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Network Monitoring
& Backup
2016 Brand Leader Survey
Mini-Report

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Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report
This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the
independent, non-sponsored survey covering six categories of brand
leadership–Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support
and Innovation–for twelve Network Monitoring & Backup products.
Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please
contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.
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Table of Contents
Network Monitoring & Backup Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report, 2016
Brand Leader Survey Methodology Page 4
Brand Leader Voting Definitions Page 5
2016 Network Monitoring & Backup Brand Leader Survey Winners Chart Page 6
List of Selected IT Professional Respondents Page 7
Respondent Title/Job Description Page 9
Respondent Data Center Environment Page 10
2016 Always-On Network Recording Appliance Market Leader Chart Page 12
2016 Application Delivery Controller Market Leader Chart Page 13
2016 Data Center Infrastructure Management Market Leader Chart Page 14
2016 Distributed Database Backup & Recovery Market Leader Chart Page 15
2016 Enterprise Backup Software & Appliance Market Leader Chart Page 16
2016 Fibre Channel Network Monitoring Market Leader Chart Page 17
2016 Multi-Tenant Storage Array Market Leader Chart Page 18
2016 Network Performance Monitoring Market Leader Chart Page 19
2016 Storage Performance Validation Software & Appliance Market Leader Chart Page 20
2016 Virtual Application Delivery Controller Appliance Market Leader Chart Page 21
2016 Virtual Router/Network Access Appliance Market Leader Chart Page 22
2016 WLAN Controllers & Access Point Market Leader Chart Page 23
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Network Monitoring & Backup
Brand Leader Survey Methodology
• Brand Leader Reports are designed to measure the pulse of brand leadership in specific product
categories using independent, non-sponsored surveys with at least 200 respondents.
• The Network Monitoring & Backup survey was conducted in August, 2016.
– Respondents were solicited from over 1,000,000 members of 100+ online IT groups, and from the IT Brand
Pulse IT professional database.
– Two hundred and six IT Pros completed this survey.
– Responses were collected using an online survey engine.
• In each part, respondents were provided with a product category description, list of vendor choices
(plus an “Other” answer choice to add a vendor, if applicable), and were asked six questions:
1. Who do you perceive as the <product category> market leader?
2. Who do you perceive as the <product category> price leader?
3. Who do you perceive as the <product category> performance leader?
4. Who do you perceive as the <product category> reliability leader?
5. Who do you perceive as the <product category> service & support leader?
6. Who do you perceive as the <product category> innovation leader?
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Brand Leader Definitions

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2016 Network Monitoring
& Backup Brand Leaders
Voted by IT Pros
Survey conducted August, 2016
Always-On Network RecordingAppliances Riverbed Riverbed Riverbed Riverbed Riverbed Riverbed
Application Delivery Controllers Citrix F5 Citrix Citrix F5 Citrix
Data Center InfrastructureManagement
Emerson
Network Power
Emerson
Network Power
Emerson
Network Power
Emerson
Network Power
Emerson
Network Power
Emerson
Network Power
Distributed DatabaseBackup & Recovery Datos IO Datos IO Datos IO Datos IO Datos IO Datos IO
Enterprise Backup Software & Appliances Veritas Veeam Veritas Veritas Commvault Veeam
Fibre Channel Network Monitoring Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
Multi-Tenant Storage Arrays Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC
Network Performance Monitoring Cisco SolarWinds Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
Storage PerformanceValidation
Software & Appliances
Virtual
Instruments/
Load DynamiX
Virtual
Instruments/
Load DynamiX
Virtual
Instruments/
Load DynamiX
Virtual
Instruments/
Load DynamiX
Virtual
Instruments/
Load DynamiX
Virtual
Instruments/
Load DynamiX
Virtual ADC Appliance Citrix Citrix Citrix F5 F5 Citrix
Virtual Router/NetworkAccess Appliance Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
WLAN Controllers & Access Points Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco

