PRESS RELEASE — AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwired – May 10, 2016) – SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced a partnership integration and upcoming joint webinar with Pure Storage, the market’s leading independent all-flash array vendor.

By integrating with Pure Storage^®, SolarWinds will be able to help ensure that any IT organization’s flash investment performs as expected and maximizes the performance of multi-generational storage environments. Using the holistic monitoring capabilities in SolarWinds^® Storage Resource Monitor, IT professionals will be able to manage storage capacity and performance across legacy storage systems and high-performance flash storage from Pure Storage all from one single tool.

“As the cost of flash storage has dramatically decreased over the last few years and is increasingly more accessible, all-flash storage arrays are quickly gaining in adoption rates with the promise of faster access to data, better performance and higher reliability,” said Nikki Jennings, group vice president, product strategy, SolarWinds. “We are excited to partner with Pure Storage to help IT professionals simplify flash storage management and ensure deep visibility and enhanced application performance from a single product.”{ad}

SolarWinds invites IT professionals who are interested in best practices to manage and monitor flash-based storage along with legacy storage devices to join the webinar, “Beyond the IOPS: Flash Storage Essentials for Performance and Uptime,” on June 8 at 1 p.m. CDT.

Presented by Kong Yang, Head Geek^™ at SolarWinds, and technology experts from Pure Storage, attendees will learn:

Registration is now open and there is no cost to attend the webinar.

“We’re pleased to be working with SolarWinds to help customers maximize their flash investments through an innovative new discipline to monitor storage in the datacenter,” said Matt Kixmoeller, vice president, product, Pure Storage.

About SolarWinds
SolarWinds provides powerful and affordable hybrid IT infrastructure management software to customers worldwide from Fortune 500^® enterprises to small businesses, government agencies and educational institutions. We are committed to focusing exclusively on IT Pros, and strive to eliminate the complexity that they have been forced to accept from traditional enterprise software vendors. Regardless of where the IT asset or user sits, SolarWinds delivers products that are easy to find, buy, use, maintain, and scale while providing the power to address all key areas of the infrastructure from on premises to the Cloud. Our solutions are rooted in our deep connection to our user base, which interacts in our thwack^® 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/.