VirtualInstruments

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 24, 2008 – Virtual Instruments will demonstrate NetWisdom, the award-winning SAN (storage area network) optimization solution, at the Gartner Data Center Conference, a three and a half day event covering servers, IT operations, storage, business continuity and disaster recovery.

Attendees will see the newest version of Virtual Instruments’ NetWisdom Enterprisesolution and Traffic Access Point (TAP) device.

• The NetWisdom Enterprise solution combines monitoring software with SAN instrumentation to give companies a cost-effective way to see – in real time – the data flowing between their SANs and business applications.
• NetWisdom visibility helps administrators optimize infrastructure resources, detect costly problems before they occur, decrease downtime and disruption, accelerate deployments, and assure service-level agreements (SLAs). As a result, users reduce expenses while improving data center management and cloud-based services delivery in complex virtualized and heterogeneous environments.

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 today. Users achieve significant cost savings in virtualization and SAN deployments by optimizing utilization, performance and availability. Physical instrumentation provides deep SAN and virtualized service cloud visibility that helps improve design, implementation, problem resolution, and planning for smart expansion. 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 athttp://www.virtualinstruments.com.

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