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Evolving Partner Journeys: Accelerate With Us in 2026

Partners play an essential role in bridging the gap between innovation and implementation, helping IT teams adopt new capabilities with confidence. Today, as organizations modernize their infrastructures, expand hybrid environments, and begin experimenting with new forms of AI, partner expertise is more crucial than ever.

Stacey Cole

December 29, 2025

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In 2025, SolarWinds and our partner community supported customers through a pivotal year of technological change. In 2026, we shift from adapting to accelerating—modernizing with purpose, strengthening predictable value for partners, and helping customers advance toward more intelligent, resilient operations. All the while, partners remain at the center of the SolarWinds story, guiding customers forward and shaping what success looks like in this exciting new chapter.

Reflecting on Our Partner Journey in 2025

Throughout 2025, SolarWinds invested deeply in partner engagement and enablement. With new role-based certifications, regional Partner Summits, global World Tours, enablement workshops, executive briefings, and webinars, we strengthened collaboration at all turns. These conversations shaped the direction of our platform, helped refine our partner experience, and ensured we remained aligned with real-world customer needs. What we heard consistently was clear: partners want clarity, predictability, and a differentiated value story for customers navigating the next wave of IT modernization. This year, we are evolving the partner experience, expanding enablement, improving alignment, and offering new resources that support long-term customer relationships. The goal is simple: to help partners confidently guide customers through complexity, deliver measurable outcomes, and strengthen returns through a new licensing model built for consistency.

Accelerate With Us at the 2026 SolarWinds Partner Summit

To mark the start of this next chapter, we’re excited to bring our global partner community together for the 2026 SolarWinds Partner Summit, our virtual, global event designed to give every partner a unified and consistent experience. Last year’s theme, Elevate Together, captured a moment where we navigated change side-by-side with our partners. This year, Accelerate With Us reflects the natural progression of that journey. After strengthening our platform, modernizing our business model, and laying the groundwork for predictable, multi-year value, partners now have a stronger foundation than ever before. 2026 is about building on that foundation with greater speed, confidence, and momentum. Key themes at this year’s Partner Summit include:

From products to platform: We have shifted from a product-centric portfolio to a unified platform, designed to deliver end-to-end visibility, smart automation, and operational resilience.
A new model for success: Our evolved licensing model promises to drive growth for partners while giving customers consistent innovation, simplified budgeting, and a more reliable long-term experience.
Agentic capabilities: Our platform roadmap brings new layers of AI and automation that reduce complexity and position partners to lead their customers into the next stage of IT operations.

At this year's summit, you’ll gain:

A clear view into our three-year roadmap
Deeper insight into our AI evolution and platform strategy
Actionable guidance on our licensing model and strategy
An understanding of how to forecast more predictable revenue
Practical tools to help customers achieve resilient, autonomous operations

We’ll also celebrate outstanding achievements across our partner ecosystem through the SolarWinds Global Partner Awards.

A Unified, Future-Ready Portfolio for 2026

This year, SolarWinds partners can look forward to a fine-tuned portfolio for the future of IT. For customers seeking cohesion across fragmented environments, the SolarWinds^® Platform delivers a unified observability foundation that provides end-to-end visibility across networks, applications, user experience, and cloud resources. Meanwhile, the forthcoming SolarWinds AI Agent gives IT teams an intuitive way to surface insights, generate diagnostics, summarize logs, optimize queries, adjust alerts, and streamline incident response. With these capabilities in hand, partners are strongly positioned to meet the needs of today’s IT departments. Together, SolarWinds and our partners give customers a clearer path forward: one built on unified visibility, intelligent assistance, and the support they need to succeed in an increasingly demanding IT landscape. Join us at the SolarWinds Partner Summit to learn more.