PRTG Network Monitor and Equinix IBX SmartView compete in the network monitoring and infrastructure management space. While PRTG benefits from cost-effectiveness and strong support, Equinix leads with advanced features providing extensive operational insights, justifying its higher costs.
Features: PRTG Network Monitor provides sensor-based monitoring, flexibility, and comprehensive system oversight. Equinix IBX SmartView offers advanced infrastructure insights, analytics, and extensive visibility into data center operations.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PRTG Network Monitor ensures a straightforward deployment and excellent support to minimize downtime. Equinix IBX SmartView involves a more complex deployment process, but specialized assistance enhances support for any complexities that arise from intricate infrastructures.
Pricing and ROI: PRTG Network Monitor is cost-effective with a straightforward pricing model offering significant ROI through low setup costs and efficient management. Equinix IBX SmartView, despite higher initial costs, provides strong ROI driven by enhanced operational efficiencies and superior features.
IBX SmartView is a set of online tools, providing real-time visibility into key environmental and operating data relevant to customers’ IBX footprints. This enables you to bridge the infrastructure-monitoring gap between your on-premises, and globally distributed infrastructure.
PRTG Network Monitor runs on a Windows machine within your network, collecting various statistics from the machines, software, and devices which you designate. PRTG comes with an easy-to-use web interface with point-and-click configuration. You can easily share data from it with non-technical colleagues and customers, including via live graphs and custom reports. This will let you plan for network expansion, see what applications are using most of your connection, and make sure that no one is hogging the entire network just to torrent videos.
To monitor a large IT environment, it's important to be able to scale PRTG up. Paessler PRTG Enterprise Monitor includes all the proven capabilities of PRTG Network Monitor, which are enhanced by exclusive ITOps Board for a service-oriented, central overview of multiple PRTG servers.
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