WHAT’S YOUR STRATEGY?

CREATING A WORLD WHERE INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATIONS PERFORM BETTER TOGETHER

Our Value Prop & Key Messaging

The VI Mission:

Our Value Prop & Key Messaging

Virtual Instruments is the leader in Infrastructure Performance Analytics. We provide comprehensive infrastructure instrumentation and workload analytics for enterprise data

centers, service providers and technology vendors. Our solutions give IT teams deep workload visibility and actionable insights into their end-to-end systems across cloud,

virtual and physical environments. We empower companies to maximize the performance, availability and utilization of their production IT infrastructure and de-risk infrastructure

transformations.

Who is VI in 30 seconds?

MAXIMIZE AVAILABILITY

Identify & resolve problems before users are affected

Prevent & eliminate unplanned outages and slowdowns

OPTIMIZECOST

Align purchase & deployment decisions to workload profiles

Maximize utilization of existing IT infrastructure

GUARANTEE PERFORMANCE

Monitor & optimize infrastructure performance

Accelerate & de-risk infrastructure changes and

transformations

The Three Pillars of Value for IT Organizations

VI Positioning Terminology

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• Our current focus:

– (Application-aware) Infrastructure Performance Analytics

• Our products:–

• The leading Infrastructure Performance Monitoring solution

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• The leading Storage Performance Validation solution

The Integrated VI IPA Solution – in one slide

Leverage real-time & historical monitoring data to drive simulation

Leverage simulation results to enhance monitoring

Production Environment(for Admins/Operators, Engineers, Managers)

• Technology Evaluation

• Product Evaluation

• Change Validation

Benefits: (1) Reduce Risk(2) Optimize Costs

Manage Today Define the Future

Pre-production Lab Environment(for Architects, Engineers)

Monitoring

Benefits: (1) Optimize Costs(2) Reduce Risk

• Performance Mgmt

• Availability Mgmt

• Utilization Optimization

Testing

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ServersSwitchesStorage VMs

Data Collection

TopologyPerformance Analytics Live Reports Real-time Monitoring & Alarms

Correlation & Modeling

IT Process Management

Workload Management

Performance Management

Analytics

Hardware Probes

Software Probes

VirtualWisdom Management Software

VirtualWisdom Platform Appliance

Hardware Probes

Workload Importer

Load DynamiX Enterprise Software

Workload Generation Appliance

Performance Analytics

VI Solution Overview

The Key Use Cases that VI Addresses

SDS evaluation

Flash storage evaluations

IBM TPC Replacements

Determine Tiering Strategy

Find Infrastructure breaking points

Cloud Readiness/Migration

Solarwinds upsell

Accelerated troubleshooting

Proactive outage avoidance Identify over-provisioned ports & unused LUNs

Optimize configurations

Reduce performance slowdowns

Validate new software updates

Validate outsourcer SLAs

Validate infrastructure changes

De-risk transformations/consolidations

Load balance VMs

Multi-vendor bake-offs

Protocol evaluation