Virtual Instruments enables $100 million in savings

Virtual Instruments' work with the U.S. Air Force resulted in a fiscal year 2014 Department of Defense Value Engineering Achievement Award. Virtual Instruments leveraged its Critical Infrastructure Audit (CIA) service to help the U.S. Air Force identify inefficiencies and opportunities to improve system-wide operations and avoid forecasted costs, saving the department $100 million in long-term IT upgrade and infrastructure maintenance costs.



“Our approach to IPM, whether it’s our VirtualWisdom platform or advanced services, such as our CIA, is about cost and value optimisation and turning data into authoritative insights to make better-informed business decisions,” said John W. Thompson, CEO of Virtual Instruments. “The U.S. Air Force’s IT infrastructure manages information and processes of the utmost importance, and its choice of Virtual Instruments is a testament to the value our IPM solutions and services deliver in optimising critical infrastructure.”

Virtual Instruments’ commitment to analytics-based, end-to-end infrastructure visibility helps federal agency customers, such as the U.S. Air Force, maximise the value and use of existing assets to support strategic business decisions and eliminate unnecessary, costly upgrades and investments. The Virtual Instruments solution is a non-disruptive, agentless data collection, correlation and analysis platform. Once the data is analysed, Virtual Instruments makes recommendations to improve the performance and availability of an organisation’s environment. As IT administrators gain insights from the infrastructure, they’re better positioned to make informed decisions about improved configurations, workload management and any necessary upgrades.

“We initially looked at executing significant upgrades to the area processing centre (APC) infrastructure that would’ve cost $100 million,” said Lieutenant Colonel Jennifer Krolikowski, the former Air Force Program Manager responsible for life-cycle management of APCs. “Obviously, we needed to look for other ways to achieve the same result, but at much less cost.”
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