Solar Winds (SWI)

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SolarWinds announces the company plans to expand its presence in Brazil
SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software for companies worldwide, announced today the company plans to expand its presence in Brazil, one of the world's fastest-growing IT markets. The company currently has a Portuguese language website and has plans to grow its Portuguese-speaking sales and support team based in Austin. In addition, the company today entered into a new distribution relationship with Westcon Group to better serve the
Brazilian market.

Overview:


-- Westcon Group is a value-added distributor of category-leading unified
communications, network infrastructure, data center, and security
solutions with a global network of specialty resellers. SolarWinds
plans to leverage the company's deep market expertise to offer
resellers and customers comprehensive support for SolarWinds'
award-winning IT management products, including SolarWinds' network
management product portfolio, SolarWinds Server & Application
Monitor, formerly SolarWinds Application Performance Monitor,
SolarWinds Storage Manager, Powered by Profiler, and SolarWinds
Virtualization Manager solutions.
-- Today's announcement with Westcon builds on a successful distribution
agreement covering Africa, Hong Kong, India and Singapore.
-- SolarWinds is recruiting reseller partners interested in selling and
supporting SolarWinds products in the region. Interested companies
should register to attend the Westcon and SolarWinds webinar on March
7 at 4 p.m., S. America Eastern Standard Time (Brasilia, GMT-03:00)
for an overview of SolarWinds and its products. Partners may also
contact [e-mail] for more information.
-- SolarWinds was established in 1998, employs more than 400 people
worldwide, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company has
additional international locations in Singapore; Brisbane, Australia;
Cork, Ireland; and Brno, Czech Republic.



Supporting Quotes:
"As the third fastest-growing IT market in the
world, Brazil represents an exciting opportunity for SolarWinds to
continue our global expansion and expand our offering of easy to use,
powerful and affordable software," said Kevin Thompson, President and
CEO, SolarWinds. "We believe our approach to solving today's real world
IT management problems combined with our web-based option for users to
download and trial the products for free before they buy provides us a
unique model that's attractive to IT professionals and one that few other
enterprise software companies can match."

"The addition of SolarWinds to our data center portfolio in Brazil is
quite significant... As Westcon is dedicated to offering reseller
partners access to the most critical data center solutions in the market,
flexible and affordable management software is a crucial element to this
strategy. SolarWinds' ability to fit a wide range of enterprise systems,
from large corporations to small and medium businesses, and allows sales
channels to meet their clients' business needs across a wide range of
industries. We're pleased to be partnering with SolarWinds in Brazil to
offer resellers access to this business-critical solution," said Otavio
Lazarini, SVP Westcon Group, Latam.

For more information on SolarWinds IT management products, visit
http://www.solarwinds.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may be deemed to contain "forward-looking" statements,
which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including SolarWinds' expectations of its
growth and expansion in the India market. These forward-looking
statements are based on management's beliefs and assumptions and on
information currently available to management. Forward-looking statements
include all statements that are not historical facts and may be
identified by terms such as "continues," "believes," "plans" or similar
expressions and the negatives of those terms. Forward-looking statements
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may
cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially
different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed
or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or
contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those
risks and uncertainties described more fully in documents filed with or
furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All information
provided in this release is as of the date hereof and SolarWinds
undertakes no duty to update this information except as required by law.

About SolarWinds
SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) provides powerful and affordable
IT management software to customers worldwide -- from Fortune 500
enterprises to small businesses. We work to put our users first and
remove the obstacles that have become "status quo" in traditional
enterprise software. SolarWinds products are downloadable, easy to use
and maintain, and provide the power, scale, and flexibility needed to
address users' management priorities. Our online user community, thwack,
is a gathering-place where tens of thousands of IT pros solve problems,
share technology, and participate in product development for all of
SolarWinds' products. Learn more today at http://www.solarwinds.com.

SolarWinds, SolarWinds.com, and Orion are registered trademarks of
SolarWinds. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.



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