Virtual Instruments Debuts WorkloadCentral, Free Cloud-Based Workload Analysis

Virtual Instruments, Inc. launched the beta version of WorkloadCentral, a free storage workload analysis service and community designed to help IT teams better understand how their application workloads interact with the underlying storage infrastructure.

The first of its kind, WorkloadCentral offers critical insight into application workload performance profiles to help storage professionals understand, benchmark and analyse their existing storage infrastructure to ensure performance and make better deployment decisions.

WorkloadCentral is a free cloud-based community that offers access to an extensive library of cross-industry workloads and models for both IT end users and storage vendors. The service provides baseline models for sizing new storage deployments and what-if analysis based on production workload data. IT architects and engineers benefit by making better product and technology evaluations, optimising configurations, validating changes and accelerating problem resolution.

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Registered WorkloadCentral users can import workload metadata from their storage arrays, instantly begin analysing production workload data, and build and share workload models across a global community within the Workload Library. These models can then be used, with Load DynamiX Enterprise, to simulate how production application workloads will perform across storage protocols, technologies, vendors and configurations. Because it’s metadata, no actual customer data is ever shared. In addition, users can browse documentation, educational materials and videos in WorkloadCentral to better understand how to utilise workload analysis and modelling.

“WorkloadCentral will benefit both IT managers and storage vendors, with insights that are rooted in facts versus industry generalisations. By letting users build and grow the community, Virtual Instruments offers an opportunity for companies, vendors and service providers to crowdsource and validate production workloads, saving everyone time, money and resources across the storage deployment lifecycle,” said Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst, Taneja Group.

Fresh off the recent merger of Virtual Instruments and Load DynamiX, Inc., and coupled with the recent product enhancements to VirtualWisdom 4.4, the company is committed to providing end-to-end infrastructure performance analytics. Based on Load DynamiX Enterprise, WorkloadCentral will set the industry standard for simplified workload analysis.

“WorkloadCentral gives IT architects access to the blueprints, tools and analytics needed to become true workload experts,” said Tim Van Ash, SVP, products, Virtual Instruments. “As the community grows, vendors, customers and channel partners alike can understand workloads at a deeper level and make data-driven decisions that will align storage deployments to workload performance requirements.“