-- Cooks brings nearly 15 years of systems and enterprise software experience to his new role at Virtual Instruments. -- Before Virtual Instruments, Cooks served as senior director of research and development at VMware. He was responsible for the successful development of VMware's availability software, including some of VMware's most innovative software, such as VMware Fault Tolerance, the host-based replication engine for disaster recovery, VMware High Availability and VMware vCenter Data Recovery. -- Prior to joining VMware in 2006, Cooks was a director of engineering at Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for the Solaris core technology team delivering numerous features into the Solaris operating system, including DTrace, the Predictive Self-Healing architecture, support for 64bit AMD and Intel hardware, InfiniBand integration, and a highly performing TCP/IP stack known as project FireEngine. Cooks was also responsible for numerous virtualization efforts at Sun, including network virtualization aka Crossbow, Xen on Solaris, and support for Linux zones on Solaris. -- He holds a M.S. in computer science from the University of Oregon and a B.S. in computer science from Purdue University.Quotes From Mark Urdahl, CEO, Virtual Instruments: "Barry's track record of successfully delivering innovation coupled with his deep knowledge of virtualization, both at VMware and Sun Microsystems, make him the ideal person to lead the development of VirtualWisdom, our new game-changing, non-intrusive, agent-less solution for virtual infrastructure performance optimization." From Barry Cooks, Vice President of Software Engineering at Virtual Instruments: "Virtual Instruments has shown real innovation and a deep understanding of how to extract critical real-time performance and utilization metrics from virtualized data centers. VirtualWisdom, which directly adds SAN I/O intelligence to VMware, is the missing 3rd leg of the stool that is required to optimize the performance of virtualized applications. Having information about CPU and memory utilization for virtual machines is useful, but insufficient to deploy virtualized business-critical applications, which tend to be highly I/O intensive. I look forward to leveraging my experience at VMware to propel VirtualWisdom as an essential component of every virtual data center." About Virtual Instruments Virtual Instruments offers the award-winning NetWisdom and VirtualWisdom virtual infrastructure optimization solutions that provide deep monitoring and analysis of how the virtualized IT infrastructure and SAN affect business-critical application performance. 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 of IT resources. Leading system and storage vendors including IBM, HP and EMC leverage Virtual Instruments to design and optimize SAN solutions for enterprise customers. The company was founded in June 2008 via a spin-out from Finisar Corp.; it has headquarters in Scotts Valley, Calif., and can be found online at http://www.virtualinstruments.com.
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