Compare SolarWinds vs SonicWall

SolarWinds

Based on 438 reviews.

SonicWall

Based on 297 reviews.

Overview

SolarWinds Inc. develops enterprise information technology infrastructure management software for IT professionals. In 2007, SolarWinds raised funding from Austin Ventures, Bain Capital and Insight Venture Partners. SolarWinds completed its initial public offering of $112.5 million in 2009. In 2012, SolarWinds' total revenue reached $269 million. In June 2014, the company purchased the Swedish web-monitoring company Pingdom.

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Sample Customers

Dameware Remote Support

Illinois School District

SolarWinds Dameware Remove Everywhere

Accenture, Emerson, Lockheed Martin, Nielsen, NTT

SonicWall Cloud Secure Edge (CSE)

Redox, Byton, Veeva, BlueVoyant

Popular Solutions

SolarWinds NPM

6 reviews

SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor

5 reviews

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer

5 reviews

SonicWall NSa

4 reviews

SonicWall TZ

6 reviews

SonicWall NSv

20 reviews

Top Industries

Outsourcing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

11%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Quotes From Member Reviews

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Most Helpful Reviews

Kalyan Kothali
Associate Vice President at Wissen infotech
Customers usually use SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability for infrastructure monitoring. Cloud and on-premises...
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HemantKumar7
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor
My main use case for Squadcast is incident management and escalating alerts to the respective team. A specific...
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NikhilKalwint
Technical Specialist at ServiceIO
We are monitoring all the infrastructure with SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, which means our physical...
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Vivek Jaiswal
Manager IT at a manufacturing company
SolarWinds NPM is used to monitor all our servers and key network devices such as core switches and firewalls, along...
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Akhil Reddy
Software Developer at NOESIS Portugal
I work only with SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor. My major use case is the monitoring of environment servers...
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Kallamuddin Ansari
Cyber Security Consultant at HR Software Solution
My main use case for SonicWall Cloud Secure Edge (CSE) is for remote and hybrid work access, specifically for Zero...
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Alex Salguero
CISO at PCRA
We have a partnership with SonicWall, and we are not just a customer, but a user. We have been partners since 2012...
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Ashutosh Jha
Project engineer at IT Solution india private limited
My main use case for SonicWall Managed Detection and Response is for log incident, log identification, and...
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Mahendra Basera
Sr. Engineer at InterGlobe Technology Quotient
We have SonicWall NSa models including NSA 2600, NSA 3600, and 6600 firewalls in our environment.We have used the...
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Samodthemiya Gamage
Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at a tech company
I usually use SonicWall NSv for the primary security perspective, including hybrid and multi-cloud security gateway,...
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Customer Service

