AUSTIN, TX—September 11, 2007—Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Micheál Martin TD today announced that SolarWinds, a leading provider of network management software, of Texas, US, is to establish its EMEA Headquarters at City Gate in Mahon in Cork, with the support of IDA Ireland.
The EMEA Headquarters, SolarWinds Software Europe Limited, is being established to develop and support the company’s international growth. It will include a range of activities including multilingual sales, technical and customer support, financial shared services, marketing and localisation and will employ 75 people over three years. Almost 95% of employees will be required to have third level qualifications.
Minister Martin said “SolarWinds is a highly successful company and will be a very welcome addition to the software industry in Ireland. We are delighted the company chose Cork as the location for its EMEA Headquarters and it joins a number of other companies who have located such operations there in the last couple of years. This investment was won against strong competition from other locations across Europe. Innovative companies like SolarWinds need and require a good availability of highly educated people and a vibrant information and communications technology industry to develop and support its European customer base and they found such attributes in Cork.”
SolarWinds is one of the primary network management software suppliers for businesses with IT environments ranging from ten to tens of thousands of network devices. The business is characterised by customers who require products with strong functionality, at affordable cost. SolarWinds attributes its success to the selling of its products online which are rich in functionality, with excellent reliability, and which are simple to deploy, being installed in less than one hour. Its strategy for the future to achieve its EMEA targets includes the expansion of existing product lines, the development of new product variations, and the growth of its international partner channel.
David Owens, vice president of SolarWinds and director of SolarWinds Software Europe Limited, said “Establishing our EMEA Headquarters in Cork enables the company to provide enhanced support to our customers and business partners in the EMEA market while lowering our overall cost of operations. This Headquarters will also play an integral part in the expansion of existing markets and the development of new markets across the entire EMEA region.”
Michael S. Bennett, president and CEO of SolarWinds, added “We selected Ireland because it has a great pool of talented individuals, provides a high quality of living for our employees, and we were provided with strong support from the Government and the local community.”
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About SolarWinds
SolarWinds is a leading provider of Windows-based network management, network monitoring and network discovery software. More than 40,000 customers spanning the military, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen SolarWinds to reduce network downtime, manage network compliance and change and improve staff efficiency. SolarWinds has developed and brought to market award-winning solutions that address the needs of network engineers from performance management to fault monitoring to configuration management. For more information, please visit www.SolarWinds.com
SolarWinds, SolarWinds.com and Orion are registered trademarks of SolarWinds. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
For further information:
SolarWinds: Anne Harding, MessageMachine, 01895 631448, anne@themessagemachine.com
IDA Ireland:
Brendan Kenny, Press & PR Officer, Tel: 087 9036126
Ruth Croke, Press & PR Manager, Tel: 087 4195051 ruth.croke@ida.ie
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment - Press Office, Tel: 01- 6312200
Jerry O’Connor, Press Advisor, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, 087 6630338/016312200