-- Cooks brings nearly 15 years of systems and enterprise software
experience to his new role at Virtual Instruments.
-- Before Virtual Instruments, Cooks served as senior director of
research and development at VMware. He was responsible for the successful
development of VMware's availability software, including some of VMware's
most innovative software, such as VMware Fault Tolerance, the host-based
replication engine for disaster recovery, VMware High Availability and
VMware vCenter Data Recovery.
-- Prior to joining VMware in 2006, Cooks was a director of engineering
at Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for the Solaris core
technology team delivering numerous features into the Solaris operating
system, including DTrace, the Predictive Self-Healing architecture, support
for 64bit AMD and Intel hardware, InfiniBand integration, and a highly
performing TCP/IP stack known as project FireEngine. Cooks was also
responsible for numerous virtualization efforts at Sun, including network
virtualization aka Crossbow, Xen on Solaris, and support for Linux zones on
Solaris.
-- He holds a M.S. in computer science from the University of Oregon and
a B.S. in computer science from Purdue University.
Quotes
From Mark Urdahl, CEO, Virtual Instruments: "Barry's track record of
successfully delivering innovation coupled with his deep knowledge of
virtualization, both at VMware and Sun Microsystems, make him the ideal
person to lead the development of VirtualWisdom,
our new game-changing, non-intrusive, agent-less solution for virtual
infrastructure performance optimization."
From Barry Cooks, Vice President of Software Engineering at Virtual
Instruments: "Virtual Instruments has shown real innovation and a deep
understanding of how to extract critical real-time performance and
utilization metrics from virtualized data centers. VirtualWisdom, which
directly adds SAN I/O intelligence to VMware, is the missing 3rd leg of the
stool that is required to optimize the performance of virtualized
applications. Having information about CPU and memory utilization for
virtual machines is useful, but insufficient to deploy virtualized
business-critical applications, which tend to be highly I/O intensive. I
look forward to leveraging my experience at VMware to propel VirtualWisdom
as an essential component of every virtual data center."
About Virtual Instruments
Virtual Instruments offers the award-winning NetWisdom and VirtualWisdom
virtual infrastructure optimization solutions that provide deep monitoring
and analysis of how the virtualized IT infrastructure and SAN affect
business-critical application performance. Customers such as Barclay's Card
Services, Kaiser Permanente and McKesson Corp. achieve significant cost
savings in virtualization and SAN deployments by optimizing utilization,
performance and availability of IT resources. Leading system and storage
vendors including IBM, HP and EMC leverage Virtual Instruments to design
and optimize SAN solutions for enterprise customers. The company was
founded in June 2008 via a spin-out from Finisar Corp.; it has headquarters
in Scotts Valley, Calif., and can be found online at
http://www.virtualinstruments.com.
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