Case Studies
AutoTrader
Akorri BalancePoint Provides End-to-End Insight and Control of AutoTrader's Virtualized Infrastructure
“Akorri BalancePoint was the only solution we found in the market that provides a view across the entire virtualization infrastructure. We found many tools that looked at one specific level, whether it is the hosts, guests, or the storage, but Akorri’s BalancePoint is the first to pull everything together in a meaningful way. With BalancePoint we can now provide meaningful reports for administrators up through to executive management and avoid performance problems.”
- Jason Cornell, Windows System Group Manager
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CareGroup
CareGroup ensures application performance while increasing utilization and service levels. Akorri BalancePoint enables CareGroup to get a holistic view across the server and storage domains to plan for increased capacity in the IT infrastructure, avoid over-provisioning or misallocating resources and map application performance to capacity planning to assure service level objectives.
"Before BalancePoint we had no way to set expectations, meet unwritten service level objectives, and assure business service availability."
- Rocky Grasso, Manager Technical Services
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Consolidated Communications
Brought in to figure out the root cause of a latency problem, BalancePoint also proved to be a critical capacity management solution.
"We have dramatically reduced time and resources spent on troubleshooting and better plan and organize our IT budget through full visibility into all components attached to our SAN, easily pinpointing trouble areas, successfully balancing our loads, and monitoring and trending capacity and growth."
- Matt Denman, Manager
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Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA)
Instead of spending $250,000 on new Fibre Channel disks, CHFA used Akorri's BalancePoint to realign the way logical storage units were using shelves to spread the I/O load.
“Before purchasing the Akorri solution, we did not have a tool that could give us a comprehensive view of our application service through to the storage environment. BalancePoint showed us there was a large amount of untapped storage available.”
- Steve Perkins, Manager of Infrastructure Technology
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FFVA Mutual Insurance Company
BalancePoint Acts as Communications Hub across IT Disciplines to Manage and Optimize All Server, Storage and Database Resources. BalancePoint has reduced management tasks from weeks to hours or even minutes.
“We had niche tools for managing particular elements within our infrastructure, but BalancePoint has provided us with critically-needed communication across all devices and IT domains, making it exponentially easier to find the root cause of performance issues, spot potential bottlenecks before they effect performance, and understand how much capacity is being utilized within server, storage and database resources.”
- Jim Calhoun, MIS Manager
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Kronos
Kronos Improves Virtual Infrastructure Performance with Akorri BalancePoint.
“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,” said “BalancePoint is easy to use, and we like that it’s an agentless tool. 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.”
- Mike Moran, Sr. IT Manager
Merkle
Akorri BalancePoint provided visibility into the storage hotspots and identified the root cause of the
problems. With the information that BalancePoint provided, Merkle’s DBA & IT departments were able
to slice and dice certain servers and move them from one EVA to another. BalancePoint helped them
utilize their EVAs more effectively.
“BalancePoint has already saved us significant time by identifying the root cause of server and storage problems and enabling faster, more informed decisions.”
- Atul Gandhi, Sr. Director, Enterprise Technology Group, Merkle Inc.
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Monster
Monster.com saves through resource consolidation. Akorri BalancePoint enables resource consolidation and significant cost savings while providing clear visibility into application contention and hot spots.
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Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray Uses Akorri BalancePoint for Proactive Management of Virtualized Data Center. Less than two days after installing BalancePoint, Ropes & Gray was able to fully manage its five data centers by solving its performance issues, proactively avoiding future performance issues and enabling long-term planning of resource consumption.
"I began using BalancePoint because it showed us the correlation between what's going on in the storage environment, and through the virtual stack and servers themselves. Being able to link those two things, server performance and storage performance, is what we couldn't get anywhere else."
- Craig Dodson, Senior Infrastructure Architect
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Service Corporation International (SCI)
SCI Reduces Troubleshooting Time, Cuts Data Center Administration Costs and Justifies Technology Purchases Using BalancePoint
“And BalancePoint’s easy to read topology maps and charts have made managing our data center much less difficult and time consuming, helping us to significantly reduce data center administration resources. As a result of using BalancePoint, we are planning to reduce administration costs by $400 thousand, and cut resources in half by moving from a 50-to-1 to a 300-to-1 servers-to-administrators ratio,”
- Kevin Brown, Manager of Infrastructure
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Vancouver Coastal Health Providence Health Care
Vancouver Coastal Health Leverages Akorri BalancePoint to Ensure Data Center Virtualization and Consolidation Success
“BalancePoint has allowed us to consolidate our data center with confidence, ensure our continued success in our virtualization initiative, and improve storage utilization - all while maintaining the best levels of service for our organization. Now we are looking to BalancePoint to not only aide in planning for future capacity but to manage performance in a number of our environments as we continue to look for ways to consolidate and virtualize.”
- Ben Haley, Regional Supervisor, Information Management Information Systems
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VistaPrint
The VistaPrint IT team resolved a mysterious latency problem then went on to use BalancePoint to predict and prevent performance problems with visibility across their virtual and physical infrastructure.
"We now identify problems within minutes and fix and predict any trouble spots significantly faster than before BalancePoint."
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