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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.solarwinds.com Official website]
* [http://www.solarwinds.com Official website]

SolarWinds Subsidiaries:
* [https://papertrailapp.com/ Papertrail]
* [https://www.librato.com/ Librato]
* [https://www.pingdom.com/ Pingdom]
* [http://www.confio.com/ Confio]
* [http://www.serv-u.com/ Serv-U]
* [http://www.webhelpdesk.com/ Web Help Desk]
* [http://www.dameware.com/ DameWare ]
* [http://www.solarwinds.com/federal_government/it-management-solutions-for-government.aspx SolarWinds Federal ]
* [http://www.n-able.com/ N-able ]


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Revision as of 20:47, 17 June 2015

This article is about the IT company. For the astronomical phenomenon, see solar wind. For other uses, see Solar wind (disambiguation).
SolarWinds Inc.
Company typePublic
NYSE: SWI
Industry
  • Network Management
  • Server Monitoring
  • Application Monitoring
  • IT Security Management
  • Data Storage Management
Founded1999
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
,
United States of America
Key people
  • Kevin Thompson
  • President and Chief Executive Officer
    Jason Ream
  • EVP and CFO
    Doug G. Hibberd
  • EVP and President Business Operations
    Paul Strelzick
  • EVP and President Worldwide Sales
Revenue$428.7 million (2014)
Number of employees
1,700+
Websitewww.solarwinds.com

SolarWinds Inc. develops enterprise information technology (IT) infrastructure management software for IT professionals.[1] SolarWinds is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, Boulder, Colorado, Cork, Ireland, Brno, Czech Republic, Singapore, Chennai, India, and Sydney, Australia.[2] The company hosts an online community called thwack[3]

History

In 2007, SolarWinds raised funding from Austin Ventures, Bain Capital and Insight Venture Partners.[4][5] Following the funding, SolarWinds acquired several companies including Neon Software and ipMonitor Corp. and opened a European sales office in Ireland.[6]

SolarWinds completed its initial public offering of $112.5 million in 2009.[7] The company introduced the SolarWinds Certified Professional Program (SCP) for network management, to test 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 2012, SolarWinds’ total revenue reached $269 million.[9] In 2013, SolarWinds announced plans to invest $50 million on an operations hub in Salt Lake City.[10]

In June 2014, the company purchased the Swedish web-monitoring company Pingdom.[11]

In August 2014, SolarWinds announced the launch of its deep packet inspection (DPI) free tool SolarWinds Response Time Viewer for Wireshark. It is the latest to join more than 30 free tools from SolarWinds' IT management product family.[12]

In October 2014, SolarWinds is among Forbes’ Best Small Companies of 2014, and the company was ranked 11th overall.

In January 2015, SolarWinds acquired the San Francisco based metrics and monitoring company Librato, for $40 million.[13]

In April 2015, SolarWinds acquired Seattle based log management service Papertrail, for $41 million.[14]

Acquisitions

  • Papertrail (2015)
  • Librato (2015)
  • Pingdom (2014)
  • Confio Software (2013) for $103 million in cash.
  • N-able Technologies (2013)[15]
  • RhinoSoft (2012)[16]
  • EminentWare (2012)[17]
  • RoveIT (2012)[18]
  • Hyper9, Inc. (2011)[19]
  • TriGeo Network Security (2011)[20]

References

  1. ^ Darryl K. Taft, eWeek. "IT Management: IT Admin's 'Summer Suitcase': 11 Helpful Tech Tools for Vacation." July 3, 2012. Retrieved Nov. 1, 2012.
  2. ^ Kurt Badenhausen, Forbes. "SolarWinds Tops List Of America's Best Small Companies." Nov. 17, 2012. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
  3. ^ http://www.networkworld.com/article/2344656/data-breach/solarwinds-marks--thwack--anniversary-with-free-tool-release.html
  4. ^ Austin Business Journal. "SolarWinds Raises $7.5M." Feb. 5, 2007. Retrieved on June 17, 2013.
  5. ^ Chris Morrison, VentureBeat. "Is Network Management Growing? SolarWinds Picks up Kiwi Enterprises." Jan. 6, 2009. Retrieved on June 17, 2013.
  6. ^ Maxwell Cooter, TechWorld. "SolarWinds Finally Blows into Europe." October 9, 2007. Retrieved on January 6, 2009.
  7. ^ Lori Hawkins, Austin American-Statesman. "SolarWinds keeps on growing." Nov. 20, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
  8. ^ Ted Stevenson, EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet. "SolarWinds Inaugurates Network Management Certification." Aug. 14, 2009. Retrieved Aug. 20, 2009.
  9. ^ SolarWinds Website. "SolarWinds Company News." Feb. 4, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
  10. ^ Utah Business. "SolarWinds To Begin Presence in Utah." May 10, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
  11. ^ http://mspmentor.net/acquisitions/062014/solarwinds-adds-pingdom-its-performance-management-portfolio
  12. ^ MarketWatch. "[1]." August 20, 2014. August 20, 2014.
  13. ^ http://www.marketwatch.com/story/solarwinds-expands-its-cloud-monitoring-and-management-footprint-with-acquisition-of-librato-2015-01-29?reflink=MW_news_stmp
  14. ^ "SolarWinds Acquires Log Management Service Papertrail For $41M"
  15. ^ Wall Street Journal. "SolarWinds to Buy N-able Technologies for $120 Million." May 21, 2013. Retrieved June 20, 2013.
  16. ^ Richard Hay, Windows Observer. "RhinoSoft Acquired by SolarWinds – FTP Voyager Now Offered as Free Tool." Dec. 18, 2012. Retrieved June 20, 2013.
  17. ^ Bloomberg Business Week. "Company Overview of EminentWare LLC." June 23, 2013. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
  18. ^ BlackBerry Cool. "Publicly Traded SolarWinds Acquires Rove Mobile Admin Technology." April 10, 2012. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
  19. ^ Austin Business Journal. "SolarWinds acquires Hyper9." July 19, 2011. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
  20. ^ Robin Wauters, TechCrunch. "SolarWinds Buys Network Security Company TriGeo For $35 Million In Cash." June 23, 2011. Retrieved June 22, 2013.

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