LITTLETON, MA. – January 15, 2007 – Akorri, Inc. today announced the launch of the company and the availability of the company’s flagship product line. BalancePoint™ is the first enterprise-class software product that enables intelligent optimization of IT infrastructure resources based upon the changing behavior of business applications and desired performance levels. Based upon Akorri’s advanced analytics engine, BalancePoint helps companies achieve business service levels and reduce costs by providing unprecedented levels of control over increasingly complex IT environments.
Currently in use at a number of U.S.-based enterprises, including John Hancock, Monster.com, and CareGroup Healthcare System, BalancePoint is already helping customers to manage IT as a service by bridging the management gaps between applications, server, and storage domains.
Akorri breaks new ground in addressing the needs of enterprise IT organizations faced with the challenge of rapidly adapting their IT infrastructure to meet changing business requirements. These organizations need to flexibly manage and deploy infrastructure within increasingly constrained budgets to address the highly dynamic requirements of mission-critical applications. Akorri addresses one of the most significant impediments – the inability of the different “silos” within an IT organization to get visibility into performance, availability and utilization problems that cut across multiple domains. This often results in performance degradation, unbalanced resource provisioning and increased costs.
“Today leading companies in all industries see huge benefits in managing IT as a business service,” said Rich Corley, Akorri founder and CTO. “Delivering these benefits is driving enterprise IT organizations to demand new ways of managing their increasingly complex, service-oriented data centers. The challenge is to fully unify management across IT domains, and provide information that can be used to meet and exceed service levels. Akorri is the first company to address this problem by applying analytics to intelligently balance application performance and availability requirements, IT infrastructure capabilities, and cost.”
BalancePoint Cross-Domain Infrastructure Management Software
BalancePoint is the first generally available solution to provide cross-domain visibility and insight into application performance and infrastructure utilization that is critical to making capacity planning decisions across IT silos. With BalancePoint software, organizations can plan, optimize and manage across domains, enabling IT staff to meet service level objectives and eliminate application brownouts, without having to blindly over-provision to address the information gap across domains. BalancePoint’s analytics engine enables IT organizations to more quickly solve performance problems, optimize application performance, improve infrastructure utilization and accurately plan for growth and change.
“Among all our management tools, Akorri is the only solution that provides a cross-domain view and analysis of the servers and storage impact on application performance,” said Cale Anjoorian, director, John Hancock. “Within 24 hours we were gathering critical application impact and topology information that included seeing application contention among multiple SQL servers.”
BalancePoint is able to provide these capabilities through:
- Cross-domain visibility and performance-based monitoring and application resource dependency mapping
- Application Fingerprinting™, based on analytics and modeling that provides ongoing correlation and characterization of how applications are dynamically using CPU, memory, storage and network resources and the impact on application performance
- Cross-Domain Analysis™, providing delta-time analysis and the ability to analyze how changes in workload or infrastructure over time are impacting application performance
- Actionable recommendations on how to alleviate resource misalignment and bottlenecks that are impacting application performance
- Shared resource contention analysis
- Migration and provisioning analysis and recommendations based on the Application Fingerprint™ of each application and the impact of changes on shared infrastructure resources
- Usage indexing, through ongoing analysis and correlation of application performance and resource utilization
- Actionable recommendations for changes to the infrastructure across IT domains to improve application performance and utilization
Built to support heterogeneous environments, BalancePoint software deploys as an out-of-band appliance that does not require agent installation or management. The software is standards-based, supporting a wide-range of hardware and software platforms, and complementing storage resource management (SRM), application performance management (APM) and infrastructure management products currently in use. This design allows for same-day installation and immediate results, without additional staff training or process change dependencies.
"Application outages are one of the biggest challenges facing enterprise IT today. One issue that threatens application availability and expected performance is that IT staff think in terms of their individual silos such as storage or servers, but not to the real application needs and what changes in the infrastructure mean to applications. With the advent of SLAs, IT managers are seeking to manage to the applications which support business services. They need ongoing insight to bridge gaps between the different IT silos in order to balance application performance and infrastructure utilization," said Dave Russell, Gartner Research vice president, storage technologies and strategies.
Availability
BalancePoint is available immediately. For more information regarding sales and support, please visit www.akorri.com.
About Akorri
Akorri enables on-demand business services by providing cross-domain intelligence and management for the evolving Services Oriented IT infrastructure. Akorri was founded by Richard Corley, the founder and CTO of Pirus Networks, now a part of Sun Microsystems. The company has more than 50 employees at its Littleton, Massachusetts headquarters, and its BalancePoint product is currently being used by companies across the US.Akorri has received $23 million in venture capital from Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, GlobeSpan Capital Partners and BlueStream Ventures. For more information, visit www.akorri.com.
Akorri, BalancePoint, Cross-Domain Analysis, Application Fingerprint, Application Fingerprinting, and the Akorri logo are trademarks of Akorri Networks, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
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Akorri, BalancePoint and the Akorri logo are trademarks of Akorri, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.