SolarWinds Corporation is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offices in a number of locations in the United States and several other countries. The company was publicly traded from May 2009 until the end of 2015, and again from October 2018. It has also acquired a number of other companies, some of which it still operates under their original names, including Pingdom, Papertrail and Loggly. It had about 300,000 customers as of December 2020, including nearly all Fortune 500 companies and numerous federal agencies.
A SolarWinds product, Orion, used by about 33,000 public and private sector customers, was the focus of a large-scale attack disclosed in December 2020. The attack persisted undetected for months in 2020, and additional details about the breadth and depth of compromised systems continued to surface after the initial disclosure. In February 2021, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that it was "the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen".
SolarWinds License is a network performance and systems monitoring software that enables businesses to identify, diagnose, and solve critical networking and IT problems. SolarWinds software also improves troubleshooting and service levels that increase usability while minimizing downtime.
The SolarWinds software tools provide network troubleshooting and cross-stack data correlation on-site, in the cloud, or for hybrid network connections. The tools enhance analysis and accelerate solutions while boosting operations and performance levels. SolarWinds also updates response times and availability of devices that connect to the network with makes monitoring simple.
- Availability and Performance
- Application and Infrastructure
- Database Performance
- Hyper-V and VMWARE Troubleshooting
- Bandwidths and Traffic Patterns
- Storage Performance and Capacity
- Configuration and Change Management
- Security and Compliance
With thousands of SolarWinds deployments, Connect Partners’ certified experts will provide your business with the necessary design, implementation, licensing, ongoing management, reporting, training, and customized application development. Connect Partners utilizes a seven-step methodology to provide:
- Audit: Systematically examines existing node level inventory.
- Analyze: Assesses user and node level activity. Recommends improvements, alignment, and the decommission and recommission of license agreements.
- Design: Optimizes business necessities, requirements, and cost of implementation.
- Deploy: Administers deployment of SolarWinds technology to determine proper user function and satisfaction.
- Change Management: Oversees system adoption and verifies roles, processes, policies, and procedures.
- Custom Training: Provides custom training that assists users with system requirements.
- Custom Reporting: Development of custom reporting that is either user specific or relevant to day-to-day operations.
SolarWinds is ideal for system administrators and network engineers. Connect Partners’ experts will work with your staff by providing training which helps a wide range of IT staff, including novices, learn the skills needed to engage in daily operations. Classes may include teaching techs to upgrade NPM, network configuration, monitoring, polling, platform scaling, building templates, analyzing traffic, remote support, virtual manager, and web help desk.
SolarWinds software protects your network, database, systems, and IT infrastructure which will leave executives and IT professionals feeling secure about their technology working as it should.
SolarWinds Products
SolarWinds can offer a vast range of solution and product for enterprises. You can find these products in the following:
Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
SolarWinds is one of the world’s leading producers of IT management software. The company’s Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is one of its key products. This system focuses on monitoring the health of the devices connected to a network. The hardware that SolarWinds Orion NPM keeps an eye on includes network equipment, suc
h as routers and switches; endpoint devices, including terminals, desktop PCs, and mobile devices; and office equipment, such as printers. The constant monitoring process gathers metrics that serve troubleshooting tasks.
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is designed to monitor your applications and their supporting infrastructure, whether running on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. Don't let slow applications and downtime impact your end users and business services.
VoIP and Network Quality Manager (VNQM)
VoIP & Network Quality Manager VoIP monitoring software designed for deep critical call QoS metrics and WAN performance insights. Key Features.
NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) collects Class Based Quality of Service (CBQoS) and flow data, processes it, and together with performance data
Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
SolarWinds NCM is a comprehensive, intuitive solution designed to streamline and automate network configuration management.
IP Address Manager (IPAM)
SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) provides integrated DHCP and DNS administration, and IPv4 and IPv6 address management from the SolarWinds.
Patch Manager (PM)
olarWinds® Patch Manager is built to integrate with WSUS and the Microsoft update agent to automatically update Windows patches based on custom schedules. You can also create different patching schedules for different business groups within your organization per custom requirements.
Log & Event Manager (LEM)
SolarWinds LEM is an end-to-end SIEM that groups, correlates and normalizes data events and logs in a centralized repository that can be easily managed by an IT team. With LEM functionality, the IT team can quickly scan or search historical event data and put them on a report for further analysis and forensics.
User Device Tracker (UDT)
Track users and endpoint devices by MAC and IP address, and verify how switches and ports are being used with SolarWinds User Device Tracker.
Web Performance Monitor (WPM)
SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM) is an advanced tool for automating web transactions and measuring the response time of web servers and Software.