LITTLETON, MA. – March 26, 2007 – Akorri, Inc., provider of breakthrough software that helps companies optimize IT infrastructure to meet application service levels, today announced that Gartner Inc., a technology research and analyst firm, has named Akorri to its Storage Management "Cool Vendors" list. The March 2nd, 2007 report titled "Cool Vendors in Storage Management, 2007” was written by Dave Russell and Carolyn DiCenzo. Gartner also positioned Akorri in the Visionaries quadrant in its March 19 report “Magic Quadrants for Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software, 2007,” authored by Dave Russell and Robert Passmore.“
While our existing customers already know how cool BalancePoint is, we believe Gartner's reports give further validation to our efforts to improve application service level management,” said Rich Corley, CEO and founder of Akorri. "We also believe Gartner’s inclusion of Akorri as a ‘cool vendor’ and a ‘visionary’ in the storage management space confirms what our customers and members of the trade press have already been saying. Our storage management capabilities are just one aspect of BalancePoint’s cross-domain capabilities, which also extend to the data center and to applications themselves.”
Akorri BalancePoint is the first enterprise-class software product to use cross-domain analysis to help optimize servers, storage and other IT resources to deliver the best possible business application performance. Based on Akorri’s intelligent modeling technology, BalancePoint helps companies achieve service levels and reduce costs by providing unprecedented levels of control over increasingly complex IT environments. For more information about Akorri BalancePoint, please visit www.akorri.com.
About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted March 19, 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About Akorri
Akorri provides software for application service level management. Akorri’s BalancePoint IT Operations Management Software uses cross-domain analysis and advanced analytics to help companies manage and optimize application performance across their entire data center infrastructure. By providing visibility and control over the infrastructure’s impact on application performance, BalancePoint allows IT organizations to optimize performance and capacity—meeting service level objectives at the lowest possible cost. 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.