Virtual Instruments Opens R&D Center

Virtual Instruments, Inc. is opening a R&D center in London’s Tech City.

Building on the company’s European presence, the center will serve as
Virtual Instruments’ EMEA Engineering HQs, with the team focusing on
end-to-end product development and working with customers across the
region.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: "I am pleased to welcome
Virtual Instruments into Tech City, recognizing the talent pool of
engineers London is able to provide through its universities and dynamic
cluster of tech firms. The arrival of another fast-growth company not
only generates important new jobs for the city but underlines London’s
position as global leader in this sector."

Initially, Virtual Instruments will be recruiting for software engineers
and software QA engineers. Over time, that will be expanded to add
support, management and hardware engineering roles to the team.

"Innovation is the foundation of Virtual Instruments’ success, and it
will enable us to continue delivering industry-leading products," said Barry Cooks, VP engineering, Virtual Instruments. "The
vibrancy and drive of the Tech City community matches our engineering
culture, which is built around small teams of very smart people working
hard to solve real-world customer problems. Our goal is to hire the best
and the brightest people and provide a creative environment where they
are free to design and deliver their ideas."

After considering a number of locations around the world, Virtual
Instruments chose London’s Tech City because of its engineering talent
base, proximity to universities with computer science and engineering
programs and an engineering culture.

The Virtual Instruments office is at 81 Rivington Street, right in the heart of Tech City.

Virtual Instruments partnered with the Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO) and London & Partners
on its search for a location in London. These organizations provided
information on the business and talent landscape in the United Kingdom,
introduced Virtual Instruments to similar companies in the area and
arranged for the company to meet with and explore research activities in
local universities.

Benjamin Southworth, deputy CEO at the Tech City Investment Organization, said: "We
are thrilled to welcome Virtual Instruments to Tech City, a move which
is further proof of East London’s status as the top European location
for international tech businesses. Throughout our discussions with
Virtual Instruments, and as we showed them around the area, London’s
strong talent base and Tech City’s unique vibrancy really stood out as
selling points for the capital. We look forward to them becoming part of
the community here."

Driving Innovation
Global 2000 organizations are looking to leverage virtualization and
cloud technologies to deliver more flexibility, but contend with an
increasing amount of risk as they migrate mission-critical applications
to private cloud environments. Ensuring that the private cloud can
deliver the necessary levels of performance and availability requires
new capabilities for an Infrastructure Performance Management platform
that can provide visibility throughout all system layers in a
multi-vendor environment.

As Virtual Instruments focuses on expanding its VirtualWisdom platform
to support additional technologies and virtual environments, the company
will look to the local engineering team to own end-to-end development
for a set of products that will be wholly developed out of the London
office. VirtualWisdom provides end-to-end visibility into real-time
performance, health and utilization metrics from throughout the open
system, driving improved performance and availability, while lowering
the total cost of the infrastructure supporting mission-critical
applications. Team members will also work closely with Virtual
Instruments’ EMEA customers to define the next generation of products.