Akorri, Inc., the leader in cross-domain performance management for the virtualized data center, today announced that leading national law firm Ropes & Gray LLP has leveraged Akorri's BalancePoint virtualization management solution for data centers supporting global offices in Boston, New York, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Tokyo.

Less than two days after installing BalancePoint, Ropes & Gray was able to fully manage its five data centers -- proactively avoiding performance issues and enabling long-term planning of resource consumption.

"BalancePoint was able to immediately provide us deep, meaningful analysis of what was happening throughout our data centers and help us create more complete control of our VMware environments," said Craig Dodson, Senior Infrastructure Architect, Ropes and Gray LLP. "We are thrilled to be proactively managing and optimizing application and infrastructure performance now through BalancePoint."

"The move to a virtualized environment has its own set of management challenges, and Ropes & Gray's situation is one we see frequently -- where the move creates a need for a better, more complete view of both server and storage infrastructure combined with advanced analytics for an understanding of how resources and their capacity utilization are affecting applications service levels," said Tom Joyce, CEO of Akorri. "We are delighted to help Ropes & Gray enhance performance with our breakthrough data center management solution -- BalancePoint."

"We are very pleased we were able to match Ropes & Gray with Akorri's BalancePoint to ensure their virtualization efforts are expertly managed," said Doug Weisberg, President and CEO of Expert Server Group. "As one of the first VMware channel partners and the Northeast's most experienced and award-winning enterprise virtual solutions provider, we are passionate about ensuring clients get the best solution for their needs, and have complete confidence that Akorri provides this solution."

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.