Press Release
Whitepaper and On-Demand Webinar Demonstrate How Companies Can Save Money through Instrumentation and Monitoring
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., December 8, 2009
What:
Virtual Instruments, the leader in virtual infrastructure optimization solutions, presents a whitepaper and on-demand webinar on “Best Practices for Optimizing SAN Utilization & Cost” with Jim Bahn, director, product marketing at Virtual Instruments.
“Server consolidation via VMware virtualization has saved large organizations millions of dollars annually, but that is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Len Rosenthal, vice-president of marketing at Virtual Instruments. “The cost optimization and savings related to SAN consolidation enabled by Virtual Instruments will have a much more significant impact on a company’s bottom line as most large organizations today are spending more on their storage infrastructure than their server infrastructure.”
Virtual Instruments, through the company’s unique experience with Global 1000 customers deploying Storage Area Networks (SANs), has found two areas where most companies and government organizations can optimize. First, most are unnecessarily over-reliant on expensive, power consuming tier 1 storage from a throughput and response time perspective. Most are overusing expensive, power consuming 15K RPM FC storage arrays. Most IT organizations could fully maintain user SLAs with lower cost, less power and floor space consuming 7200 RPM SATA-based arrays. Power, cooling and floor space can easily be reduced by half, when applications are deployed on SATA vs. FC arrays. Second, typical SAN utilization is between 5 and 10% on average for both 2 Gbit and 4 Gbit Fibre Channel SANs, which implies fabric overprovisioning by a factor 5X to 10X on average. Most sites can easily cut their link usage in half with no negative effect on application performance.
Webinar and Whitepaper Information:
In the presentation and whitepaper, companies will learn how to unobtrusively identify under-utilized SANs on a real-time and historical basis in order to reap the huge cost savings available through SAN consolidation. Organizations will also learn how to enable more efficient storage tiering by measuring actual SAN response time (“latency”) by application and by tier of storage. Only with a detailed view of SAN latency can IT organizations save money by performance-based storage tiering, for example, deploying Tier 2 as opposed to tier 1 storage arrays results in savings of about $10K per Terabyte.
Where:
The Best Practices for Optimizing SAN Utilization & Cost webinar in on-demand and located at: http://www.virtualinstruments.com/webinar-ondemand.html
The SAN Utilization Best Practices white paper, written after an extensive study of Virtual Instrument’s Global 2000 customers, is located at:http://www.virtualinstruments.com/docs/WP-Extending-life-2G-4G-SAN.pdf .
About Virtual Instruments
Virtual Instruments offers the award-winning NetWisdom and VirtualWisdom virtual infrastructure optimization solutions that provide deep monitoring and analysis of how the virtualized IT infrastructure and SAN affect business-critical application performance. Customers such as Barclay’s Card Services, Kaiser Permanente and McKesson Corp. 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 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 Scotts Valley, Calif., and can be found online athttp://www.virtualinstruments.com.
Media Contact
Melissa Lang
Voce Communications on behalf of Virtual Instruments
(330) 401-9220
mlang@vocecomm.com
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