Maximize Utilization of Your Cloud Infrastructure
Maximize Utilization of Your Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud computing offers many operational and business agility benefits, but IT staff lose the ability to “see” behind the cloud, jeopardizing their ability to troubleshoot problems and assure cloud performance meets application SLAs. What happens when an application deployed in a private cloud slows?
It’s no secret that cloud computing is enabled by advancements in virtualization … and with all the benefits of virtualization come some challenges. There are many tools to help find performance problems, but realistically, the whole subject of performance is a sort of a black art…“almost a science.” A great deal is still dependent on rules of thumb and best guesses. But it doesn’t have to be.
There’s a new class of tools designed to work with, and optimize, the ‘virtual infrastructure’ - the building block of cloud computing - and with those tools come some new IT best practices.
Virtual Instruments provides IT managers the ability to see inside the cloud. VirtualWisdom® allows the cloud infrastructure to be instrumented, monitored, and constantly, yet unobtrusively, measured to see how it is affecting application availability and performance. Our whitepaper describes the challenges with private cloud computing and outlines ways in which VirtualWisdom can eliminate the risk of private cloud implementations. Our migrating to the private cloud webcast outlines how you can reduce your risk and speed your private cloud migration.
There’s a huge opportunity to identify costly over-provisioning & over-tiering. Utilization of most enterprise SAN links is less than 10%, as you see on this report on the left, which measures percent utilization of storage ports. Our most successful customers have tripled utilization and have been able to reduce future storage port purchases by 50% or more, saving over $100K per new storage array.
Analyst Video
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Storage Switzerland | George Crump is interviewed, where he discusses the challenges of ensuring availability and performance of applications that are deployed in a private cloud infrastructure, and how VirtualWisdom’s real-time monitoring solution is more critical than ever.
Product Datasheets
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VirtualWisdom Overview | VirtualWisdom provides comprehensive instrumentation and I/O measurement capabilities that reduce application response time, increase availability, and improve resource utilization. VirtualWisdom is the only product that can non-intrusively improve the performance of applications and increase the benefits of cloud-driven virtualization in real time by analyzing actual I/O traffic data.
Whitepapers
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Ensuring Performance & Availability of VCE Vblock™ Infrastructure Platform Series 700 |
March 2012 | VCE Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms lack comprehensive end-to-end real-time monitoring that ensures the performance and availability of the infrastructure that supports your business-critical applications. VirtualWisdom enables IT managers to realize the full benefits of Vblock Infrastructure Platforms. -
Private Cloud Technical Brief | September 2011 | Compared with a "traditional" data center, private cloud environments frequently have more users, more applications, more data, and typically, a tighter set of operating standards to meet. Virtual Instruments can provide the ideal performance and availability optimization solution for your virtualized mission-critical applications deployed on your most advanced private cloud infrastructures.
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Cloud Computing Performance Whitepaper | January 2012 | It's no secret that cloud computing is enabled by advancements in virtualization, and with all the benefits of virtualization come some challenges. There's a new class of tools out there designed to work with, and optimize the 'virtual infrastructure', the building block of cloud computing, and with those tools come some new IT best practices.
Webinars
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Best Practices for Private Cloud Migration: Reduce Storage Migration Risks - "Learn the 5 critical areas to watch before, during, and after your migration" | SANpulse and Virtual Instruments have teamed together to offer some practical advice on how to reduce storage migration risks and pave the way for moving to the private cloud. In this 45 minute discussion, we will describe specific ways to measure your infrastructure readiness before, during, and after your migration.
