Google vs SolarWinds

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Google
Based on 833 reviews.
SolarWinds
Based on 352 reviews.
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Overview
Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results. Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful,"
SolarWinds Inc. develops enterprise information technology infrastructure management software for IT professionals. In 2007, SolarWinds raised funding from Austin Ventures, Bain Capital and Insight Venture Partners. SolarWinds completed its initial public offering of $112.5 million in 2009. In 2012, SolarWinds' total revenue reached $269 million. In June 2014, the company purchased the Swedish web-monitoring company Pingdom.
Sample Customers
Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver)
Uber, Batterii, Q42, Dovetail Games
SolarWinds NPM
Microsoft, Federal Express, Hewlett-Packard, and MasterCard
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor
Air Rarotonga
SolarWinds Network Automation Manager
Maalem Financing Company, School City of Hammond
SolarWinds AppOptics
TraxoCovea Insurance BTE TechnologyDatarista
SolarWinds Security Event Manager
NetSuite, EasyStreet, Legacy Texas Bank, and Energy Federal Credit Union, to name a few.
Solarwinds Papertrail
Product Hunt
Loggly
Lenovo, Pizza Hut, Care.com, USGA, Citrix, Neustar, Lucidchart, Samsung, Sendgrid, AKQU, Ebates, EA
SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server
Holy Cross Energy, West Texas A&M University, Medium Enterprise Industrial Manufacturing Company
SolarWinds Kiwi Log Viewer
1. Atlassian 2. Cisco 3. Dell EMC 4. Google 5. IBM 6. Intel 7. JPMorgan Chase 8. LinkedIn 9. Microsoft 10. Oracle 11. PayPal 12. SAP 13. Siemens 14. Spotify 15. Tesla 16. Twitter 17. Uber 18. VMware 19. WeWork 20. World Bank 21. Xerox 22. Yahoo 23. Zynga 24. Accenture 25. Amazon Web Services 26. ATT 27. Cloudflare 28. Facebook 29. Gartner 30. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 31. Salesforce 32. ServiceNow
SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor
Andr. L. Riis AS, NetSuite
Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor
commscope, COCC,
SolarWinds Pingdom
Spotify, MailChimp, Slack, Twitter
Dameware Remote Support
Illinois School District
SolarWinds Dameware Remove Everywhere
Accenture, Emerson, Lockheed Martin, Nielsen, NTT
Popular Solutions
Top Industries
Educational Organization
17%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Educational Organization
41%
Computer Software Company
9%
Government
6%
Comms Service Provider
5%
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