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SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) has announced its participation in GITEX 2025 global events, where it will showcase its latest innovations in observability, database, and service management solutions. The company will demonstrate its unified SolarWinds Platform, which offers full-stack observability powered by AI for IT ops (AIOps), focusing on helping customers manage complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

The exhibitions will take place across multiple locations: GITEX AFRICA in Marrakech (April 14-16), GITEX ASIA in Singapore (April 23-25), GITEX EUROPE in Berlin (May 21-23), and GITEX GLOBAL in Dubai (October 13-17). The company's Global Tech Evangelist, Sascha Giese, will present 'Open Telemetry: The Future is Here' at several venues.

The platform includes SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, SolarWinds Observability SaaS, Database Observability, and Service Desk solutions, designed to enhance operational resilience and optimize IT spending.

SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) has announced significant enhancements to its IT management portfolio, focusing on operational resilience in hybrid environments. The company has introduced integrated capabilities across observability, incident response, service management, and AI-powered automation.

Key updates include:

• Squadcast Incident Response: Features AI-powered alert isolation, on-call management, and multi-source alert correlation
• SolarWinds Observability: Expanded hybrid IT awareness across major cloud vendors (GCP, AWS, Azure) with AI-powered Log Insights
• Database Observability: New AI Query Assist in Tech Preview for optimizing database queries
• Service Desk: Enhanced with AI Runbook generation and data masking capabilities

These solutions address common IT challenges including alert overload, data silos, and lengthy resolution processes, aiming to strengthen business continuity in complex hybrid IT environments.

SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) has announced the acquisition of Squadcast, a San Francisco-based incident response solution company. Squadcast, which serves as an advanced alternative to PagerDuty and OpsGenie, combines on-call alerting and incident response with SRE workflows to automate human tasks efficiently.

The acquisition highlights impressive metrics from Squadcast's existing customers, including a 68% reduction in average mean time to remediation (MTTR), savings of 1,000 work hours, and $500K in costs. Notable clients include Redis, Charter, and Mailbird.

The integration aims to enhance SolarWinds' Platform with intelligent incident response capabilities, focusing on AI-powered isolation of critical alerts, unified collaboration through over 200 integrations, and structured incident resolution. The SaaS-based offering will be available across multiple deployment options, including AWS and Microsoft Azure Marketplaces.

SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) has released its Next-Gen Government IT: AI and Observability Insights Report, based on a survey of 200 U.S. IT decision-makers from Federal, State, Local, and Education sectors. The study reveals that digital transformation remains a work in progress, with only 6% of organizations having completed their journey, while 41% report well-underway efforts and 42% are in early implementation stages.

Key findings show that data privacy and security concerns (62%), budget constraints (57%), and integration complexity (56%) are the main challenges. The general hacking community (59%) and careless/untrained insiders (58%) represent the top security threats. Over 33% of respondents are using AI for cybersecurity operations and IT observability, though 4 in 10 express significant concerns about AI adoption risks.

The report also highlights a shift in infrastructure preferences, with government cloud now leading at 70% adoption, while traditional on-premises usage has declined to 58% from 91% in 2023. Hybrid environments are expected to remain dominant, with 48% anticipating this as the future standard.

SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) has released its Next-Gen Government IT: AI and Observability Insights Report, revealing key challenges in UK public sector IT security. The survey of 100 IT decision-makers shows that budget constraints (23%) are the primary obstacle to improving IT security, while careless/untrained insiders (56%) represent the main security threat.

Digital transformation remains a work in progress, with only 6% of organizations having fully completed their journey, while 42% report well-underway efforts and 40% are in early implementation stages. The report highlights that 55% of threats come from the general hacking community, emphasizing the need for enhanced security measures.

Regarding AI adoption, 23% of respondents are using AI for IT operations automation and observability enhancement. However, 29% express serious concerns about AI-related risks, particularly regarding data privacy and compliance. The survey was conducted in December 2024, covering both UK and US public sector IT professionals.

SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) reported strong Q4 and full-year 2024 results, with Q4 revenue reaching $210.3 million (6% YoY growth) and full-year revenue of $796.9 million (5% YoY growth). The company achieved Q4 net income of $72.7 million and full-year net income of $111.9 million.

Notable metrics include Q4 Adjusted EBITDA of $104.1 million (49% margin, 20% YoY growth) and full-year Adjusted EBITDA of $384.7 million (48% margin, 17% YoY growth). Subscription ARR grew 34% YoY to $311.7 million, while Total ARR increased 7% to $729.0 million.

Significantly, SolarWinds announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by Turn/River Capital in an all-cash transaction valued at $4.4 billion, with shareholders receiving $18.50 per share. The transaction is expected to close in Q2 2025.

SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) has announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by Turn/River Capital in an all-cash transaction valued at $4.4 billion, or $18.50 per share. This represents a 35% premium over SWI's 90-day volume-weighted average closing price ending February 6, 2025.

The transaction has received unanimous approval from SolarWinds' Board of Directors and majority shareholders Thoma Bravo and Silver Lake, who collectively hold approximately 65% of voting securities. No additional shareholder approval is required. Upon completion, expected in Q2 2025, SolarWinds will become private and delist from NYSE, while maintaining its headquarters in Austin, Texas.

The company will continue operating under the SolarWinds name and brand, focusing on delivering operational resilience solutions through its platform's observability, monitoring, and service desk solutions.

SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) has announced significant enhancements to its Partner Program for 2025, focusing on three key areas: increasing partner profitability, capabilities, and tools. The program introduces a new three-tier model with enhanced revenue segmentation and margin control to boost partner profitability.

The company is launching the SolarWinds Services Certification Program (SCCP) to certify partners for selling Premium Support Add-On services. Partners must include both a SolarWinds Certified Professional and Instructor to qualify. The program also features improved partner portal experience with enhanced business planning tools, marketing automation, Google Ads activation, and lead-sharing capabilities.

SolarWinds will host two partner summits in 2025: one in Marrakesh, Morocco (February 10-12) and another in Phuket, Thailand (March 3-5), aimed at strengthening partnerships and driving regional growth.

SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) announced that its Observability Self-Hosted for Federal Government v2024.2 platform has received approval for procurement and deployment on the U.S. Department of Defense network after completing the DoDIN APL evaluation process. The platform achieved this milestone after undergoing extensive security testing, including Common Criteria EAL 2+ certification and FIPS 140-2 compliance.

The platform, built from Orion modules and powered by AIOps, includes various components such as Network Performance Monitor, Log Analyzer, Server & Application Monitor, and several other management tools. It is designed to help organizations optimize performance, ensure availability, and accelerate remediation across hybrid IT environments from behind the firewall.

The solution is available on the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule and other contract vehicles, featuring built-in automated compliance reports meeting major auditing authorities' requirements.