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SolarWinds Inc.
Company typePublic
IndustryNetwork Management, Application Management, Virtualization and Storage Management
Founded1998
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
,
United States of America
Key people
Kevin Thompson, President and Chief Executive Officer
  • Michael J. Berry, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  • Number of employees
    		400+
    Websitewww.solarwinds.com

    SolarWinds Inc. (NYSE: SWI) is a developer and marketer of network, applications, virtualization and storage management software.

    The company sells downloadable software products that maintain, monitor and troubleshoot IT networks. It also provides several free tools relating to its core commercial products, and hosts an online community of more than 93,000 users called Thwack.[1]

    In Q2 2009, SolarWinds completed its initial public offering of $100–139 million.[2][3]

    History

    SolarWinds was founded in 1998 by two brothers, Dave and Don Yonce in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[4] The company was conceived to create faster, easier network management tools.[4] It was profitable in its very first year in business.

    SolarWinds moved to Austin, Texas in 2006 and has had aggressive growth ever since. From 2005 to 2007 the company more than doubled its revenue, growing from $27.9 million to $61.7 million annually.[5]

    In 2007, SolarWinds raised funding from Austin Ventures, Bain Capital and Insight Venture Partners to fuel “strategic acquisitions.”[5][6] Following the funding, SolarWinds acquired several companies including Neon Software and ipMonitor Corp. and opened a European sales office in Ireland.[5][7]

    In 2009, the company also announced its professional certification program, the SolarWinds Certified Professional Program (SCP) for network management which tests professionals in five areas: network management fundamentals, network management planning, network management operation, network performance troubleshooting and Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) administration and service.[8]

    In January 2010, the company acquired assets of Tek-Tools, Inc. , a storage resource management company headquartered in Dallas, TX.[9]

    In July 2011, the company acquired TriGeo Network Security, a log management company.[10]

    In December, 2011 it was announce that the company acquired DameWare, makers of DameWare Mini Remote Control and DameWare NT Utilities.[11]

    Awards & recognitions

    In 2002–2005, SolarWinds becomes Network Computing's Well-Connected Award Finalist [12][13]

    In 2009, SolarWinds received Redmond Readers Choice Award.[14]

    The company also won the 2009 Tech Innovation Award from Austin Business Journal.[15]

    SolarWinds was chosen as a finalist for the 2009 24th Annual CODiE Awards.[16]

    In 2010, SolarWinds was recognized as a "Hot Texas Company" by Lead411.[17]

    Items & services

    SolarWinds’ products are all downloadable and the company’s primary method of product support is its large online community at www.thwack.com, which allows users to help each other and add and share custom functionalities, templates and plug-ins.

    In 2008, the company announced a free Cisco NetFlow tool, a free tool to monitor a single VMWare server and, in June, marked the anniversary of thwack.com by releasing a free SolarWinds Exchange Monitor.[1][18][19]

    Free Tools

    • Advanced Subnet Calculator - compute addresses for IP subnets
    • Exchange Monitor - continuously monitor Exchange in real time
    • IP Address Tracker – scan, track, and consolidate IP address information
    • IP SLA Monitor – offers real-time Cisco IP SLA statistics to troubleshoot slowdowns and understand performance one network path and device at a time
    • Kiwi Syslog Server - receive, log, display and forward syslog messages from network devices
    • Kiwi CatTools - manage and backup the network
    • NetFlow Configurator - configure NetFlow v5 via SNMP on supported Cisco devices
    • Real-time NetFlow Analyzer - capture and analyze traffic on your network
    • TFTP Server - upload and download executable images and configurations to network devices
    • VM Monitor - continuously monitor a VMware ESX Server and its virtual machines
    • Wake-on LAN - remotely power up network PCs
    • WMI Monitor – monitor a single Windows application and server in real time, using built-in, community-sourced, and customizable application templates
    • Network Config Generator - configure VLANs and other network device features without opening the CLI
    • Real-Time Bandwidth Monitor - monitor bandwidth usage on a large number of interfaces in real time.

