Virtualization Management with Service-Oriented Infrastructure
The most important strategic leverage available to businesses today is the use of information technology to deliver business services. IT-based business services are pervasive throughout the enterprise, enabling communications, managing processes, and generating revenue. The ability to predictably manage these services and to meet or exceed required service levels is a critical core competency for IT organizations, but accomplishing this is extremely difficult.
IT organizations are under tremendous strain because today’s complex data center has more heterogeneous points of management than ever before. Many new applications are built using web server-based and Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) methodologies, rather than traditional application development approaches, leading to many more interdependencies. Virtualization management is appearing at every level of IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, and storage, disaggregating applications and their supporting infrastructure. Guaranteeing service levels in this environment, and troubleshooting performance or utilization issues when they happen, have become a major challenge.
Manage, Optimize, Plan with BalancePoint
BalancePoint’s System Performance Model is the key component for providing users the ability to Manage, Optimize, and Plan their IT services across the virtualized data center. BalancePoint’s Manage functionality gives users the visibility into their current service-based infrastructure, allows them to quickly troubleshoot performance and availability related issues, and provides alerts when service levels are not being met or may not be met in the near future. BalancePoint's Optimize functionality reports on current performance and utilization levels and gives the user the analysis tools necessary to optimize application performance and infrastructure resource utilization. The Plan capability enables IT to accurately predict the impact that new or changing resources will have on their application performance, or how different application workloads will impact the database, server, storage, and virtualization resources that service them.
Akorri BalancePoint was designed to deliver enterprise-class service level management. By combining a fully standards compliant agent-less design with advanced cross-domain analytical modeling, BalancePoint is able to address the needs of the world’s most demanding IT customers without adding complexity to their environments.
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