Virtual Instruments to Demonstrate New SAN Optimization Solution Designed for Virtual Infrastructure at VMworld Europe

SCOTTS VALLEY, CA--(Marketwire - February 3, 2009) - Virtual Instruments will demonstrate new virtualization features of NetWisdom, the award-winning SAN (storage area network) optimization solution, at VMworld Europe 2009. This three-day event focuses on the increasingly profound impact virtualization has on the data center, information technology design and systems management.

Day/Date: February 24 - 26, 2009

Location: New Innovators Zone, Stand #43

Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes, France

At the conference, Virtual Instruments will show how its new NetWisdom products are leading the industry in instrumenting, measuring, monitoring and analyzing the virtualized IT infrastructure. NetWisdom delivers deep and comprehensive visibility that allows data center managers to monitor and improve SAN performance, increase application availability and reduce expenses in virtualized and heterogeneous environments.

"Nearly all global enterprises have installed sophisticated LAN traffic monitoring solutions, but most are just learning about the importance of SAN monitoring and analysis tools," said Mark Urdahl, CEO of Virtual Instruments. "As data centers become increasingly complex and virtualized, maximizing SAN performance and availability will become essential, especially as companies are required to do more with fewer resources. NetWisdom solutions close the gap in SAN visibility and management."

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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