Silicon Valley-based company Virtual Instruments is looking to invest in the South African market.
The company believes the South African market presents a lot of opportunity, particularly as a gateway to the rest of Africa.
In an interview with ITWeb, Eric Jorgensen, Virtual Instruments' VP for sales in EMEA, revealed that the company is looking to open a branch in SA.
He also pointed out that although the company already has customers in SA, like Vodacom, it has been operating the local business from the UK through OEM partners. These partners include Hitachi Data Systems, EMC and HP, Jorgensen revealed.
"By providing total visibility into customers' IT infrastructures, mobile network operators and retailers are able to allocate their storage resources optimally to prevent glitches and data bottlenecks," Jorgensen noted.
Besides, opening a South African office and working with partners, he also noted that Virtual Instruments is looking to engage the services of local system integrators as well.
"Our biggest customers globally are in the FMCG [fast-moving consumer goods] space, banking, government and retail sectors," Jorgensen said. "We target anyone with a shared infrastructure or private cloud environment that runs their mission-critical applications."
Jorgensen believes that as the majority of South African companies are still making the journey from physical infrastructures to virtualised environments, the company's latest product VirtualWisdom4 will make a huge impact on the South African market, as it "delivers an innovative new approach and enhanced capabilities, providing organisations with insight into how their applications and infrastructure are performing".
The infrastructure performance management company says VirtualWisdom4 delivers an entity-centric approach enabling application-aware infrastructure performance management.
Using this approach, organisations can logically group system-wide resources from physical devices to application workloads, providing everyone, from IT operations to line-of-business leaders, with the insight they need to understand how resources and applications are performing, Jorgensen explained.
According to Virtual Instruments, with VirtualWisdom4, IT teams can customise entities to show all of the resources supporting a specific application, business unit or tier of service, allowing individuals and teams to immediately see the information relevant to them.
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