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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 written by Mike Matchett, Akorri's Director of Product Management, 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.
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.
Aligning Virtualization with Business Applications (975.79 KB)
Learn how to ensure virtualization project success by implementing a cross-domain performance management solution to manage, optimize and plan across IT domains so you can confidently meet performance objectives without under- or over-provisioning resources.
Achieving IT Service Levels Through Unified Management of Applications and Infrastructure (195.17 KB)

This paper describes:

  • A new solution that provides cross-domain infrastructure management
  • How it is designed to help achieve IT service levels through intelligent optimization of applications and infrastructure
IT Management without Compromise (583.94 KB)
This paper describes an easy to implement, state of the art, agentless IT management solution. Using advanced analytics to provide deep analysis of application performance across the entire IT infrastructure, this solution enables organizations to achieve application service level management while reducing risk and lowering IT operating costs.
Cross-Domain Analytics: Optimizing 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

Reviews & Reports
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.
ESG Lab Review: Akorri BalancePoint (1.36 MB)

Published by Enterprise Strategy Group

Comprehensive product lab report on Akorri BalancePoint agentless software reviewed by third-party expert Enterprise Strategy Group.

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