Firstly I would like to congradulate SolarWinds on their recent aquisition of Hyper9, I am glad to see that the company we choose for our system monitoring solution is so successful.
The concern I have for SolarWinds is product dilution or a lack of clarity in the product portfolio. A while back SolarWinds acquired the Profiler product line and now the Hyper9 product line in addition to the already existing Orion product line and all of them seem to have a fair amount of overlap. Then there was also the recent announcement about two new products that SolarWinds is working on that also seem to have overlap with other existing SolarWinds products.
With what seems to be a significant amount of overlap between all of these different products it has become unclear to me which products I should be using in different situations.
What I would like to see is a more focused and deliniated product catalog (documented of course) that identifies each product in the SolarWinds line and explains the target audience(s) and use case(s) for each product so it's more clear how they are different and when you would use one over the other.
Maybe I am the only one that finds the lines between these products unclear?
I would love to hear from others, both that agree and disagree and why. I would also love to hear from SolarWinds on this topic.
