Compare McAfee vs SolarWinds

McAfee

Based on 140 reviews.

SolarWinds

Based on 409 reviews.

Overview

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SolarWinds Inc. develops enterprise information technology infrastructure management software for IT professionals. In 2007, SolarWinds raised funding from Austin Ventures, Bain Capital and Insight Venture Partners. SolarWinds completed its initial public offering of $112.5 million in 2009. In 2012, SolarWinds' total revenue reached $269 million. In June 2014, the company purchased the Swedish web-monitoring company Pingdom.

Sample Customers

Popular Solutions

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

9 reviews

McAfee Complete Data Protection

5 reviews

McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention

4 reviews

SolarWinds NPM

15 reviews

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer

10 reviews

SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor

9 reviews

Top Industries

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Quotes From Member Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

Kamal Abdelrahman
Country Manager at a tech services company
I am intensively working with McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention, and it is a good solution that we...
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Wahidur Rahman
Senior Executive Officer at United Commercial Bank Limited
Our primary use case for this solution is activity, authentication, and scans for audit purposes and priority...
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VivekGupta7
DGM at a financial services firm
McAfee Web Protection is for our entire system, regardless of the brand. It is implemented in all systems through an...
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Chetankumar Savalagimath
Delivery Manager at a tech services company
Presently, I am using the Threat Intel solution for reputation checks in our daily SOC operations and threat hunting....
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PankajKumar24
IT Manager at Gigabit Technologies Pvt Ltd
The use cases for McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator involve deploying multiple customers for endpoint solutions, EPP...
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GANESAN K
Senior Technical Engineer at Safezone Secure Solutions Private Limited
For Zoho, we did OP Manager, Audit Security, AD Security and Asset Management, Patch Management. These things we are...
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Raja Xabi
Technical Manager at APRAL
I assess the impact of the alerting and reporting capabilities of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer by using email...
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AshwaniSingh1
Quality Auditing Associate at a tech vendor
After joining Accenture company, I have been directly using SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability for monitoring...
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Sorin Gogean
IT Infrastructure Senior Network Technician at Autoliv
I have experience regarding the AD part, but my focus for the last 15 years has been oriented to the network side. My...
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Waqas Masood
Assistant Director at Higher Education Commission
I am working in the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan as part of the Pakistan Education Research Network, which...
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Customer Service

