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Virtual Instruments

Virtual Instruments is the leader in SAN and Virtual Infrastructure Performance Optimization. Our customers optimize application performance and availability using NetWisdom and VirtualWisdom, the world’s only real-time performance monitoring solutions for SANs and virtual infrastructure. Virtual Instruments™ is dedicated to making our customers successful by enabling intelligent instrumentation, measurement and management of their enterprise infrastructure. NetWisdom and VirtualWisdom access and analyze critical application-to-storage transaction data, then translates it into easily understood, business savvy metrics that support intelligent IT infrastructure management decisions.

I/O performance, especially as affected by the SAN, is critical to application response time. Whereas CPUs and memory communicate in microseconds, I/O requests are processed in milliseconds. This means that I/O is usually the primary bottleneck in application performance. In virtualized environments, this problem is compounded as multiple applications on multiple virtual machines are accessing the same shared SAN resources. Unfortunately, today’s server virtualization solutions have no visibility into the SAN, either for optimizing performance or for trouble-shooting problems. This can be a major concern when implementing business-critical applications.

Significant challenges must be overcome to achieve real-time performance monitoring and management in virtualized and heterogeneous FibreChannel SANs. Overcoming these obstacles allows customers to achieve significant optimization improvements in their SAN-connected business application and virtualization deployments. These improvements can result in substantial capital and operational savings, better SLA performance and accelerated infrastructure deployments.

NetWisdom and VirtualWisdom augment existing infrastructure solutions deliver a real-time application-to-storage performance optimization solution. With the support of our global network of solution partners, Virtual Instruments delivers the deep expertise and scalable technology required to handle enterprise-wide server virtualization and SAN infrastructure performance optimization.

Building on the Finisar team that created NetWisdom, the pre-cursor to VirtualWisdom, Virtual Instruments plans to accelerate its investment in continuing technology development, support for resellers and partners, and expansion of worldwide field sales and technical support. The Virtual Instruments management team and investors are committed to providing the focus and investment necessary to spread the awareness and availability of the VirtualWisdom solution. The team’s goal is to dramatically increase the return that customers are able to realize from the virtual IT and SAN infrastructure that enterprises have built over the past several years.