SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, has released the company's first full-featured free product, SolarWinds Alert Central designed to help simplify IT alert management.

With SolarWinds Alert Central, IT professionals can now centralize multi-system IT alerts in a single, consolidated view, give team members access to a scheduling calendar, escalate alerts automatically and enable IT personnel to respond from their computers or mobile devices with or without VPN access all for free.

SolarWinds Alert Central highlights include:

IT alert management access to unlimited users, teams;

Consolidated alerts from multiple IT systems;

Management of on-call scheduling for multiple teams;

Automatic escalation of alerts according to customizable rules;

Integration with virtually any IT management product that sends alerts;

Alerts by e-mail or text, and allows user to respond with or without VPN access; and

A weekly statistical and performance data report for each user or team, including open and closed alerts, time to close, and more.

SolarWinds Alert Central is completely free with no registration required.