Heard on the Street
Here’s what customers, analysts and partners are saying about Akorri:
Customers
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"We looked for managment solutions with cross-domain knowledge between virtualization, physical servers and storage, and found only Akorri BalancePoint. It has allowed us to consolidate our data center with confidence, ensure continued success in our virtualization initiative, and improve storage utilization - all while maintaining the best levels of service for our organization."
Ben Haley
Regional Supervisor, Information Management Information Systems, Vancover Coastal Health |
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“Before purchasing the Akorri solution, we did not have a tool that could give us a comprehensive view of our application service through to the storage environment. BalancePoint showed us there was a large amount of untapped storage available. Based on the assessment, we reorganized the way the data was stored on the arrays allowing us to delay the purchase of additional storage from one fiscal year into the next.”
Steve Perkins
Manager of Infrastructure Technology, CHFA |
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"What used to take us weeks now takes hours or event minutes to decipher. Not only have we been able to rpoactively ward off poor performance, but also understand how much storage, memory and CPU is being used so we don't overspend on adding more."
Jim Calhoun
MIS Manager, FFVA Mutual Insurance |
"Before BalancePoint we had no way to set expectations, meet unwritten service level objectives, and assure business service availability."
Rocky Grasso
Manager Technical Services, CareGroup |
"BalancePoint enables (us) to ensure application performance issues do not arise while utilization and service levels are increased"
Michael Passe
Storage Architect, CareGroup |
"With all our management tools, Akorri is the only solution that provides a cross-domain view and analysis of the shared servers and storage impact on application performance."
Director, Infrastructure and Operations
Financial Services Company |
| "Akorri BalancePoint has allowed us to more efficiently utilize our resources and streamline our application usage, providing significant cost savings in just the first week of implementation."
Senior Vice President, Technology
Monster.com |
Analysts and Thought Leaders
"Lets face facts – we have no idea what causes 99% of application problems today until it is too late. We have awful asset utilization rates because we blindly throw more capacity at applications hoping it solves the problem. I’d rather know than hope."
Steve DuPlessie
Founder and Sr. Analyst, ESG |
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"Application outages are one of the biggest challenges facing enterprise IT today. One issue that threatens application availability and expected performance is that IT staff think in terms of their individual silos such as storage or servers, but not to the real application needs and what changes in the infrastructure mean to applications. With the advent of SLAs, IT managers are seeking to manage to the applications which support business services. They need ongoing insight to bridge gaps between the different IT silos in order to balance application performance and infrastructure utilization."
Dave Russell
Research VP, Gartner |
"As IT organizations increasingly seek to align IT services with business objectives…..there is a growing need to improve IT’s ability to manage performance across IT services…so that service levels can be achieved more confidently, without the need to overprovision."
Stephen Elliott
Director, Enterprise Systems Management Software, IDC |
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"Application problems are noticed by customers first more often (44 percent of the time) than by any other single source. Analytics more than anything else is what’s going to enable IT to deliver and manage services in the face of change."
Dennis Drogseth
VP, EMA |
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"IT organizations are painfully lacking in the ability to cross-correlate applications with both storage and server issues, resulting in an inability to meet service level objectives with confidence."
Mike Karp
Sr. Analyst, EMA |
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"The potential for negative impact to Application Performance is one of the greatest ‘boogey-men’ of IT and very frequently leads to drastic over configuration of infrastructure – the ‘just in case’ factor. I’ve seen many IT Departments who desperately want to streamline their infrastructure but don’t have the capability to understand the impact of the changes they want to make. Accordingly, they are hesitant to actively embrace new technologies that offer significant business benefits because they fear unknown application impact. Akorri’s approach to this problem provides a new level of visibility and intelligence to scenario planning that may break these historic arguments and allow IT to move forward with critical projects for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), server and storage virtualization, and tiered storage models."
Richard Scannell
Co-Founder, SVP GlassHouse. |
Partners
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"As an integrator and value added reseller of leading datacenter hardware and software, our customers count on Daymark to advise them on how to get the most from their data center hardware and software investments in each domain -- applications, servers, and storage. Akorri's cross domain visibility and analysis allow us to provide our customers direction from a holistic viewpoint, which can provide very different conclusions than looking at a single domain at a time."
Brian Casey
General Manager, Daymark Solutions, Inc. |
"Akorri BalancePoint works as advertised. On our first evaluation, the product sold itself. It quickly solved two major IT issues for our client that they had not been able to identify with any other product."
-Sean Shea
Virtualization Specialist, Expert Server Group |