Case Study: Columbia Southern University ensures 24/7 network reliability with Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

PRTG Network Monitor helps ensure access to education for thousands of college students

Columbia Southern University, one of the nation’s first fully online universities, needed uncompromising network reliability and 24/7 access to support more than 20,000 students, many of whom study outside normal business hours. After the acquisition of Waldorf College added more users and infrastructure, the IT team turned to Paessler AG and its PRTG Network Monitor to help manage growing demand across a complex mix of physical and virtual systems.

Paessler AG’s PRTG Network Monitor was deployed to monitor more than 3,000 sensors across servers, switches, routers, storage, UPS systems, VMware, and other resources, with instant alerts, historical tracking, and easy-to-use dashboards. The solution helped Columbia Southern University troubleshoot faster, maintain high availability with a small staff, and make better capacity-planning decisions for bandwidth, virtualization, and SAN resources, improving service while helping control IT spending.

Columbia Southern University

Travis Foschini

Manager of Information Technology