Solutions Overview. Application-centric Infrastructure Performance Management

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1 Solutions Overview Application-centric Infrastructure Performance Management Assure enterprise IT performance and optimize costs of mission-critical infrastructure in the context of your applications

2 With VirtualWisdom in our environment we were able to tune and optimize overall Infrastructure performance and improve IO response time by 50%. Josh Morton, VP of Enterprise IT Services App-centric Infrastructure Performance Management Enterprise IT infrastructure can be expensive, costly to maintain, and often difficult to scale inhibiting business agility. IT architects don t have a simple, proven method of determining the optimal infrastructure required to support their various application workloads, nor do they have a uniform basis for understanding how the underlying virtualized infrastructure is performing once it is deployed. What is needed is a full-stack infrastructure performance management solution that provides an authoritative understanding of performance, health and utilization of the infrastructure from the host VM, across the switching network, to the storage array from the perspective of the application. Virtual Instruments offers comprehensive infrastructure monitoring and workload performance analytics that help you transform your infrastructure with actionable insights that dramatically increase the ROI of your IT investments. Our Mission Virtual Instruments vastly simplifies IT infrastructure management, assuring the highest availability and performance of mission critical applications for the world s most demanding customers. The Virtual Instruments Solution VirtualWisdom is the industry s leading platform for App-centric Infrastructure Performance Management (App-centric IPM). It s machine-learning-based analytics empower data center operations professionals to deliver on the complex requirements of their diverse set of applications. The platform provides real-time insights into the performance, health and utilization of the end-to-end server to storage infrastructure across physical, virtual and cloud environments. It intelligently correlates and analyzes an unmatched breadth and depth of data with a vendor-independent approach, transforming it into answers and actionable insights. This enables IT teams to guarantee performance-based service level agreements (SLAs) and evolve from reactive troubleshooting to proactive performance optimization. To complement VirtualWisdom, our WorkloadWisdom platform empowers storage engineers and architects with the essential insights needed to optimize costs and assure storage infrastructure performance in the planning stage of new deployments. The solution is comprised of workload analysis, workload modeling, and workload generation capabilities that provide unparalleled insight into the relationship between workload behavior and storage performance. WorkloadWisdom enables

3 intelligent storage purchasing and deployment decisions, providing the essential data to cut storage costs by 30% or more and confidently evolve your infrastructure with the most innovative storage technologies. Customer Challenges Addressed Virtual Instruments helps you address these five critical challenges: Assuring optimal performance and 24x7x365 availability of hybrid data center infrastructure, while driving down costs. Providing a view of the infrastructure that is relevant to both application and infrastructure owners that can be used as a basis for SLAs & performance management. Managing exponentially increasing scale and complexity in both applications and technologies. Rapidly identifying and resolving performance and availability issues collaboratively across IT domains. Assessing cost/performance effectiveness of next generation infrastructure, including cloud, to transform your IT/business relationship. The Value of App-centric IPM: Proactively identify abnormal behavior across silos, correlate, analyze, and recommend remediation App-centric IPM provides a holistic view of how the existing infrastructure is servicing the applications. Its key value is the ability to proactively identify, resolve and ultimately avoid problems, combined with the ability to more intelligently deploy infrastructure resources based on performance requirements. Virtual Instruments uniquely solutions solve three key problems for IT organizations: App Service Assurance Provide executive level insights into how the infrastructure is supporting the apps and its impact on the business. Workload & Capacity Optimization Understand workload behavior to balance and tune infrastructure for optimal performance & cost. Problem Resolution & Avoidance Reduce manual triage and expedite remediation via proactive problem identification and resolution.

