Virtual Instruments and Nextgen Partnering

Virtual Instruments, Inc. announced a new partnership with Nextgen Distribution Pty Limited, an enterprise technology distributor specializing in bringing storage and network testing technology from around the globe to enterprises in Australia and New Zealand.

Nextgen’s distribution model for enterprise solutions allows more customers access to Virtual Instruments monitoring and analytics platform for private and hybrid cloud infrastructure performance management.

As part of the agreement, Nextgen will have distribution rights for all of Virtual Instruments’ app-centric IPM solutions, including the VirtualWisdom infrastructure performance monitoring platform and the WorkloadWisdom storage workload performance validation platform.

Through the integration of these technologies into Nextgen’s portfolio, customers are provided the opportunity to measure and guarantee performance-based SLAs and increase the overall value of their infrastructure.

“Virtual Instruments delivers the industry’s only analytics platform for Infrastructure Performance Management – empowering customers to guarantee the performance and availability of their mission critical applications across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. This is why it’s such a great fit for Nextgen’s advanced enterprise software strategy,” said John Walters, group CEO, Nextgen. “We’ve been acknowledged at a global level for our innovative approach to distribution – what we call ‘Distribution Reinvented’ – and it depends on strategic partnerships with leading technology partners such as Virtual Instruments. Together, Virtual Instruments and Nextgen enable the channel to deliver quantifiable business value to their customers.“

There is an ongoing trend of enterprises seeking ways to make more intelligent decisions about their infrastructure to better control escalating costs and assure performance. By correlating and analyzing full-stack data, Virtual Instruments’ app-centric IPM solutions holistically monitor, analyse and optimise the performance, utilisation and health of IT infrastructure within the context of the application. This enables enterprises to identify any issues across the infrastructure, and deploy and manage infrastructure resources based on performance requirements.

“Nextgen is passionate about the solutions they deliver to customers, and their inclusive approach to the relationships between vendors, distributors, resellers, and end users closely reflects that of the Virtual Instruments Partner Program,” said Sheen Khoury, EVP of global sales, Virtual Instruments. “By joining Nextgen’s network of industry-leading partners, we’re ensuring that an even broader set of customers will have access to our award-winning solutions, further enabling IT teams to guarantee their performance-based SLAs and evolve from reactive troubleshooting to proactive performance optimization.“

Virtual Instruments offers real-time infrastructure performance monitoring, analytics, and storage validation products that provide breakthrough application workload visibility to global 2000 enterprise companies, government, and service providers.