London – June 13, 2023 – SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, announced it has appointed Kite as a value-added distributor in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The partnership will enable Kite to provide the entire suite of SolarWinds® IT management solutions, including its full-stack observability solutions for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises, to customers in the region, helping solve today’s digital transformation challenges.
In the UK and Ireland, Kite works with the largest system integrators and resellers as well as smaller, localised partners. The new partnership between SolarWinds and Kite will help recruit, enable, and train new channel partners and provide partners with high-quality services, from marketing and technical support to personalised assistance in growing their existing and new customer base with SolarWinds solutions.
“We are focused on bringing innovative and disruptive technologies to our customers. With SolarWinds comprehensive observability and IT management product offerings, we can help organisations reduce IT complexity, accelerate issue resolution, and be cloud-ready,” said Kip Tumber, Director at Kite Distribution. “The partnership will allow us to reach new customers and secure successful projects with SolarWinds simple, affordable, and secure solutions.”
“SolarWinds is focused on engaging with committed channel partners that can drive growth and accelerate digital and IT transformation for our customers,” said Charles Damerell, Senior Director of Northern Europe Sales at SolarWinds. “With local expertise and an experienced, dedicated team, we are confident Kite will provide our customers the highest levels of service and successful outcomes. We’re looking forward to a fruitful partnership.”
With nearly 25 years of experience, SolarWinds solutions give organisations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to accelerate business transformation in today’s hybrid IT environments. SolarWinds engages with IT service and operations professionals, along with DevOps and SecOps professionals, to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing IT infrastructures, applications, and environments. The company’s Secure by Design initiative set a new gold-plated standard for cyber policies and procedures and introduced a unique new software build process that is helping to make SolarWinds a model for enterprise software security.
Partners can say hi to the Kite and SolarWinds team aboard the Sunborn Yacht at Kite’s Infosec Aftershow on 21 June. Find out more details and secure your space below.
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About SolarWinds
SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) is a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software built to enable customers to accelerate their digital transformation. Our solutions provide organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—with a comprehensive and unified view of today’s modern, distributed, and hybrid network environments. We continuously engage with IT service and operations professionals, DevOps and SecOps professionals, and database administrators (DBAs) to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available hybrid IT infrastructures, applications, and environments. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK community, allow us to address customers’ needs now and in the future. Our focus on the user and our commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management have established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for observability, IT service management, application performance, and database management. Learn more today at www.solarwinds.com.
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About Kite Distribution
Kite is a UK focused, value-added distributor that specialises in bringing innovative and disruptive technologies to the UK channel. Our management have over 68 years of accumulated channel experience, including launching and building markets for some of the most readily recognisable security & networking brands around today.
Our aim at Kite is to provide each of our vendor and reseller partners with a market leading distribution engine for building incremental revenue. We are also ardent believers in maintaining quality at all times. We endeavour to set a very high level of partner satisfaction from the point the enquiry is picked up, our understanding of the vendors proposition, quote accuracy and turnaround all the way through to delivery and post-sale professional services.
We firmly believe that the generation of incremental revenue is a goal more easily accomplished with distribution and the vendor both working in tandem with the partner. For that reason we leverage our know how and complementary services to assist in the creation & closure of pipeline opportunity.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Chris Watson | Kite Distribution | Phone: +44 1162 438 800 | chris.watson@kitedistribution.co.uk
Nik Koutsoukos | SolarWinds | Phone: +1-512-682-9530 | pr@solarwinds.com
Samantha Browning | Wildfire | Phone: +44 0208 408 8000 | SolarWinds@wildfirepr.com
