Press Release
Virtual Instruments Named a Finalist for the 2011 Red Herring 100 Global Award
Virtual Instruments to Address Infrastructure Optimization in the Private Cloud at Red Herring 100 Global Event
SAN JOSE, Calif., - November 28, 2011 – Virtual Instruments, a leader in storage area network (SAN) and virtual infrastructure optimization solutions announced that it has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's 2011 Top 100 Global award, a prestigious recognition honoring the year’s most audacious and far-reaching private technology companies and entrepreneurs from across the globe. Representing Virtual Instruments, VP of Marketing Len Rosenthal will present on ensuring performance and availability for mission-critical applications in the private cloud at the Red Herring event in Los Angeles, California, December 7, 2011.
The Red Herring editorial team selected the companies demonstrating the most innovative technologies and business models originating from over 1000 companies from over 40 nations. These companies, representing past Red Herring Asia, Europe and North America awards, are judged on a range of qualitative and quantitative metrics, including but not limited to, technology innovation, financial performance, growth criterion, management's execution standards, potential globalization of the strategy and market share improvement.
“Technology companies are becoming the bright spot in the economic outlook based on their increasing role within macro-economic environments,” stated Alex Vieux, Chairman of Red Herring. “2011 has confirmed the sector's vibrant activity and its resilience to widespread economic problems. An unprecedented number of entrepreneurs are attempting to jump ahead of the competition and aspire to make a difference. Breakthroughs obsolete each other faster than ever before. Virtual Instruments has performed exceptionally in its field and strongly deserves to be singled out as one of the Red Herring Global Finalists. At this stage, we are left with the daunting task to select the best qualified companies for the 2011 Top 100 Global Award."
“We are honored to have made Red Herring’s list of Top 100 Global finalists. It is the company's mission to provide our customers around the world with the most advanced physical and virtual infrastructure optimization solutions,” said Len Rosenthal, VP of Marketing at Virtual Instruments. “This recognition reinforces our belief in the growing importance of delivering real-time monitoring solutions for Global 2000 enterprises to help them eliminate performance and availability risks associated with deployment of business-critical applications in the private cloud.”
Finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring Global forum in Los Angeles, December 5-7, 2011. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony on December 7 at the event.
Len Rosenthal Speaking Details:
Event: Red Herring Global 100 Forum
Speaker: Len Rosenthal, VP of Marketing, Virtual Instruments
Session: Infrastructure Optimization: Ensuring Performance & Availability for Mission Critical Applications in a Private Cloud
Date: December 7, 2011
Location: Los Angeles
About Virtual Instruments
Virtual Instruments offers the award-winning VirtualWisdom and SANInsight 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.
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