AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - Mar 1, 2012) - [ SolarWinds ] (NYSE: [ SWI ]), a leading provider of powerful and affordable [ IT management ] software for companies worldwide, announced today the company plans to expand its presence in Brazil, one of the world's fastest-growing IT markets. The company currently has a [ Portuguese language website ] and has plans to grow its Portuguese-speaking sales and support team based in Austin. In addition, the company today entered into a new distribution relationship with Westcon Group to better serve the Brazilian market.

Overview:

• Westcon Group is a value-added distributor of category-leading unified communications, network infrastructure, data center, and security solutions with a global network of specialty resellers. SolarWinds plans to leverage the company's deep market expertise to offer resellers and customers comprehensive support for SolarWinds' award-winning IT management products, including SolarWinds' [ network management product ] portfolio, [ SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor ], formerly SolarWinds Application Performance Monitor, [ SolarWinds Storage Manager, Powered by Profiler ], and [ SolarWinds Virtualization Manager ] solutions.
• Today's announcement with Westcon builds on a successful distribution agreement covering Africa, Hong Kong, India and Singapore.
• SolarWinds is recruiting reseller partners interested in selling and supporting SolarWinds products in the region. Interested companies should register to attend the Westcon and SolarWinds [ webinar ] on March 7 at 4 p.m., S. America Eastern Standard Time (Brasilia, GMT-03:00) for an overview of SolarWinds and its products. Partners may also contact [ reseller@solarwinds.com ] for more information.
• SolarWinds was established in 1998, employs more than 400 people worldwide, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company has additional international locations in Singapore; Brisbane, Australia; Cork, Ireland; and Brno, Czech Republic.

Supporting Quotes:
"As the third fastest-growing IT market in the world, Brazil represents an exciting opportunity for SolarWinds to continue our global expansion and expand our offering of easy to use, powerful and affordable software," said Kevin Thompson, President and CEO, SolarWinds. "We believe our approach to solving today's real world IT management problems combined with our web-based option for users to download and trial the products for free before they buy provides us a unique model that's attractive to IT professionals and one that few other enterprise software companies can match."

"The addition of SolarWinds to our data center portfolio in Brazil is quite significant... As Westcon is dedicated to offering reseller partners access to the most critical data center solutions in the market, flexible and affordable management software is a crucial element to this strategy. SolarWinds' ability to fit a wide range of enterprise systems, from large corporations to small and medium businesses, and allows sales channels to meet their clients' business needs across a wide range of industries. We're pleased to be partnering with SolarWinds in Brazil to offer resellers access to this business-critical solution," said Otavio Lazarini, SVP Westcon Group, Latam.

For more information on SolarWinds IT management products, visit [ http://www.solarwinds.com ].

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may be deemed to contain "forward-looking" statements, which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including SolarWinds' expectations of its growth and expansion in the India market. These forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts and may be identified by terms such as "continues," "believes," "plans" or similar expressions and the negatives of those terms. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those risks and uncertainties described more fully in documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this release is as of the date hereof and SolarWinds undertakes no duty to update this information except as required by law.

About SolarWinds
SolarWinds (NYSE: [ SWI ]) provides powerful and affordable IT management software to customers worldwide -- from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses. We work to put our users first and remove the obstacles that have become "status quo" in traditional enterprise software. SolarWinds products are downloadable, easy to use and maintain, and provide the power, scale, and flexibility needed to address users' management priorities. Our online user community, [ thwack ], is a gathering-place where tens of thousands of IT pros solve problems, share technology, and participate in product development for all of SolarWinds' products. Learn more today at [ http://www.solarwinds.com ].

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