BalancePoint Overview

Akorri BalancePoint helps companies make sure that data center server and storage virtual and physical systems deliver the best application performance possible.

BalancePoint, available on a VMware certified virtual appliance, is a true breakthrough in cross-domain virtualized data center management, managing virtual and physical server and storage infrastructure in one view and helping companies make sure that data center server and storage systems deliver the best application performance possible. It uses advanced analytics so IT managers and business managers can understand how well data center resources are performing.

BalancePoint helps reduce IT operations and infrastructure costs by using servers and storage more efficiently and reducing the time and resources spent on management through automation. BalancePoint supports a wide-range of applications, servers and storage systems.

BalancePoint's Cross-Domain Analysis™ technology collects information from servers, storage, and infrastructure software, and automatically correlates application performance across these domains. By providing a single view across IT silos, Cross-Domain Analysis shortens troubleshooting, saves money, and helps prevent disruptive outages to business-critical applications.

BalancePoint's Application Fingerprinting™ technology profiles and characterizes application workloads and models how applications use different infrastructure resources over time.

It can even predict the future. BalancePoint's Performance Dynamics Modeling™ gives early warning to potential application performance problems before they happen.  The system can help companies understand their server and storage capacity requirements so they can plan and manage purchases well in advance.

Manage Virtual and Physical Server and Storage Infrastructure with One System

BalancePoint is fully "virtualization aware".  It supports many server and storage virtualization platforms and was designed to provide cross-domain performance management for VMware.  Akorri is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner.

IT Operations and Infrastructure managers, system/storage administrators, and application owners all benefit from BalancePoint's ability to:

• Manage performance across applications, servers and storage with cross-domain visualization and performance-based service alerting.  Automatically find deeply buried contention, hotspots and bottlenecks.  And when problems are found get direct automatic troubleshooting analysis.
• Optimize application performance and resource utilization. Manage IT as a business with Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) that indicate the optimal balance between application requirements and resource capabilities.
• Plan for growth and change, getting actionable provisioning recommendations that account for the impact on application performance.

Drill-Down Management and Optimization of Applications and Resources

BalancePoint’s main capabilities derive from three key sets of features that together deliver the big picture of IT performance while enabling drill-down management and optimization of applications and resources.

• ScanPoint™ agent-less discovery and data collection provides performance and utilization data from O/S and VMware, databases, servers, and storage infrastructure resources.  This data is stored in a self-managing internal performance database mined for historical patterns, performance trends, and modeling baselines.
• ViewPoint™ unique performance topology visualizations show the performance impact on data center applications running through all the physical and logical layers of IT infrastructure, including server and storage virtualization.  These topological views are automatically built from ScanPoint data, and are color coded with BalancePoint’s assessment of performance problems.
• GuidePoint™ actionable recommendations and analyses are based on Akorri’s Cross-Domain Analytics™ technology.  These mathematically advanced algorithms provide intelligent alerting and proactive service management tools to help with remediation, optimization, and planning.

To test drive, Akorri BalancePoint, download the VM appliance demo.