Littleton, MA, March 16, 2009 – Akorri, Inc., the leader in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management, today announced that Insight Integrated Systems (Insight IS), a leader in managing how information is stored, shared and protected, has become an authorized reseller within the Akorri Optimize Partner Program. Insight IS is a NetApp National STAR Partner, providing data management solutions for midsize and large enterprises. Under the agreement, Insight IS will resell Akorri BalancePoint virtual infrastructure management software to help its enterprise customers manage, optimize and plan performance and resource utilization in growing virtualized environments.
“As users expand virtualization deployments, they need a management tool that will offer insight and control over their systems. Akorri’s BalancePoint has the capabilities to manage performance and utilization across the server and storage domains to help our customers improve performance in their virtualized data centers,” said Dave Carpenter, marketing director for Insight IS. “We look forward to delivering BalancePoint to our virtualization customers to help optimize their expanding environments.”
“We are pleased to add Insight IS to Akorri’s Optimize Partner Program,” said Tom Joyce, CEO of Akorri. “Insight IS’ expertise in server virtualization and storage as well as their relationships with NetApp and VMware makes them an excellent partner. They deliver high quality information-centric business solutions, and we are confident that BalancePoint will provide their customers with effective management of virtual infrastructure performance.”
On March 18 2009 at 2:00 p.m. ET, the two companies will host a live webcast titled, “Managing Server and Storage Virtualization,” that shows virtualization administrators how to get control and visibility over their virtualized systems, fix performance problems, and automate management tasks to save money. The presentation will use real world company case studies to show how to get up to 70% better virtual infrastructure efficiency and reduce VMware performance events by up to 70%.
About Insight Integrated Systems
Insight Integrated Systems, a division of Insight Investments Corp., is dedicated to helping enterprise organizations lower their costs and improve their performance by delivering mission-critical, high-performance solutions that are scalable, flexible, secure and highly-available. By implementing an infrastructure virtualization program, Insight IS can dramatically increase hardware utilization, reduce server sprawl, reduce the need for new equipment, reduce planned downtime, provide disaster recovery capabilities and slash operating costs. For more information, visit http://www.insightintegrated.com.
About Akorri
Akorri virtual infrastructure 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. Certified for VMware and Citrix environments, Akorri BalancePoint virtual appliance 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 agentless software enables IT organizations to optimize performance and capacity to meet service level objectives at the lowest possible cost. Follow Akorri at http://twitter.com/Akorri. For more information, visit www.akorri.com.
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