Akorri Solidifies Market Leadership Position with Rapid Customer Growth

Littleton, MA, October 8, 2008 – Akorri, Inc., the leader in performance and capacity management for the virtualized data center, today announced an accelerated pace of customer adoption for its award-winning BalancePoint software. Over the last six months, Akorri has grown its customer base by 200 percent. Companies continue to select BalancePoint because it has proven to be the best product for optimizing virtual data center performance and improving resource utilization. New Akorri customers include Cambridge Trust Company, County of Sacramento California, MassHousing, Midwest Family Mutual, Service Corporation International, Statistics Canada and VistaPrint. 

“Our customers are market leading, innovative organizations that are continually trying to optimize their resources,” said Tom Joyce, President and CEO at Akorri.  “With the increasing growth and adoption of virtualization, these organizations are making the transition from virtualizing test and development applications to virtualizing business-critical production applications. As companies make this transition, management solutions such as Akorri’s BalancePoint become essential for ensuring the virtual infrastructure is fully utilized and will provide the best possible application performance.”

Akorri has also expanded the sales channel, introduced several product enhancements, and increased market awareness.  Specific accomplishments include:

• Signed global reseller agreement with Dell Inc.
• Expanded Optimize Partner Program by 50%, announcing new resellers such as International Computerware Inc, and a number of additional regional and national partners, as well as a U.S. Government GSA Contract for IT Software
• Named one of Network World’s "10 Must-Have Virtualization Tools"
• Named in Gartner’s  “Cool Vendors in Server Virtualization Management” report
• Won Gold in the Storage Management Software category in Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com’s Product of the Year awards
• Introduced BalancePoint 2.3 which includes enhanced topology maps and support for Dell EqualLogic SANs, NetApp NFS, and Brocade SAN switches

About Akorri
Akorri performance and capacity 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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