Company: SolarWinds
Co-Founders: Donald Yonce and David Yonce
Website: https://www.solarwinds.com
About SolarWinds
SolarWinds is a global IT management company that helps IT teams work smarter.
Founded in 1999, the company has always focused on one mission: making powerful, affordable, and easy-to-use software that meets IT professionals where they are.
The shift toward SaaS has been a natural extension of this vision. For IT leaders under constant budget pressures, SaaS removes the heavy cost and complexity of infrastructure upkeep. Instead of spending countless hours maintaining systems, teams using SolarWinds can turn their attention back to what matters most: performance, reliability, and productivity.
SolarWinds understands that IT isn’t one-size-fits-all. Certain industries from healthcare to financial services will still need on-premises solutions due to strict regulatory requirements. Rather than force customers down a single road, SolarWinds developed a hybrid approach, allowing teams to choose the model that fits them best and change course when they’re ready.
Security is central to the SolarWinds story. The company embraces the shared responsibility model of cloud security: while SolarWinds secures the platform and infrastructure, customers control the connection between their environment and the cloud. By following best practices like setting alerts, tightening permissions known as zero trust, and using secure site-to-site links, customers gain peace of mind that their environments are safe, while trusting SolarWinds to keep the core platform secure.
Observability is at the heart of the SolarWinds SaaS offering. IT teams can monitor workloads across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or on-prem environments with a single, unified view. This cross-platform visibility strengthens security and helps teams identify and resolve issues faster, without being locked into a single vendor’s ecosystem.
In traditional setups, IT teams often brace for downtime, patch schedules, or lengthy infrastructure planning. With SolarWinds SaaS, upgrades happen seamlessly in the background, hot fixes and updates can happen automatically and scaling is effortless. Whether managing 100 or 100,000 nodes, the system can flex automatically — no downtime, no reconfiguration and no hassle.
For over two decades, SolarWinds has been a trusted partner to IT teams worldwide. By combining SaaS innovation with hybrid flexibility, it gives organisations the freedom to grow and adapt on their own terms.
