Akorri Enhances Award-Winning BalancePoint Virtual Infrastructure Performance Management Software

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Littleton, MA, March 22, 2010–Akorri, Inc., the leader invirtual infrastructure performance and capacity managementfor thedynamic data center, announced today that it has added several enhancements to its award-winningBalancePointsoftware. This new version of BalancePoint offers increased interoperability, new storage performance reporting capabilities, and ease of use enhancements.

BalancePoint is the only virtual infrastructure management software solution on the market designed to optimize virtual infrastructures, physical servers and storage resources.  IT organizations use BalancePoint to quickly isolate performance problems, reduce infrastructure costs and ultimately enable service level management of their data center infrastructure.

The new version of BalancePoint includes:

Broader Interoperability

• IBM XIV Storage, Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) and LPAR support 
• Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) support

Expanded Storage Performance Analysis

• Platform specific reports to quickly troubleshoot performance issues and plan capacity

Improved Ease of Use

• Simplified installation, quicker navigation and streamlined reporting

“By using BalancePoint, we have been able to reduce troubleshooting by more than 50% and limit downtime of critical clinical applications.  And the new reporting feature for NetApp storage allows us to improve the capacity planning of our storage environment,” said David Maldonado, Systems Engineering Manager, for Palo Alto Medical Foundation.

“It’s great to see Akorri continue to enhance BalancePoint’s value by expanding vendor support and interoperability,” said Bernd Harzog, Sr. Analyst at The Virtualization Practice. “BalancePoint’s strong support of IBM’s storage products and AIX Operating System creates a compelling solution for all IBM customers and partners looking to manage their virtualized environments.”

“As virtualization implementations continue to mature, IT organizations are realizing the importance of having best of breed performance management tools,” said Allan Wallack, CEO of Akorri. “BalancePoint’s analytics based performance management is critical in providing these organizations the confidence necessary to virtualization more of their mission critical applications.”

To view a short overview of BalancePoint clickhere.
To watch a BalancePoint demo clickhere

About Akorri

Akorri develops cross-domain analytical software solutions that optimize performance and utilization in the dynamic data center. BalancePoint virtual infrastructure management software provides automated, infrastructure-wide visibility and analysis to help enterprises fix problems, optimize utilization and improve performance for both virtual and physical servers and storage. IT organizations use BalancePoint to reduce IT infrastructure total cost of ownership and ultimately enable a service oriented infrastructure. Follow Akorri athttp://twitter.com/Akorri. For more information, visitwww.akorri.com.

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