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Selected Organizations Represented in the Surveys
CSC NASA Ames Research
Center
Daybreak Game Company
Delta Airlines
Detroit Medical Center
Deutsche Welle TV
DoITT
ELETRONORTE
Enercare
Ernst & Young
ExxonMobil
FDIC
First Republic Bank
Ford Motor Company
Foxwoods Resort Casino
GeotabUsa
Hetero Drugs
Independence Blue Cross
ISRG
ITG Inc
Jockey International
Lafarge
Library of Congress
Lockheed Martin
A.F Ferguson (PwC)
Adventist Health System
American Airlines
Amway
Aon
AT&T
Averitt Express
Bank of America
Banner Bank
Bhabha Atomic Rsrch (BARC)
BNP Paribas Cardif Brazil
Boston Scientific
Caesars Entertainment
Capgemini
Capital One
CGI
Christus Health
City of Los Angeles
Columbia University Medical
Center
CoreLogic
Cox Communications
CPX Coastal Pacific XPress
Crown Office
London Police Service
Marubeni America
McKesson Corporation
Mentor Graphics
Methodist HealthCare
Michael Kors
Milliman
Mimeo
MIT Media Lab
Morgan Stanley
Mormon Church
NASA
National Bank Of Greece
NAVNETWARCOM
NCR
Nevada Supreme Court
NIH
NOAA
Norfolk Southern Corp
NYCHA
ON Semiconductor
Optum
PPG Industries
Perrigo
Purdue University
Republic Airways Holdings
Ricoh
Servpro Industries, Inc.
Shell Oil
Siemens
Social Security Administration
Southwest Gas Corporation
St. Luke's Hospital
Stanford University
Staples
State of Montana - DEQ
Swagelok
The J.M. Smucker Co
Thomson Reuters
U.S. Census
U.S. Navy
UPS
USA ARDEC
USGS
Verizon
Vienna General Hospital
WESCO
Zions Bancorporation
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Respondent Profiles

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Respondent Title/Job Description:
Other
VAR / OEM
Executive/Management
Network Administrator/Architect
Data Center Manager
Storage Administrator/Architect
Server Administrator/Architect
IT Manager/Director
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Your environment is best described as:
Other
Public Cloud/Data Center Provider
Product Development
High performance computing data center
Small-medium business data center
Enterprise data center
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Market Leaders

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2016 Market Leader
Always-On Network Recording Appliance
Endace
EndaceProbe
NetScout
Infinistream
Riverbed NetShark Savvius
Omnipliance
Viavi/Network
Instruments
Other
Who do you perceive
as the market leader for
Always-On Network
Recording Appliances?
August 2016 Brand Leader Survey
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2016 Market Leader
Application Delivery Controllers
A10
Networks
Array
Networks
Barracuda
Networks
Citrix F5 Fortinet/
Coyote Point
Kemp
Technologies
Radware Riverbed Sangfor Other
Who do you perceive as
the market leader for
Application Delivery
Controllers?
August 2016 Brand Leader Survey
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2016 Market Leader
Data Center Infrastructure Management
Who do you perceive as
the market leader for Data
Center Infrastructure
Management?
August 2016 Brand Leader Survey
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2016 Market Leader
Distributed Database Backup & Recovery
Datos IO Talena Other
Who do you perceive
as the market leader
for Distributed
Database Backup &
Recovery?
August 2016 Brand Leader Survey
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2016 Market Leader
Enterprise Backup Software & Appliance
Who do you perceive as
the market leader for
Enterprise Backup
Software & Appliances?
August 2016 Brand Leader Survey
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2016 Market Leader
Fibre Channel Network Monitoring
Broadcom/
Emulex
Brocade Cavium/QLogic Cisco IBM Virtual
Instruments
Other
Who do you perceive
as the market leader for
Fibre Channel Network
Monitoring?
August 2016 Brand Leader Survey
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2016 Market Leader
Multi-Tenant Storage Array
CloudByte Dell EMC HDS HPE 3Par IBM Microsoft
StorSimple
NetApp/
SolidFire
Nimble Nutanix Other
Who do you
perceive as the
market leader
for Multi-Tenant
Storage Arrays?
August 2016 Brand Leader Survey
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2016 Market Leader
Network Performance Monitoring
Who do you perceive as
the market leader for
Network Performance
Monitoring?
August 2016 Brand Leader Survey
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2016 Market Leader
Storage Performance Validation Software & Appliance
Ixia SANBlaze SolarWinds Virtual Instruments/
Load DynamiX
Other
Who do you perceive as
the market leader for
Storage Performance
Validation Software &
Appliances?
August 2016 Brand Leader Survey
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2016 Market Leader
Virtual Application Delivery Controller Appliance
Who do you perceive
as the market leader for
Virtual Application
Delivery Controller
Appliances?
August 2016 Brand Leader Survey
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2016 Market Leader
Virtual Router/Network Access Appliance
Alcatel-Lucent Brocade Cisco Ericsson HPE Juniper VMware Other
Who do you perceive
as the market leader for
Virtual Router/Network
Access Appliances?
August 2016 Brand Leader Survey
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2016 Market Leader
WLAN Controllers & Access Points
Who do you perceive
as the market leader for
WLAN Controllers &
Access Points?
August 2016 Brand Leader Survey
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