SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset Named 2008 Editor’s Choice Award Winner by Windows IT Pro

SolarWinds, a leader in downloadable network management software, today announced that its Engineer’s Toolset was named as a gold medal winner of the “2008 Editor’s Choice Awards” in the Networking Category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro®.

“The 2008 Editor’s Choice Awards utilize our editors’ product knowledge and subject matter expertise to identify exceptional products that benefit the Windows IT Pro reader community,” said Jeff Lewis, group publisher. “Our editors selected winners based on the product’s strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages and its value to the customer.”

“Our editors are tough, in-the-trenches critics,” Lewis continued. “They demand solid value and performance from the products they select. Editor’s Choice Award winners can feel proud that the products and services they developed have earned the respect and recognition of the Windows IT Pro editorial staff.”

Engineer’s Toolset is an industry-leading suite of 49 applications that installs in minutes and enables network engineers to quickly address virtually every network management challenge from network discovery, configuration management and fault monitoring to detailed performance monitoring and NetFlow analysis. Engineer’s Toolset was the first product introduced by SolarWinds, and remains the foundation of SolarWinds’ strategy to provide products that simplify and solve the tough, every-day problems faced by network engineers.

“Engineer’s Toolset is an essential tool for network engineers worldwide – with more than 35,000 copies in production,” said Kenny Van Zant, chief product strategist, SolarWinds. “Awards like Windows IT Pro ‘2008 Editor’s Choice’ serve to highlight the reason for Engineer’s Toolset’s tremendous popularity: it is simple to use, and it works. Our products are designed by network engineers for network engineers, a philosophy that keeps us focused on delivering the right solution for our user community and customers.”

Engineer’s Toolset includes the following features:
Monitoring and alerting on availability, bandwidth utilization, and health for hundreds of network devices
Robust network diagnostics for troubleshooting and quickly resolving complex network issues
An array of network discovery tools that facilitate IP address management, port mapping and ping sweeps
Easy management of Cisco® devices with tools for real-time NetFlow analysis, configuration management and router management

Like all SolarWinds’ products, Engineer’s Toolset is available for immediate download at www.solarwinds.com. Engineer’s Toolset contains 49 tools for only $1390 plus maintenance. For more information please visit www.solarwinds.com or contact the SolarWinds sales department at 866-530-8100.

About SolarWinds

SolarWinds provides downloadable, enterprise-class network management software that is affordable, easy to use, and guided by a large and growing user community. Focused on the real-world needs of network professionals, SolarWinds products are simple to try, simple to use, and simple to maintain, while providing the power, scale, and flexibility needed by companies of all sizes. More than 50,000 customers from small businesses to the largest enterprises rely on SolarWinds products to take the complexity out of managing their networks. Learn more today at http://www.solarwinds.com.

SolarWinds, SolarWinds.com, Thwack.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.

Contacts

SolarWinds, Austin
Tiffany Nels, 512-682-9545
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The Hoffman Agency
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