Solutions for Manufacturing
Why Virtual Instruments in Manufacturing?
Most large Manufacturing and Consumer Packaged Goods companies use Oracle or SAP to ensure competitive advantage in their global marketplace. It is essential that they keep their IT infrastructures available 24x7x365 and ensure superior application performance. Many of these enterprises have turned to VirtualWisdom, from Virtual Instruments, to monitor their business critical IT environments. It ensures that key applications are providing their maximum performance and that all the underlying technology across their physical and virtual infrastructure is optimized.
VirtualWisdom benefits in SAP & Oracle Environments:
- Proactively alerts you Oracle and SAP slowdown before application end-users are affected
- Helps prevent Oracle and SAP outages
- Higher IT infrastructure utilization
- Improves Oracle and SAP performance
- Allocate storage resources to highest priority applications
- Accelerate the virtualization of SAP and Oracle while guaranteeing uptime and performance SLAs
- Eliminate the risk of deploying SAP and Oracle in a private cloud
Virtual Instruments Eliminates the Risk of Deploying Oracle and SAP
Nearly all leading manufacturers have deployed Oracle or SAP to manage key aspects of their business from Manufacturing Process, Supply Chain, Enterprise Resource Planning and Financial Forecasting, through to HR, CRM and Billing. ITs job is to ensure maximum efficiency and performance in a ‘just in time’ environment. If the system slows down or stops the entire organization is impacted. Missed deadlines can be counted at a cost per second to the business and can have a significant financial impact on the company’s quarterly results and brand reputation. Slow application performance, represented by slow end-user response times, is simply not allowed
The traditional method of ensuring application performance in an open systems environment is to over-provision the infrastructure. As budgets are squeezed this approach is no longer cost effective. The utilization and performance of both the virtual and physical infrastructure needs to be proactively managed. Oracle and SAP monitoring is critical.
VirtualWisdom helps you guarantee that open systems Database, Server, Switch and Storage devices perform as they should. Infrastructure management and optimization becomes proactive, rather than having to ‘fire-fight’ issues as they happen. It enables response time thresholds to be set for individual applications. Managers can now, for the first time, set Service Level Agreements in virtualized or private cloud environments (SAP is fully VMware certified) allowing them to reap the cost benefits of more efficient and flexible IT infrastructure.
VirtualWisdom enables dedicated SAP and Oracle storage to be managed differently than other storage devices. Applications running the business can be allocated higher performance storage and SAN hardware while others can run efficiently on less expensive equipment. Application performance can be validated and guaranteed as the virtual and physical Infrastructure is optimized. With VirtualWisdom both capital and operational expenditure is reduced while SAP and Oracle infrastructure and application performance is improved.
To learn how Virtual Instruments can help you increase your competitive edge in an SAP or Oracle environment, contact us today.
Case Study
- Consumer Products | Multinational consumer products giant deploys VirtualWisdom and achieves a 75% reduction of trouble tickets; discovers and solves multi-pathing issues to reduce risk of outages.
- Unilever | Unilever’s Mike Royle, Enterprise Services IT Director, spoke at Storage Expo in London on Oct 15, 2009 about Unilever’s use of NetWisdom throughout their 5PB data center. The talk is entitled “SAN Optimisation Best Practices: Seeing Through The Clouds Of Virtualisation.”
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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Manufacturing Solution Brief | Nearly all leading manufacturers have deployed SAP or Oracle to manage key aspects of their business operations from their manufacturing process, supply chain, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financial forecasting, through to HR, CRM and billing. VirtualWisdom ensures maximum efficiency and business agility for any ‘just in time’ environment.
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