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VirtualWisdom4 delivers the industry’s first entity-centric approach
enabling application-aware infrastructure performance management. Using this
approach, organisations can logically group system-wide resources from
physical devices to application workloads, providing everyone from IT
operations to line of business leaders with the insight they need to
understand how resources and applications are performing. IT teams can now
customise entities to show all of the resources supporting a specific
application, business unit or tier of service, allowing individuals and
teams to immediately see the information relevant to them.

Architected from the ground up, the VirtualWisdom4 platform offers an
intuitive and responsive Web-based user interface, enabling customers to
quickly answer the important questions and deliver the right information at
the right time. Underpinned by an analytics-focused database, the new
platform ingests millions of metrics per second and presents data
significantly faster than before, making this the most powerful performance
platform available on the market. The user interface delivers real-time
visualisation of thousands of metrics allowing multiple groups across IT,
including application, server and storage teams, to collaboratively use the
information to fine-tune application and infrastructure performance and
align infrastructure spend to the actual workload.

In addition to providing enhanced capabilities for traditional fibre channel
environments and top of rack fibre channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switches,
Virtual Instruments is also expanding into the network-attached storage
(NAS) market with the introduction of its new probe, ProbeNTAP. The
software-based storage probe leverages agentless API’s to capture and
present health and utilization statistics for NetApp storage arrays.

Key features of VirtualWisdom4 are:

. Intelligent Topology: This new view provides insight at a glance,
enabling customers to understand the connectivity and relationship between
entities and gain a high-level understanding of resource utilisation, health
and performance.

. Case-based Alarms: Case-based alarms are designed to provide
relevant and actionable information and drive a shift from reactive alarm
management to proactive infrastructure management. Based on best practices
observed from hundreds of customer engagements, case-based alarms enable
users to view history and trending information to understand the frequency
and urgency of alarms so they can take action before an issue becomes a
production-impacting event.

. Live Reports: Live Reports provide intuitive and dynamic
visualisation of millions of wire, machine, and analytic metrics across the
performance, utilisation, and health of devices and entities. Live Reports
can include bar charts, trend graphs, time based comparisons and histograms
at an unmatched level of granularity.

. Applied Analytics: With the goal of turning data into real
answers, analytics have been built into the platform based on the expertise
gained from working directly with enterprise clients to optimise their
infrastructure. VirtualWisdom4 delivers analytics to help customers quickly
address common performance management requirements, such as workload
balancing, event investigation and trend correlation across the environment.

VirtualWisdom4 will be available by the end of May 2014.