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My First Blog: Virtual Infrastructure at the SF Storage Decisions Show

Hi! You’ll be seeing more of me throughout the coming weeks and months, and I thought I would start out with an introduction. My name is Ron Lee and I am the new Technical Marketing Manager at Virtual Instruments. This marks the end of my first month at Virtual Instruments and it has been great fun.

Before joining the Virtual Instruments team, I was with VMware helping virtualization dramatically change data center management. VMware has done a fantastic job of making virtualization happen and making it possible to create the cloud data centers we are all working on. I came to Virtual Instruments to help the team begin creating the tools, metrics and practices needed to deliver apps in private cloud data centers.

In this role, I have been tasked with exploring and explaining a lot of the details of how Virtual Instruments products and services help companies resolve mission-critical virtual infrastructure issues. One of the first things I am doing is looking at our customer use cases, so you will mostly see me on the SAN Best Practices blog with a strong emphasis on application delivery. Application delivery is closely tied to the company’s founding mission, and is a hot topic for our business customers.

In addition, earlier this month, I was able to attend the Storage Decisions show in San Francisco with the Virtual Instruments team and spent a majority of the day in the company’s booth. The nice thing about Storage Decisions is that it attracts a qualified audience and brings in people from around the San Francisco Bay Area. Since this was my first show with Virtual Instruments, I was looking forward to hearing about customer challenges at the storage level for data centers, and I heard some interesting stories. For instance, I heard numbers like 180 switches and thousands of fibre channel port in a single data center. I was thinking of how long it would take to just visit each switch or array to look for issues before they caused an outage. It is challenges like this that help make it clear how necessary Virtual Instruments is for so many of our customers, and I look forward to sharing more tips and updates on how we are helping to enable businesses migrate to the private cloud. Have a SAN virtualization story you’d like to share? Drop me a line on the blog.