Since partnering with SolarWinds, Atlantic Digital has implemented the full suite of Solarwinds products in enterprise environments for civilian Federal agencies and Department of Defense Commands. In this case study presentation Gordon Jackson, CEO of Atlantic Digital, shares how the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is using SolarWinds to manage extensive portions of their enterprise network architecture providing: customized network insight to management and specialized consumers; real-time awareness of the status and health of the network and the devices that comprise it, enhanced performance tuning and increased security. He also shares “Lessons Learned” from his company’s ongoing involvement with Solarwinds implementations in several Department of Defense networks. Learn More and Connect with SolarWinds Federal: Federal website: http://www.solarwinds.com/federal thwack Federal and Government group: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/groups/federal-and-government Twitter: http://twitter.com/

1. Gordon Jackson
CEO
Atlantic Digital
813-304-2755
gordon.jackson@adiit.com

2. 1997-2000-The Search for the Perfect NMS
 HP Openview
 IBM/Tivoli TME 10-Framework
 CA Uni-center-Framework
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3.  Expensive
 Difficult and time consuming to implement
 Every implementation is custom
 Expensive to maintain
 Requires manufacturer support for
implementation, modification, customization
 Solution: procure acceptable autonomous
point products
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4.  Priced right
 Readily available on the web
 Works out of the box
 Straight forward implementation
 Reasonable maintenance costs
 Reasonable support costs for
implementation, modification, customization
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6. Host Architecture
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7.  Engage stakeholders early-stay engaged
 Identify/engage primary Decision Maker
 Define/engage User Communities early
 Define User Community requirements
 Regularly review/update user community
requirements
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8.  Gain/maintain cross-community
trust/confidence: everyone benefits from
cooperating
 Centralized administration is key to
maintaining availability and peak
performance.
 Detailed visibility that SolarWinds provides-
who wants it?
 Red, Yellow, Green Up/Down versus details
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9.  Get Your Host Environment right-your
SolarWinds performance depends on it
 Stay current with SolarWinds patches
 Federal Security Compliance Requirements
 Locked Down/Secure OS’s create unique and
varying challenges
 Specialized environments require special
knowledge/expertise
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10.  Ability of all SolarWinds NMS modules to
operate independently or in concert with each
other allows for purchases in line with
budgetary constraints
 Modules are function focused: you buy them
when you need the capability
 Sufficient high performance storage is
essential to peak performance
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11.  Centralized/centrally coordinated SolarWinds
maintenance and management is critical to
stability and peak performance
 The virtualized environment, while not
required, has advantages
 Backup
 Disaster Recovery
 Cloning/replication
 Optimize use of Servers/storage devices
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12. Questions?
Gordon Jackson
CEO
Atlantic Digital
813-304-2755
gordon.jackson@adiit.com
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