Cross Domain Performance Management Software, the BalancePoint Technology
BalancePoint’s unique capabilities to manage, optimize, and plan performance across the virtualized data center derive from patented IT performance analytics. Akorri’s team of world-class engineers has been assembled with expertise in every IT domain and systems performance management area to build a fundamentally complete and holistic cross domain solution. The intelligence derived from BalancePoint enables organizations to move practically towards a “real-time infrastructure”, managing their increasingly virtualized environments for optimal effectiveness and efficiency.
BalancePoint’s unique technologies include:
Application Fingerprinting™
Application Fingerprints are a unique dynamic characterization of an application’s performance behavior over its servicing resources. BalancePoint automatically creates this “forensic” profile from the cross-domain data collected at each technology layer. BalancePoint internally leverages Application Fingerprints to identify problems and abnormalities, but even more powerfully uses the Fingerprint collection as a whole when producing application and environment optimizing recommendations.
The internal BalancePoint Application Fingerprint process includes:
- Workload Characterization of load and transactions
- Application-to-resource mapping of relationships
- Dynamic behavioral profile of resource service demands
- Base lining of responding infrastructure performance
Cross-Domain Analysis™
Akorri’s signature cross-domain analytical capabilities bridge the gap between application performance and resource utilization. Key to true cross-domain functionality is BalancePoint’s virtualization management support, mapping and modeling data paths through both storage and server virtualization layers. BalancePoint embodies cross domain analyses that support understanding and examining the details of system performance, identifying and isolating difficult performance problems, and highlighting opportunities for optimization.
BalancePoint Cross Domain Analytics provide abilities to:
- Identify contention, hotspots, and bottlenecks
- Describe application infrastructure activity windows· Characterize component response time and usage· Summarize delta changes
- Optimize resource provisioning and migration
- Produce actionable intelligence and recommendations
- Forecast expected performance
Performance Dynamics Modeling™
BalancePoint’s “internal” performance models are automatically built from ScanPoint data and Application Fingerprints, and adapt on-line to changing environments. Performance Dynamics Models are truly cross-domain and include both server and storage virtualization components. They are automatically operationally applied by BalancePoint, producing both response time and effective utilization management metrics for each component and the whole cross-domain system. Interactively, Performance Dynamics Models enable a variety of predictive analyses for virtualization deployment and management decisions and support infrastructure-wide capacity planning.
BalancePoint Performance Dynamics Modeling enables:
- Akorri Infrastructure Response Time™ metrics for internal IT service level management
- Provisioning and deployment recommendations based on performance impact
- Akorri Performance Index™ analysis for justifying IT optimization projects