it_user575310

Engineer, Infrastructure Applications at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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User Activity

Almost 9 years ago

Contributed a review of Splunk Enterprise Security: Ingests machine data and helps to analyze and visualize it.

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on With an easy-to-use interface for both admins and users, we use it to provide infrastructure monitoring services.

If you aren't following the updates to NPM in the SolarWinds Community Forum (Thwack.com) you should - https://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/network-management_tht/orion-network-performance-monitor

About 9 years ago

Commented on Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

I recommend SolarWinds as building custom pollers is relatively easy but really any platform that lets you specify the specific OIDs for the data points that you want would be fine.

Over 9 years ago

Contributed a review of SolarWinds NPM: With an easy-to-use interface for both admins and users, we use it to provide infrastructure monitoring services.

Over 9 years ago

Commented on Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

Your review of SolarWinds products is very dated @Anuj. Of your cons, only two of them still apply -- Clumsy 'Group Dependency' configuration and Reporting module needs better ad-hoc reports As of NPM 11 on Orion 2016 you can configure alerts for most modules in the web…

Projects

Over 9 years ago

Primary SME for an ~14,000 node SolarWinds monitoring

Primary SME for an ~14,000 node SolarWinds monitoring environment

Experience

SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor

Reviews

Almost 9 years ago

Splunk Enterprise Security

Ingests machine data and helps to analyze and visualize it.

Over 9 years ago

SolarWinds NPM

With an easy-to-use interface for both admins and users, we use it to provide infrastructure monitoring services.

Comments

Almost 9 years ago

Network Monitoring Software

With an easy-to-use interface for both admins and users, we use it to provide infrastructure monitoring services.

About 9 years ago

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

Over 9 years ago

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

About me

Experienced enterprise technical architect, enterprise monitoring engineer, and Solarwinds MVP (the only one in Canada!) specializing in operational projects that include infrastructure and application monitoring, IT service management, and project delivery. Motivational project manager able to drive aggressive timelines and financial targets for enterprise and SMB customers.

Specialties:
Network and Infrastructure monitoring - design, implementation and management
Specializing in Solarwinds product suite - NPM, SAM, NTA, VMAN, etc.
Team and Project management
Technical architect - VMware, Microsoft, Data Center Operations, etc.
Virtualization - design, implementation, and management
Server design, build, deploy and management - Windows
Business analysis and service design
Storage Administration - Dell EqualLogic and Oracle StorageTek
SAN Administration - iSCSI and Fiber Channel
Backup Administration - Netbackup Enterprise Server

Certifications:
VMWare VCAP-DCD - vSphere 4
VMWare Certified Professional - vSphere 4 & 5
SolarWinds Certified Professional
Cisco Certified Network Associate - Routing and Switching
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (2000 and 2003)
ITILv3 - Foundations
QualysGuard Certified Specialist

Certifications

Organizational Analysis
Organizational Analysis (Self-Paced)
The Data Scientist’s Toolbox

Employers

Cardinal Health
Bulletproof Solutions
Bulletproof Solutions
Aerotek
Kautex Textron
DaimlerChrysler
Telecorp Products, Inc.

Education

Holland College
Global Knowledge

Interesting Projects and Accomplishments

Over 9 years ago

Primary SME for an ~14,000 node SolarWinds monitoring