 SolarWinds reportedly updated its Network Performance Monitor product in December 2018 with enhancements for Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).According to "The Wall Street Journal", SolarWinds offers freely downloadable software to potential clients and then markets more advanced software to them by offering trial versions.Following the funding in 2007, SolarWinds acquired several companies including Neon Software and ipMonitor Corp. and opened a European sales office in Ireland.