Press Release
Mainline Information Systems Joins Virtual Instruments Channel Partner Program
VIP Program Strengthens Mainline’s Infrastructure Solutions Practice with the Advanced Real-time Infrastructure Monitoring Capabilities of VirtualWisdom
SAN JOSE, Calif., January 5, 2011 – Virtual Instruments, the leader in virtual infrastructure optimization solutions, today introduced Mainline Information Systems™ as the newest member of its Virtual Instruments Partner (VIP) Program. Mainline joins other partners such as Iron Bow Technologies, Zycko and Dallas Digital Services in the channel partner program. Introduced in October 2011 to help channel partners engage with target accounts and strengthen their relationships with customers implementing business-critical applications in physical, virtual and private cloud environments, the VIP Program includes over 40 members and is seeing tremendous initial success.
“The VIP Program offers access to the Virtual Instruments’ solutions and services lineup, which helps us better serve our customers’ most demanding application and infrastructure requirements, ultimately helping us increase our business opportunities,” Bob Elliott, vice president of storage for Mainline. “Leveraging the advanced monitoring and analysis capabilities of the VirtualWisdom platform when our customers deploy mission-critical SANs allows our customers to proactively identify and prevent potential issues to ensure application performance and availability SLAs in both virtual and physical environments.”
“With more than 20 years of storage and infrastructure knowledge and a reputation for superior support, Mainline is considered the vendor of choice by companies across multiple industries,” said Todd Osborne, director of global partner sales and alliances for Virtual Instruments. “The VIP Program allows our channel partners to develop an infrastructure optimization expertise, and use that knowledge to propose optimal server, SAN and storage solutions for their customers. We are thrilled to welcome Mainline as the newest member of our channel partner family.”
VIP Program
The VIP Program is customizable for each channel partner’s unique business requirements, level of engagement and commitment. Through the Program, channel partners can leverage Virtual Instruments’ award-winning VirtualWisdom virtual, physical and cloud infrastructure optimization platform, a real-time monitoring solution that helps companies proactively optimize the performance, availability and utilization of their SANs and virtualized infrastructures.
Visit the Virtual Instruments Partner (VIP) Program for more information.
About Virtual Instruments
Virtual Instruments ensures the performance and availability of mission-critical applications by providing a comprehensive infrastructure optimization platform. The award-winning VirtualWisdom and SANInsight infrastructure optimization solutions provide real-time monitoring and analysis of physical, virtual and private cloud computing environments to optimize performance, utilization and availability. Forbes Magazine recently recognized the company as #6 on its 2011 list of America's Most Promising Companies. 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
About Mainline
Founded in 1989, Mainline began by offering information technology solutions and consulting services in the midrange server markets. Since then, it has become a global provider of information technology and business solutions, with more than 600 employees nationwide. Mainline has received many industry accolades, including VMware Global Desktop Virtualization Partner of the Year, Red Hat's North America Partner of the Year, multiple IBM Leadership Awards and a HP Virtualization Elite partner designation. Mainline provides solutions throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and Brazil. The company may be reached by phone at 850.219.5000 and on the Internet at www.mainline.com.
Media Contact
Jessica Kerr
Voce Communications on behalf of Virtual Instruments
415-975-2213
jessica.kerr@vocecomm.com
