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1. Author
Christine Bentsen
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
(SAM) Compared to HP SiteScope
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2. Agenda
» More for your Money
» SAM vs. SiteScope - Quick Comparison
» SolarWinds SAM Highlights
» SAM Dashboard
» What the IT Pros say about SolarWinds SAM
» Helpful Resources
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3. More Bang for your BUCK…
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4. SAM Vs. SiteScope – Quick Comparison
FEATURES SAM SiteScope
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5. SolarWinds SAM Highlights
SolarWinds SAM is an easy download and most customers can begin monitoring in less
than one hour. The evaluation period is for the unlimited monitor license size and lasts for
Downloadable 30 days, giving you ample time to try out the product in your own environment.
Trial & Free
Evaluation Period HP SiteScope’s evaluation period is only 10 days, which makes it difficult to run a true
evaluation.
SolarWinds SAM and HP SiteScope are designed for ease of use and quick time to value.
Additionally, SolarWinds customers typically begin using SAM without even referring to the
Ease of Use &
manual. Time to value is quick, since you can download it and start using it right away.
Rapid Deployment
There are no implementation projects, no training classes, and no hassles required to start
using SAM.
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6. SolarWinds SAM Highlights
SAM and HP SiteScope both offer application templates for major applications, with the option
to add custom applications. Both products also offer a number of enhanced application
templates, with best practices information and threshold recommendations.
Application
Support
Further, SAM also offers additional templates through thwack®, the active SolarWinds user
community. Many more application templates can be found in the thwack content exchange,
and integration is built directly into SAM for ease of use.
SolarWinds provides the ability to easily expand SAM’s capabilities with fully integrated
modules for storage, web application, and network performance monitoring (NPM). With the
addition of NPM, you can then add network traffic analysis (NTA), configuration management
(NCM), IP address management (IPAM), and WAN and VoIP quality analysis (IPSLA).
Ability to Expand All of these products integrate and function together out-of-the box, and do not require a
Functionality professional services engagement or implementation project of any kind.
SiteScope integrates with HP’s Operations Manager and HP Business Availability Center and
sends events and metrics to several other HP products. It also provides an API for third-party
integration.
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7. SolarWinds SAM Highlights
SolarWinds provides very clear, affordable pricing on the SolarWinds website. SAM starts at
just $2995USD for the basic license and goes up to $29,995USD for an unlimited version.*
Transparent
HP does not publish its prices.
Pricing
*SolarWinds pricing is based upon current pricing and is not guaranteed. Pricing subject to jurisdiction and applicable currency.
Please contact a local SolarWinds sales representative for pricing specific to you.
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8. SAM Dashboard
SAM Summary page showing several applications being monitored.
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9. SAM Dashboard
SAM has over a hundred out-of-the-box templates, hundreds more available on the
content forum, thwack, and an easy-to-use custom template wizard.
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10. SAM Dashboard
Historical Hardware
Information
SAM also provides out-of-the-box server hardware monitoring to
view server hardware health and quickly identify any hardware failures.
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11. What IT Pros say about SolarWinds SAM
» SAM named Best of TechEd in the Systems Management and
Operations category at Microsoft TechEd North America 2012.
 Awards produced by Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Pro, SharePoint Pro and
Dev Pro
» “With SolarWinds SAM I can keep track of everything in one
place.”
 Steve Borba, Network Security Engineer, Citizens Business Bank
» “Unlike many of the enterprise offerings we had worked with
previously, SAM was not bloated with information and had a
clean, easy-to-use interface. Within a week-and-a-half of playing
with the free trial, we were able to accomplish things with SAM
that we had been trying to do with our previous system for
three years.”
 Jason Krisch - Manager, Technical Services - Carilion Clinic
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12. Helpful Resources
We invite you to learn more about
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM)
Watch Video Test Drive Live Demo
Ask Our Community Download 30-day Free Trial
Client Testimonial Client Testimonial
(SAM) Allows Carilion to be Proactive (N)Ode to SAM
Whitepaper
Selecting the Right Server & Application Monitoring Tool
Click any of the links above
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13. Thank You!
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