Virtual Instruments Launches Certification

Virtual Instruments, Inc. announced that Estonia-based channel partner ByteLife Solutions, provider of IT infrastructure services, is the
first reseller in the Baltic region whose employees have attained the Virtual
Instruments Certified Associate (VICA) certification.

The certification program enables channel partners to grow their
business by expanding their portfolio to include performance monitoring,
troubleshooting and infrastructure optimisation across customers’ FC SANs and
virtual infrastructures.

The VICA training certification allows independent delivery of entry-level
installation, support and consultancy services through hands-on experience of
Virtual Instruments flagship offering VirtualWisdom. As Level One VirtualWisdom
administrators, certified professionals gain a deep knowledge of Infrastructure
Performance Management, which is critical to key IT initiatives such as data
centre migration and consolidation, cloud adoption and virtualisation.

Thanks to its staff being Virtual Instruments Certified Associates, ByteLife can
offer a more appealing bundle to its customer base across the Baltic region and
Sweden; by packaging the solution alongside installation and servicing the
company becomes a more valuable resource for its customers, gaining
independence and revenue streams.

"At Virtual Instruments we are
highly committed to providing our channel with the support it needs; our
partners are a crucial element in our growth path and initiatives such as VICA
are testament to this. ByteLife’s staff certification will help us provide
excellent service and knowledge locally so that we can continue to enhance our
global lead in infrastructure performance management," said Richard
Brown, EMEA OEM and channels director, Virtual Instruments.

Taavi Must, MD, ByteLife, said: "As
the first company to have VICA certified staff, in our region, we’re ideally
placed to offer our customers the benefits of IPM technologies and Virtual
Instruments’ monitoring and reporting solutions in particular. VirtualWisdom is
currently the only way to get real-time visibility across the whole storage
infrastructure, we know we can only stand to benefit as we lend our new skills
and knowledge to our marketplace."

Virtual Instruments’ VirtualWisdom platform is
an IPM tool available and is installed in hundreds of large data
centres where it helps infrastructure, server and storage administrators cut
application response time, reduce outages, and increase virtual and physical
infrastructure performance and utilisation. Comprised of hardware and software
probes and a GUI, VirtualWisdom includes real-time and
historical monitoring and measurement for the entire system, improving
utilisation, performance, and availability to drive operational benefits.