SolarWinds Company Description
The name SolarWinds may conjure up gentle breezes and sunny days but the products are used by IT types who probably aren't spending a lot of time outdoors. The company makes enterprise software that helps identify network problems and improve efficiency. Its Orion, Cirrus, and Engineer's Toolset products manage performance, configure systems, and monitor and troubleshoot, respectively, for networks ranging in size from 10 to 100,000 machines. Customers include several US and foreign government agencies and Microsoft, FedEx, Ernst and Young, Chevron, McDonald's, and Ford Motor Company, among others covering about half the Fortune 500. The company began in 1999 and filed to go public in early 2008.
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