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Akorri Makes Aggressive Moves, Continues on Growth Path (89.5 KB)
Published by The 451 Group
Read The 451 Group’s take on Akorri’s recent company and product activities. Analyst Dennis Callaghan says, “Akorri is clearly a company on the upswing, with impressive growth, an extending reach and new, experienced executives who know the virtualization space. In a hotly competitive space, it seems to have a plan and a technology message that's resonating.”
The Secret to Maximizing Virtualization ROI in the Dynamic Data Center (978.16 KB)
If IT has a requirement to maximize infrastructure (maximizing use of resources) while the business requires an assurance of performance and sufficient capacity, how can business-critical applications be successfully virtualized? Akorri’s BalancePoint™ software provides unique cross-domain analytics and IT Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that enable virtual infrastructure optimization, or the optimal balance between infrastructure utilization and delivered performance at the lowest cost. This paper reviews these analytics and how to apply them to get the most value out of your virtual infrastructure.
The Business Case for Virtualization Management: A New Approach to Meeting IT Goals (512.66 KB)
With a payback period of 2-4 months, there is a compelling business case for virtual infrastructure management solutions especially for constrained IT budgets.
BalancePoint Product Review: Virtual Infrastructure Insight (46.4 KB)
BalancePoint is an excellent program that will assist you in getting a better grasp of your infrastructure by helping you plan, optimize and choose best practices. BalancePoint takes the thinking out of server management by simply presenting the detailed facts.
When You Need More than Virtual Center (69.15 KB)
Published by The Taneja Group
We’ve long held that solutions that can understand application interactions across all layers of
the infrastructure and bring sophisticated correlation engines to the table will pave the way to
the future of the next generation data center. Such tools are simply a key component of the
management layer required in an increasingly complex, dense, consolidated, virtualized, and
ever-changing data center. Today, BalancePoint, plugged into VMware’s vCenter management console, reaches well beyond any virtual or physical data center silo, and paints a picture of end to end infrastructure performance, tracing performance events, capturing changes, and correlating it all for total data center visibility.
Virtualization: Clouds on the Horizon (74.79 KB)

Just like other revolutionary IT technologies that have come before it - open systems, Windows, and the Internet to name a few - VMware’s rapid march into the data center has been accompanied by some "broken glass". Many of the companies that have gotten the most benefit from VMware have also found that wholesale changes were required in tools, processes, and talent to make this technology work in an enterprise-class fashion. This paper examines some of the most significant management challenges that are coming in the next wave of the virtual data center and what's required to solve them.

Storage and Virtualization: Five Best Practices to Ensure Success (65.04 KB)
To ensure success of server consolidation projects, VMware planners and administrators must have visibility into the enterprise storage resources they are using to avoid certain pitfalls. Learn the top five best practices for managing consolidated environments across multiple IT domains.
Managing Virtualized Systems – Pinpointing performance problems in the virtual infrastructure (106.32 KB)

published by Application Performance Management Experts

This paper explores one of the important issues that IT Managers and Directors must deal with after the virtualization of important business applications. What is the issue? How does IT defend itself against claims from the business and user communities that the virtual infrastructure is causing applications performance and end user experience issues? Why is this important? Virtualization stops many existing Performance Management tools from solving this problem, and creates new problems that require new tools and new approaches to be dealt with.
Cross-Domain Analytics for the Virtualized Data Center (264.36 KB)
published by Virtual Strategy Magazine
Reprint of article on how cross-domain analytics provides great benefit to IT managers who are frustrated with the common scenario of fixing a problem only to cause additional unknown issues and other processes to fail.
Leveraging the BalancePoint Performance Index (1.47 MB)
Imagine if you had a single metric that could be monitored over time to measure physical and virtual infrastructure resource efficiency that enabled online capacity planning and helped manage IT as a business. Now you do. The Performance Index™ provides analytical insight across the entire virtual infrastructure, enabling an optimal balance between performance and utilization so IT managers can justify and measure IT projects such as server consolidation, virtualization and technology upgrades. This paper explains the Performance Index, how it works and how enterprises can get the most value from it.
Akorri BalancePoint and Network Appliance: Managing Application Performance Across Server and Storage Domains (1.25 MB)
This application note describes how Akorri BalancePoint™ software and Network Appliance (NetApp®) storage solutions work together to troubleshoot application performance issues in complex IT environments.
Optimizing IT Infrastructure in the Virtualized Data Center (471.83 KB)
Published by Enterprise Management Associates
Learn how cross-domain analytics provides huge advantages to IT managers who are fed up with existing tools that can’t provide insight across multiple domains (servers and storage) of the virtualized data center
Akorri BalancePoint: Cross-Domain Analytics & Capacity Management for the Virtual Data Center (47.93 KB)
Published by Taneja Group
In this product profile, Taneja Group reviews the challenges of the virtualized data center and how Akorri BalancePoint agentless software provides cross-domain visibility, analysis and management for troubleshooting, capacity planning and performance management.
Akorri BalancePoint: Bridging the IT to Business Gap (119.13 KB)
Published by Enterprise Strategy Group
In this management brief, analyst Bob Laliberte of Enterprise Strategy Group describes how Akorri BalancePoint enables companies to best align IT resources with applications, dramatically improve infrastructure visibility and significantly accelerate problem resolution.