How Virtual Instruments is Helping Enterprises Move Intelligently to Cloud

New service offers application workload analysis and simulation to enable enterprises to fully assess cost/performance tradeoffs as they move applications to the public cloud. Infrastructure performance management software provider Virtual Instruments is branching out by moving into the data migration business. This is a corner of the IT world that tends to make people wince when the topic comes up. In an attempt to deal with this eternal problem, the young company on June 27 launched its Cloud Migration Readiness (CMR) service to help enterprises intelligently move to the cloud. The new CMR service provides enterprises with insights into the workload behavior of applications targeted for cloud migration. It’s more or less an extension of what VI already does in keeping applications in good working order, in optimal performance mode and in compliance with all the rules and regulations the IT world brings to bear. By combining workload discovery, dependency mapping and workload profiling, the CMR service is designed to simplify the decision-making process and reduce the time to migrate enterprises’ large number of diverse workloads, VI said. The CMR service enables enterprises to simulate and validate cloud workload performance before migrating the workloads and determine if migrated workloads are performing adequately; it also charts out the steps to take if they aren’t. The CMR service includes the ability to select the optimal CPU, memory and network and storage configuration for each migrated workload using simulated workloads, VI said. Users always face important questions related to cost and performance before initiating their migrations. Before the introduction of the CMR service, they were unable to confidently answer these questions. Using the CMR service, enterprises can: de-risk their upcoming cloud migrations.