Littleton, MA, July 6, 2009 – Akorri, Inc., the leader in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management for the virtualized data center, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software. The June 22 report was written by Valdis Filks and Robert E. Passmore.
“We are pleased that Gartner has recognized Akorri as a visionary in the storage resource management and SAN Management space,” said John Gavin, CEO and COO for Akorri. “BalancePoint’s deep storage analysis is just one of its unique cross domain capabilities to view and analyze both physical and virtual infrastructure providing companies with end-to-end visibility, troubleshooting and optimized utilization of both storage and server resources.”
Gartner analysts evaluated companies for the Magic Quadrant Evaluation based on companies’ completeness of vision and ability to execute. Over the past year, Akorri has strengthened its leadership in the virtual infrastructure management market with an accelerated pace of customer adoption for its award-winning BalancePoint software growing its customer base to more than 120 customers. Akorri has also expanded its sales channel, introduced several product enhancements and signed significant reseller partnerships with companies like Dell Inc. and Datalink to further ensure the company’s success.
Akorri BalancePoint, delivered on a virtual appliance, is a breakthrough management solution addressing the need for heterogeneous virtual and physical systems management in growing IT enterprise virtualized environments. BalancePoint’s holistic, cross-domain view of both virtual and physical server and storage infrastructure, combined with advanced visualization and analytics, helps IT organizations identify and resolve problems, optimize utilization, and improve performance and capacity leading to lower operational and capital costs.
About the Magic Quadrant
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About Akorri
Akorri develops analytical software solutions that optimize performance and utilization in the dynamic data center. BalancePoint virtual infrastructure management software provides automated, infrastructure-wide visibility and analysis to help enterprises fix problems, optimize utilization and improve performance for both virtual and physical servers and storage. IT organizations use BalancePoint to reduce IT infrastructure total cost of ownership and ultimately enable a service oriented infrastructure. Follow Akorri at http://twitter.com/Akorri. For more information, visit www.akorri.com.
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