Littleton, MA, February 12, 2008 – Akorri, Inc., the leader in cross-domain performance management for the virtualized data center, today proudly announced that BalancePoint, its cross-domain data center management software won the gold in the category of Storage Management Software in Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Product of the Year awards. A team of users, industry experts, analysts, consultants and the Storage Media Group editorial staff evaluated the nominations on the following criteria: innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value.
According to the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com award description, “Akorri has set an ambitious goal to track an app’s performance throughout the entire storage, server and network infrastructure.” The judges rated the suite high on its innovation and stated, “if BalancePoint continues to refine its analytics and can collect information from more devices, it will be well on its way to becoming an indispensable application performance monitoring tool.”
“We are honored to have been selected as the product of the year winner for storage management software and recognized as a leader in cross-domain performance management,” said Tom Joyce, President and CEO at Akorri. “We look forward to continuing to help IT managers better measure their applications’ performance.”
Akorri’s cross-domain performance management software provides automated visibility and analysis across IT silos to help enterprises manage, optimize and plan performance and resource utilization across the virtualized data center. Akorri recently released BalancePoint 2.0 with significant new features including: GuidePoint Performance Index™, Scorecard Reporting, and Storage Virtualization Support.
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About Akorri
Akorri cross-domain performance management software with advanced analytics provides automated visibility and analysis across IT silos to help enterprises fix problems, optimize utilization, and improve performance in the virtualized data center. Akorri BalancePoint software provides visibility into the root cause of performance issues through deep drill down into server and storage resources, and the ability to understand both server and storage virtualization. BalancePoint enables IT organizations to optimize performance and capacity to meet service level objectives at the lowest possible cost. For more information, visit www.akorri.com.
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