SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT
performance management software, today announced new and enhanced
product offerings to help IT ensure optimal application performance by
monitoring the complete application stack (
AppStack)
through a single pane of glass. Specifically, the company introduced
the new Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) and released significant updates
to Server & Application Monitor (SAM), Virtualization Manager and
Web Performance Monitor (WPM), including greater integration with
SolarWinds’ Orion® technology backbone and the new SolarWinds AppStack
dashboard.
According to a recent SolarWinds survey, application
performance and availability affect 93 percent of business end users’
abilities to do their jobs. However, the struggle to ensure this
performance and availability continues, as evidenced by the 81 percent
of end users who contacted their IT departments in the past year due to
an application issue, a third of whom did so six times or more.
“Applications
and the supporting IT infrastructure are the center of every business.
When those applications and systems are slow and when access is not
available, productivity comes to a halt, revenue opportunities are
lost—businesses suffer. As such, IT pros cannot afford to continue
trying to resolve application issues within disconnected silos,” said
Nikki Jennings, Group Vice President, Systems Management Products,
SolarWinds. “With these latest releases and the addition of the
AppStack dashboard capability across our core systems management
solutions, SolarWinds provides IT pros unparalleled top-to-bottom
visibility of the application delivery chain—including storage, servers,
virtualization, cloud, the Web and more—to better identify, prioritize
and resolve application issues.”
NEW SolarWinds AppStack Dashboard
The new AppStack dashboard
available in SolarWinds’ solutions presents the integrated monitoring
of applications, servers, virtualization and storage resources—and Web
user experience for Web-based applications—within a single pane of
glass to show the health of each of these infrastructure components and
how it may impact overall application performance. IT can easily
identify an application showing compromised performance and instantly
see which of the other components in the infrastructure may be causing
the problem. SolarWinds’ Orion-supported software will enable users to
design custom AppStack dashboards for individuals or teams to
prioritize their monitoring while also maintaining broad visibility.
Read more here.
NEW SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor
The new Storage Resource Monitor
provides IT with the necessary insight into storage resources and the
potential performance impact on virtual environments to ultimately
ensure business-critical application performance. Storage Resource
Monitor provides support for dozens of common arrays and features new
NetApp Cluster-mode, as well as NetApp IBM® N-series, NetApp E-series
family, EMC VNX family, and Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays, to
name a few. With real-time visibility into heterogeneous SAN and NAS
arrays and integration with the Orion technology and AppStack
dashboard, an IT pro is able to view and manage an IT environment from
array to application.
Read more here.
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor with NEW cloud agent and AppInsight for IIS
In addition to integration into the AppStack dashboard, Server & Application Monitor
now also enables IT to monitor business-critical server and
application performance hosted in the cloud by services such as Amazon
EC2, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, or virtually any other
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It collates this data alongside
on-premises server and application performance all within a single tool
to support hybrid cloud environments. In addition to its existing
support for over 200 applications, SolarWinds Server & Application
Monitor adds new AppInsight for IIS, providing optimal website
performance with critical Microsoft IIS web server monitoring,
identifying pages that take too long to process, and providing metrics
and remediation capabilities for starting and stopping websites.
Read more here.
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager and Web Performance Monitor with NEW Orion technology backbone integration
Virtualization Manager and Web Performance Monitor
now integrate directly with SolarWinds’ Orion technology backbone and
the AppStack dashboard, enabling the sharing of critical performance
metrics from these individual products with other modules already
integrated. The integration of Virtualization Manager provides IT
datastore-level detail that bridges the critical metrics from Storage
Resource Monitor to Server & Application Monitor. The integration
of Web Performance Monitor helps provide end-to-end performance
monitoring for web-based environments.
Read more here.
Pricing and Availability
All products and features are currently available. Pricing for each product starts as follows:
- SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor: $2,695 USD
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: $2,995 USD
- SolarWinds Virtualization Manager: $2,995 USD
- SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor: $1,995 USD