by Angela Guess
A new article out of the company reports, “SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced a revolutionary release of the network administrator’s trusted tool, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM). With the release of SolarWinds NPM 12, the company’s flagship product and award-winning tool relied on by tens of thousands of IT departments now features NetPath™ and Network Insight. For the first time, these two new capabilities give network administrators the hybrid IT visual insights and analysis needed for visibility into the performance of services across not only the networks they own, but those of their service providers and cloud vendors as well. These innovations empower IT professionals to provide the application performance end users expect and businesses need in today’s on-demand environments.”
The article continues, “According to the most recent SolarWinds IT Trends Report, 87 percent of organizations have migrated some infrastructure to the cloud, yet 60 percent state they will likely never transition all services offsite, making hybrid IT the reality for the foreseeable future. In such complex hybrid IT environments, network administrators need the ability to view the performance details of and pinpoint bottlenecks on all the networks connecting critical services and applications, whether they be on-premises or in the cloud. The addition of NetPath makes SolarWinds NPM 12 the only network monitoring software that visually maps hybrid network paths alongside on-premises data. For example, NetPath gives IT professionals whose organizations use cloud-based applications such as Salesforce®the ability to identify the exact location of a performance issue — whether on the internal LAN, with a WAN provider or on the cloud application vendor’s own network — and provides actionable insights for resolution.”
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