SolarWinds Cirrus Configuration Manager Surpasses 1000 Customer Milestone.Releases New Version of Cirrus Configuration Manager that Offers an Easy-to-Use, Multi-Vendor Configuration Management Solution at an Extremely Affordable Price AUSTIN, Texas -- SolarWinds, a leader in network management software, today announced that Cirrus Configuration Manager (Cirrus) has surpassed a milestone of more than 1000 customers. SolarWinds also announced today the release of the latest version, Cirrus v. 3.5, and immediate availability of a hands-on Cirrus training course. New features introduced in Cirrus allow for real-time configuration change detection, configuration roll-back, and increased device support for Nortel Bay Stack switches and Netscaler Load Balancers. Enhanced integration with Orion Network Performance Monitor (Orion) provides a comprehensive network management solution for fault, performance and configuration management. "Network managers, today more than ever, are tasked with maintaining one hundred percent control and visibility of the configurations of mission-critical network resources, in diverse and ever-changing network environments with limited budget and staff," said Kenny Van Zant Van Zant is an American country rock duo composed of older brother Donnie and younger brother Johnny Van Zant. Both are brothers of the late Ronnie Van Zant, former lead singer for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. , chief product strategist strat·e·gist n. One who is skilled in strategy. Noun 1. strategist - an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) strategian market strategist - someone skilled in planning marketing campaigns at SolarWinds. "Cirrus provides our mid-market customers with an unmatched combination of value and functionality. Cirrus is an affordable solution that enables our customers to be proactive and efficient in assuring the performance, availability and security of their corporate networks." UniGroup, Inc. Experiencing Immediate Benefit An existing Orion and Engineer's Toolset customer, UniGroup, Inc., the parent company of United Van Lines United Van Lines is a moving van company now part of UniGroup, Inc. It is the largest mover in the United States with more than 30% market share (according to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics). and other transportation-related companies has more than 1,300 headquarters' employees and 1,000 agent offices worldwide. The company was looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a product that would enable its network engineers to dramatically reduce time spent managing Cisco network devices and automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. tasks such as configuration collection and documentation, IOS (1) (Internetwork Operating System) An operating system from Cisco that is the primary control program used in its routers. IOS is widely used and robust system software that supports the common functions of all products under Cisco's CiscoFusion architecture. upgrades and provide the ability to rapidly create comprehensive change management reports that can be shared with the management team. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Rick Brooks, Senior Communications Engineer at UniGroup, "We deployed Cirrus just a few weeks ago, and we are already experiencing immediate benefit. With four main engineers monitoring hundreds of routers, more than fifty wireless access points, scores of switches in the LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. and across the WAN while also performing other job functions, the time and ability to standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. certain aspects, such as IOS levels and certain code features, was insufficient. With Cirrus, we are able to quickly define and implement scripts to automatically push out IOS upgrades, verify and, if necessary, standardize configurations across the country with minimal effort. Our management team also likes the frequency with which we are able to provide comprehensive reports highlighting what changes have occurred across the network. Additionally, the fact that Cirrus provides a tremendous amount of functionality at an extremely reasonable price point has been well-received internally." Pricing, Availability, and Training Cirrus is available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. at www.solarwinds.com. Pricing starts at $1245 with maintenance. The new hands-on training course for Cirrus, priced at $2895 per student, instructs on the use of Cirrus features and functionality to maximize the value from managing device configurations. For more information please visit www.solarwinds.com or contact the SolarWinds sales department at 866-530-8100. About Cirrus Configuration Manager Cirrus is an affordable, easy-to-use network change and configuration management solution that automates device configuration management across multi-vendor network infrastructures. Cirrus works in conjunction with the Orion Syslog Server (SYStem LOG server) See syslog protocol. or Orion Trap Receiver to log configuration change events and alert the user. Its unique combination of scalability and robust functionality, along with its affordable price tag, make it the solution of choice for network engineers. About SolarWinds SolarWinds is a leading provider of Windows-based network management, network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. and network discovery software. SolarWinds products are geared to mid-market customers (100 to 5,000 employees) who need a scalable, easy-to-use network management solution for 250 to 10,000 managed elements at an affordable price point providing quick time to value. More than 40,000 customers spanning the military, mid-market businesses, government agencies and education institutions have chosen SolarWinds to reduce network downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. , monitor network performance, manage network compliance and change and improve staff efficiency. For more information, please visit www.solarwinds.com. SolarWinds, SolarWinds.Net and Orion are registered trademarks of SolarWinds.Net. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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