Profile: SolarWinds, Inc. (SWI.N)

SolarWinds, Inc., incorporated in 1999, is a provider of enterprise-class network management software designed by network professionals for network professionals. The Company’s offerings include enterprise-class network management products, entry-level network monitoring products and a range of software tools for network professionals. Its products can be downloaded directly from the Company’s Websites and installed and configured by its end users. The Company’s subsidiaries include Neon Software, Inc., IPMonitor Corporation and Trilenium Investments Limited.

The Company’s products include free tools, tools for engineers, entry-level network monitoring products and enterprise-class network management products. The free tools are desktop, laptop or server-based applications designed for use by individual network professionals, and focused on a single network management task or technology. The tools for engineers include Standard Toolset, Engineer’s Toolset, Kiwi Syslog Server, Kiwi CatTools and LANsurveyor. The Standard Toolset builds on its free offerings and is a collection of fundamental tools that allow network professionals to diagnose network issues, collect and analyze network data and maintain network health.

Engineer’s Toolset is a collection of desktop tools that enable network professionals to address a range of network engineering and management tasks, including configuration management, network discovery and mapping, fault management, and bandwidth and network performance monitoring. Kiwi Syslog Server is a server-based application that receives syslog-formatted messages from any network device, and allows network professionals to display, filter, export and alert on those messages. LANsurveyor automatically discovers the devices connected to a network, collects inventory and configuration information about those devices and produces network maps that can be exported into Microsoft Office Visio.

The Company’s entry level network monitoring product is designed for network professionals and information technology (IT) teams. Its product, ipMonitor, is a server-based network, server and application monitoring system for basic up/down monitoring. It provides monitoring for network devices, servers and common applications, such as Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory and SQL Server and includes a built-in database and Web server, further simplifying installation and enabling all components of the product to run on a single server.

The Company’s enterprise class network management products include Orion Network Performance Monitor (Orion NPM), which is a server-based fault and performance management platform designed to minimize network downtime; Orion modules are a series of add-ons to Orion NPM that extend its network management capabilities to network traffic analysis, application performance monitoring, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) performance monitoring and wireless local area network (LAN) monitoring. Orion Network Configuration Manager (Orion NCM) is a server-based product that automates the processes of network device discovery, network inventory management and network change management; Orion Polling Engines increase the scale of Orion NPM’s monitoring capabilities to a number of devices by distributing the polling load across additional servers, and Enterprise Operations Console is a server-based product that provides summarized Web-based views of multiple Orion instances.

The Company competes with Hewlett Packard, IBM, CA, BMC and Cisco.