Juan Pr
IT Professional at NTT Security
Technical support is very helpful with our upgrades. I would rate them about an eight or a nine.
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Mahmoud Osama
IT System Administrator at a energy/utilities company
Technical support could definitely be better. I have opened a ticket with technical support, but with no response.
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DarrinBryant
AVP Technology Network Engineer at LPL Financial
Technical support is very good. You always got a live person.
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Masud Alam
Manager at Optimum Origens Inc.
I have contacted SolarWinds technical support. There may be some issues with contacting them because there's no...
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Edmar Silva
Engineer at AGCO Corporation
I do not have direct contact with SolarWinds' customer service. Another team manages that, so I cannot evaluate the...
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Anonymous User
Sr. Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company
I would give technical support a rating of 7 out of 10. When I get on the phone with a support engineer, I'm usually...
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Nouman Khan
Senior Solutions Specialist (Network & Security) at Ooredoo Qatar
We have been in contact with technical support and they are good.
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Anonymous User
Senior Technical Analyst at CS Softwares.
I have no problems with the support of SolarWinds. When my client has a problem, our support always uses the...
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Anonymous User
Business Consultant. at a tech services company
Technical support is okay. We've contacted them many times and they've been fine.
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Anonymous User
Head of Network Department at a financial services firm
Technical support is okay, but it depends on the person who takes up the ticket. Sometimes we don't get the kind of...
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Anonymous User
Senior Vice President and CIO at a financial services firm
As I have been using the solution for so long, I have not had any need for technical support.
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Hariharan-Mahadevan
Program Director at Tata Consultancy Services
We've never been in touch with technical support.
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Anonymous User
Information Services Department Manager at a construction company
The times when I have needed technical support, they have been responsive and able to resolve my issues. I use the...
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Michael Gabriel
Works at a consultancy
It was fine; but in our case, I do not think we have a lot of communication with customer support because it was not...
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Anonymous User
IT Site Administrator at a marketing services firm
9/10 - the level of support is amazing and the Samanage community is extremely resourceful.
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Anonymous User
Project Manager and consultant enterprise IT tooling at a consultancy
SolarWinds does not provide professional services. You have to rely on partners that provide this service. If there...
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Erdinc-Erdal
Presales Consultant at a tech vendor
I do not think that SolarWinds support is very good because it just takes too long to solve the problem. Eventually,...
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Anonymous User
Senior Technical Engineer at a tech vendor
For L2 or L1 problems, we are giving the support. For the L3 level, if the issue is beyond our reach, then we contact...
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Anonymous User
Systems Architect at a tech services company
I am not sure. I'm not the person who tries to troubleshoot it. I don't think we needed much support. Only once there...
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Anonymous User
DBA at a wellness & fitness company
I have not had to open up many tickets. In two and a half years, I think, probably four, five tickets that we've...
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Anonymous User
Senior Technical Engineer at a tech vendor
I have contacted SolarWinds technical support six or seven times and I think that the support is very good. The only...
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Anonymous User
Programmer Analyst at a leisure / travel company
Customer Service: Excellent. Customer support is knowledgeable about the product line and will engage with technical...
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Anonymous User
Head of IT Governance Service at ITGSTORE
Technical support is okay. I would rate it three out of five. Their reaction time is not so good. You might have to...
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Anonymous User
Software Engineer at a tech vendor
The support for SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is quite supportive, and I can work with them in-depth,...
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Nelson Saravia
Senior Business Project Manager at Bonsai System Ltda
So far it hasn't been necessary for me to contact their support team, due to its overall ease of use and ease of...
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Anonymous User
IT - Server Administration
Customer Service: I think it's decent although a team mate generally makes the support calls. Technical Support: In...
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Anonymous User
Founder Director at a tech services company
Customer Service: Customer service is fairly good. Technical Support: Technical support is good.
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Anonymous User
Manager - Production Database Administration at a tech vendor
The customer support for SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is average. Sometimes I need to chase them for the...
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Anonymous User
Manager, Enterprise Monitoring at a healthcare company
In general, the technical support is great. Around new major releases, you do experience longer waits; and every so...
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Anonymous User
IT Director at a construction company
At times, it’s been difficult to get through. However in the past twelve months, they have reformed their ways and...
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Nakul Chopra
Owner at IT Solution
SonicWall NSa has good technical support, so support-wise, I'm giving it a ten out of ten.
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Sumesh Panikkar
Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer at Khansaheb
The technical support team is very good. We can contact the team by phone or email.
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PhosikaSithisane
Power System Engineer at a retailer
It is difficult to contact SonicWall Email Security’s technical support team.
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Bruce Bower
President at a tech services company
Technical support is very good. Sometimes it takes a little bit of time to get to them, but once you get to them...
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Vijay Mohan
Senior Manager INFOSEC AND Risk ASSESSMENT Engineering at Atlas Systems
The customer service and support are excellent. It is 24/7, and we have a support center in India.
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ArunKumar1
IT Administrator at a healthcare company
Their technical support is good. They are very helpful. I would rate them an eight out of ten.
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Harish (Kumar)
Cybersecurity And Information Governance Head at Aeren
I get in touch with technical support whenever we require the support, the support is okay. We have a toll free...
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Swapnil Kulkarni
System Administrator at Ador Powertron Ltd.
The support was good from both our AMC team and the OEM. We get good support. I would give it a seven out of ten.
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Adelor Junior
Sales Director at M3Corp
The technical support team is reliable and addresses issues effectively.
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Winsley De Oliveira
Owner at ANOC
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate SonicWall NSSP's customer service and technical support a 10. They are...
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Deljin Davis
HPC engineer at a manufacturing company
The customer support is really nice, and we have interacted with them.I would rate the customer support a 10 out of 10.
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Raghuram K M
Chief Technology Officer at Prognosys Medical Systems
My company has not used much of the technical support since we haven't had any problems with the product. When my...
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LUIZ FERNANDO MARIANO SILVA
Data Office Protect - DPO at DATATRUSTY TECNOLOGIA
We contact support if we need to reset passwords or check logs and format.
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Narender Reddy
IT Manager at iLenSys Technologies Pvt Ltd
The solution's technical support team has always answered us whenever we have raised a query.
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Rajendra Burla
Manager IT/ System Administrator/ Network Administrator at Indsec
Their technical support is good. For technical support, sometimes we write directly to SonicWall, and they provide...
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Julio Caceres
Sales Manager at a non-profit
I have used the SonicWall support portal. I mainly use it for firewall issues. It's pretty good and very accessible.
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Anonymous User
Director Comercial at a tech services company
It is always there when we need it. They have a very good service.
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Anonymous User
ICT Consultant at a tech services company
I do have experience with technical support. The last time I interacted with them was fine. They handled and resolved...
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Anonymous User
IT Admin at a healthcare company
I don't get the support that I need from SonicWall.
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Phongsakorn Vijitsarat
Senior Recruitment Specialist at Get On Technology
I have never communicated with technical support for SonicWall Capture Client.
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Munjal Bhalgama
Owner at IT CARE
I would rate the responsiveness of the technical support from SonicWall as 9 to 10.
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ITSuperv67
IT Supervisor at a construction company
We used it on one occasion. It was quite straight forward. We have a 24/7 support service option. The people who...
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CanbolatAydin
Product Manager at a tech services company
I would appreciate being removed from the call list.
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Anonymous User
Network Systems Specialist at a educational organization
Technical support has been very good, the few times we've needed it.
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RENE MOLINA
CONSULTOR at COMOL S.R.L.
Technical support is very good.
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Anonymous User
Information Technology Network Support Specialist at a hospitality company
I've had good experience with technical support.
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Balaraju K
Technical Lead at 64network security pvt ltd
Technical support is excellent.
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Lakshan Perera
IT Manager at a tech services company
Technical support's response is delayed due to our process. We need to go through our reseller, who then contacts the...
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Anonymous User
Cyber Security at a tech services company
Level 1 and 2 support issues are handled by our in-house team, but for more complex, level 3 issues we utilise the...
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Anonymous User
Co Owner and Managing Director at R3INVENTATE GROUP sprl at R3 CyberSecurity
Customer Service: 6/10 - they are not providing the same support level as before. Technical Support: I haven't used...
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