New Version of Akorri BalancePoint
Broader interoperability and deeper storage performance troubleshooting and reporting
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 29, 2010 at 2:00 pmAkorri, Inc. has added several enhancements to its BalancePoint software. This new version of BalancePoint offers increased interoperability, new storage performance reporting capabilities, and ease of use enhancements.
BalancePoint is the only virtual infrastructure management software solution on the market designed to optimize virtual infrastructures, physical servers and storage resources. IT organizations use BalancePoint to quickly isolate performance problems, reduce infrastructure costs and ultimately enable service level management of their data center infrastructure.
The new version of BalancePoint includes:
Broader Interoperability
- IBM XIV Storage, Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) and LPAR support
- Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) support
Expanded Storage Performance Analysis
Platform specific reports to quickly troubleshoot performance issues and plan capacity
Improved Ease of Use
Simplified installation, quicker navigation and streamlined reporting
"By using BalancePoint, we have been able to reduce troubleshooting by more than 50% and limit downtime of critical clinical applications. And the new reporting feature for NetApp storage allows us to improve the capacity planning of our storage environment," said David Maldonado, Systems Engineering Manager, for Palo Alto Medical Foundation.
"It’s great to see Akorri continue to enhance BalancePoint’s value by expanding vendor support and interoperability," said Bernd Harzog, Sr. Analyst at The Virtualization Practice. "BalancePoint’s strong support of IBM’s storage products and AIX Operating System creates a compelling solution for all IBM customers and partners looking to manage their virtualized environments."
"As virtualization implementations continue to mature, IT organizations are realizing the importance of having best of breed performance management tools," said Allan Wallack, CEO of Akorri. "BalancePoint’s analytics based performance management is critical in providing these organizations the confidence necessary to virtualization more of their mission critical applications."