Case Study: U.S. Army achieves 24/7 network resilience in Iraq with Progress WhatsUp Gold

U.S. Army Counts on WhatsUp® Gold to “Reboot” Iraq

Ipswitch’s WhatsUp Gold was deployed by U.S. Army CENTCOM/ORHA during the 2003 Iraq invasion to monitor a hastily assembled palace network that supported thousands of users. Engineers faced overheated servers, frequent power outages, tangled cabling and a rapidly changing topology, creating an urgent need for a monitoring tool that could be installed quickly and pinpoint outages and failures.

WhatsUp Gold was up and running in under an hour, automatically discovering devices, providing visual maps on a 42" monitor, and using configurable device dependencies to reduce false alarms. The real-time alerts and easy reconfiguration let exhausted IT teams identify and resolve problems faster, preventing prolonged outages and keeping mission‑critical communications and services available throughout the reconstruction effort.

U.S. Army

Dana Beausoleil

Staff Sergeant