OTHER FACTORS
Cost wasn't the only factor, of course. For one thing, Lamonica had used Monitor at a previous employer, so he knew it would be a good fit for a medium-sized business like Rudolph and Sletten.
The fact that GroundWork's staff handled the deployment was another plus. "I didn't have to invest a lot of my resources in building and implementing the tool," he says. "They came in and did it within 60 days, from first discussion to the time we began receiving consistent and regular alarms on our system."
The deployment began with GroundWork engineers sitting down and talking with Rudolph and Sletten technicians about the company's environment and the types of monitoring and surveillance it wanted, says Lamonica. "Then they put together requirements specifications, reviewed it with us, rolled it out, and handed it over to us. It was very straightforward."
The only caveat? "Make sure you know Red Hat Linux 8," the open-source OS that Monitor runs on, says Joe Tan, the senior systems administrator with day-to-day responsibilities for managing Rudolph and Sletten's network.
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