Solutions for the U.S. Federal Government
Why Virtual Instruments in the U.S. Federal Government?
U.S. government civilian and defense agencies are increasingly tasked with more accountability and transparency, and agency IT staff are responding by solving problems that have caused inefficiencies. IT is expected to be a driving force for change.
Utilizing the latest advances in storage, virtualization, and cloud computing is a given, but these new technologies create their own management challenges, as IT is under greater pressure to spend budgets effectively.
A key to efficient modernization and innovation is accurate and on-going measurement of infrastructure resources. From the virtual machine to the storage system, VirtualWisdom® is an innovative solution that helps government 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 that reduce application response time, accelerate storage I/O, increase availability, and perhaps most importantly, reduce waste in the IT 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.A Virtual Instruments virtual infrastructure optimization solution consists of hardware, software, and services, and can optionally be delivered purely as services from Virtual Instruments or one of our authorized federal resellers.
Virtual Instruments Government Resellers
Case Study
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U.S. Federal Agency | This government agency is expected to bring new applications online faster with more certain accountability through a service-based computing model, and needed new monitoring solutions to ensure comprehensive, accurate SLAs. And more tactically, when a performance problem arises, this agency can start investigation at either the server or storage tier, but it’s often not clear which approach is optimal. It needed a rapid drill-down solution to help point to the first places to look for problem root cause.
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U.S. Federal Agency | U.S. civilian agency increases staff productivity by speeding root cause analysis, discovers a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) in the form of the Exchange Completion Time (ECT) metric. Uses VirtualWisdom to help avoid unnecessary capital expenditures by proving that performance problems could be solved by proper configuration and application tuning, rather than throwing hardware at the problem.
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U.S. Federal Agency | This U.S. Agency used VirtualWisdom and a Health Audit Service engagement to optimize the VMware vSphere and fibre channel SAN environment.
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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Datacenter Consolidation Best Practices Whitepaper | The benefits of storage consolidation are being realized by more and more companies and seen as a way to streamline many storage-driven applications. Virtual Instruments develops optimization solutions for managing the growth and design of storage and storage area network (SAN) -related technologies.
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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. Download the Summary.
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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