Akorri, Inc., the leader in application service level management in the data center, today announced that leading industry analyst research firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) tested the Akorri BalancePoint management software and validated that BalancePoint’s advanced analytic capabilities enable IT managers to rapidly fix performance problems and improve server and storage utilization. In its lab review, ESG Lab confirms that BalancePoint provides the cross-domain intelligence needed to plan for the cost-effective delivery of transparent IT services.
ESG Lab performed hands-on evaluation and testing of Akorri BalancePoint 1.5 management software. The test environment was built to reflect a heterogeneous server and storage infrastructure to demonstrate the ability to manage across domains and provide end to-end visibility from the applications down into both physical and virtualized IT infrastructure.
“As IT initiatives and utility computing influence the way we look at IT and more specifically, how we deliver IT as a service, applications like the BalancePoint Suite from Akorri will become increasingly important,” says Bob Laliberte, analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group. “With the increasing adoption of server and storage consolidation and virtualization technologies, there is strong need for management solutions that span multiple domains. The BalancePoint Suite provides a cross-domain view of application infrastructure from the VMware-enabled virtual machines running in physical servers through to the SAN attached storage arrays that applications rely on.”
“Akorri BalancePoint uses agent-less data collection technology to provide a cross-domain view and analysis of IT infrastructure,” says Brian Garrett, technical director, ESG Lab. “ESG Lab was impressed by the crisp presentation of end-to-end application infrastructure and performance data provided by the intuitive web-based BalancePoint particularly when used to manage the relationship between VMware ESX virtual machines and applications and infrastructure associated with them.”
“Akorri continues to build momentum for BalancePoint and is pleased to receive such a positive validation from ESG Lab,” said Rich Corley, CEO and Founder of Akorri. “BalancePoint can help IT Organizations understand the dynamic relationship between application performance and the infrastructure and enables organizations to plan, optimize and manage performance and utilization across VMs, servers and storage.”
To view the full lab review, please visit the Akorri web site.