New additions to its flagship Orion software family that extend the ease of use and quick deployment benefits of the suite for companies that run large or geographically distributed networks have been announced by a leader in downloadable network management software, SolarWinds.

Available now from the SolarWinds website, the new Orion Enterprise Operations Console (EOC) and updated Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) version 9, deliver comprehensive fault and network performance management that easily scales with network growth and network monitoring needs.

Network engineers need to maintain stability and quickly react to issues, as the company network becomes more critical to everyday success for businesses of all sizes. Ensuring optimal network performance while managing and troubleshooting the proliferation of new devices is no small task, particularly for administrators of large, geographically distributed networks. Without adding to the complexity - users can simply download the software and typically be up and running in around an hour, the latest Orion offerings directly tackle this challenge.

Chief product strategist, Kenny Van Zant, stated: "Solutions built to manage networks for companies with hundreds of employees to tens of thousands of employees, in multiple locations, are usually expensive and difficult to deploy." He added: "Our latest additions to the Orion product family deliver on the promise of enterprise-class performance and retain the same easy to deploy, easy to use and easy to afford attributes that are the hallmark of SolarWinds' products."

Providing them with a comprehensive view of their network's health, the Orion family of products allows network engineers to monitor, collect and analyze data from SNMP and WMI-enabled devices. Providing a convenient way for administrators to stay up to date 24/7, users can view the real-time statistics and availability of their network from any Web browser.

The new Orion Enterprise Operations Console (EOC) provides a consolidated command center from which users can monitor the entire enterprise network. Engineers can track, through a single dashboard, as few as a hundred to more than several hundred thousand network interfaces, consolidating information from remote Orion servers running Orion NPM and any of its modules. Orion Enterprise Operations Console's WAN-optimized architecture enables large scale network monitoring without impacting WAN performance.