NetWisdom Improves SAN Management in Complex and Virtualized Environments According to IDC White Paper

SCOTTS VALLEY, CA--(Marketwire - January 12, 2009) - Virtual Instruments, provider of the award-winning NetWisdom SAN (storage area network) optimization solution, is featured in IDC's new white paper, "Enabling Efficient SAN Performance Management" by Noemi Greyzdorf, research manager, storage software. Download a complimentary copy at: http://www.virtualinstruments.com/docs/IDC_Virtual_Instruments_White_Paper_Jan2009.pdf.

Title:  Enabling Efficient SAN Performance Management
By:     Noemi Greyzdorf, IDC
Date:   January 2009

The IDC report highlights how NetWisdom's application-to-SAN transaction monitoring and analysis improve data center management and eliminate bottlenecks in virtualized and heterogeneous environments. The research demonstrates how NetWisdom's deep infrastructure and I/O visibility help optimize storage and network resources, detect costly problems before they occur, decrease downtime and disruption, accelerate SAN deployments, and assure meeting service-level agreements (SLAs).

"IDC believes that datacenters with large and complex storage infrastructures can benefit from the deployment and use of the NetWisdom Enterprise solution. The resulting reduction in application slowdowns, increase in preventative maintenance, and ability to quickly and accurately diagnose issues can help validate product investment," wrote Greyzdorf in the report.

Highlights include:

--  SAN management case studies from customers, such as a government
    contractor, grocery retailer and a large-scale enterprise.
--  New approaches to gathering complete information about the SAN
    environment; NetWisdom Enterprise, for example, leverages probes to provide
    real-time and historical insights into application latency and bandwidth
    consumption, as well as early detection and advanced notification of device
    failures, congestion, errors, and other SAN problems.
    

About Virtual Instruments

Virtual Instruments' award-winning NetWisdom solution monitors application-to-SAN transaction performance -- with deep insight and data not available from other solutions. Customers such as Barclay's Card Services, Kaiser Permanente and McKesson Corp. achieve significant cost savings in virtualization and SAN deployments by optimizing utilization, performance and availability. Leading system and storage vendors including IBM, HP and EMC leverage NetWisdom to design SAN solutions for enterprise customers. Virtual Instruments was founded in June 2008 via the spin-out from Finisar Corp. (NASDAQ: FNSR); it has headquarters in Scotts Valley, Calif., and can be found online at http://www.virtualinstruments.com.

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