What was life like before using SolarWinds? (Include what you were using and why you decided it was time for a change) Before there was Solarwinds in my life there was native backup reporting and crappy disk capacity monitoring.
Which SolarWinds product(s) saved your bacon? Storage Manager.
How has life been since you've rolled out SolarWinds in your environment?
I can't tell you how many times I've been asked (reasonably or not) to justify a purchase. Enter Storage Manager - I can tie a LUN both to performance AND to space utilization! Then, I can "pin the tail on the donkey" and with one click tell you which VM or physical machine is the one hogging the resources. It's all there. For my storage guys I can tell them what zone to put my new servers on because it's all in there. Seriously it's a tool I use once a week but that once a week drives tremendous value to our IT organization.
For the backup reporting it's able to break out the report for our monthly reporting by service type or server type. It's truly able to give upper management what they want to see whether it's points in time or trends.
Did you consider other options, and why did you choose SolarWinds? I can safely say there's no other product like it out there, plus it ties into Orion!