Hyper9

The firm specialized in providing services for virtual infrastructure, offering search and analytics capabilities. Its software was designed to help IT managers and system administrators tackle issues such as virtual machine sprawl, as well as manage storage capacity and optimization within data centers and other IT systems. The product provided a consolidated view for monitoring virtual environments and facilitating collaboration. Hyper9's business model targeted the high-growth markets of application performance and virtualization management, offering its downloadable software module with a starting price that included the first year of maintenance.

In a strategic move to expand its portfolio into virtualization management, IT management software company SolarWinds acquired Hyper9 on January 19, 2011. The acquisition allowed SolarWinds to integrate Hyper9's technology into its platform, offering its global customer base a comprehensive solution for visibility into both physical and virtual environments, covering networks, storage, and applications. The terms of the acquisition were not publicly disclosed.