SolarWinds Buys Part Of Tek-Tools For Up To $42 Million

SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software , today announced that it has acquired certain of the assets of Tek-Tools, a privately-held company with offices in Dallas, TX and Chennai, India, with a combination of cash and stock for up to $42 million.

Tek-Tools’ Profiler suite of products gives users visibility into the performance of storage and virtualized server infrastructures. The addition of Tek-Tools’ offerings to the SolarWinds Orion product portfolio will add management of enterprise storage infrastructure to existing network and applications management capabilities, delivering an end-to-end IT management solution.

The SolarWinds Orion product family has long offered companies of all sizes network, systems and application management through products such as Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) andOrion Application Performance Monitor (APM). Tek-Tools’ products will add deeper storage and virtualization management to the SolarWinds portfolio, delivering broader IT management capabilities and increasing IT organizations efficiency and responsiveness.

Tek-Tools’ Profiler Suite will continue to be available from SolarWinds and select channel partners.