SOLARWINDS APPLICATION STACK MANAGEMENT DASHBOARD DATE

© 2014 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. IT MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES Current monitoring tool is ineffective at catching problems & cannot scale for my growing organization Downtime Monitoring tool sprawl wastes resources and doesn’t find problems fast enough Tool Sprawl Current IT Management solution is too expensive for the value I receive Cost

© 2014 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. REQUIREMENTS FOR OVERCOMING CHALLENGES Broad vendor coverage to monitor all aspects of the application environment, including on-prem, SaaS & apps in public cloud enviroments Scales for a highly distributed and large environment Downtime Expert tools that will satisfy SME day jobs while providing single view of service performance for fast root cause analysis Application relation ship mapping Must integrate with help desk & other IT management tools (API/SDK/etc.) Tool Sprawl Low software, training/customization costs, hardware costs, administration costs Opportunity cost – implementation cannot take away from other high priority projects Cost

© 2014 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. HOW SOLARWINDS HELPS IT PROS OVERCOME CHALLENGES Since we implemented SolarWinds we have seen improvements in availability and reductions in time-to-resolution. We are able to rectify problems much faster, before users start complaining. Marina Bay Sands From applications, servers, virtual environments, networks, storage, security and log data, and desktops, the NetSuite global IT infrastructure team was able to deploy the full spectrum of SolarWinds’ offering to cover their end-to-end IT infrastructure management needs. Netsuite Implementing SolarWinds versus the incumbent in FY2013 represents a savings of over US$1 million in the first year and over $500,000 each year after that in software maintenance cost savings. Cardinal Health

5 SOLARWINDS COMPANY VISION 5 Regardless of where the applications & underlying infrastructure are deployed Regardless of where our management tools need to be deployed While continuing to take a user-centric approach – only buy what you need, when you need it Manage the PERFORMANCE of IT, Anywhere…

PRODUCTS FOR SMES & CONVERGED IT, WHERE APP IS KING! SYSTEMS ADMIN NETWORK ADMIN DATABASE ADMIN SECURITY ADMIN VIRT ADMIN STORAGE ADMIN Is it the virtual network or the physical? DB on virt? I/O issues, but affecting what? Help me with cross-domain visibility; my skillsets are being stretched even further How do I audit what changed? END USER My app is really slow! CONVERGED SYSTEMS FRAGMENTED ITCONVERGING IT (our 2015 Focus) App, server, or virtual? IT GENERALIST Where do I start? APP ADMIN It’s not the network! App is good No issues w/ server load Not the DB I/O issues Didn’t change anything NETWORK ADMIN DATABASE ADMIN SECURITY ADMIN SERVER ADMIN STORAGE ADMIN Help me troubleshoot my specific problem domain

PRODUCT STRATEGY Start wherever you’d like – point or ‘connected’ problems Enjoy seamless integration for end- to-end visibility and troubleshooting Expand your deployment as your needs grow Sharpen your skills with community knowledge, product content, and free product training FRAGMENTED IT CONVERGING IT

© 2014 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ORION PLATFORM FOR SINGLE PANE OF GLASS »Core set of common services that power dependent products »Provides singular experience for all products »Cross-pollination of product data for contextual visibility/relationship mapping Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) Traffic Analysis (NTA) Network Configuration Management (NCM) IP Address Management (IPAM) Device Tracking (UDT) VoIP & Network Quality Management (VNQM) Server & Application Monitor (SAM) Web Performance Monitor (WPM) Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) Firewall Security (FSM) Orion Core (Main Polling Engine, Reporting, Alerting, Common Services) Core DB Core DB Orion Web Server Virtualization Manager (VMAN) AppStack Enabled Products

WHAT IS THE APP STACK? The resources required to ensure that an application runs efficiently. »Example: SQL App Stack – Data resides on a SAN or NAS which is used by a virtual platform which in turn hosts a Windows VM that has the SQL application installed on it »Each step is a piece of the App Stack for that SQL instance and can be monitored by a SolarWinds product 9 © 2014 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

APPLICATION STACK MANAGEMENT DASHBOARD 10 Products that have this feature today: Server & Application Monitor – Applications, Servers, Hosts, VMs, volumes (direct attached) Add Virtualizaton Manager – Data stores, additional performance metrics for virtual servers like % ready, ballooning, etc. Add Storage Resource Monitor – LUNS, NAS volumes, Pools, Storage Arrays Add Web Performance Monitor – user experience of Web page load times © 2015 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

© 2014 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. KEY DIFFERENTIATORS FeatureSolarWinds Breadth of coverage (storage, servers, virt, apps) Multiple HW, Hypervisor, Storage & Application vendors supported natively Automatic relationship mapping SolarWinds monitoring tools automatically map the relationships between apps, virtual servers, servers, and storage Integrated visibility SolarWinds provides a single pane of glass for monitoring networks, servers, apps, VMs, & storage infrastructure Time to deploy SolarWinds products can be typically deployed in a day Total Cost of Ownership SolarWinds products are typically 1/10 th of the cost of Big 4 solutions, yet provide 90% of the functionality; 86% of administrators spend less than 20 hours administering SAM per month 11

© 2014 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. BREADTH OF COVERAGE 12 Applications Active Directory® Exchange™ SharePoint® Citrix® Java® Apache® Symantec® SMTP/IMAP4 JSON/SOAP & 100+ more! Databases SQL Server® Oracle® IBM® DB2® Sybase® MySQL® IBM Informix® PostgreSQL™ MongoDB® Hypervisors VMware® Hyper-V® Servers IBM System x® HP® Dell® Blade Chassis Windows® Linux® AIX® Solaris® UNIX® Storage (NAS/SAN) EMC® Dell NetApp® Hitachi® HP IBM LSI® & more Contextual Navigation

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