SolarWinds Honored With 2009 Product Leadership Award by SearchEnterpriseWAN.com

AUSTIN, TX, Apr 20 (MARKET WIRE) --
SolarWinds, the leading provider of powerful, simple and affordable
network management software, today announced that SolarWinds Orion
Network Performance Monitor (NPM) received a Gold Award in the WAN
Performance Management category of the SearchEnterpriseWAN.com(TM) 2009
Product Leadership Awards.

The editors of TechTarget's(R) SearchEnterpriseWAN.com recognized
companies in three wide-area networking product categories, noting that
the 10 winning products are ones that enterprise IT professionals should
consider adding to their "A" list of networking products to evaluate. The
award winners were selected by 500 networking professionals based on
their assessment of products currently deployed within their own WANs.
Participants were asked to evaluate the products according to defined
product-specific criteria, with cumulative scores calculated for each
product. SearchEnterpriseWAN.com editors used these scores to determine
Gold, Silver and Bronze award winners for the industry's best wide-area
networking products.

According to SearchEnterpriseWAN.com, "Readers gave Orion high marks
across the board, with 75% of respondents awarding the product at least
four out of five stars for its ability to identify WAN problems. The
product also earned four stars or better from 68% of respondents for its
ability to correlate data from many devices and sources. And 65% of
respondents gave the product four stars or more for its ability to
measure application quality and experience, and its logging, monitoring
and reporting capabilities."

"We are honored that IT professionals selected Orion NPM as the gold
standard in SearchEnterpriseWAN.com's award competition for WAN
performance management tools," said Kenny Van Zant, chief product
strategist for SolarWinds. "This recognition is a testament to the value
we place on customer input within our development process, and reflects
our commitment to delivering products that provide enterprise-class
functionality, affordability, and scalability to meet a range of network
monitoring needs."

SolarWinds' Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is an affordable,
easy-to-use, enterprise-class fault and performance management solution.
Built off a WAN-optimized architecture, Orion NPM easily scales with
network growth and complexity without having any degradation in network
performance. The web-based Orion NPM provides insight on historical
network usage trends for WAN bandwidth usage, helping administrators
determine when and if additional bandwidth needs to be purchased. Orion
NPM highlights include:

-- Monitors and analyzes real-time, in-depth network performance metrics
for routers, switches, servers, and any other SNMP-enabled devices

-- Provides a highly intuitive, customizable web interface with
point-and-click simplicity that supports multiple views by user and
department, as well as cutting-edge map views and "Top 10" views of your
global network

-- Gets you up and running in less than an hour with Orion NPM's
do-it-yourself deployment

-- Enables advanced alerting for correlated events, sustained conditions,
and complex combinations of device states

-- Scales to accommodate growth and management needs with a hot standby
engine, multiple polling engines, and additional web servers

-- Extends management capabilities to NetFlow traffic analysis and
monitoring of VoIP performance, wireless devices, applications and servers

-- Leverages a Universal Device Poller to monitor any SNMP-enabled device

-- Delivers integrated community support, delivering the assistance you
need from thousands of network engineers on thwack, SolarWinds community
site

About SearchEnterpriseWAN.com

SearchEnterpriseWAN.com is one of the largest and most active online
communities dedicated to the enterprise wide area network. IT
professionals in almost every industry rely on SearchEnterpriseWAN.com
for industry news, technical tips and valuable best practices on
designing a Wide Area Network, optimizing application performance across
the WAN, WAN security and VPN usage, or selecting managed services so
they can keep their networks up to date and cope with constant change.
More information is available at www.SearchEnterpriseWAN.com.

Headquartered in Needham, Mass., SearchEnterpriseWAN.com is part of the
TechTarget(R) network (www.techtarget.com). TechTarget publishes
integrated media that enable information-technology (IT) marketers to
reach targeted communities of IT professionals and executives in all
phases of the technology decision-making and purchase process. Through its
industry-leading Web sites, magazines and conferences, TechTarget delivers
measurable results that help IT marketers generate qualified sales leads,
shorten sales cycles and grow revenues.

Copyright 2009 TechTarget and the TechTarget logo are registered
trademarks, and SearchEnterpriseWAN.com is a trademark of TechTarget,
Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

About SolarWinds

SolarWinds provides powerful, simple and affordable network management
software to more than 80,000 customers worldwide -- from Fortune 500
enterprises to small businesses. Focused on the real-world needs of
network professionals, SolarWinds products are downloadable, easy to use
and maintain, and provide the power, scale, and flexibility needed to
manage today's complex network environments. These products are backed by
a large and growing user base at thwack, SolarWinds' online community.
Learn more today at http://www.solarwinds.com.

SolarWinds, SolarWinds.com, Thwack.com, and Orion are registered
trademarks of SolarWinds. All other company and product names mentioned
are used only for identification purposes and may be trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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