IT Pros Select 2013 Leaders for APM/NPM
IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source of data and analysis about IT infrastructure, today announced the results of the 2013 APM/NPM Brand Leader Survey, as voted by IT professionals. Survey respondents were asked which vendors they perceive as the leader in three categories: APM Software, APM/NPM Appliance, and Network Recording and Search Appliance.
- (1888PressRelease) November 08, 2013 - According to Frank Berry, CEO and senior analyst for IT Brand Pulse, "The first annual brand survey for Application and Performance Monitoring revealed three factors: Riverbed acquired brand leadership along with OPNET technology; Solarwinds is pervasive in APM software as well as network monitoring software; and the powerful Citrix NetScaler brand is stretching its wings into APM and NPM."
• In APM Software, IT pros tapped SolarWinds as the Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation leader with second place going to IBM (in all categories except Price). Dell was the third Market Leader choice.
"At SolarWinds we strive to arm IT Pros with a cost-effective, comprehensive, and easy-to-use alternative to traditional software, and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers with its server, application and database monitoring in one powerful and complete solution," said Denny LeCompte, SVP of Product Strategy, SolarWinds. "For SolarWinds SAM to be recognized by IT Brand Pulse as the Market Leader for APM Software is an honor because it's voted on by the knowledgeable and experienced IT pros who know what's required and needed in today's application performance management software."
• Riverbed, with its Cascade Shark Appliance, topped the competition in every category of Network Recording and Search Appliance: (Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation). Fluke Networks secured the runner-up title in each category while Emulex, through its recent acquisition of Endace, entered the third Market leader position.
"Riverbed is committed to providing our customers with a holistic view to manage application and network performance," said Dimitri Vlachos, vice president, marketing and products at Riverbed. "The Cascade® Shark appliance provides continuous, high-speed packet capture, analysis and storage so customers can stay ahead of problems and fix them faster. With deep packet inspection of application traffic with Cascade Shark, our customers gain the application awareness and visibility they need to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve performance issues quickly before end users are impacted. For IT professionals to select Riverbed as the market leader in every category of Network Recording and Search Appliance is a great honor and testament to our focus on solving real problems for our customers."
• Voting in APM/NPM Appliance revealed Citrix as the overall leader (Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation). Riverbed filled the number two Market leader spot with Bluecoat, third.
About the Brand Leader Awards
The APM/NPM Brand Leader Survey was conducted in September 2013. IT Brand Pulse awards are the symbols for brand leadership because they are voted on by IT pros (not vendor-sponsored). Our surveys are designed to measure the pulse of brand leadership in specific product categories. IT professionals respond to one survey covering various products. Within each product category, respondents choose the overall market leader, as well as the leader in price, performance, reliability, service and support, and innovation. Respondents are provided with a category description at the start of each product section of the survey and are given randomized vendor answer choices as well as the ability to write-in a name under "Other".
Respondents to the survey included (select list): AT&T - Server Administrator/Architect; Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) - Storage Administrator/Architect; Boeing - Data Center Manager; Booz Allen Hamilton - Network Security Architect; CalPERS, State of CA - Network Administrator/Architect; Caterpillar - Server Administrator/Architect; Citigroup - Network Administrator/Architect; City of Los Angeles - IT Manager/Director; Delta Airlines - Server Administrator/Architect; Duke University - IT Manager/Director; EarthLink - Server Administrator/Architect; Environmental Protection Agency - Network Administrator/Architect; ExxonMobil - Network Administrator/Architect; Fermilab - Network Administrator/Architect; Ford Motor Company - Network Administrator/Architect; GE - IT Manager/Director; General Dynamics - Network Administrator/Architect; General Motors - Server Administrator/Architect; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab - IT Manager/Director; JP Morgan - IT Manager/Director; Lockheed Martin - IT Manager/Director; Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) - Network Administrator/Architect; Lowe's - Storage Administrator/Architect; Mattel Inc.- IT Manager/Director; Morgan Stanley - Network Administrator/Architect; NASA - IT Manager/Director; National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) - Network Administrator/Architect; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - IT Manager/Director; Northrop Grumman - Network Administrator/Architect; Oppenheimer - Executive/Management; PepsiCo - Storage Administrator/Architect; Porsche Cars North America - Network Administrator/Architect; REI - Server Administrator/Architect; Sandia National Labs - Network Administrator/Architect; Shell - Storage Administrator/Architect; Social Security Administration (SSA) - Server Administrator/Architect; Stanford University - Network Administrator/Architect; Staples - Network Administrator/Architect; Target - IT Manager/Director; The University of Chicago - Server Administrator/Architect; ThomsonReuters -Server Administrator/Architect; T-Mobile - Data Center Manager; Transamerica - Storage Administrator/Architect; UBS - Executive/Management; UCLA - IT Manager/Director; United Airlines - Network Administrator/Architect; Universal Parks and Resort - IT Manager/Director; University Of Michigan- Data Center Manager; University of Michigan Medical School - IT Manager/Director; University of Notre Dame - Storage Administrator/Architect; USC - Network Administrator/Architect; Verizon - Network Administrator/Architect; Yale University - IT Manager/Director…among many others…
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