[October 03, 2012] Virtual Instruments Announces Channel Partnership with XOR-- Improving Christmas Time Retail Performance Tweet Oct 03, 2012 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Virtual Instruments the leader in Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments, today announced its partnership with XOR, the independent channel only services organisation. The partnership will enable XOR to offer Virtual Instrument's award-winning VirtualWisdom platform to resellers in the channel. This is anticipated to be of particular interest to resellers marketing to the retail and supply chain sectors where close management of IT infrastructure in the lead up to and during the Christmas boom time is imperative. With VirtualWisdom resellers can offer end-users real-time, system-wide visibility into the performance, utilization and health of physical, virtual and private cloud computing environments. Not only will this help IT managers maximise the performance, utilisation and availability of their IT infrastructures to optimise capital and operating expenditures, it will also help them identify potential outages so that they can be fixed before it impacts their business. The Virtual Instruments partnership with XOR will offer a unique way for channel partners to approach and win high-end virtualisation and cloud opportunities. XOR will provide channel partners with pre-sales, architecture, consulting and integration of Virtual Instruments technologies to assist them in going to market quickly and seamlessly. Furthermore, the service will present an excellent opportunity for resellers to win net new margin-rich consulting business by opening doors to existing and new retail and supply chain customers. This new service will enable channel partners to become a strategic advisor to customers and generate new business opportunities. Chris James, EMEA Marketing Director at Virtual Instruments said, "XOR's reputation for providing excellent consultancy support through channel partners is a great fit for Virtual Instruments and will help us to continue to deliver on our expansion programme. This announcement comes at an opportune time for the market when VirtualWisdom is rapidly becoming an essential performance and availability optimisation solution as more and more large enterprises deploy virtualisation and are migrating business-critical applications to private cloud environments." Commenting on the partnership, Premkumar Subramanian, Managing Director at XOR added, "Data storage has become a commodity offering with limited margins. It has also become increasingly difficult for resellers to differentiate themselves. Our partnership with Virtual Instruments will provide an innovative and compelling offering to channel partners to differentiate themselves in this space." About Virtual Instruments Virtual Instruments is a leader in Infrastructure Performance Management for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. The award-winning VirtualWisdomR platform provides visibility into real-time performance and health of the entire open systems stack along with metrics that assess utilization. Virtual Instruments improves the performance and availability of mission-critical applications while lowering the cost of the supporting infrastructure. Forbes Magazine recognized the company as #6 on its 2011 list of America's Most Promising Companies. The company was founded in June 2008 via a spin-out from Finisar Corp.; it has headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and can be found online at http://www.virtualinstruments.com . About XOR XOR Professional Services is a leading provider of IT consultancy, integration and support services to the UK reseller channel. We work successfully with over 100 major channel partners and more are being added to that number every day. Crucially, these include many leading system integrators, resellers and vendors. Our services capabilities include server and desktop virtualisation, data storage, networking, Microsoft and more. These services cover a wide range of vendor technologies and are designed specifically with channel partners in mind. More information about XOR is available at www.xorps.com . Moya Galal A3 Communications - the networked storage PR specialists T: +44 (0) 7932 021816 F: +44 (0) 870 762 8672 [email protected] www.a3communications.co.uk ((M2 Communications disclaims all liability for information provided within M2 PressWIRE. Data supplied by named party/parties. Further information on M2 PressWIRE can be obtained at http://www.presswire.net on the world wide web. Inquiries to [email protected]. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]