SolarWinds (SWI)

AUSTIN, TX -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 01/27/10 --
SolarWinds, Inc. (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and
affordable IT management software to more than 88,000 customers worldwide,
today announced that it has acquired certain of the assets of Tek-Tools, Inc., 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.

"As the need for comprehensive management of highly networked physical and
virtualized IT resources becomes more and more critical to enterprises of
all sizes, we believe that this transaction uniquely positions us to
provide a more complete solution that IT teams need to support their
environments," said Mike Bennett, SolarWinds' Chairman and CEO.

"Over the past 10 years, we've proven that our technology solves complex
problems in very simple ways and that our business model of delivering
powerful, easy to use, low-cost management solutions can succeed for a wide
range of customers. The integration of Tek-Tools' storage and virtualization management products is
an important addition to our product portfolio that will allow us to
respond to customer demand for an end-to-end IT management solution that
offers deeper visibility into networked storage and virtualized
environments," said Bennett.

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) and Orion 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.

"The collision of technologies like virtualization and cloud computing with
business forces like 'lean IT' is putting pressure on IT organizations to
rethink their management approach; functions that were once discrete will
need to merge or collaborate more effectively," said Kenny Van Zant,
SolarWinds' SVP and Chief Product Strategist.

"Today's data centers include application servers, virtualization layers
and storage all dependent on an 'always available' network, and the ongoing
adoption of virtualization and the associated storage needs continue to
drive the demand for and importance of networked storage," continued Van
Zant. "Systems administrators have to be more network-aware, storage teams
must tighten integration with the virtualization teams and network
engineers need visibility beyond the routers and switches they manage
today."

Tek-Tools' Profiler Suite will continue to be available from SolarWinds and
select channel partners. For more information on Tek-Tools and the
company's portfolio of storage and virtualization management solutions,
visit www.tek-tools.com. For more information on SolarWinds, the
acquisition and SolarWinds IT management solutions, please visit www.solarwinds.com.

In support of this announcement, SolarWinds will host a teleconference on
Wednesday, January 27 at 7:30 am CT. The domestic dial-in number for this
call is 877-627-6544; international participants can dial +1 719-325-4838
to access the call. Please dial in 5-10 minutes before the scheduled start
time. A live webcast of the call will be available on the SolarWinds
Investor Relations website at http://ir.solarwinds.com. A replay of the
webcast will be available on a temporary basis shortly after the event at
the same location.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking" statements that are subject
to safe harbors created under the U.S. federal securities laws. These
statements include, among others, statements regarding SolarWinds' ability
to achieve the expected synergies and other strategic benefits as a result
of the acquisition, including the ability of SolarWinds' to fulfill its
customers' demands for a more complete software solution, and management's
beliefs on industry trends. 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 "will,"
"expects," "believes" or similar expressions and the negatives of those
terms. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
including without limitation the potential impact on the business of
Tek-Tools, Inc. due to the acquisition, the retention of employees of
Tek-Tools, Inc. and the ability of SolarWinds to successfully integrate
Tek-Tools, Inc.'s market opportunities, technology, personnel and
operations and to achieve planned synergies. Therefore, actual results may
differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking
statements. For information regarding other related risks, see the "Risk
Factors" section of SolarWinds most recent Form 10-Q filed on October 27,
2009. 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.

About SolarWinds

SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) provides powerful and affordable IT management
software to more than 88,000 customers worldwide -- from Fortune 500
enterprises to small businesses. Focused on the real-world needs of IT
professionals, SolarWinds products are downloadable, easy to use and
maintain, and provide the power, scale, and flexibility needed to manage
today's complex IT environments. SolarWinds' growing online community, thwack, is a gathering-place for problem-solving,
technology-sharing, and participating in product development for all of
SolarWinds' products. Learn more today at http://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.

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