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IT Management for Education

Enterprise-grade network, server and application monitoring at a fraction of the cost
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You are a network engineer at an educational institution, primary or secondary school, community college or university, challenged to support the day to day operation across distributed campuses and hundreds or thousands of students, faculty and staff.

  • Is your list of responsibilities growing and becoming more complex, without additional resources?

    • "With WhatsUp Gold we have full visibility and proactive control of network structure, device configuration, network and device performance, resource utilization and traffic details – all through a single console. And our researchers have the ability to get their work done anytime and anywhere on campus."
    - Valerio Raggi, Network engineer and administrator, European University Institute, Italy
  • Is budget constantly shrinking?
  • Are you looking for cost-effective ways to manage your infrastructure?

WhatsUp Gold delivers amazing, out-of-the-box functionality, and a robust feature set, all at a fraction of the cost. Once you start to look at the cost value ratio, you'll quickly find that there's literally no comparison!

Ensure Delivery of Key and Emerging Technology & Services

Now, more than ever, students, faculty and staff rely on a functional, secure IT infrastructure to help them with learning, instruction, collaboration and research. Each semester, each year, this becomes even more critical to the success of educational institutions.

  • Streaming Media — instructors and students rely on streaming rich media to enhance and complete the educational experience.
  • The Cloud — Communications tools, Learning Management Systems, and other cloud based applications deliver essential services to today's physical and virtual classrooms
  • Data Center — consolidation and virtualization provide real savings to educational institutions

Are you ready to save time and money with a powerful, affordable set of products that will ensure you provide these expected services? WhatsUp Gold is the answer for you.


"Out of the box the functionality is amazing. What you see is what you get. When you start to look at the cost benefits you quickly find that there's literally no comparison to WhatsUp Gold — it's a fraction of the cost of other products."
- Frederick Brenz, Network-WAN/Telecom Manager, Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District, Texas, USA

Best Value IT Management for Education

WhatsUp Gold's IT Management solution offers the best value for educational institutions:

Proven for Education

Worldwide educational institutions of all sizes — ranging from individual schools or school districts, to small colleges or large Universities utilize WhatsUp Gold for complete IT management.

Quick Implementation, Easy Configuration and Low Operating Cost

Get WhatsUp Gold's robust feature set, with easy installation and configuration. A typical install requires less than 1 hour, and a full implementation can be complete in a matter of hours.

Simple Licensing Model

Simple and straight-forward pricing — just count the number of devices you need to monitor — plus there are no hidden costs or surprises at the end.

Download Best Practices: IT Management for Educational Institutions Whitepaper

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WhatsUp Gold delivers robust, secure, and affordable products that make IT Management simple for educational institutions. With nearly two decades of providing solutions to educational customers around the globe and a broad network of regional reseller relationships — WhatsUp Gold is an ideal partner for your IT Management initiatives.

Comprehensive Features

Discover, map and manage your entire IT infrastructure — network devices, servers, applications, virtual resources, VoIP, configuration settings and network traffic — from a single console. Built on an integrated, extensible and scalable architecture — one installation, one console, one Alert Center & one integrated discovery — you select the custom solution that is right for you:

Manage network devices, servers, and applications from the same console

Discover (layer 2/3), map, document and inventory your entire infrastructure including wired and wireless, physical and virtual hardware, systems and software assets

Scale from 25 devices to 20,000 devices with additional pollers

WhatsUp Gold

Automate network configuration & change management

 WhatsConfigured

Understand network traffic and bandwidth usage — who and how — and secure your network by uncovering traffic abnormalities that may indicate viruses, malware and other rogue activity

WhatsUp Flow Monitor

Discover, map, monitor and manage your VM infrastructure for higher utilization and prevent virtual sprawl

WhatsVirtual

Assure network quality for IP Telephony

WhatsUp Gold VoIP Monitor

Work Across Networks, Buildings, Campuses

WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition provides you with scalable and secure management and monitoring of any number of remote sites from a centralized site, with centralized reports, rotating views and drill-down capabilities to remote sites and problematic devices.

