DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs NIKSUN NetVCR comparison

Broadcom and NIKSUN are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Broadcom is ranked #76, while NIKSUN is ranked #98. Broadcom holds a 0.4% mindshare in NMS, compared to NIKSUN’s 0.1% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

DX Unified Infrastructure Management and NIKSUN NetVCR are competing products in the infrastructure management and monitoring category. DX Unified Infrastructure Management seems to have the upper hand in real-time monitoring and integration, while NIKSUN NetVCR excels in security and forensic analysis.

Features: DX Unified Infrastructure Management provides real-time infrastructure monitoring, supports diverse IT environments, and offers ease of integration. NIKSUN NetVCR focuses on security and network forensics, provides enhanced data analysis, and excels in threat detection.

Room for Improvement: DX Unified Infrastructure Management could improve advanced security features, forensic capabilities, and inline data analysis. NIKSUN NetVCR may enhance its integration simplicity, lower complexity in deployment, and reduce the initial cost.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: DX Unified Infrastructure Management offers simplified deployment with comprehensive support, facilitating faster system integration. NIKSUN NetVCR involves a complex deployment process due to its extensive features but provides robust customer service for technical support and troubleshooting.

Pricing and ROI: DX Unified Infrastructure Management is cost-effective, offering faster ROI through a competitive pricing model suitable for various integrations. NIKSUN NetVCR requires a higher upfront investment focusing on long-term value due to specialized features.

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Categories and Ranking

DX Unified Infrastructure M...

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

76th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (23rd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (54th), Cloud Monitoring Software (40th), AIOps (24th)

NIKSUN NetVCR

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

98th

Average Rating

0.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is 0.4%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NIKSUN NetVCR is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Mark Tukh

Principal Presale Consultant at Ness Technologies

Great scalability, versatility, infrastructure coverage and ease of implementation

I rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. The number of people needed for deployment depends on the customer, but we usually need at least one person and two to three at other times. The initial implementation takes about two months. The full implementation can be infinite because you may want to implement more. The product does not require a lot of maintenance. To increase the implementation, we push additional services in the first and second years to make it more robust and fully implemented. We usually sell to big enterprises. It can also be affordable for smaller enterprises, but we don't work with them a lot. We have from 2,000 to 10,000 workers. So the product itself can have five, ten or even 20 users.

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Himanshu Shah

Partner at Opticom Data Products

High performance, quick packet monitoring, and helpful support

The solution could improve by having automatic mitigation. For example, as soon as a problem occurs the solution alarms and mitigates the situation immediately. In a feature release of the solution they should add features related to automation and remediation. Automation would help increase level of security the solution provides.

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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

"Monitoring infrastructure and business applications are the most valuable features."

"The number of probes available. Out of the box, I believe about 200 probes are available. And, if there's a probe that is not available, you can write one. You can also go to the communities and suggest, and based on demand, CA will write one for you."

"Scalability and flexibility. The product can grow with your infrastructure so you don't have to install other products. Just add components. It's very simple."

"It is reliable when it comes to monitoring."

"Another division handed us the opportunity to monitor their solutions as written, and UIM was very useful for that."

"The ability to monitor any platform. We have Windows, Linux, AIX, and mainframe all being monitored with the same UIM infrastructure."

"You can scale it pretty much however way you want to as long as you have the servers to throw at it."

"It provides a comprehensive monitoring solution for our open systems."

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"The unique selling point of NIKSUN is its ability to scale and its reporting capabilities. NIKSUN captures the packets at a very high speed, from one GB to 160 Gbps also. It offers report granularity in nanoseconds."

"The most valuable features of NIKSUN NetVCR are its performance and forensic capabilities. Additionally, the information that the solution provides is highly detailed and useful. When dealing with network traffic packets can be sent at a high speed causing some security issues, but this solution is able to rapidly monitor the packets providing security."

Cons

"In the UMP, certain devices will show up multiple times and they don't correlate correctly. That's one of the issues."

"Stability."

"They need to continue to advance the filter capabilities, and provide more input fields."

"We had to do some work to make what was more of a business class solution work at an enterprise level."

"The other element is that there are no real templates, out of the box. Let's go with an example where we do have the probe, which is great, and we do have a really nuanced customer with a small set of devices that maybe not a lot of other customers use. There might not be a template in place, so effectively we have the tool in front of us but we still need to develop a solution. So it would be really nice to see a little bit more of something like a central repository of templates that we could use. That would help us expedite our onboarding process."

"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."

"There should be wider coverage of storage infrastructure."

"The dashboards need to be improved."

More DX Unified Infrastructure Management cons

"NIKSUN is a passive solution. It provides you with you data, alerts, reports and the root cause of issues. However, it requires a person to make use of this functionality. If an event is happening and nobody attends to it, the effects of the event could be severe."

"The solution could improve by having automatic mitigation. For example, as soon as a problem occurs the solution alarms and mitigates the situation immediately."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing for DX Unified Infrastructure Management isn't cheap at all. It's a complex tool, so you have to pay more. No one is happy with a large bill to pay, but if it's a complex product and you designed a complex solution to be monitored, it'll be your fault that you need to buy an expensive product, and that would be implicit in the design of DX Unified Infrastructure Management. Monitoring is just a small part of it. Sometimes you have to pay a significant amount of money for a complex yet very good solution."

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"The product-price ratio is better than other brands such as Fortinet or SonicWall."

"The license cost depends on the number of probes and robots."

"This product is expensive compared to other vendors (SolarWinds, ManageEngine)."

"The price of the solution is high. There is an annual license costs."

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Also Known As

DX Infrastructure Manager, DX Infrastructure Manager for Z Systems and CA UIM for zSystems, CA UIM (DX Infrastructure Manager), CA Nimsoft Monitor, CA UIM, DX Infrastructure Manager

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Overview

DX Unified Infrastructure Management is the only solution that provides an open architecture, full-stack observability and zero-touch configuration for monitoring traditional data center, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.

Designed to ensure an optimal end-user experience, this solution provides a modern HTML5 operations console that makes it easy and fast for today’s IT teams to implement, use, and scale – leading to faster time to value.

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Powered by groundbreaking technologies, NIKSUN NetVCR redefines the way we monitor networks. It provides seamless service and application performance analytics for the right visibility into your traditional, virtual or hybrid environments. The NetVCR suite gives you unmatched insight while still dramatically reducing power consumption by 60% and requiring 80% less rack space.

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Sample Customers

CBNCloud, IIJ Global Singapore, AT&S, AXSOS, Aozora Bank, HCL Technologies, IntelliNet, Securex

Visa, FedEx, CitiGroup, IDC

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