SolarWinds Broadens Asia-Pacific Reach, Sets Sights on Japanese Market
Partnership With Marubeni Information Systems Will Assist the Company in Its
Expansion of Its Powerful, Affordable and Easy to Use IT Management Product
Portfolio Into Japan's Dynamic IT Market
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, Nov 01, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- SolarWinds(R) Inc.
(SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software,
today announced that its international business is expanding its presence in the
Japanese market by making key investments, including creating a Japanese language
website, the translation and localization of its products, and creating a
dedicated, native Japanese-speaking support team based in Brisbane, Australia. In
addition, SolarWinds announced that it will enter into partnerships with leading
Japanese companies, including Marubeni Information Systems, in order to promote
and sell its unique IT management portfolio to Japanese customers.
"We believe we have a significant growth opportunity through further expansion in
the Asia-Pacific region," said Kevin Thompson, President and CEO, SolarWinds.
"Within our commercial business, our APAC business has continued to grow
year-over-year, giving us the confidence to invest more resources and devote more
time and effort into the Japanese market."
SolarWinds' network management products, including the company's flagship
product, SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and modules like
SolarWinds Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA), will lead the company's entrance into
the Japanese market. These products are the foundation for SolarWinds growth and
brand success, and are gaining significant traction internationally -- as they
already have in the United States.
Japanese businesses and their IT departments will also have the opportunity to
experience the company's other IT management products, including SolarWinds
Virtualization Manager; SolarWinds Storage Manager; and SolarWinds Application
Performance Manager (APM).
"As one of SolarWinds key partners in Japan, Marubeni Information Systems will
start selling SolarWinds' products in Japan using our experience in the network
management softwarebusiness and using our extensive customer data base. We will
focus our sales efforts on a broad-based set of customers including large and
small enterprises in industries such as Telecommunications, Finance, Retail,
Automobiles, Electronics as well as the government ministries, local government
and schools," said Yoshihiro Nagakawa, Marubeni Information Systems' Managing
Executive Officer and Division Director.
"We believe we have made the key investments in our websites, products and
partner relationships in order to allow SolarWinds to achieve success in the
Japanese market. We believe that our products' unique blend of rich features,
ease of use, scalability and affordability will be well-received by Japanese
market, and we believe that SolarWinds' expansion has the potential to provide a
significant growth opportunity for our Japanese partners," said Doug Hibberd, SVP
of Engineering and General Manager APAC.
With the rapid adoption of virtualization and cloud technologies combined with
the dynamic nature of growing data centers, IT organizations of every size are
facing new IT management and operations challenges related to the higher rate of
change and increased scale of these new environments. Designed to help small,
medium businesses, as well as Global 2000 enterprises simplify, visualise and
effectively manage dynamic data centre environments, SolarWinds' IT management
software offers an affordable alternative to traditional, expensive management
suites. Designed with feedback from SolarWinds' user-community of 60,000+ IT
professionals, SolarWinds' product portfolio offers IT professionals a
comprehensive and easy-to-understand view of their network, storage and
applications' performance, whether that IT environment is comprised of single
vendor or multi-vendor technologies.
--SolarWinds Orion NPM delivers a robust feature set that enables users
to manage corporate and data center network performance and
availability, while improving IT efficiency.
--SolarWinds Virtualization Manager and SolarWinds Storage Manager are
complementary, comprehensive solutions that provide users the option
to zero in on the shared resources of compute and/or storage at the
virtualization layer.
--SolarWinds APM provides agentless application and server performance
monitoring with visibility into the physical and virtual
infrastructure.
SolarWinds was established in 1998, employs nearly 600 people worldwide, and is
headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company also has international locations in
Brisbane, Australia; Singapore; Chennai, India; Cork, Ireland; and Brno, Czech
Republic.
For more information, visit the SolarWinds website. |
