Solutions for Financial Services
Why Virtual Instruments in Financial Services?
Financial Services, including banking and insurance companies, need fast and efficient IT systems to maintain a competitive edge. They must have speedy customer-facing application performance with extremely high application availability.
Given the highly competitive nature of their businesses and the preponderance of mergers and acquisitions, the IT organization must constantly evolve to quickly support the deployment of the newest hardware and software technologies.
Existing IT monitoring solutions and testing methodologies are simply not up to the challenge of optimizing application performance in real-time, proactively identifying problems before they affect users, and accelerating the deployment of new technology all at the same time. A key to business agility, efficient modernization, and innovation is accurate, on-going real-time monitoring and measurement of infrastructure resources.
VirtualWisdom® helps address regulatory compliance, improve application performance, increase infrastructure availability, increase revenue generation and drive down costs. From the virtual machine to the storage system, it is an innovative solution that lets Financial Services IT organizations realize the full economic benefits of networked storage and server virtualization. It provides comprehensive instrumentation and measurement capabilities of the SAN and VMware infrastructure and will give you the data and confidence needed to help you implement a private cloud infrastructure. VirtualWisdom is the only solution that can non-intrusively improve the performance of virtualized applications in real-time by analyzing actual SAN I/O traffic data, and identify pervasive over-provisioning.
Dozens of large banks, brokerages, and insurance companies have successfully deployed VirtualWisdom to optimize their physical and virtual IT infrastructure. Financial services customers represent the largest industry segment for Virtual Instruments. To learn how we can help you, contact us today.
Case Study
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Financial Services Case Study | Learn how this financial services firm uses VirtualWisdom to help balance virtual machine loads in a VMware ESX/ESXi environment.
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BarclayCard Presentation and Podcast on Wikibon Peer Incite | Ryan Perkowski, former SAN Manager at Barclaycard US, presented at the 2009 Fall SNW conference on “Controlling SAN Costs: Best Practices for Optimizing SAN Performance & Utilization.” Ryan discusses the storage environment at Barclaycard US, how to overcome the challenges of managing a large SAN and the reasons the organization relies on VirtualWisdom.
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Halifax Bank of Scotland Case Study | With more than 22 million customers, HBOS has a relationship with two out of every five UK households. And HBOS takes its customer relationships very seriously. It prides itself on its ability to deliver new products and customer support services that are second to none. Part of this commitment entails a massive information technology infrastructure that helps ensure that customers have access to all of the information and banking services they might be seeking—available 24 x 7. VirtualWisdom is a key component.
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Groupama Asset Management Presentation | Groupama’s Alain Boggero, IT Manager based in France, discussed his experiences with VirtualWisdom at the CRIP/ITI Forum annual conference in Paris on June 17, 2010. Alain discusses (in French), the background on Groupama, their data center infrastructure, and why they chose Virtual Instruments
Analyst Reports
- Taneja Group White Paper - Virtual Instruments Customer Benefits Field Study | March 2010 | Taneja Group conducted in-depth telephone interviews with a set of Virtual Instruments (VI) customers, of varying sizes and across several industry verticals, over a five-month period in late 2009 and early 2010.
Whitepapers
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Twelve Ways that Virtual Instruments Enhances your Existing Virtual Infrastructure and SAN Management Tools | January 2010 | The only hope of solving today's virtualized data center challenges is with better management tools. Today's most common solutions such as Enterprise Management Frameworks, Storage Resource Management, and specialized element managers all lack physical, real-time monitoring of the IO path. Virtual Infrastructure Optimization solutions, such as VirtualWisdom, are the only products that can non-intrusively optimize the performance of applications, including virtualized applications, in continuous real-time by measuring actual SAN I/O traffic data.
Product Datasheets
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VirtualWisdom Overview | VirtualWisdom provides comprehensive instrumentation and I/O measurement capabilities that reduce application response time, increase availability, and improve resource utilization. VirtualWisdom is the only product that can non-intrusively improve the performance of applications and increase the benefits of cloud-driven virtualization in real time by analyzing actual I/O traffic data.
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