Gartner Webinar: De-risking Applications in Your Virtualized Infrastructure
De-risking Applications in Your Virtualized Infrastructure
Featuring Valdis Filks, Gartner Analyst and John Gentry, VP of Solutions Consulting, Virtual Instruments
De-risking critical applications, especially in a virtualized data center, is now a top priority for most enterprise IT departments. Nearly all Global 200 enterprise data centers rely on Fibre Channel SANs for their storage infrastructure. The move to 8-gigabit and eventually 16-gigabit Fibre Channel networks results in faster throughput but also less resiliency than 2 and 4-gigabit. This can easily impact service levels. Outages and slowdowns need to be quickly resolved or, better still, avoided altogether. So how do you ensure performance and uptime while increasing the use of new, faster technologies, together with server and storage virtualization? How do you proactively monitor your SAN traffic to be able to see that all is well or is potentially about to negatively affect your users? In this webcast, Gartner storage management expert Valdis Filks and Virtual Instruments’ Vice President of Solutions Consulting, John Gentry, discuss how real-time I/O monitoring solutions are required to guarantee application performance and availability SLAs.
Sponsor: Virtual Instruments
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Valdis Filks, John Gentry
Type: Video (23 minutes)
About John Gentry, Vice President of Solutions Consulting, Virtual Instruments
John Gentry leads the team that is responsible for working with Virtual Instruments customers to help them define solutions that improve the performance, utilization, and availability of their SANs and virtualized infrastructure. John is a Fibre Channel SAN industry expert and has been with Virtual Instruments since early 2009. He joined the company after leading pre-sales system engineering and solutions consulting groups at QLogic, McData, and CNT.
About Valdis Filks, Research Director, Gartner
Valdis Filks is a research director for Storage Technologies and Strategies in Gartner Research. Before joining Gartner, Mr. Filks worked as an EMEA chief storage architect, enterprise systems manager, storage practice manager and professional services storage practice manager in Central and Northern Europe.
He has firsthand experience of being a storage administrator, managing and being responsible for a storage department in real-life practice. Mr. Filks has experience from being an end user, selecting storage and server vendors, implementing storage solutions, and supporting and designing systems, to being responsible for consultants and sales for storage and high-end servers. His technical knowledge spans a wide range, from databases, security systems and operating systems, to high- and low-level programming. He has worked throughout EMEA as a PS storage architect. Mr. Filks is fluent in Latvian and English.