Binu Haneef
System Administrator at Sky News Arabia
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator support has been helpful. However, sometimes when I raise the case they take a while to...
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Kirolos Labeb
CyberSecurity Operations at EliteVAD
They are good and give quick responses. I rate it ten out of ten.
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Muco Aga
Cloud Security Solutions Consultant at CloudCan
We did not directly reach out to McAfee, the corporation, in terms of support. We can get help from their partners....
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Syed M Sarfaraz Hussain
System Administrator at CyberGen
We do not have experience with customer service and support.
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ObaseunAwoyinfa
Security Consultant at Trinexia
For data protection, I have never really had to leverage support. I’ve not had to deal with support on any of the...
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Anonymous User
Cyber Security at a tech services company
Technical support was good for what we needed. We just needed some support on the original install and set up, and we...
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Anonymous User
Managing Director at a consultancy
Technical support is handled via our partner. They helped us implement and manage the solution. We go through them...
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Anonymous User
Network Engineer Info & Security at a comms service provider
Customer Service: It's ok. Technical Support: It's satisfactory; a few engineers from the McAfee Firewall tech...
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Anonymous User
IT Manager at a financial services firm
Technical support is good. They are timely in responding.
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Gustavo Vila Verde
Sales Engineer at a tech vendor
Levels two and three of tech support is very good.
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Anatolii Konstantynov
Project Engineer at ISSP
When contacting support, we would have to wait days before getting a response, and other times they were not able to...
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Yash Rana
Manager IT at OTE
The technical support of McAfee is good and that is why we use McAfee products. The support and protection is very...
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Joke
Security Analyst at a financial services firm
Technical support is okay. We get support from a McAfee partner here in Nigeria who liaises with the OEM too. We've...
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Anonymous User
Storage Engineer at 22by7
Technical support is absolutely fine. I have very good friends in support. Most of the time, most of my friends are...
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Anonymous User
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company
Customer Service: 5/10. Technical Support: 4/10.
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Oliver Rodrigues
Senior Network Security Planning at Ooredoo Kuwait
I would rate technical support an eight out of ten. They do help to resolve issues quickly, but sometimes the...
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RajuBhatt
retired
I've never had to reach out to the support.
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Anonymous User
Business Analyst at a consultancy
Another person is responsible for dealing with technical support, so I do not have experience with them.
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JonathanChawatama
IT Security Consultant at ZOL Zimbabwe
I'd rate technical support seven out of ten. Every year we have to go through product certifications, so we hardly...
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Anonymous User
Implementation Engineer at a tech vendor
McAfee's technical support is actually fine.
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Roi Nahari
CTO- Consulting Services at 2bsecure
The support needs some improvement. It needs to be more professional.
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Anonymous User
Sr. Product Management Specialist at a comms service provider
The technical support is good, but it could be better.
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Anonymous User
Information Security Engineer at a tech services company
When we've had issues in the past, and, although they ended up solving our problem, we found the response time was...
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Anonymous User
IT Security Specialist at a tech services company
Technical support is not too bad. They are quite mature and have experience with the product. We have not experienced...
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Jagadeesh Amarnath
Senior Technical Team Lead at Foresight Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
The technical support is good. It's easy for us to reach support whenever we experience any issues. They put us right...
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Eduardo Jassir
Cyber Security Coordinator at Gecelca SA E.S.P.
We receive technical support from the partner, and they are very good. We've never had to contact McAfee. We just...
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Sabina C
Sr. IT Business Analyst at Citigroup
I didn't need to contact technical support for McAfee Total Protection.
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Anonymous User
Security Professional
Customer Service: We were a McAfee EMEA Premier Managed Service Provider at the time, so we had no problems getting...
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Abel Abenemi
IT Lead\Network Security Analyst at Oiltest Services Limited
Technical support is perfect. If you send a request for help but resolve the issue yourself after a few hours, they...
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Anonymous User
AVP - Information Security at a financial services firm
Technical support has been good. If I have ever needed assistance, I have been able to get some help.
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Erick Kahozi
Network Engineer Coordinator at a mining and metals company
We have a person in-house that will bring issues to our attention, and if we need to, we will escalate to support.
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RajeshB
Server and Network Monitoring Manager at a consultancy
There have been issues with quality and connectivity, resulting in delays when trying to connect with the support...
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Ravi Khanchandani
Founder Director at Techsa Services
Some resolutions require catering to the unique environment of customers and can take time. Otherwise, the tool's...
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Wapelo Zaphaniah
Information Technology Administrator at Debswana
Since I haven't used much of the technical support provided for the solution, I will have to research first in order...
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KhalidOmer
Data Center Engineer at a retailer
Customer service is linked to payments. If you do not have a license or renewal supported, it is not supported for you.
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Anonymous User
IT Project Lead - Danone North America at a manufacturing company
The support is always good. They are good people and they answer questions quickly. They know their product.
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Michael Savchenko
Business Developement Manager at I.ua
I do not have direct experience with customer service, yet, according to my customers, the support is quick and meets...
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Anonymous User
Senior Network Administrator at a manufacturing company
Contact support was great. They're very knowledgeable. They knew what we needed, once we explained our problem. In...
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Anonymous User
Manager, Enterprise Monitoring at a healthcare company
In general, the technical support is great. Around new major releases, you do experience longer waits; and every so...
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Jentle Mathew
Sr.Network Engineer at NTT Security
We have not contacted technical support, it is not required in my environment.
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Anonymous User
Vice President, SaaS Operations at a computer software company
The technicals support is fair. I would rate them a three out of five.
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SidneiYokoyama
CISO at LGPDNOW
The support is good, featuring technicians who understand technical issues. There is room for improvement by offering...
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IanReilly
Manager at QMUL
In terms of technical support, I've noticed a decline in recent years. They have expanded their support teams...
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Anonymous User
Information Services Department Manager at a construction company
The times when I have needed technical support, they have been responsive and able to resolve my issues. I use the...
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AchmadFredericks
Director, Technical Architect at Archer Information Technology
I have not actually had to use technical support very much. I can not even count more than five instances in the span...
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Anonymous User
Systems Engineer at a comms service provider
Customer Service: Customer service at SolarWinds is great. I have had several issues in the past and they were...
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Anonymous User
Managing Director at a consultancy
There are issues with newer features so it can take a long time to adjust. The solution is in bad shape because of...
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Anonymous User
Senior Security Consultant at a consultancy
The technical support services need improvement. It is time-consuming to escalate the issues to the Level 2 engineer....
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RajneeshKumar3
Manager Observability at ICE
The customer service is good, and I would rate it around 8. Sometimes we encounter engineers who don't have...
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Anonymous User
Programmer Analyst at a leisure / travel company
Customer Service: Excellent. Customer support is knowledgeable about the product line and will engage with technical...
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Anonymous User
Network Operation Center Team Leader at a recruiting/HR firm
I would give technical support a rating of 5/10 on a good day. Since going to a Philippine support group, there has...
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Andrew Njagi
Communications and Networks Engineer at a transportation company
The solution's technical support is okay, but we don't have an SLA, and sometimes the response times are very slow.
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Romario Martin
Database Administrator at a financial services firm
The support team is excellent, very responsive, and quick to address issues based on severity.
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Rick McClure
Technical Operations & Management Professional at RMC Enterprises
When you get them on the phone, they're good. It could sometimes be tough to connect with them. Sometimes, you find...
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ReenaPandey
Consultant at HCL Technologies
The solution's technical support doesn't support any customization. If you want a customized script or a customized...
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Anonymous User
Software Engineer at a comms service provider
We have worked with SolarWinds support intensively. It's a vast product, so one tech engineer can't be an expert on...
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Anonymous User
Solutions Architect at Fishtech Group
I would say that the technical support is good, although not great. Certainly, it is passable.
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Peter Mostert
Technical Support Specialist at a consultancy
Whenever I've had issues, they were able to help me. I had once upgraded from an old version to the current version,...
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Sameer Gangan
‎IT Consultant at a consultancy
Technical support for this solution is good. We have had no problems with them.
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Anonymous User
Network Systems Engineer at a financial services firm
I rate technical support everywhere from poor to great. Lately, it’s been getting better and better. But in the past,...
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