Virtual Instruments to Address the Importance of Storage Performance at SNW Spring 2012

March 20, 2012 - PRLog -- Virtual Instruments, the leader in virtual infrastructure optimization solutions, will be presenting and exhibiting at Computerworld’s upcoming SNW Spring conference on April 2-5, 2012 in Dallas.

In his Tuesday Storage Management Track session, Stew Carless, solution architect at Virtual Instruments, will explain new approaches to extracting key performance, utilization and transmission error metrics related to the SAN storage infrastructure that enable optimization of storage management processes.  He will also discuss how access to this vital information will not only improve the infrastructure, but also change day-to-day storage management processes from reactive to proactive.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to experience Virtual Instruments’ products in one of the SNW Hands-on Lab sessions that will take place throughout the week (see schedule below).  The “Storage Implications for Server Virtualization” Hands-on Labs will guide participants through exercises that illustrate ways to overcome SAN and storage challenges in deploying, maintaining, and optimizing a virtualized environment. Virtual Instruments will deliver personalized education and training in this collaborative setting.

In addition, Virtual Instruments will demonstrate its VirtualWisdom 3.1 SAN monitoring and performance optimization platform in booth #312. VirtualWisdom enables IT managers to obtain a holistic view of their physical and virtual infrastructure in real time, which maximizes ROI by reducing operational and capital costs. Product demos will show the effect of infrastructure optimization metrics on the performance, utilization and availability of a SAN storage environment as measured by the VirtualWisdom SAN Performance Probe, SAN Availability Probe and Virtual Server Probe.

Speaking Session Information
Presentation: Exploiting Storage Performance Metrics to Optimize Storage Management Processes
Speaker: Stew Carless, Solution Architect, Virtual Instruments
Location: Omni Dallas Hotel, 555 S. Lamar, Dallas
Session Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Session Time: 3:05 – 3:50 p.m. CT

Hands-On Labs Information: Storage Implications for Server Virtualization
Presenters: Ron Lee, Technical Marketing and Andrew Benrey, Senior Solutions Consultant
Location: Omni Dallas Hotel, 555 S. Lamar, Dallas
Session Times:  The session will be repeated 5 times during the period from Monday afternoon through Wednesday afternoon.

Event Information

Produced by Computerworld and co-owned by Computerworld and SNIA (The Storage Networking Industry Association), SNW features educational sessions and presentations by top IT management experts covering today’s hottest IT topics — from cloud computing to energy-efficient data centers to virtualization and storage. Taking place over the span of four days, the spring 2012 conference will feature prominent IT executives, important product and service providers and key influencers in the field of information infrastructure management.

About Virtual Instruments

Virtual Instruments ensures the performance and availability of mission-critical applications by providing a comprehensive infrastructure optimization platform.  The award-winning VirtualWisdom and SANInsight infrastructure optimization solutions provide real-time monitoring and analysis of physical, virtual and private cloud computing environments to optimize performance, utilization and availability. Forbes Magazine recently recognized the company as #6 on its 2011 list of America's Most Promising Companies. The company was founded in June 2008 via a spin-out from Finisar Corp.; it has headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and can be found online at http://www.virtualinstruments.com .