Kronos Improves Virtual Infrastructure Performance
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“We initially selected BalancePoint because it gave us an immediate and active picture of the entire environment from virtual machine down through the supporting storage at the disk level. Recently, when we had a performance problem, it pinpointed contention on a particular LUN and enabled us to better organize that environment, which is something we never would have been able to do without the tool. Now we can address and prevent problems, while before we were guessing.”
Michael Moran
Senior IT Manager, Kronos |
Kronos Incorporated empowers organizations around the world to effectively manage their workforce. Kronos has experts who are solely focused on delivering software and services that enable organizations to reduce costs, increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and ultimately enhance the level of service they provide. Kronos serves customers in more than 60 countries through its network of offices, subsidiaries, and distributors. Widely recognized as a market and thought leader in managing the workforce, Kronos has unrivaled reach with more than 30 million people using a Kronos solution every day.
Company growth and consolidation led the Kronos IT team to implement server virtualization allowing them to reclaim data center space and use 20 percent less power consumption. With 80 percent of Kronos’ IT environment now virtualized, the company realized it needed a robust, yet easy to deploy and use virtual infrastructure management solution.
Akorri’s BalancePoint provided Kronos’ IT team with the visibility it needed for complex virtual infrastructure management. With BalancePoint, Kronos can drill deep into the critical physical and virtual elements – operating systems, databases, servers, and storage to guarantee performance for end users. “BalancePoint is easy to use, and we like that it’s an agentless tool. With BalancePoint, there is no need to configure and deploy an agent in our environment, which ultimately saved us valuable man hours,” said Moran.
Results
- Provided visibility across the virtual machines and storage environment not available with any other tool
- Identified and helped resolve performance issues in Kronos’ lab manager virtual machine environment caused by contention on RAID Group/LUN
