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The Redmond Reader's Choice Awards are determined by the magazine's IT professional readers through a survey that was fielded earlier in 2015. The survey includes all known vendors in each category except Microsoft® to get an understanding of what third-party software, hardware and services were most favored for working with and in support of the core Microsoft platforms. SolarWinds received recognition for the following IT management categories and products:

"As MySQL has become more popular in larger organizations due to its open source benefits, a key issue, especially when it comes to business-critical workloads, has been a lack of truly enterprise-grade tools to optimize and troubleshoot MySQL, which ultimately improves performance and the performance of the applications that depend on it," said Gerardo Dada, vice president of product marketing, SolarWinds. "SolarWinds DPA for MySQL allows organizations to accelerate their investment in MySQL by providing database and applications teams with the visibility, troubleshooting and optimization technology these workloads require. Combined with the existing support for SQL Server, Oracle and other top platforms, SolarWinds DPA helps to provide application teams the performance certainty they need to run the most important applications for their business with a much broader choice of underlying database."

SolarWinds Log & Event Manager delivers comprehensive SIEM capabilities in a highly affordable, easy-to-deploy virtual appliance. SolarWinds Log & Event Manager automates and simplifies the complex task of security management, root cause analysis, incident response and continuous compliance, assisting IT security pros in the identification and remediation of threats and vital network issues -- before critical systems and data can be exploited.

While only 12 percent of respondents indicated that shadow IT -- when IT systems and solutions are built and used inside organizations without explicit organizational approval -- is an area of high importance and leadership focus in their agency, nearly six in ten (58%) expect the use of shadow IT to increase in the next two years.

IT Industry Awards

In the field, in the data centre or in the agency's offices, SolarWinds® technology offers government organisations powerful yet simple-to-use solutions for IT management challenges, including continuous and protective monitoring, cybersecurity, network operations, compliance, and data centre consolidation in a wide range of sectors:

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager now combines performance, configuration and hypervisor-specific alerts with related management actions in a single dashboard, enabling IT pros to remediate issues in as few as two clicks instead of utilizing multiple products to take action. Traditionally, any issues that triggered an alert would have to be manually fixed, but now IT pros can automate remediation with customized alert triggers to ensure the health of their virtual environment even when they are not in the office.

Cisco Device Vulnerability Scanning

With the integration of SolarWinds DPA with SolarWinds Orion -- with which other key products in SolarWinds portfolio, including SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM), also integrate -- SolarWinds now provides database and systems administrators:

DameWare Remote Support's new Active Directory integration enables single sign-on support to improve technician efficiency and help ensure company password policies are enforced. It also allows administrators to schedule automated synchronization of DameWare Remote Support users with Active Directory lists, easing management burdens.