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Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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Over 9 years ago

Answered a question: PRTG vs. SolarWinds: Which is a better Network Monitoring Tool?

I used both products. Without even thinking twice I will go with PRTG. Solarwinds will take you weeks to finish configuration and tweaking to your environment. I didn't like the user interface, too much data, difficult to navigate. It is way more expensive than PRTG. And…

About 10 years ago

Commented on If you are in a virtualized environment, there is nothing better than Veeam One but the alerts need better descriptions.

I like VMTurbo Ops, right now I am using SCOM to monitor our infrastructure.

About 10 years ago

Commented on If you are in a virtualized environment, there is nothing better than Veeam One but the alerts need better descriptions.

Hi Jonathan, I am still using the product. I am using to monitor networking and storage but only in relation to hypervisor. If you want to monitor just your networking or storage, this is not product for you, I will go with PRTG , it is cheap and got much better recently.

Over 10 years ago

Contributed a review of Barracuda Phone System [EOL]: It saved us a lot of money when we switched from a hosted solution to Barracuda on-premises.

Over 10 years ago

Contributed a review of PRTG Network Monitor: We can monitor everything from one place and get email or SMS notifications.

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of FreeNAS: Its support for Hyper-V clusters needs improving, but you can present the storage as CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, etc.

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Hyper-V: You can automate the deployment of a new Hyper-V host, but the networking part is difficult to setup.

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Meraki MS Switches: It has an automatic firmware upgrade, but it doesn't have an upgrade path for the hardware.

Almost 11 years ago

Answered a question: VMware vs. Hyper-V - Which do you prefer?

HyperV. I am using HyperV past few years without any problems, before I used VMware. In my last two companies I migrated the infrastructure from VMware to HyperV. One big reason is the cost. VMware is still very expensive. HyperV is coming for free. If you have budget , it…

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN: We can use a single dashboard to manage our 5 offices in different parts of the world.

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN: We can use a single dashboard to manage our 5 offices in different parts of the world.

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Veeam Data Platform: It allows VM replication from one data center to another for DR.

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Veeam Data Platform: It allows VM replication from one data center to another for DR.

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Cisco Meraki MX: I can have the firewall up and running and configured in one hour, but to scale, you need to buy the next model as there is no upgrade path.

About 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Veeam Data Platform: If you are in a virtualized environment, there is nothing better than Veeam One but the alerts need better descriptions.