SolarWinds to Host North American Transform Partner Summit, Emphasizing Company’s Growing Focus on Channel

Event will feature keynote presentations from SolarWinds executives; host technical training, accreditation courses, and product strategy sessions; and celebrate partner achievements

SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, today announced it will host its annual North American Partner Summit in Austin from February 27 – March 3. The event is part of a series of Partner Summits SolarWinds is hosting across Europe, Asia, and North America to provide information and support for the company’s channel partners. At this year’s North American Partner Summit—which will be held live and in-person for the first time in two years—partners will be able to meet with SolarWinds executives, product experts, and other partners from North America.

Over the course of the summit, SolarWinds will share updates to its product strategy and innovations and hold panel discussions and presentations about how partners can grow their business by participating in the Transform Partner Program. The recently launched program enables partners to accelerate their clients’ digital transformation efforts through simple, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered SolarWinds observability solutions designed for today’s complex IT environments. SolarWinds team members will discuss how the Transform Partner Program offers opportunities for shared growth and can help meet customers’ needs, no matter where they are in their cloud journeys. In-person attendees will have the opportunity to improve their sales expertise with the SolarWinds Sales Expert (SSE) accreditation training and SolarWinds Certified Professional^® (SCP) training. The company additionally will celebrate its partners’ achievements during an exclusive SolarWinds Partner Awards Ceremony.

“We launched the Transform Partner Program to continue our support of our partners' accelerating digital transformation efforts,” said Chad Reese, president of Americas sales and global channel at SolarWinds. “This is more important than ever with the modern, distributed, and multi-cloud network environments the channel is experiencing today. We’re excited to share more on our strategic approach and how the company is fueling growth within the channel at this year’s summit.”

SolarWinds executives will also discuss updates to the company’s world-class observability solutions, which are designed to help organizations manage complicated hybrid and multi-cloud IT environments. Attendees will learn how SolarWinds^® Observability and SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability can provide customers with single-pane-of-glass visibility across applications, networks, infrastructure, and systems. Partners can also get a firsthand look into how each solution’s AIOps and machine learning capabilities deliver actionable insights, operational intelligence, and smart automation capabilities to remediate issues quickly.

For those who can’t attend in person, the presentation will be available online and will include keynote sessions from the SolarWinds executive leadership team, including the following people:

• Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President and CEO
• Rohini Kasturi, EVP, Chief Product Officer
• Chad Reese, President, Americas Sales and Global Channel
• Laurent Delattre, VP, Europe, Middle East, and Africa Sales

Register here for the live virtual stream of the executive plenary session and take the opportunity to hear from our exceptional lineup of executive speakers about our strategy and focus on the channel business in 2023.

The SolarWinds North American Partner Summit will take place February 27 – March 3 in Austin, Texas. If you wish to attend the event in person, please email us at partner@solarwinds.com, and we’ll review your application.

Additional Resources

• SolarWinds Transform Partner Program
• SolarWinds Partner Portal
• SolarWinds Sales Expert Accreditations
• SolarWinds Certified Professional
• Event Page: 2023 EMEA Partner Summit
• Blog: Announcing Our New Partner Program: The SolarWinds Transform Partner Program

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About SolarWinds

SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) is a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software built to enable customers to accelerate their digital transformation. Our solutions provide organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—with a comprehensive and unified view of today’s modern, distributed, and hybrid network environments. We continuously engage with IT service and operations professionals, DevOps and SecOps professionals, and database administrators (DBAs) to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available hybrid IT infrastructures, applications, and environments. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK community, allow us to address customers’ needs now and in the future. Our focus on the user and our commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management have established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for observability, IT service management, application performance, and database management. Learn more today at www.solarwinds.com.

This press release contains “forward-looking” statements, which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the benefits and growth opportunities of SolarWinds’ channel strategy. These forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts and may be identified by terms such as “aim,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “can,” “could,” “seek,” “should,” “feel,” “expect,” “will,” “would,” “plan,” “intend,” “estimate,” “continue,” or similar expressions and the negatives of those terms. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the risks and uncertainties described more fully in documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the risk factors discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2021 filed on February 25, 2022, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 filed on August 5, 2022 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 filed on November 8, 2022. All information provided in this release is as of the date hereof and SolarWinds undertakes no duty to update this information except as required by law.

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