SolarWinds Signs Comstor as Distributor

SolarWinds and Comstor, a division of Westcon Africa, announced a distribution agreement designed to support expanded availability and access to SolarWinds’ full scope of enterprise-class products in the African market.

A specialty distributor in enterprise networking, data center and mobility technologies, Comstor will leverage its market expertise and offer select resellers access to SolarWinds products, including the Orion suite of network and application management solutions and the Profiler family of storage and virtualization management products.

"This agreement creates a solid foundation for SolarWinds and increases our ability to access this emerging market," said Justin Endres, Vice President, International Sales at SolarWinds. "The collaboration between SolarWinds and Comstor offers us substantial go-to-market advantages. Westcon’s thought leadership in areas like virtualization and data center solutions, combined with its robust portfolio of partners, offers us greater access and local support for our valued channel partners and their customers."

"SolarWinds’ strategic alignment with Cisco, combined with its powerful and easy-to-use features, presents an attractive value proposition for our resellers and their end users in the African market," said Edward Williams, General Manager of Comstor, Pan Emerging Africa. "We look forward to working with SolarWinds and anticipate that their products will prove to be very beneficial to companies in this market who are looking to solve the real-world IT management challenges, easily and affordably."

SolarWinds’ software
supports a range of customers, IT needs
SolarWinds’ Orion family of IT management solutions offers IT professionals a view of their network and applications’ performance from a single pane of glass. Designed with feedback from SolarWinds’ user-community of 50,000+ IT managers, Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is designed to manage the rapid changes in dynamic IT environments and allow IT professionals to simply, and visually, manage networks of all sizes.

With Orion NPM as the foundation, IT professionals can add additional Orion modules as needed to build an IT management system that fits most enterprises’ evolving needs – from configuration, to application performance, to network performance and traffic analysis. Users can view the real-time statistics and availability of their IT environment from any Web browser, providing a convenient way for administrators to stay in tune with their networks at any time, from anywhere.

Available Orion modules include:

• Orion Network Configuration Manager: Network configuration and change management
• Orion Application Performance Monitor: In-depth performance monitoring for applications
• Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer: Flow-based network traffic analysis
• Orion IP Address Manager: Easy-to-use IP address space management
• Orion IP SLA Manager: Monitor WAN performance from multiple perspectives

For enterprises looking for solutions that offer control and visibility across the entire IT infrastructure, the SolarWinds Profiler suite adds deeper storage and virtualization management to the SolarWinds’ Orion portfolio, delivering broader IT management capabilities and increasing IT organizations efficiency and responsiveness.

• Storage Profiler: Access industry-leading, multi-vendor real-tim storage monitoring, reporting, alerting and forecasting for DAS, NAS, and SAN systems
• Virtual and Server Profiler: Consolidated view into the physical server performance, along with VMwar cluster, host and virtual machine performance
• Backup Profiler: Centralized backup management software that works with all major backup applications, operating systems and storage technologies