Establishing its first offices in Germany and adding additional sales and technical resources to support a growing client base throughout Europe. The addition of I.Tresor to the European operations delivers on Loop1’s strategic plan to increase the depth and breadth of its European business and to drive new opportunities in the DACH region.

Koach will be responsible for driving strategic alignment across the US, EMEA, and APJ regions, focusing on establishing a unified enterprise sales model and developing go-to-market strategies to enable the sales, marketing, and client success teams to drive ongoing growth as the world’s largest SolarWinds specialized services partner.

The attainment marks an important milestone in Loop1’s global Cisco Partnership Roadmap, that sets out the plan for all Loop1 operations to achieve Premier Partner Status by the end of Q1 2021, as well as strengthening our relationship with Cisco, and our commitment to our clients globally.

Loop1 has successfully met all the authorization program requirements necessary to earn Cisco Select Partner designation status for its operations in the US, UK, and Singapore. This attainment marks an important milestone in Loop1’s global Cisco Partnership Roadmap, that will see the US, UK, and Singapore join the APJ operation at Premier Partner Status by the end of 2020.

In this latest blog post, from Loop1 programming guru, and training instructor, Steven Klassen, learn the top 5 things you may want to consider as a new SolarWinds administrator. You know there are probably some settings that should be given attention sooner than later, but which ones?

Loop1 is pleased to announce its continued global expansion with the acquisition of Melbourne-based Xlate Group, a technology services integrator specializing in network and telecommunication systems, applications development, and integration across Australia and Asia

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month! In honor of the occasion, hear from one of our Loop1 Technical Account Managers’, about the importance of maintaining Active Directory (AD) and how a healthy AD can significantly improve your cybersecurity protocols!

Loop1 Systems Welcomes Kenson Network Engineering to the Loop1 Family Austin, TX, – Loop1 Systems, an Austin-based enterprise IT service organization, proudly announces the acquisition of Kenson, one of the U.K.’s most respected suppliers of network management tools, expertise, and support. Kenson has served the market for more than 15 years and in 2017, the […]

We live in a world these days where copy & paste is the shortest path to winning. In a world of Stack Overflow and Thwack and all those other sources of awesome content, it’s easy to find something you like, fire up a SAM template with a fresh PowerShell component and then paste the content […]

Loop1 Answers Top Questions from Alert Noise Webinar We recently hosted a webinar on alert noise – the importance of getting them under control and how to customize for your needs. If you missed it, you can view it here: We had a rich conversation in our Q&A portion where our host, Chrystal Taylor, walked […]

  When we started working with our client, he was overwhelmed. He had finally convinced his organization to invest more than $250,000 in the SolarWinds platform, but he knew he wasn’t using the tool to its full potential. Subsequently, he was losing faith in the investment. “It’s just not useful to me,” he told us. […]

Ding. Buzz. New email in inbox. Ding, Ding, DING! What’s that noise? Yes, it’s another alert, most likely one of hundreds (or more!) you could see today. On a good day, they’re a mild nuisance. On a bad day, they’re painfully distracting, forcing you to surrender your precious time to seeing if these alerts are […]

Loop1 Systems is proud to be one of the selected SolarWinds partners to provide training for the SolarWinds Certified Professional (SCP). The SCP was recently updated and will now be product focused, NPM and SAM, as well as being offered as the industry’s first subscription-based certification program. Earning the prestigious SCP certification indicates that a […]

Co-Owner William Fitzpatrick Buys Out Partner, Assumes 100% Ownership AUSTIN, Texas (Dec. 6, 2017) – Loop1 Systems, an IT infrastructure solutions provider and SolarWinds Authorized Partner, announced today that it has new ownership. William Fitzpatrick, who previously owned 42 percent of Loop1 Systems, now has full ownership. Fitzpatrick, taking the title of President and CEO, […]

We’ve all been there.  That same application admin has bonked his own server yet again.  Only, for some nonsensical reason it’s your fault. Yes, you the Network (or SysAdmin) guy (or girl). So, he complains to your boss who tells you to look at everything up and down the stack and waste the next hour […]

One of the things that is really great about Orion is that you can be up and running in under an hour with a basic setup.  For the most part a small team doesn’t want to spend a lot of time fussing around with the monitoring tools.  Set it and forget it. I sometimes work […]

If you are taking advantage of the many helpful and powerful modules SolarWinds has to offer, it’s time to make sure you are taking steps to secure your products as well as your environment. I work with a lot of diverse clients and companies and the one thing many of them have in common is […]

In Part One of this series we looked at some of the basic terminology used in the tech world. Going forward in the series we will take a deeper dive by focusing on a specific topic. Since it seems to be common practice to prematurely blame the network for most issues and unexpected outages, I […]

I recently saw a question pop up on the SolarWinds community forum, Thwack, asking if the SolarWinds database could be virtualized. It absolutely can and I would say these days it is becoming increasingly rare for people to dedicate a physical host to their monitoring database. Despite how common it is to do, one of […]

