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Quantifiable Benefits When Deploying VirtualWisdom®

Largest and Most Readily-Quantifiable Benefits When Deploying VirtualWisdom®

Operational (Opex) Savings Through Improved Operations

  • VirtualWisdom is the best enabling platform to help IT identify & troubleshoot I/O problems. Virtual Instruments solutions help IT dramatically minimize the time to problem resolution, reduce the number of trouble tickets, and allow SAN administrators to spend more time focused on solving business challenges and implementing revenue-generating initiatives. Our customers frequently report both a large reduction in trouble tickets and a much faster time to resolution from their use of Virtual Instruments (one customer publicly states an average reduction of 80% in the number of weekly trouble tickets).  Many IT organizations track how long it takes to resolve trouble tickets and the people resources involved.  There is usually a direct relationship between headcount and trouble-tickets, so this benefit can be directly quantified.
  • By reducing outages, IT can make a positive impact on company revenues. VirtualWisdom helps IT balance SAN resources and eliminate over-provisioning or under-provisioning.  By reducing over-provisioning of SAN resources, IT can significantly reduce SAN maintenance fees, and improve overall reliability of the SAN.  For example, this financial services customer used VirtualWisdom to uncover unevenly provisioned links, to help them avoid unnecessary purchases of storage array ports.
  • Virtual Instruments helps avoid unnecessary SAN switch expenditures, thereby reducing power, cooling, floor space, and administration expenses.

Capital Expenditure (Capex) Savings Through Better Utilization

  • VirtualWisdom® helps determine optimal use of SAN infrastructure and eliminate over-provisioning (and under provisioning). VirtualWisdom will find underutilized SAN resources, enable re-balancing, and help IT avoid buying additional storage or switch ports, and help determine when and how much future SAN capacity to acquire.  Further, it can ensure IT uses the optimal class (tier) of storage and increase utilization of lower cost storage, based on actual measured performance. Finally, by helping reduce investments in SAN hardware, organizations will also spend less on management software licenses.
  • As an example, we typically find that storage port utilization can be increased by 50% or more. The industry average “all in” cost of a storage port– comprising a storage port, core switch port, and attendant cabling – is currently in the neighborhood of $4,000 per port. If we can help the customer eliminate having to buy an additional 32 ports ($128,000) for one business unit, the cost of deploying VirtualWisdom is easily justified.
  • Several Virtual Instruments customers have found that this level of objective, verifiable insight empowers them to deliver Tier I SLAs with less-costly Tier II storage devices. The cost benefits here can be very compelling. The price difference between Tier I and II storage can be on the order of $10,000 per terabyte. For example, this national grocery chain uses VirtualWisdom to help increase their use of tier II storage.

Better VMware SLA Performance Monitoring and Adherence to External Compliance Standards

  • VirtualWisdom® provides historical and real-time performance dashboards, helping to focus problem identification and resolution in heterogeneous SAN environments to maintain SLA compliance. Our customers typically manage the most important, mission-critical data in their company and use VirtualWisdom to prove adherence to various compliance requirements, and better visibility into SLAs.
  • These include external compliance standards such as Basel II in Europe or HIPAA in the US.  Service providers, especially SAAS providers, will find these capabilities extremely beneficial in tracking SLAs for their customers.

Accelerated Application & San Deployments

Faster deployments lead to lower costs and higher revenues. Virtual Instruments delivers the required visibility to plan and deploy SAN infrastructure acquisitions. IT can monitor production deployment rollouts in real time to ensure all is performing as expected, with no mis-configurations or version incompatibilities. VirtualWisdom® finds performance problems and help improve application availability and performance.  And finally, VirtualWisdom helps validate new SAN technologies by providing real-time measurements to determine the positive or negative impact to application performance. 

See how this large financial institution uses VirtualWisdom to enable accelerated deployments by providing real-time visibility to rollouts; to ensure that all is performing as expected, with no mis-configurations or version incompatibilities.

Stronger Vendor Management And Reduced Risk

VirtualWisdom® offers an independent view of SAN component interdependencies, effectively decreasing risk of a multi-vendor strategy.  By instrumenting and measuring, IT has increased transparency from pre-sales claims through post-sales issue resolution, and can much more easily validate vendor claims.

The visibility that Virtual Instruments provides give you better financial control over your vendors, and reduces business risk.
Read about how this national grocery chain uses VirtualWisdom to test new SAN components, helping speed their use in production environments.