SolarWinds,
a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software,
today announced a broad refresh to its market-leading network management
portfolio, as well as key enhancements to the Orion Platform. Designed to address the increasing adoption of SDN technology-Cisco ACI in particular-SolarWinds Network
Performance Monitor helps customers monitor logical components of their
SDN environment, including APICs, tenants, application profiles,
endpoint groups, and physical entities. SolarWinds is recognized by IDC as the market leader in network management software.
"Customers
are sampling SDN in their dev-test environments, but with the
maturation of the technology, we're seeing wider use by customers within
their production environments," said Christoph Pfister, executive vice
president of products, SolarWinds. "Our users need comprehensive
visibility into both the physical and logical networks. These latest
updates are a direct reflection of our continued commitment to our user
community and to their businesses-all priced to be within reach for most
companies and service providers."
The
latest SolarWinds product refresh also brings advancements to
SolarWinds anomaly detection capabilities-expanding alerts for
unexpected behavior in the infrastructure, enhancing configuration
baselines to help prevent config drift, and improving PerfStack
dashboards for cross-stack troubleshooting. Added support for Infoblox extends
administrator visibility into network operations, with the ability to
monitor Infoblox DHCP and DNS services in a centralized dashboard.
Define and Control Today's Networks
The
updates featured in the latest SolarWinds network management portfolio
release are designed to be deployed easily and rapidly, with an improved
and centrally-managed upgrade process.
- Network Performance Monitor (NPM) 12.4 -
Incorporates support for Cisco ACI to help users monitor the health of
their Cisco Software-Defined Networking (SDN) deployment.
- Network Configuration Manager (NCM) 7.9 -
Introduces the ability to define and apply multi-device baselines or
config snippets to any network node, and is designed to enhance the
ability to quickly identify configuration drift and adhere to corporate
configuration standards.
- NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) 4.5 -
Expanded alerting can help users act quickly if application traffic
suddenly increases or decreases, as well as help speed resolution if a
device stops sending flow data.
- IP Address Manager (IPAM) 4.8 - Adds support for Infoblox to help users to monitor DHCP and DNS services in a centralized dashboard.
Unexpected Simplicity with the SolarWinds Orion Platform
The
Orion Platform is a modular and scalable architecture delivering
powerful network, infrastructure, and application monitoring and
management capabilities across on-premises, hosted, and public cloud
environments. The common framework combines a web-based dashboard,
centralized user management, unified alerting and reporting, and
consolidated metrics-enhancing collaboration between teams. In addition
to the PerfStack dashboard improvements and centralized upgrades, the
latest release of the Orion Platform also adds SAML authentication
support, enabling Single Sign On (SSO) to the Orion Web Console.
Pricing and Availability
The
SolarWinds network management portfolio updates are available
immediately. SolarWinds NPM pricing starts at $2,955; SolarWinds NCM
pricing starts at $2,895; SolarWinds IPAM pricing starts at $1,995;
SolarWinds NTA pricing starts at $1,915.