The New Integration of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer With the SolarWinds Orion

Technology Backbone Provides Developers, Database and Systems Professionals With Unified Visibility Into

the Role Each Element of the Infrastructure Stack Has on Application Performance, Increasing Collaboration and

Reducing Friction

AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwired - Jun 4 2015) - SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of

powerful and affordable IT performance management software, today announced the integration of

SolarWindsR Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) with the SolarWinds OrionR technology backbone. The

integration represents a significant milestone that enables stronger collaboration between database and systems

administration teams to ensure the performance of business-critical applications by presenting wait time

analysis and other key database performance metrics in the context of the application, all within the familiar

SolarWinds Orion user interface.

According to a recent application performance management (APM) survey by Gleanster Research, 88

percent of respondents cited the database as the most common challenge or issue with application

performance. Furthermore, 71 percent said their current APM tools only provide hints, but rarely identify the root

cause of problems. This lack of visibility into the impact of database performance on applications is a key barrier

to ensuring the availability of business-critical applications and also exacerbates a lack of collaboration

between database and systems administrators.

　　With the integration of SolarWinds DPA with SolarWinds Orion -- with which other key products in

SolarWinds portfolio, including SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) and SolarWinds Storage

Resource Monitor (SRM), also integrate -- SolarWinds now provides database and systems administrators:

　　·A single view of performance, uptime, capacity and resource utilization across the stack-applications,

databases, hypervisors and servers -- to help pinpoint inefficient code, resource bottlenecks and application

performance issues.

　　·Deeper application-specific context for database operations, asset management, instance discovery,

capacity planning, index fragmentation and agent job status.

　　·Improved ability to figure out what to fix and more time actually fixing problems with wait-time analytics,

performance-to-resource correlation and tuning advice.

"Business today lives and dies on the performance of applications, which themselves rely on an increasingly

complex stack of underlying technologies, one of the most important yet least understood by systems

administrators being the database," said Gerardo Dada, vice president of product marketing and strategy,

SolarWinds. "At the same time, database administrators traditionally haven't had visibility into the impact

databases have on application performance. This has resulted in a significant disconnect that reduces the

collective ability to drive peak application performance. Integrating SolarWinds DPA with the SolarWinds Orion

technology backbone means the database is no longer the black box it once was to systems administrators, and

database administrators have the visibility into the effect databases have on downstream applications to assist in

the prevention of problems before applications are even impacted."

　　SolarWinds DPA is a complete database performance monitoring, analysis and optimization tool

for MicrosoftR SQL ServerR, OracleR Standard Edition, Oracle Enterprise Edition, IBMR DB2R and SAPR ASE

operations -- whether applications are hosted on-premises, in a virtualized environment or on the

AmazonRWeb Services (AWSR) cloud, where it supports both RDS and EC2R instances. It features

multi-dimensional performance analysis™, storage performance analysis, correlation and dynamic metric

baselining with alerting and reporting to help pinpoint the root cause of performance issues quickly.

　　 While SolarWinds DPA now integrates with the SolarWinds Orion technology backbone, existing

SolarWinds DPA customers not currently leveraging SolarWinds Orion will not need to install SolarWinds

Orion to continue using it. However, database teams can benefit from the integration and additional capabilities

made possible with SolarWinds SAM.

　　 Pricing and Availability
　　SolarWinds DPA pricing starts at $1,995 USD* for

SQL Server and Oracle Standard Edition, and $3,495 USD* for Oracle Enterprise Edition, DB2 and SAP ASE.

SolarWinds offers fully functional two-week trials for both the Amazon AWS Marketplace AMI and the

downloadable version on the SolarWinds website. Customers will not incur SolarWinds software charges

during free two-week trials, however AWS infrastructure charges still apply. All database platforms are licensed by

the instance, and pricing includes the first year of maintenance. For more information, visit the SolarWinds

website or call 866.530.8100.

　　*Price as of June 3, 2015. Pricing may vary based upon the jurisdiction and applicable currency. Please

contact a local SolarWinds sales representative to find pricing specific for your jurisdiction.

　　Additional Resources:

　　·Press Release: SolarWinds Introduces Cloud-Centric Database Performance Management in AWS

Marketplace

　　·Video: Improving Application Performance with Database Response Time within SolarWinds Orion

　　·Video: How-To Integrate Server & Application Monitor with Database Performance Analyzer

　　About SolarWinds
　　SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) provides powerful and

affordable IT management software to customers worldwide from Fortune 500R enterprises to small

businesses. In all of our market areas, our approach is consistent. We focus exclusively on IT Pros and strive to

eliminate the complexity that they have been forced to accept from traditional enterprise software vendors.

SolarWinds delivers on this commitment with unexpected simplicity through products that are easy to

find, buy, use and maintain while providing the power to address any IT management problem on any scale. Our

solutions are rooted in our deep connection to our user base, which interacts in our thwackR online community

to solve problems, share technology and best practices, and directly participate in our product development

process. Learn more today at http://www.solarwinds.com/.

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