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 Subscribe to Bloggers speak out on BradReese.Com SolarWinds Orion vs. Scrutinizer from Plixer Competitive retort: Plixer CEO Mike Patterson addresses the SolarWinds Orion vs. Scrutinizer from Plixer comparison paper. Tue, 6/5/12 - 11:59pm View comments
Rather, SolarWinds Orion vs. Plixer Scrutinizer is a discussion sales people should be having with customers to find out what is the best fit for the customer. When the customer's desire is for a fully functioning, richly featured flow analyzer, Scrutinizer from Plixer is generally a better choice. On the other hand, if the desire is for a complete network management system (NMS) that mostly covers all IT monitoring facets, SolarWinds Orion is a better choice. Why SolarWinds SolarWinds Orion is an entire suite of tools that provides a sort of jack-of-all-trades functionality when it comes to SNMP monitoring, flow monitoring, network polling, event logs, syslogs, server monitoring, etc. SolarWinds can say, "yes" to just about any type of monitoring tool being requested and provide good basic functionality. The SolarWinds team has done a great job focusing on their effort to be a complete NMS solution and has won many awards. However, to the best of my knowledge, they are not highly focused on delivering rich flow reporting and analysis feature sets like Plixer. Why Plixer In comparison, Plixer is more of a pure play in the NetFlow, IPFIX, etc. space. Our focus is on being the flow traffic analyzer of choice for not only end users, but also for vendors such as Cisco, Enterasys, Palo Alto Networks and Dell SonicWALL, who need a reporting solution for their flow exports. The Plixer team is razor focused on flow technologies and our passion is reflected in product development, which has garnered significant industry attention and accolades. Competitive Matrix You can download the out-of-date and never accurate SolarWinds Competitive Comparison of Scrutinizer to Orion's NetFlow Analysis matrix that was sent to a SolarWinds' customer. It was clear to the customer that the document was way out-of-date and almost entirely inaccurate other than pointing out that Plixer is a privately held company:
Source: A customer of SolarWinds The problem with competitive comparison documents like the one above is that they are often out-of-date and very biased. On page 2 of the NetFlow Challenge document, Plixer encourages prospective customers to compare Scrutinizer to other NetFlow Analysis tools. Even this document isn't always up to date with the latest functionality supported by Scrutinizer. However, it does provide a potential customer with a means to compare products. Do Some Home Work If you are trying to choose between these two companies, get involved with their respective user communities, SolarWinds Thwack and Plixer Systrax. Call their technical support organizations, SolarWinds Technical Support and Plixer Technical Support. Clients looking to purchase a network monitoring solution or NetFlow reporting solution should join the on-line forums (SolarWinds Thwack Forum and Plixer Systrax Forum) to learn about Plixer and SolarWinds' bugs. After a few searches and/or a couple of weeks within the communities, the Plixer and SolarWinds' problems if any, will likely become obvious to you. I hope this page will help you further compare products from these two great companies and good luck with your decision. View Cisco vs. Competitor Lab Tests. Related blog stories: Why aren't more people using Cisco's IP SLA? VoIP monitoring: The quest for call quality ubiquity Look out Solarwinds, here comes PacketTrap Do you exercise your network management system? Related blogs: SolarWinds Community Vibe Blog Mike Patterson's other blog stories: Dell solves complex business problems Systrax High-Impact Network Monitoring TMCnet Advanced NetFlow Traffic Analysis
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