SolarWinds Extends Multi-Vendor Storage Management Array Support with EMC, Hitachi, HP and IBM Arrays

SOURCE: SolarWinds

AUSTIN, Texas – September 16, 2015 – SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable hybrid IT infrastructure management software, today announced extended multi-vendor support in SolarWinds^® Storage Resource Monitor, which provides IT with the necessary insight into storage resources and the potential performance impact on virtual machines and applications that are dependent on storage elements. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor will now support additional EMC^®, Hitachi^®, HP^® and IBM^® storage array families and provide monitoring capabilities for hierarchical storage pools.

“IT pros, more often than not, find themselves utilizing mixed storage system environments, and while this can provide additional flexibility, it can also mean an increase in the complexity and, ultimately, cost of management,” said Nikki Jennings, group vice president, product strategy, SolarWinds. “With SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor, we aim to help ease these pain points in multi-system storage environments by providing seamless heterogeneous monitoring and insight through one management dashboard at a price organizations of all sizes can afford.”

SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor provides IT pros with single-pane-of-glass visibility into their storage infrastructure by monitoring storage performance, isolating hotspots in multi-vendor SAN and NAS solutions and automating storage capacity planning and reporting. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor also integrates with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor for end-to-end visibility from application to virtualization to storage.

What will IT pros solve next with SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor?

With the latest version of SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor, IT pros can now:

– Address performance problems on storage devices, including EMC Isilon^®; Hitachi Data Systems^® AMS, USP VM, USPV, VSP, HUS 100 Block-Side, and HUS VM; HP StorageWorks^® XP; and IBM Spectrum™ Virtualize (Vxxx and SVC).

– See multiple pool layers when a storage array has more than one logical storage container, identify the relationships between the layers and understand the pool capacity through its hierarchical storage pool support.

Pricing and Availability

SolarWinds Storage Resource Manager pricing starts at $2,695 USD* and includes the first year of maintenance. For more information, including a downloadable, free 30-day evaluation, visit the SolarWinds website or call 866.530.8100.

*Price as of September 15, 2015. Pricing many vary based upon the jurisdiction and applicable currency. Please contact a local SolarWinds sales representative to find pricing specific to your jurisdiction.

About SolarWinds

SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) provides powerful and affordable hybrid IT infrastructure management software to customers worldwide from Fortune 500^® enterprises to small businesses, government agencies and educational institutions. We are committed to focusing exclusively on IT Pros, and strive to eliminate the complexity that they have been forced to accept from traditional enterprise software vendors. Regardless of where the IT asset or user sits, SolarWinds delivers products that are easy to find, buy, use, maintain, and scale while providing the power to address all key areas of the infrastructure from on premises to the Cloud. Our solutions are rooted in our deep connection to our user base, which interacts in our thwack^® online community to solve problems, share technology and best practices, and directly participate in our product development process. Learn more today at http://www.solarwinds.com/.