SolarWinds announced its participation at Cisco Live!® EMEA, January 28 – February 1, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. The company, who is recognized by IDC® as the market leader in network management software, will exhibit its latest network management portfolio updates – Cisco ACI support and expanded anomaly detection capabilities – which are designed to provide deeper visibility into network environments. SolarWinds Head Geeks™Patrick Hubbard and Sascha Giese, along with other technical experts, will demonstrate how the latest SolarWinds network management portfolio updates are designed to be deployed easily and rapidly, with an improved and centrally-managed upgrade process. Over 275,000 customers worldwide use SolarWinds IT management software, which enables IT professionals to identify and address a complete range of IT infrastructure performance issues, and SolarWinds continues to extend its capabilities to help users monitor and manage Cisco environments with the latest updates: Network Performance Monitor (NPM) 12.4 – Incorporates support for Cisco ACI to help users monitor the health of their Cisco Software-Defined Networking (SDN) deployment. Network Configuration Manager (NCM) 7.9 – Introduces the ability to define and apply multi-device baselines or config snippets to any network node and is designed to enhance the ability to quickly identify configuration drift and adhere to corporate configuration standards. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) 4.5 – Expanded alerting can help users act quickly if application traffic suddenly increases or decreases, as well as help speed resolution if a device stops sending flow data. IP Address Manager (IPAM) 4.8 – Adds support for Infoblox® to help users monitor DHCP and DNS services in a centralized dashboard. The Orion Platform is a modular and scalable architecture built to deliver powerful network, infrastructure, and application monitoring and management capabilities across on-premises, hosted, and public cloud environments. The common framework combines a web-based dashboard, centralized user management, unified alerting and reporting, and consolidated metrics—enhancing collaboration between teams. In addition to the PerfStack™ dashboard improvements and centralized upgrades, the latest release of the Orion Platform also adds SAML authentication support, enabling Single Sign On (SSO) to the Orion Web Console.