Getting Started – Setup  Isn’t it nice when you get a new software solution and all you have to do is open it up and answer four or five questions and off you go? The problem is you are probably setting up some small widget app on your phone or a piece of software that […]

Recently, Loop1 Systems has had the opportunity to play as an active participant in the Beta program for the next gen release of the All New High Availability (HA) product for Orion. For those of you whom have struggled with designing or using past products sponsored by SolarWinds, I think you are going to be […]

Learning IP addressing was a little traumatic for me. All that math, bit boundaries, network vs. host portion of the addresses, and on and on. So when it came to learning SNMP, I wasn’t looking forward to untangling something that looked like this called an Object Identifier (OID): 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.1.13.1.1.7.6.1.8 Thankfully I learned that if I […]

Technical Jargon Decrypted – Part 1 Technology and its use of jargon can be confusing and frustrating, especially for new users (newbies). Understanding the terminology early on will help lessen these feelings and improve the overall user experience from the start. While starting from the most basic level and building a foundation, each post will […]

If you are getting ready to or if you have just purchased the Hosted SolarWinds® Web Help Desk (WHD), this would be a great time to consider taking advantage of its larger potential and scope.

Part 2 of the series on the basics of setting up a network monitoring system.

It is surprisingly easy to set up any monitoring system in a way that causes a flood of red and green blinking lights and hundreds of alerts each day.

For the past 3 years and 7-ish months, I have been spending my days with Loop1 customizing the full range of SolarWinds products. From NPM to DameWare to SEM and PM, I have been blessed in my career to be in a position that allows me to not only teach others this craft we call […]

For service outage notifications, proper and effective communication to the customer is crucial. If you do not already have a template in place, you can use the following guidelines to craft one today.

The most important part of your SolarWinds environment is the Database (and by extension the database server). Also, if you have a Virtual DB server we have to look at the Host.

Loop1 Systems Inc., a global IT Professional Services and Training company, has been named one of the 50 fastest-growing companies in Central Texas by the Austin Business Journal.

Austin, Texas based Loop1 Systems Inc., a global IT Professional Services and Training company, has been named one of the Top 5000 fastest-growing companies in the country by Inc. Magazine. Loop1 ranks No. 2077 on this annual list which includes some of the most innovative and successful companies in America. The company distinguishes itself not […]

Loop1 Systems Inc., a global IT Professional Services and Training company, is expanding its comprehensive course offerings to include a new two-day course for the SolarWinds Web Help Desk ticketing tool.

Austin, Texas – October 28, 2015 – Loop1 Systems Inc., a global IT Professional Services and Training company, has been named one of the 50 fastest-growing companies in Central Texas by the Austin Business Journal. Loop1 Systems ranked No. 11 on the list this year and shared the stage with a number of other innovative […]

Austin, Texas based Loop1 Systems Inc., a global IT Professional Services and Training company, has been named one of the Top 5000 fastest-growing companies in the country by Inc. Magazine. Loop1 Systems ranks No. 875 on this annual list of the most innovative and successful privately owned businesses in America. The company grew by more […]

Austin, TX – October 21st, 2014 – Austin, Texas based Loop1 Systems Inc., a leading global IT Services company, has announced their reseller partnership with Ayehu Inc., the industry’s leading provider of enterprise class, lightweight IT process automation solutions. Ayehu is the developer of eyeShare™, a secure, on-premise IT process automation solution that integrates with […]

 Loop1 ranks #5 on the Fast 50 list with 100% growth in revenue from 2011 to 2013. Austin, TX – October 21, 2014 – Austin, Texas based Loop1 Systems Inc., a global IT Services company, was named the fifth fastest growing company in Central Texas by the Austin Business Journal. The Fast 50 list is […]

Austin, TX -August 26, 2014 Austin, Texas based Loop1 Systems Inc., a global IT Services company, has been named one of the Top 5000 fastest-growing companies in the country by Inc. Magazine. Loop1 Systems ranks No. 587 on this annual list of the most innovative and successful privately owned businesses in America. While the average […]

Solarwinds has had a great start to 2014. They have recently been awarded a strong list of “Best of’s” around their network management software. Executive VP of Products and Markets, Suaad Sait states,”To have our products recognized by both industry experts and the IT community for excellence across networks, systems and application is continued reinforcement that working […]

Cork, January 29th, 2013 – Loop1 Systems Inc., a company that specialises in training and professional services for SolarWinds customers across North America and the EMEA region is to establish an EMEA sales, customer support and technical centre in Cork with the creation of 17 new jobs. Loop1 chose Cork as the location for this operation due […]

Congratulations to Chrystal Taylor on becoming one of the newest MVP’s on the Solarwinds blog, THWACK. Look for Chrystal on THWACK as ChrystalIT!

Solarwinds’ Virtualization Manager software won in the Virtualization Management category at this year’s VMworld 2011 annual conference. The awards are hosted by TechTarget, Inc. and cover eight product categories including business continuity and data protection; security and compliance for virtualization; virtualization management; hardware for virtualization; desktop virtualization; private cloud computing technologies; public/hybrid cloud computing technologies; and new technology.