Virtual Instruments Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm

SCOTTS VALLEY, CA--(Marketwire - March 25, 2009) - Virtual Instruments has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the "Cool Vendors in Storage Technology and Systems, 2009" report by Gartner, Inc. Released on March 24, 2009, the Gartner report highlights vendors that are innovative, impactful and intriguing for enterprise IT organizations.

"As Virtual Instruments continues to redefine SAN performance optimization, it's gratifying to be recognized in Gartner's list of Cool Vendors. With VirtualWisdom's deep and comprehensive performance insight into Storage Area Networks and virtualized infrastructure, IT managers can drive down overall systems costs and improve virtual infrastructure performance and utilization in mission-critical production applications. Organizations are now able to achieve the high server-consolidation ratios they expect and optimize virtual system performance by measuring SAN I/O activity to ensure maximum application performance and availability," said Mark Urdahl, CEO, Virtual Instruments.

Targeted at customers with mission-critical SAN deployments, VirtualWisdom's application-to-SAN transaction monitoring and analysis simplifies data center management, increases reliability, and eliminates I/O bottlenecks in virtualized and heterogeneous IT environments. Deep infrastructure and I/O visibility helps optimize storage and network resources, detect costly problems before they occur, decrease downtime and disruption, accelerate SAN deployments, and ensure the meeting of service-level agreements (SLAs). Leveraging Virtual Instruments' innovative out-of-band, agent-less probe technology, VirtualWisdom provides real-time and historical insight into application latency and bandwidth consumption, as well as early detection and advanced notification of device failures, congestion, errors, and other SAN problems.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

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, 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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