SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT
performance management solutions, today announced the acquisition of
Papertrail, a
Cloud-based log management company, for a cash purchase price of $41 million. This addition to the SolarWinds Cloud product family, joining the
Pingdom and
Librato
offerings, represents the latest step in the company’s efforts to offer
solutions to monitor and manage Cloud-based applications, websites and
infrastructure. This new technology application will enable SolarWinds
to extend and connect log management capabilities from on-premise IT
infrastructures to Cloud and SaaS-based environments.
Performance
matters to today’s modern operations teams, specifically the performance
of the applications and infrastructure that help businesses operate and
succeed. In the rapidly emerging Cloud era, complex technologies, along
with dynamic infrastructure and application architectures, are creating
new challenges in developing and managing the performance of
Cloud-based business-critical applications and websites.
The
SolarWinds Cloud product family gives IT Pros, DevOps, developers,
website and Web application owners the ability to solve a specific
problem or use a combination of integrated products to manage
availability and uptime; optimize performance; and monitor costs. The
portfolio of tools provides full stack application performance
visibility all the way from an end user’s perspective to the underlying
infrastructure.
When an application is slow or down, every minute
counts as IT Pros, DevOps and developers work to resolve the issue and
limit impact. A key step in troubleshooting the problem is the analysis
of log data, which can be a time-consuming and complex process. A
successful strategy around supporting and troubleshooting application
performance, and ultimately business performance, must include
user-friendly log management capability.
- Papertrail enables
IT Pros, DevOps and developers to quickly and easily collect, monitor,
search, interpret and act on log data regardless of location whether
on-premise, SaaS-based or in the Cloud, providing a simplified view into
the rich log data generated by the infrastructure and applications.
- Together,
the SolarWinds Cloud offerings – Pingdom, Librato and Papertrail – give
users a single pane of glass experience for visualizing and
interpreting how application performance impacts end-user customer
experience, key business metrics and the infrastructure as well as the
records of log data generated by the application needed to troubleshoot
problems.
“Our mission with SolarWinds Cloud is to offer IT
operations teams the ability to extend the real-time visibility and
actionable insights our products provide on-premise to their cloud-based
infrastructure so they can effectively manage the performance and
accelerated troubleshooting of native cloud applications. Regardless of
the type, importance or location (AWS, Azure, Google or a datacenter),
we will offer a heterogeneous application and website management
solution to help manage and ensure performance,” said Kevin Thompson,
President and CEO, SolarWinds. “The acquisition of Papertrail adds
another key element of that overall performance monitoring experience
and we look forward to having the Papertrail team and technology as a
part of our organization.”
"In working with SolarWinds, we've seen
a shared appreciation for simple, practical products that really shine
in everyday use,” said Troy Davis, CEO and co-founder, Papertrail.
“Because it's built by and for engineers, Papertrail resolutely focuses
on the actual problems and processes that operations teams face. That
same philosophy drives SolarWinds’ infrastructure management products,
so joining the SolarWinds family lets us continue providing a product
that users love and enables us to enhance it even faster."
Through
the strength of its product offering, Papertrail has earned the trust
of some of the leading Internet-based brands, such as Adobe®, GitHub®
and DNSimple. For more information on Papertrail, visit www.papertrail.com.