SolarWinds

This article is about the IT company. For the astronomical phenomenon, see solar wind. For other uses, see Solar wind (disambiguation).

SolarWinds Corporation
Company typePublic company
ISINUS83417Q1058
IndustrySoftware
GenreNetwork monitoring
Founded1999; 25 years ago (1999) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Founders
  • Donald Yonce
  • David Yonce
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
,
U.S.
Key people
Sudhakar Ramakrishna (CEO)[1]
ProductsAppOptics, Loggly, Pingdom, Papertrail
RevenueIncrease US$719 million (2022)
Increase US$−820 million (2022)
Increase US$−929 million (2022)
Total assetsIncrease US$3.20 billion (2022)
Total equityIncrease US$1.37 billion (2022)
Number of employees
2,305 (Dec 2022)
Websitewww.solarwinds.com
Footnotes / references
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SolarWinds Corporation is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. 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.[3] The company was publicly traded from May 2009 until the end of 2015, and again from October 2018. It has also acquired a number of other companies, some of which it still operates under their original names, including Pingdom, Papertrail, and Loggly.[4] It had about 300,000 customers as of December 2020, including nearly all Fortune 500 companies and numerous agencies of the US federal government.[5][6]

A 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. 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.[7] In February 2021, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that it was "the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen".[8]

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  2. ^ "SolarWinds Corporation 2022 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. February 22, 2023.
  3. ^ Lind, Treva (September 22, 2011). "SolarWinds blows into Post Falls". Journal of Business. Archived from the original on December 20, 2020. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
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  5. ^ Cimpanu, Catalin. "SEC filings: SolarWinds says 18,000 customers were impacted by recent hack". ZDNet. Archived from the original on December 15, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  6. ^ Sanger, David E.; Perlroth, Nicole; Schmitt, Eric (December 15, 2020). "Scope of Russian Hack Becomes Clear: Multiple U.S. Agencies Were Hit". New York Times. Archived from the original on December 18, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  7. ^ Cimpanu, Catalin. "Microsoft says it identified 40+ victims of the SolarWinds hack". ZDNet. Archived from the original on December 20, 2020. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  8. ^ "SolarWinds is 'largest' cyberattack ever, Microsoft president says". Politico. February 15, 2021. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved February 15, 2021.