Virtual Instruments CEO and Taneja Group Analysts Host Webinar on Optimizing the Virtualized Data Center

Improving Performance of Virtualized Business-Critical Applications Is Focus of Live and Interactive Session


SCOTTS VALLEY, CA--(Marketwire - April 1, 2009) - Virtual Instruments, a leader in virtual infrastructure performance optimization, and Taneja Group, a leading IT technology research firm, will host an interactive and educational webinar on April 29 titled "Virtual Infrastructure Optimization: What You Can't See Can Hurt You." This live session will feature Dave Bartoletti and Jeff Byrne, both senior analysts and consultants at the Taneja Group, and Mark Urdahl, CEO, Virtual Instruments.

Date:                April 29, 2009
Time:                8:30 a.m. PT; 4:30 p.m. GMT
Free Registration:   http://www.virtualinstruments.com/webinar.html

The webinar will introduce new research on the topic of virtual Infrastructure optimization (VIO) -- the market category of solutions designed to significantly improve the performance of virtualized applications and to help optimize the utilization of both storage and server resources. The hosts will highlight how IT managers and administrators can:

--  Tackle challenges associated with deploying virtualization for
    performance sensitive, business-critical applications, including visibility
    into and managing the internal cloud
--  Proactively avoid over-provisioning and under-provisioning of server
    and storage assets
--  Track system interdependencies to accelerate identification of
    performance choke points
--  Select monitoring and analysis tools with the instrumentation needed
    to address today's scale and complexity
--  Gain clear visibility into real-time virtual SAN performance
--  Confidently deploy virtualization in business-critical environments
    

Speakers and audience participants -- who will be able to ask questions during the event -- will discuss how new solutions enable administrators to peer into multiple dimensions of the infrastructure in real-time and obtain the integrated monitoring and analytics required to optimize and troubleshoot virtual infrastructure performance holistically across every element of the system -- from the application to the spindle.

From Mark Urdahl, CEO, Virtual Instruments: "As virtualization moves into business-critical infrastructure in order to more fully achieve server consolidation and reduce costs, IT managers no longer have the luxury of deploying virtualization without understanding its impact on application performance. The challenge is to deploy the right instrumentation solutions that combine deep knowledge of the virtualized server environment and comprehensive performance analysis of the Storage Area Network (SAN), providing a single, comprehensive view of the complex maze of interdependent systems and applications."

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. Enterprise customers such as Barclay's Card Services, SuperValu, Bosch 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, HDS 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.

About the Taneja Group

Taneja Group is an analyst and consulting firm that is focused on delivering solid, in-depth and hype-free analysis of the storage industry. It also covers storage-centric server technologies such as clustering, grid computing, server virtualization and other technologies that are critical to the next-generation data center. The Taneja Group team provides services to technology vendors, venture capitalists and investment professionals. Each of the Taneja Group analysts has many years of industry experience in senior engineering, marketing and/or IT leadership roles. The company is based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. For more information, please go to: http://tanejagroup.com/.

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