ĭuring 2007, SolarWinds raised funding from Austin Ventures, Bain Capital, and Insight Venture Partners. The company was profitable from its founding through its IPO in 2009. In 2006, the company moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas, where about 300 of the company's total 450 employees were based as of 2011. According to Michael Bennett, who became the chief executive officer in 2006, the name SolarWinds was chosen by an early employee and the company has nothing to do with solar or wind power. SolarWinds released its first products, Trace Route and Ping Sweep, earlier in March 1998 and released its first web-based network performance monitoring application in November 2001. SolarWinds began in 1999 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, co-founded by Donald Yonce (a former executive at Walmart) and his brother David Yonce. In February 2021, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that it was 'the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen'. The attack persisted undetected for months in 2020, and additional details about the breadth and depth of compromised systems continued to surface after the initial disclosure.

Ī SolarWinds product, Orion, used by about 33,000 public and private sector customers, was the focus of a large-scale attack disclosed in December 2020. It had about 300,000 customers as of December 2020, including nearly all Fortune 500 companies and numerous agencies of the US federal government. It has also acquired a number of other companies, some of which it still operates under their original names, including Pingdom, Papertrail and Loggly.

The company was publicly traded from May 2009 until the end of 2015, and again from October 2018. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offices in a number of locations in the United States and several other countries. SolarWinds Corporation is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure.

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