SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT
management software, announced today the upcoming release of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM), the cornerstone of
SolarWinds' suite of comprehensive and affordable systems and application
management products.
Designed to deliver agentless performance and availability
monitoring, alerting and reporting for over 150 applications and server types,
the latest version of SolarWinds SAM will now enable IT pros to resolve server
and application issues directly from the product's web console. Remediation
capabilities include starting and stopping services, killing rogue processes,
and rebooting services, among others.
Other new and updated features in SolarWinds SAM
include:
- New server hardware health
monitoring support for popular blade chassis including HP C7000, HP C3000 and
Dell M1000e
- New native Windows Volume
Mount Point monitoring
- New storage volume
performance metrics to find server issues caused by latency, queued disk I/O and
high IOPS
- New Windows Server network
performance monitoring for bandwidth usage and errors
- Extended integration with
System Center 2012 through updated SolarWinds Management Pack for System Center
Operations Manager
- Improved Managed Service
Provider (MSP) support to include new remote pollers, providing increased
deployment flexibility to support distributed environments and MSP-style
architectures
"SolarWinds SAM's remote pollers help our agility and the
additional multi-vendor hardware support means we can rely on SAM as our single
monitoring solution," said Sean Ackerman, infrastructure engineer for AAA
Northern California, Nevada & Utah Insurance Exchange. "It [SolarWinds SAM]
paid for itself in less than three months and it only gets better when
integrated with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor. Compared to the ‘Big 3,'
the value ratio is insanely high."
SolarWinds Comprehensive Systems and Application
Management
SolarWinds SAM is one of nine
key products in the SolarWinds systems and application
management product portfolio. Together, these products address
the troubleshooting, patch management and performance monitoring needs for IT
pros in organizations of all sizes.
In 2012, SolarWinds expanded and strengthened its systems and
application management portfolio. The company added SolarWinds Web Help Desk and
SolarWinds Serv-U Managed File Transfer Server,
and also released new versions of
SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM), SolarWinds Virtualization Manager,
SolarWinds Patch Manager, SolarWinds Log & Event Manager (LEM), SolarWinds
Storage Manager and DameWare Remote Support. These products, along with
SolarWinds SAM, contributed to a 94 percent revenue growth for the company in
the systems and applications management space.
"As new IT challenges, budget and staffing limitations place
an increasingly high demand on IT professionals to meet business objectives
while doing more with less, we will continue to be an advocate for those
professionals by paying close attention to their evolving needs. We've enhanced
our powerful yet easy-to-use systems and applications solutions, offering an
affordable alternative to costly competitors or as a complementary solution for
existing structures," said Denny LeCompte, SVP of product strategy, SolarWinds.
"From the SMB to the large enterprise, SolarWinds will remain a leader in
delivering software that solves real-world problems for everyone."
The SolarWinds systems and application management portfolio
has been recognized as a leader in the IT management industry with several
recent industry awards, including:
- Redmond Magazine's 2013
Reader's Choice Awards "Gold" for Systems Performance Management and
Application Performance Management for SolarWinds SAM; "Bronze" for Virtual
Management and Optimization for SolarWinds VM Monitor
- Windows Networking 2013
Reader's Choice Awards "Winner" for Remote Control for DameWare Remote
Support
- Microsoft TechEd North
America 2012 "Best of TechEd" in the Systems
Management and Operations category for SolarWinds SAM
- Windows IT Pro 2012
Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards "Silver" for Best Systems
Monitoring Product for SolarWinds SAM; Editor's Best "Silver" for Best Security
Product for SolarWinds LEM; Community Choice Awards "Silver" for Best Patch
Management Product for SolarWinds Patch Manager; and "Other Hot Product" for
Best Active Directory/Group Policy Product for DameWare Remote
Support
- Windows Networking 2012
Reader's Choice Awards "First Runner-Up" for Help Desk for SolarWinds Web Help
Desk
- TechWorld UK Awards named SolarWinds Storage Manager
to its Short List for the "Storage Product of the Year"
SolarWinds continues to share its systems and application
management industry knowledge through its IT pro community, thwack, which now
has over 150,000 users, as well as participation in industry events. SolarWinds
Head Geek Lawrence Garvin will join Kent Agerlund, senior consultant, Coretech
A/S, at the upcoming Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2013 in April for a
session entitled, "Managing Third Party Updates with
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1."
Pricing and
Availability
SolarWinds Server & Application
Monitor starts at $2,995 and includes a year of
maintenance. For more information, including a downloadable,
free 30-day evaluation
trial, visit the SolarWinds website
or call 866.530.8100.