Optimizing Private Cloud Infrastructure
Optimizing Private Cloud Infrastructure
Virtual Instruments helps you eliminate the risk of deploying mission-critical applications in a private cloud or in a public cloud SAAS (Software as a Service) environment. We help your organization establish and maintain performance and availability SLAs through a unique combination of advanced monitoring hardware, software and services.
IT organizations are moving to cloud architectures to reduce operating and capital costs and to increase business agility. Virtualization of servers, networks, and storage are typical foundations of the private cloud. Deploying server virtualization in conjunction with a complex SAN infrastructure requires sophisticated capabilities to identify, diagnose and prevent downtime and application slowdowns. Application and server monitoring tools alone are insufficient to quickly identify and resolve problems with virtualized mission-critical applications deployed in a cloud, as these are inherently I/O-intensive and typically supported by Fibre Channel SANs. To ensure maximum private cloud performance, utilization, and availability of your dynamic infrastructure, a real-time solution that monitors virtualized servers, physical servers, network switches, storage arrays, and all the connections between them must be deployed.
How can IT organizations meet these requirements? With comprehensive monitoring, measurement, and analysis solutions that eliminate deployment risk and ensure SLA adherence. The Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom virtual infrastructure optimization solution is the answer.
Organizations that deploy Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom products and services to monitor their cloud deployments experience dramatic benefits, including:
- Substantially higher application performance
- Higher confidence that performance and availability SLAs will be met
- Significantly higher server and network utilization via more intelligent provisioning
- Dramatic improvements in IT staff productivity via reduced troubleshooting time
- Higher revenues by lowering the risk of application downtime
- Faster migration of production applications to the private cloud
VirtualWisdom is the only solution that can non-intrusively improve the performance of virtualized and cloud-based applications by analyzing real-time SAN I/O traffic data. A Virtual Instruments virtual infrastructure optimization solution consists of hardware, software, and services, and can optionally be delivered purely as services from Virtual Instruments or one of our authorized partners.
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.