    Fault and Performance Monitoring

    • Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) - fault and network performance management platform
    • Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) - provides visibility into network traffic
    • Orion Application Performance Monitor/Server & Application Monitor (APM/SAM) - extends Orion NPM's monitoring capabilities to give visibility into the performance of applications and the underlying operating systems and servers
    • Orion Synthetic End User Monitor (SEUM) - provides visibility into the performance of web applications, specifically business-critical web transactions from the end-user’s perspective
    • Orion IP SLA Manager – leverage Cisco IP SLA to monitor site-specific or WAN-related network performance, replaces Orion VoIP Monitor
    • Orion IP Address Manager (IPAM) – provides detailed visibility into the IP address space
    • Orion User Device Tracker (UDT) - capable of identifying where a machine is connected in the network, keeping track of machines with suspicious hostnames, and port utilization
    • Orion Enterprise Operations Console (EOC) - consolidated command center for unified visibility into remote Orion deployments
    • Orion Scalability Engines - scales the fault and performance management capabilities of Orion NPM
    • ipMonitor – up-down monitoring for network, server and application availability

    Configuration and Compliance

    • Orion Network Configuration Manager (NCM) (formerly Cirrus Configuration Manager) - change and configuration management
    • Engineer’s Toolset - 49 desktop tools for managing, monitoring and troubleshooting networks
    • LANsurveyor - automatically discovers LAN or WAN and produces comprehensive network diagrams that can be exported into Visio
    • LANsurveyor Express - LANsurveyor Express integrates with Microsoft Visio 2007 to perform network mapping from within the Visio application

    Storage and Virtualization Management

    • Storage Manager (Powered by Profiler) - multi-vendor based, agentless heterogeneous monitoring and reporting of the performance and capacity of physical and virtual storage infrastructure. It delivers visibility and insight into how your storage infrastructure maps to your virtualized environment.
    • Backup Profiler - a cross-vendor, Web-based backup reporting and analysis solution

    References

    1. ^ a b Denise Dubie, Network World. “SolarWinds marks 'Thwack' anniversary with free tool release.” June 11, 2008. Retrieved on January 6, 2009.
    2. ^ New York Times. “SolarWinds Aims for $100 Million Offering” May 4, 2009. Retrieved on May 5, 2009
    3. ^ Lynne Cowan and Brian Coyle, The Wall Street Journal. “SolarWinds Sets Its Terms, Putting It on Track for May” May 4, 2009. Retrieved on May 5, 2009
    4. ^ a b Kenson Website. “SolarWinds Products.” Retrieved on January 6, 2009.
    5. ^ a b c Austin Business Journal. “SolarWinds Raises $7.5M.” February 5, 2007. Retrieved on January 6, 2009
    6. ^ Chris Morrison, VentureBeat. “Is Network Management Growing? SolarWinds Picks up Kiwi Enterprises.” January 6, 2009. Retrieved on January 6, 2009.
    7. ^ Maxwell Cooter, TechWorld. “Solar Winds Finally Blows into Europe.” October 9, 2007. Retrieved on January 6, 2009.
    8. ^ Ted Stevenson, EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet. "SolarWinds Inaugurates Network Management Certification." August 14, 2009. Retrieved August 20, 2009.
    9. ^ Cody Barbierri, VentureBeat. “SolarWinds dishes out $42M for Tek-Tools storage and virtualization products.” January 27, 2010. Retrieved March 18, 2010.
    10. ^ http://www.statesman.com/business/fast-growing-austin-software-maker-solarwinds-acquires-idaho-1584152.html
    11. ^ "SolarWinds Acquires DameWare Development". MarketWire. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
    12. ^ 2004 Well-Connected Awards Finalists
    13. ^ Small Gains Add Up to Big Benefits
    14. ^ The 2009 Redmond Reader's Choice Awards
    15. ^ The 2009 Redmond Reader's Choice Awards: It's a Grand Slam
    16. ^ 2009 CODie Award Finalists
    17. ^ Lead411 launches "Hottest Texas Companies" awards
    18. ^ Michael Vizard, Ziff Davis. “Network Management Gets Virtual.” October 15, 2008. Retrieved on January 6, 2009.
    19. ^ Denise Dubie, Network World. “Analyze Cisco's NetFlow for free.” August 4, 2008. Retrieved on January 6, 2009.

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