Press Release
Virtual Instruments to Present and Exhibit at SNW Spring Conference
William Bacon, Virtual Instruments’ CTO & Brad Dart, Senior Storage Analyst, Bank of Montreal, Share SAN Performance and Availability Optimization Best Practices
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 30, 2011– Virtual Instruments, a leader in storage area network (SAN) and virtual infrastructure optimization solutions, will participate in the Storage Networking World (SNW) conference in Santa Clara, Calif. from April 4-7, 2011, by showcasing the VirtualWisdom® virtual infrastructure optimization solution in its booth. The company will also be demonstrating the VirtualWisdom solution in the official SNW Hands-On Lab training program and discussing how one leading financial services customer, Bank of Montreal, is benefitting from its use of VirtualWisdom.
In a session titled, “SAN Performance & Availability Optimization: A Financial Services Customer Perspective,” conference co-presenters, William “Skip” Bacon, CTO of Virtual Instruments, and Brad Dart, Senior Storage Analyst for the Bank of Montreal, will illustrate industry best practices for optimizing the performance, utilization, and availability of SAN infrastructure. In sharing his experiences, Dart will reveal how the Bank of Montreal implemented virtual infrastructure optimization solutions, saving the bank’s IT team a substantial amount of time and money by proactively avoiding SAN outages, accelerating problem resolution time, and optimizing performance in real-time.
Session Information
| Topic: | SAN Performance & Availability Optimization: A Financial Services Customer Perspective |
| Co-Presenters: | William “Skip” Bacon, Chief Technology Officer, Virtual Instruments Brad Dart, Senior Storage Analyst, Bank of Montreal |
| Date: | Monday, April 4, 2011 |
| Time: | 4:05-4:50 p.m. |
| Where: | SNW Spring 2011 - Hyatt Regency Silicon Valley/Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif. |
Virtual Instruments will also be participating in the SNW Hands-On Lab entitled, “Storage Implications of Server Virtualization.” The Hands-On Lab provides attendees with one-on-one contact with innovative vendors as end users are guided through a series of exercises organized around various technology themes. The Hands-On Lab gives users a chance to “test drive” the latest technologies, such as VirtualWisdom, in a controlled learning lab environment. The classes take place for two hours at regular intervals throughout the conference to give attendees a rich learning experience around SAN and virtual infrastructure optimization.
Event Information
Produced by Computerworld and co-owned by Computerworld and SNIA (The Storage Networking Industry Association), SNW features more than 120 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 to storage — and so much more.
About Virtual Instruments
Virtual Instruments offers the award-winning VirtualWisdom and SANInsight virtual infrastructure optimization solutions that provide deep monitoring and analysis of how the virtualized IT infrastructure and the SAN affect business-critical application performance. Global 2000 customers across a broad range of industries achieve significant cost savings in virtualization and SAN deployments by optimizing utilization, performance and availability of IT resources. Leading system and storage vendors including IBM, HP, HDS, Dell and EMC leverage Virtual Instruments to design and optimize SAN solutions for enterprise customers. 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.
- Media Contact:
- Melissa Lang
- Voce Communications on behalf of Virtual Instruments
- mlang@vocecomm.com
