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Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Fri, November 20, 2009
Thu, November 19, 2009 SolarWinds Orion Products Awarded High Honors From Redmond Magazine, Windows IT Pro and Austin Business Journal
AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - November 19, 2009) - SolarWinds® (
"SolarWinds is honored to receive these [ awards ]. Knowing that the IT community believes that Orion continues to exceed expectations is great recognition for our whole team. We feel strongly that our unique development model, coupled with our commitment and relationship to the community, allows us to continue to deliver products that will have immediate impact on our users' day to day activities." -- Kenny Van Zant, SVP and chief product strategist, SolarWinds
2009 Reader's Choice Awards from Redmond magazine
SolarWinds Network Management Software and Orion NPM were named the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Winners and Preferred Products in Redmond magazine's 2009 Reader's Choice Awards "Best Network Management Product" and "Best Performance Management Product" categories, respectively.
For the second year in a row, SolarWinds was chosen by Redmond's readers as the best ISV performance management product over HP OpenView®. The full list of winners can be viewed in the November issue and [ online ].
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"This year, we greatly increased the breadth and depth of our categories and product candidates to reflect new technologies and the growing number of choices in the technology industry," said Lee Pender, executive editor of Redmond, who coordinated the 2009 awards process. "Once again our readers spoke loudly and clearly in making their choices. We had a total number of responses that was much greater than last year's, which is an indication of the passion readers have for these products and the importance that these technologies hold in their jobs every day."
Windows IT Pro Magazine "2009 Editors' Best Awards" and "2009 Community Choice Awards"
SolarWinds Orion NPM was recognized by both the Editors and readers of Windows IT Pro Magazine this year, securing Silver medal recognition in both awards' "Best Network Management Product" categories.
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"The 2009 Editors' Best Awards are an accumulation of our editors', contributors' and authors' subject matter expertise, in service of identifying the year's most significant products in the market," said Michele Crockett, editorial strategy director, Windows IT Pro Magazine. "We believe that our editorial experts' annual tradition of selecting winners based on a product's strategic importance to market, its competitive advantages and its value to the customer is particularly significant to the Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine communities this year, as we call out exceptional products in a highly competitive market.
"The 2009 Community Choice Awards had a record number of entries this year. Thousands of products were nominated by our audience of IT professionals. Peer-to-peer product and service recognition is the ultimate goal that all market players have, but it can be difficult to achieve," said Crockett.
Austin Business Journal 2009 Tech Innovation Awards
The Austin Business Journal selected [ Orion IP SLA Manager ] as the "Software" winner in its Tech Innovation Awards. The award recognized SolarWinds recently released Orion IP SLA Manager for the product's ability to give network engineers easier access to the IP SLA technology already available to them -- offering greater visibility into WAN performance, freeing up bandwidth and alleviating network management headaches.
About Redmond magazine
Redmond magazine provides cutting-edge product, business and how-to information to network professionals, IT managers and IT directors working on the Microsoft Windows platform. The monthly publication reaches 100,000 qualified subscribers. For more information, visit: [ http://redmondmag.com ].
About Windows IT Pro
Windows IT Pro is the leading and largest independent voice in Windows IT, with more than 2.5 million visits per month, and consists of a multitude of print and online channels. In addition to the flagship Windows IT Pro magazine, the Windows IT community includes SQL Server Magazine, Office SharePoint Pro, and Windows Dev Pro. Other online channels include blogs, forums, podcasts, RSS feeds, webinars, virtual events, white papers, newsletters, classes and more. IT professionals get objective, "direct from the trenches" information about Microsoft's latest Windows-based solutions and gain essential insight for keeping business-critical Microsoft applications up and running. For more information, visit [ www.windowsitpro.com ] or [ www.sqlmag.com ].
About Austin Business Journal
The Austin Business Journal is part of the American City Business Journals, the nation's largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers. For more information, visit: [ http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/ ].
About SolarWinds
SolarWinds provides powerful, simple and affordable network management software to more than 88,000 customers worldwide -- from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses. Focused on the real-world needs of network professionals, SolarWinds products are downloadable, easy to use and maintain, and provide the power, scale, and flexibility needed to manage today's complex network environments. SolarWinds' growing online community, [ thwack ], is a gathering-place for problem-solving, technology-sharing, and participating in product development for all of SolarWinds' products. Learn more today at [ http://www.solarwinds.com ].
SolarWinds, SolarWinds.com, and Orion are registered trademarks of SolarWinds. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
