Opening of Offices in the UK and Germany Driven by Increased Customer Demand for Deep SAN Visibility Into the Virtualized Data Center
SCOTTS VALLEY, CA--(Marketwire - February 17, 2009) - Virtual Instruments, provider
of the award-winning NetWisdom storage area network (SAN) optimization
solution, today announced it is opening offices in London and Munich. The
new offices will help the company meet growing customer demand in Europe,
which currently accounts for nearly 50 percent of the company's revenue.
"Due to the recession and the need to do more with less, demand for
NetWisdom is accelerating as leading worldwide IT organizations implement
NetWisdom to reduce costs and prepare for production-level server
virtualization deployments," said Mark Urdahl, CEO of Virtual Instruments.
"NetWisdom's instrumentation, monitoring and analysis capabilities help
address the new set of performance and availability challenges created by
virtualized data centers. With product demand particularly strong in
Europe, our new offices will ensure we deliver superior customer service
and better support our channel partners."
Having local specialists in Europe will allow Virtual Instruments to
respond more quickly to the needs of our customers, including retailers,
financial firms, insurance companies, service providers, pharmaceuticals,
manufacturers and government organizations. Virtual Instruments is
committed to helping customers integrate NetWisdom into their virtual
infrastructure so that our customers can fully reap the economic benefits
of virtualization.
"Virtualization and SAN optimization solutions like NetWisdom are becoming
essential to creating resource-efficient data centers as they lower
operational and acquisition costs and enable the successful implementation
of virtualization," said Roy Illsley, Senior Analyst with the Butler Group.
"Office expansion in Europe represents an important step by Virtual
Instruments, which should help raise the profile and accelerate deployment
of its NetWisdom products."
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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