4 How Virtual Instruments is Unique 1. Full stack, application-centric view of your infrastructure. We help you to understand physical & virtual infrastructure interrelationships, to map applications to the underlying shared infrastructure across servers/vms, networks and storage. 2. Highly granular, heterogenous, agentless monitoring. You can non-intrusively track every transaction and I/O request to see how application and infrastructure changes affect performance. IT Infrastructure Monitoring has moved toward holistic monitoring and away from domain-specific monitoring. I&O leaders are benefiting from a refreshed ability to reduce the number of tools needed to monitor multiple operational areas. Gartner Market Guide for ITIM Tools, May Massive ingest capability of both machine and wire data. We uniquely capture continuous, real-time wire and machine data metrics via comprehensive instrumentation across all infrastructure elements with unsurpassed data ingest capabilities. 4. Cross-silo correlation and machine-learning-based analytics. VirtualWisdom Applied Analytics correlates and analyzes wire and machine data in the context of the application to help you proactively find and resolve performance problems and optimize utilization without your users even knowing. How We Complement your Application Performance Management (APM) Solution APM solutions focus on behavior of the application and its supporting runtime environments and components of the operating system. APM solutions tell a customer if the application is working well and if not, leads them to the problem causality if the problem is in the code or run-time environment. Infrastructure problems cannot be sufficiently diagnosed with APMs because they are largely blind to server, network and storage performance metrics. App-centric IPM solutions focus on performance and availability management of the hybrid data center infrastructure, from the application client to the storage array. App-centric IPM finds where in the infrastructure the application lives, so that you can proactively remove bottlenecks and guarantee the performance of the application. App-centric IPM solutions, through advanced analytics, quickly tell an IT manager if the infrastructure is working well and if not, leads them to the problem causality and optimization opportunities. Only when both APM and App-centric IPM solutions are deployed can you assure the performance and availability of your applications across the end-to-end infrastructure.

5 VirtualWisdom gives us the visibility we need to pinpoint and resolve problems in real time and to identify and prevent issues before they turn into problems. EVP and Head of Global Technology & Operations, MetLife

6 Virtual Instruments complements and enhances your current management platforms with: A comprehensive view of the entire open-systems stack to find problems undetectable by software-only monitoring. Highly accurate and detailed continuous real-time, unbiased monitoring for definitive insights. Pinpointing of root causes and impacts on application performance related to the infrastructure. Trending and analysis for proactively identifying emergent issues before they impact end user response times. The ability to determine if configuration changes are affecting application and infrastructure performance by examining end-to-end, systemic latency. Heterogeneous infrastructure support of hosts, VMs, SAN and NAS devices, storage switches, arrays, and network components. How to Engage with Virtual Instruments Customers of Virtual Instruments typically begin their relationship in one of four ways. Call us to discuss the best approach for you. After an initial meeting to understand your applications and infrastructure challenges, we can conduct a meaningful onsite or remote demonstration of our capabilities. Conduct a Proof of Value engagement. Here, we work with your various teams to identify a subset of your infrastructure to see how VI can find and remediate a existing problem or optimize for cost and utilization. Conduct an Infrastructure Performance Assessment (IPA): The IPA service includes delivery of best practices, baseline reporting, advanced analysis and alert investigation. In many cases, this service is delivered in direct support of large scale migration and consolidation projects. This service is typically delivered as a stand-alone solution that is inclusive of a dedicated, targeted deployment of the VirtualWisdom platform for a fixed period of time. Immediately deploy our Emergency Troubleshooting Service (SOS). If you ve got a current issue with a mission-critical application, and you re struggling with performance or uptime, we can deploy a service to immediately identify business-impacting issues and recommend fixes to quickly restore service levels. Performance Testing and Validation Service: VI s WorkloadWisdom-based professional service offers the most comprehensive storage performance validation & testing service in the industry. Using your in-house testing lab or a testing facility at one of your technology partners, we provide a variety of critical services including product benchmarking, performance profiling, workload modeling, and vendor-agnostic proofs of concept (POCs). Determine the best applications to migrate to the cloud, and the optimal service provider with our Cloud Migration Readiness Service. Virtual Instruments Business Value Increase Revenue Eliminate business impact of performance slowdowns & outages. Drive more business transactions via higher performance & better service levels. Accelerate Innovation & Business Agility Accelerate new business application and infrastructure deployments. De-risk digital transformation initiatives. Reduce CapEx Increase storage tiering and oversubscription - Deliver higher utilization across all tiers. Increase storage & switch port consolidation; higher VM density; sweat your assets. Reduce OpEx Improve Root Cause Analysis, MTTR - Reduce staff troubleshooting times by 80%+. Reduce maintenance and subscription fees by increasing infrastructure utilization.

7 With the help of VirtualWisdom, we were able to transform our data center into a modern data center with the agility needed to say yes to the business with confidence. Virtual Instruments has been integral to that transformation. Carlos Sotero IT Director Insight Enterprises

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