SolarWinds, now also owner of LOGICnow, shows this thinking behind cloud and on-premise integration, with numbers to match For all the pronouncements on booming cloud growth, Hybrid IT is here to stay and if we want to get the best out of our hybrid networks we need tools that will manage them effectively both sides of the firewall – on-premise and in the cloud. That’s the message coming out of SolarWinds and with the latest release of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) (SolarWinds NPM 12) it claims to have come up with an answer.
According to its own recent research- the SolarWinds IT Trends Report - 89% of UK organisations have migrated some infrastructure to the cloud, yet 65% state they are unlikely ever to transition all services off-site, making hybrid IT the reality for the foreseeable future and ensuring that complex hybrid IT environments are here to stay. In other major European markets the prospects of the hybrid model being long-lived seem even stronger. At 86%, the proportion of German organisations that have migrated some infrastructure to the cloud is slightly lower than in the UK, but the proportion that say they are unlikely ever to transition all services off-site is higher at 80%.
With SolarWinds NPM 12, the company claims to be introducing the first technology capable of bridge the visibility gap across the entire application delivery path—on-premises and in the cloud, thus addressing one of the principal weaknesses normally inherent in any Hybrid IT landscape.
“Applications, whether on-premises or in the cloud, are the heart of business, but they’re useless without the networks that connect them to end users,” said Christoph Pfister (below), executive vice president of products, SolarWinds.
“Until now, the capabilities to monitor the performance of those networks regardless of ownership were impossible within a single tool—traceroute tools are typically blocked from accessing service provider networks, and cloud monitoring tools don’t have adequate visibility into on-premises infrastructure performance. With NetPath and Network Insight, SolarWinds NPM 12 is delivering the dynamic visibility and actionable insights IT professionals need to effectively manage all the networks impacting the applications their organizations rely on in a hybrid IT world—every node, every path, every network.”
In addition to continued growth in the Enterprise space Pfister believes they have great potential for rapid growth within their MSP business which has recently been strengthen by the acquisition of LOGICnow. With N-able on the on-premise side and LOGICnow, he claims that SolarWinds now covers about 20,000 MSPs and that they have about 5 million endpoints under management on the MSP side. Talking specifically about the LogicNow acquisition, he said that the new business would be called SolarWinds MSP and that they would be integrating the two platforms and looking to expand the business internationally including European markets and the Far East.