advanced discovery and network performance monitoring of highly sensitive cloud and multi-layered SDN networks and service chains.

Broadcom

Managing today’s networks with yesterday’s manual processes is no longer a viable solution. NetBrain’s network automation platform provides actionable insights into your network to help you make better and faster decisions - particularly when you’re troubleshooting, securing, and making changes to the network.

NetBrain

Sample Customers

Jack Henry & Assoc, Target, CenturyLink, Bell Canada, BrightHouse Networks, Telus, Unisys, Verizon, Southern California Edison, GEICO, Fidelity Investments, Wells Fargo, American Family Insurance Group, Deutsche Telekom AG

CompuCon, TD Ameritrade, Move Inc.

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