Gartner Data Center Conference - Akorri, Inc., the leader in cross-domain performance management for the virtualized data center, today announced new packages and pricing targeted at small and medium sized businesses for BalancePoint, its award-winning cross-domain IT management solution. BalancePoint helps organizations manage, optimize and plan performance and resource utilization across the virtualized data center. With this announcement, Akorri is broadening access to its solution to a new base of SMB customers and resellers.
Four new packages are now available to help smaller companies manage virtualized environments that have up to 30 Terabytes of storage capacity. The entry level solution for companies with less than 5 Terabytes of storage begins at a list price of $12,500. These packages can be purchased only through value added resellers or system integrators that are members of the Akorri Optimize Partner Program. In addition, a downloadable BalancePoint demo is available free of charge at: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1084.
"We are seeing rapid adoption of virtualization technologies such as VMware among small and medium sized enterprises," said Tom Joyce, President and CEO at Akorri. "These companies need best-in-class tools to help them get the most out of their virtualization investments. Akorri's new packaging and pricing for SMBs and SMEs gives IT managers at these companies access to our BalancePoint software for the first time."
Launched in January 2007, BalancePoint, Akorri's flagship software product, helps customers manage performance and utilization in today's virtualized data center. BalancePoint helps deliver better performance and efficiency for virtual infrastructure such as VMware ESX and also physical data center resources such as servers and storage systems. BalancePoint's advanced analytics technology enables IT organizations to quickly solve performance problems, optimize application performance, improve infrastructure utilization and accurately plan for growth and change.
About Akorri Optimize Partner Program
Akorri's Optimize Partner Program is based on the simple principle of ensuring mutual customers' success. BalancePoint is architected to optimize the value of and assure interoperability with customers' platform, application, and enterprise management solutions. Akorri has partnered with more than 20 value-added reseller and technology development partnerships to assure rapid and risk-free deployment and interoperability in today's most complex, heterogeneous data center environments.