The most puzzling aspect of the “New wave” network management buzz comparison is the OpenView & NetIQ graph. I find it hard to believe that either OpenView or NetIQ are losing traction in the marketplace. So, how do you explain the fall in their respective number of searches?
Network management vs network monitor
First port of call was to see how the industry in general is doing. Whilst far from perfect I think that the network monitor & network management keywords will provide a reasonable guide to search trends.
Figure 1: Network management vs network monitor
Figure 1 looks strangely familiar. The generic terms network management and network monitor both show a very similar downward trend to both NetIQ and OpenView.
Network monitor vs NetIQ vs OpenView
Figure 2: Network monitor vs NetIQ vs OpenView
You can see in Figure 2, where network monitor is graphed along with OpenView and NetIQ, shows the same trend.
Why the downward trend
Whilst the graphs are very similar in shape, a steady loss of search volume over the last three years. I am at a loss to explain the reasons behind the numbers.
The usual suspect would be an economic slowdown. Though, I think we can exclude this straight away. Just about everywhere in the world is growing at a fair old lick, including the English speaking nations.
The network management market is mature. Maybe systems are installed and working, so why bother researching a new system when you’ve bought and paid for a system that works?
Perhaps customers aren’t quite as dissatisfied with existing solutions as some believe? If they are dissatisfied, why aren’t they researching new, better solutions?
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Can it be so simple that google use to “own” the sys admin market and more and more searches are done trough other search engines….I find myself using other search engines more and more frequently, it can also explain
@Robert: I suppose that could have some bearing on it. The last time I looked Google’s market share was holding up quite well, if not growing a little. Though, aggregate market share doesn’t mean that they can’t be losing a specific section of their audience. Are IT people abandoning Google?
New networks are built every day, the market is growing, however if you build a wimax network you will not look on google for management tools for it. Whoever provides you the equipment will probably recommend you a management tool that works best with your hardware.
What I read out of it ? People don’t use search engines that much to find a network management tool…
@zoly: Thanks for dropping by. Whilst I agree that procuring a network management tool from the equipment supplier is a great idea it seems unlikely that the numbers of people using that research method would greatly increase since 2004?
>What I read out of it ? People don’t use search engines that much to find a network management tool…
They do, they just don’t appear to do so on google quite as much as they used to. I don’t see them using some other search engine either. Surely, the search share stats would show a significant movement away from Google.
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