William “Skip” Bacon VP of Products at Virtual Instruments

Virtual Instruments, provider of the NetWisdom storage area network (SAN) optimization solution, announced that William "Skip" Bacon has joined the company as vice president of products. Bacon will be responsible for product strategy and planning, ensuring the NetWisdom product line uniquely meets customers’ needs.

Bacon has more than 17 years of experience in product development and planning, leading efforts at companies such as Vendavo, Inc., Siebel Systems, GT Capital Management, Oracle Corp. and MicroStrategy. Most recently, he served as chief technology officer and senior vice president of product management at Vendavo Inc., a leading provider of B2B price optimization solutions. During his tenure, the company shipped its largest-ever product release and more than doubled its revenues. Prior to Vendavo, Bacon served as group vice president of application technology at Siebel Systems (now part of Oracle), where he had responsibility for Siebel’s Enterprise CRM application platforms, which were deployed by 4,000 customers worldwide.

Bacon holds a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and attended the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School.

"Skip adds tremendous product planning expertise and will take the lead in ensuring that innovation and product quality continue to be hallmarks of NetWisdom, as we move to aggressively accelerate our development lifecycle in order to meet customer demand," said Mark Urdahl, CEO, Virtual Instruments

"Companies must look to products like NetWisdom to optimize and ensure the business success of their virtual IT infrastructure. Virtual Instruments is clearly poised to become a key player as virtualization is rapidly becoming an essential component of every data center. Having deep visibility into the SAN infrastructure, enabled by SAN instrumentation, sets Virtual Instruments apart from all other monitoring and analysis vendors. I look forward to working with the excellent team at Virtual Instruments to deliver industry-leading virtual infrastructure instrumentation to data centers around the world," said Skip Bacon.