(Source: MARKETWIRE)
SolarWinds(R) Inc. (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and
affordable IT management software, today announced that its
international business is expanding its presence in the Japanese
market by making key investments, including creating a Japanese
language website, the translation and localization of its products,
and creating a dedicated, native Japanese-speaking support team based
in Brisbane, Australia. In addition, SolarWinds announced that it
will enter into partnerships with leading Japanese companies,
including Marubeni Information Systems, in order to promote and sell
its unique IT management portfolio to Japanese customers.
"We believe we have a significant growth opportunity through further
expansion in the Asia-Pacific region," said Kevin Thompson, President
and CEO, SolarWinds. "Within our commercial business, our APAC
business has continued to grow year-over-year, giving us the
confidence to invest more resources and devote more time and effort
into the Japanese market."
SolarWinds' network management products, including the company's
flagship product, SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
and modules like SolarWinds Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA), will lead
the company's entrance into the Japanese market. These products are
the foundation for SolarWinds growth and brand success, and are
gaining significant traction internationally -- as they already have
in the United States.
Japanese businesses and their IT departments will also have the
opportunity to experience the company's other IT management products,
including SolarWinds Virtualization Manager; SolarWinds Storage
Manager; and SolarWinds Application Performance Manager (APM).
"As one of SolarWinds key partners in Japan, Marubeni Information
Systems will start selling SolarWinds' products in Japan using our
experience in the network management softwarebusiness and using our
extensive customer data base. We will focus our sales efforts on a
broad-based set of customers including large and small enterprises in
industries such as Telecommunications, Finance, Retail, Automobiles,
Electronics as well as the government ministries, local government
and schools," said Yoshihiro Nagakawa, Marubeni Information Systems'
Managing Executive Officer and Division Director.
"We believe we have made the key investments in our websites,
products and partner relationships in order to allow SolarWinds to
achieve success in the Japanese market.