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SolarWinds Inc. develops enterprise information technology (IT) infrastructure management software for IT professionals.〔Darryl K. Taft, eWeek. "(IT Management: IT Admin's 'Summer Suitcase': 11 Helpful Tech Tools for Vacation )." July 3, 2012. Retrieved Nov. 1, 2012.〕 SolarWinds is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offices in Lehi, Utah; Boulder, Colorado; Cork, Ireland; Brno, Czech Republic; Singapore; Chennai, India; and Sydney, Australia.〔Kurt Badenhausen, Forbes. "(SolarWinds Tops List Of America's Best Small Companies )." Nov. 17, 2012. Retrieved June 17, 2013.〕 The company hosts an online community called thwack.〔http://www.networkworld.com/article/2344656/data-breach/solarwinds-marks--thwack--anniversary-with-free-tool-release.html〕 ==History== In 2007, SolarWinds raised funding from Austin Ventures, Bain Capital and Insight Venture Partners.〔Austin Business Journal. "(SolarWinds Raises $7.5M )." Feb. 5, 2007. Retrieved on June 17, 2013.〕〔Chris Morrison, VentureBeat. "(Is Network Management Growing? SolarWinds Picks up Kiwi Enterprises )." Jan. 6, 2009. Retrieved on June 17, 2013.〕 Following the funding, SolarWinds acquired several companies including Neon Software and ipMonitor Corp. and opened a European sales office in Ireland.〔Maxwell Cooter, TechWorld. "(SolarWinds Finally Blows into Europe )." October 9, 2007. Retrieved on January 6, 2009.〕 SolarWinds completed its initial public offering of $112.5 million in 2009.〔Lori Hawkins, Austin American-Statesman. "(SolarWinds keeps on growing )." Nov. 20, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2013.〕 The company introduced the SolarWinds Certified Professional Program (SCP) for network management, to test professionals in five areas: network management fundamentals, network management planning, network management operation, network performance troubleshooting and Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) administration and service.〔Ted Stevenson, EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet. "(SolarWinds Inaugurates Network Management Certification )." Aug. 14, 2009. Retrieved Aug. 20, 2009.〕 In 2012, SolarWinds’ total revenue reached $269 million.〔SolarWinds Website. "(SolarWinds Company News )." Feb. 4, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2013.〕 In 2013, SolarWinds announced plans to invest $50 million on an operations hub in Salt Lake City.〔Utah Business. "(SolarWinds To Begin Presence in Utah )." May 10, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2013.〕 In June 2014, the company purchased the Swedish web-monitoring company Pingdom.〔http://mspmentor.net/acquisitions/062014/solarwinds-adds-pingdom-its-performance-management-portfolio〕 In August 2014, SolarWinds announced the launch of its deep packet inspection (DPI) free tool SolarWinds Response Time Viewer for Wireshark. It is the latest to join more than 30 free tools from SolarWinds' IT management product family.〔MarketWatch. "()." August 20, 2014. August 20, 2014.〕 In October 2014, SolarWinds is among Forbes’ Best Small Companies of 2014, and the company was ranked 11th overall. In January 2015, SolarWinds acquired the San Francisco based metrics and monitoring company Librato, for $40 million.〔http://www.marketwatch.com/story/solarwinds-expands-its-cloud-monitoring-and-management-footprint-with-acquisition-of-librato-2015-01-29?reflink=MW_news_stmp〕 In April 2015, SolarWinds acquired Seattle based log management service Papertrail, for $41 million.〔("SolarWinds Acquires Log Management Service Papertrail For $41M" )〕 In October 2015, SolarWinds announced it will be acquired by private equity technology investment firms Silver Lake Partners and Thoma Bravo, LLC., effectively becoming a private company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「SolarWinds」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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