 

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Protect and Secure your Institution

To protect and secure key information such as student records, and employee data, you need to know who is accessing which systems and data, and what users are doing at all times. Records of all events taking place in your environment are being logged right now into event logs and Syslog files across your servers, workstations and networking devices. Did you know that all US-based educational institutions need to meet FERPA regulations? Not in the US? If you conduct business with US-based institutions, HIPAA regulations may apply to you as well.

  • FERPA — Under 20 U.S.C. § 1232g; Title 34, Part 99 - Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), data and records of electronic transactions, including computer logs can be considered "student records" and must not be released. Breaches of these regulations jeopardize crucial Federal funding to your institution.
  • HIPAA — The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a United States federal law that requires hospitals, physicians, and managed care companies to adopt medical information security, privacy, and data standards. It also applies to ANY employer in USA, since they are mandated to protect employee privacy information. HIPAA requires organizations to "audit and monitor system and user activity across the entire network, identify and investigate security breaches and suspicious behavior, and maintain an audit trail of user and network activity," and specifies that companies must "retain and protect log data as evidence [for] up to 6 years."

WhatsUp Log Management Suite

Reduce exposure to security breaches, malware, loss or damage, and protect your organization against costly financial penalties and legal liabilities with WhatsUp Log Management Suite, in a cost-effective way.

At a glance:

Overview

Benefits

How

Automatically collect, store, archive and backup all log files

Save time; get rid of time-consuming manual processes; automatically comply with multi-year data storage regulatory requirements

Use Event Archiver

Monitor Windows event & Syslog data in real-time to receive alerts and notifications at the first sign of trouble

Respond faster to network outages or security threats; prevent a security threat from becoming a breach

Use Event Alarm

Filter, Analyze and Report on Log Data to verify the success of internal security policies, and demonstrate regulatory compliance; Generate custom reports for IT personnel, security and compliance officers, and even law enforcement agencies

Get answers, when you need them; reduce risks and liabilities

Use Event Analyst

Spot check and review log files much faster to quickly respond to an emergency incident

Easily spot check and routinely review log files while maintaining log file store integrity

Use Event Rover

Customer Success Stories: Case Studies

European University Institute

European University Institute

"With WhatsUp Gold we have full visibility and proactive control of network structure, device configuration, network and device performance, resource utilization and traffic details – all through a single console. And our researchers have the ability to get their work done anytime and anywhere on campus." Valerio Raggi, Network engineer and administrator, Italy

The Institute's mission, to attract and support an international community of social sciences scholars, makes network availability and performance critically important to the research under way. EUI uses WhatsUp Gold to reduce downtime through proactive management.

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Cypress-Fairbanks

Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District

"I would think the educational market would be perfect for WhatsUp Gold — and when I find a product I like that works the way WhatsUp Gold does, I tell everyone." Frederick Brenz, Network-WAN/Telecom Manager, Cypress
Fairbanks Independent School District, Texas, USA

As one of the fastest-growing school districts in the nation, as well as the third-largest district in the state of Texas, Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD) chose WhatsUp Gold for its comprehensive, easy-to-use, real-time visibility into the status and performance of their network.

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Transnet

Freehold Regional High School District

"I was really amazed at just how much WhatsUp Gold can do. It really allowed me to customize the configuration of my alerts and notifications as well as my network maps." Don Markese, Technology Director Freehold Regional High School District, Freehold, NJ, USA

The IT infrastructure for the Freehold Regional High School District was decentralized and challenging to manage. Their network administrators were left with the daunting task of monitoring and managing their vast IT infrastructure to ensure that the network performed at its peak constantly. FRHSD decided to purchase WhatsUp Gold to manage their entire IT infrastructure and ensure that it is always up and running. Because of the affordability of WhatsUp Gold, they were also able to include plug-ins with their purchase and still remain within budget. WhatsUp Gold became their network management strategy, having an immediate, positive impact on the effectiveness of their network.

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MSSU

Missouri Southern State University

"The reason we're always using WhatsUp Gold is the front page console - it's more intuitive. It's becoming our help desk dashboard and that says a lot." Albert Stadler, Director of Infrastructure and Security,
Missouri Southern State University, Missouri, USA

MSSU needed a highly scalable solution, with a flexible and meaningful reporting environment. They chose WhatsUp Gold to create an accurate picture of their network while ensuring that network administrators time is spent supporting critical services.

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