Solarwinds signs Interactive Ideas as UK distributor...

SolarWinds (www.solarwinds.com), a leader in network management software, today announced Interactive Ideas, one of the UK's leading value-added software and peripherals distributors, as its first UK-focused distributor following the recent launch of SolarWinds European operation.

"Our strategy is to have local distribution partners in each major European country supported by our European headquarters based in Cork," comments Jim Docherty, SolarWinds Vice President for International Sales, "Interactive Ideas is a very well respected distributor with a strong reputation for bringing new products to market while offering resellers innovative sales and marketing support and we are fortunate to have them join our team of partners."

SolarWinds is experiencing strong growth in Europe and the UK is one of the most active territories of its European customer base. The company has over 6500 customers in EMEA including major UK companies.

"The fact that SolarWinds has established a good customer base in the UK is a testament to the technical strength of the product," comments Mike Trup, Interactive Ideas managing director. "Now with increased sales and marketing resources from a local distribution office, Interactive Ideas believes that SolarWinds will provide an exciting opportunity to our network of resellers."

As part of the deal, SolarWinds will utilise the skills, experience and value-added services that Interactive Ideas has in place to support emerging technology vendors in building a channel in the UK. These benefits will include providing 1st level technical and marketing support to its channel of 850 partners across the UK.

The new distribution agreement enables Interactive Ideas to distribute SolarWinds' entire product portfolio including Engineer's Toolset, Orion Network Performance Monitor (Orion), Cirrus Configuration Manager (Cirrus), ipMonitor and LANsurveyor.

About SolarWinds

Solarwinds is a leading provider of Windows-based network management, network monitoring and network discovery software. More than 40,000 customers spanning mid-market businesses, government agencies and education institutions have chosen SolarWinds to reduce network downtime, monitor network performance, manage network compliance and change and improve staff efficiency. For more information, please visit www.solarwinds.com