Akorri, Inc., the leader in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management for the virtualized data center, announced today that Service Corporation International (SCI) (NYSE: SCI) is using the company’s BalancePoint software to maximize the performance and value of its growing, dynamic virtualized infrastructure. Since leveraging BalancePoint within its environment, SCI has reaped significant benefits including faster troubleshooting/problem resolution, reduction in data center administration needs and costs, and improved justification of new technology equipment requirements and purchases.

"Our move to a virtualized environment has allowed us to realize $1.5 million in IT cost savings both in hardware and maintenance, and we have cut our budget by 50 percent," said Kevin Brown, Infrastructure Manager of SCI. "What BalancePoint has done is to prove and justify our cost savings and technology needs along the way. As we continue to virtualize applications and consolidate more servers, we look to BalancePoint to monitor and analyze both production and test versions of virtual machines, storage and other technology such as databases to learn how they impact each other and how we can optimize their capacity and utilization."

"BalancePoint has been invaluable in providing visibility into the back end of VMware and its impact on storage performance, helping us determine how to allocate drive usage to avoid overload," continued Brown.

"And BalancePoint’s easy to read topology maps and charts have made managing our data center much less difficult and time consuming, helping us to significantly reduce data center administration resources. As a result of using BalancePoint, we are planning to reduce administration costs by $400 thousand, and cut resources in half by moving from a 50-to-1 to a 300-to-1 servers-to-administrators ratio," said Brown.

"SCI is an excellent example of how virtualization can bring tremendous return-on-investment to a business provided there is the proper visibility and management of infrastructure performance, capacity and utilization," said Tom Joyce, President and CEO of Akorri. "BalancePoint’s holistic, cross IT domain view of both virtual and physical server and storage infrastructure, combined with advanced visualization and analytics, helps companies truly maximize their move to a virtualized environment."