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The Webinars below provide information on Virtual Instruments' products and SAN and virtualization best practices.

Recent Webinar (On-demand Now Available)

Ensuring Performance and Availability of Your Epic Application

In this exclusive webcast, healthcare industry experts from Virtual Instruments will discuss how IT managers in EMR environments can address these issues with the VirtualWisdom infrastructure optimization platform - to maintain high performance and continuous availability of EMR clinical applications.

Webinars On Demand

  • Ensuring Performance and Availability of Your Epic Application
    In this exclusive webcast, healthcare industry experts from Virtual Instruments will discuss how IT managers in EMR environments can address these issues with the VirtualWisdom infrastructure optimization platform - to maintain high performance and continuous availability of EMR clinical applications.

  • vSphere 6.0 – What's Needed in this Future Release? 
    The silos that once existed between storage and VMware teams are now being challenged as vSphere 5 brings to the forefront the need for a common understanding and integration. Join Archie Hendryx, Virtual Instruments Senior Solutions Consultant, as he discusses the way to counter such challenges and ensure a successful virtualization initiative that eliminates risk, optimizes performance and enhances business continuity and availability of key applications.

  • Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) — Ensuring Successful Consolidation & Private Cloud Migrations by Utilizing Your Real-Time Server-SAN Data 
    One of the biggest challenges when planning a server/storage consolidation is ensuring the applications and the Server-SAN infrastructure can meet the required performance and availability service level agreements (SLAs). The challenge is that most agencies don’t really know the true utilization of their current environment to accurately account for and plan a consolidated environment. In this on-demand webinar, Carahsoft, Doug Norton, Director of Virtual Instruments Federal and Bob Gourley editor of CTOvision.com and founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Crucial Point LLC, discusses how to plan and model a consolidated infrastructure to safely deliver upon OMB's required FDCCI and the next logical extension to a private cloud environment.

  • De-risk Deploying Business Critical Applications in Your Private Cloud — "How to Ensure Performance and Availability in a Shared Virtual Infrastructure"
    As Global 2000 IT organizations start deploying and preparing to migrate to a private cloud environment, they need to architect their private clouds to ensure that application requirements for performance and availability are achieved with minimal risk to the business. In this on-demand webinar, Jim Bahn, Director of Product Marketing at Virtual Instruments, will discuss new industry best practices and suggest a clear approach to de-risking your virtual and physical infrastructure before you move mission-critical applications to production in your private cloud.

  • SAN Management Best Practices —"A New Approach for Controlling Cost & Reducing Risk"
    Virtual Instruments recognizes that SAN monitoring and management tools are only part of the story in achieving a fully optimized SAN environment where performance, utilization and availability are maximized. To reach these goals in the most cost-effective way, Virtual Instruments and Enterprise Strategy Group have developed a SAN Maturity Model that gives enterprises a framework to assess Maturity Levels, Key Process Areas (KPAs), Goals (KPIs), and Leading Practices.

  • Best Practices for Private Cloud Migration: Reduce Storage Migration Risks  — "Learn the 5 critical areas to watch before, during, and after your migration"SANpulse and Virtual Instruments have teamed together to offer some practical advice on how to reduce storage migration risks and pave the way for moving to the private cloud. In this 45 minute discussion, we will describe specific ways to measure your infrastructure readiness before, during, and after your migration. Join Marie-Pierre Belanger, VP of Product Management at SANpulse and Jim Bahn, Director of Product Marketing at Virtual Instruments as they identify the key metrics to ensure the performance and availability SLAs required by your businesses units while efficiently managing investments and resources. With this essential data, you can create and maintain the SLAs that everyone can get behind.

  • Your Fibre Channel SAN: Are you making the most of it? — "Disproving the myths around Fibre Channel SANs"

    There is a common myth that Fibre Channel SANs are expensive, difficult to manage and hard to troubleshoot.  There is also substantial marketing by certain vendors proclaiming the benefits of alternative solutions. But what if FC SANs were actually less expensive and easier to operate than alternatives?  Join Stephen Spellicy, Director of Marketing for Virtensys and Archie Hendryx, Solutions Consultant for Virtual Instruments as they break the myth and demonstrate how there is indeed a clear path to optimizing your current FC SAN storage infrastructure. Don't miss this informative, on-demand webinar.

  • The New Best Practices of SAN TAPs — "Reduce Troubleshooting from Days to Minutes"
    In this webinar, you will learn how deploying Traffic Access Points can enable complex IT environments to reduce their SAN troubleshooting times from days to minutes.

  • Solving the SAN Storage/VMware Performance Puzzle — "Understanding the benefits of VMware&'s new Storage related features"
    It’s falsely assumed that VMware is the source of many performance problems since it is relatively new in the datacenter. Others will claim it’s not VMware but the underlying storage. In this webinar Archie Hendryx, Senior Solutions Consultant for Virtual Instruments, addresses key issues and provides insight as to how a comprehensive view, from the VM to the LUN, is imperative for further consolidation and safe Physical to Virtual migrations of your Tier 1 applications.

  • The Top Ten Secrets to Avoiding SAN Performance Problems — "Why your Storage isn't always to blame"
    Maintaining peak performance while simultaneously addressing the root cause of SAN errors is challenging. In this webinar, Archie Hendryx, Senior Solutions Consultant for Virtual Instruments, discusses the most common SAN problems and explores new ways to dramatically improve application performance and availability. Also In German

  • SAP Deployments: Reducing Risk and Guaranteeing Performance in Open Systems
    SAP has become vital to the Global 2000, whether you use SAP to run your supply chain, manufacturing, CRM, or Business Intelligence. How SAP performs in your open systems platform is critical to the efficiency and success of the business. Learn how to understanding the optimal SAP infrastructure and the key benefits of deploying SAP with Virtual Instruments. (the on-demand is currently unavailable.)

 

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