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When You Need More than Virtual Center (69.15 KB)

Published by The Taneja Group

We’ve long held that solutions that can understand application interactions across all layers of
the infrastructure and bring sophisticated correlation engines to the table will pave the way to
the future of the next generation data center. Such tools are simply a key component of the
management layer required in an increasingly complex, dense, consolidated, virtualized, and
ever-changing data center. Today, BalancePoint, plugged into VMware’s vCenter management console, reaches well beyond any virtual or physical data center silo, and paints a picture of end to end infrastructure performance, tracing performance events, capturing changes, and correlating it all for total data center visibility.
Akorri finds its BalancePoint between the virtual server and storage tiers (116.39 KB)

Published by The 451 Group

Analyst Rachel Chalmers with The 451 Group provides her take on Akorri BalancePoint.  Contrasting customer use cases demonstrate the flexibility and usefulness of Akorri's BalancePoint. Best known as a performance monitor able to span the virtual server and storage tiers, it's still extremely helpful in pure environments on either side of that divide. But virtualization seems to be driving adoption. Virtual environments are complex and new, and they interact with legacy IT in unpredictable ways. The powerful analytics tools Akorri can bring to bear are useful for both monitoring and managing the virtual infrastructure layer.
Virtualization: Clouds on the Horizon (74.79 KB)

Just like other revolutionary IT technologies that have come before it - open systems, Windows, and the Internet to name a few - VMware’s rapid march into the data center has been accompanied by some "broken glass". Many of the companies that have gotten the most benefit from VMware have also found that wholesale changes were required in tools, processes, and talent to make this technology work in an enterprise-class fashion. This paper examines some of the most significant management challenges that are coming in the next wave of the virtual data center and what's required to solve them.

Storage and Virtualization: Five Best Practices to Ensure Success (65.04 KB)
To ensure success of server consolidation projects, VMware planners and administrators must have visibility into the enterprise storage resources they are using to avoid certain pitfalls. Learn the top five best practices for managing consolidated environments across multiple IT domains.
Managing Virtualized Systems – Pinpointing performance problems in the virtual infrastructure (106.32 KB)

published by Application Performance Management Experts

This paper explores one of the important issues that IT Managers and Directors must deal with after the virtualization of important business applications. What is the issue? How does IT defend itself against claims from the business and user communities that the virtual infrastructure is causing applications performance and end user experience issues? Why is this important? Virtualization stops many existing Performance Management tools from solving this problem, and creates new problems that require new tools and new approaches to be dealt with.
Cross-Domain Analytics for the Virtualized Data Center (264.36 KB)

published by Virtual Strategy Magazine

Reprint of article on how cross-domain analytics provides great benefit to IT managers who are frustrated with the common scenario of fixing a problem only to cause additional unknown issues and other processes to fail.
Leveraging the BalancePoint Performance Index (1.47 MB)
Imagine if you had a single metric that could be monitored over time to measure physical and virtual infrastructure resource efficiency that enabled online capacity planning and helped manage IT as a business. Now you do. The Performance Index™ provides analytical insight across the entire virtual infrastructure, enabling an optimal balance between performance and utilization so IT managers can justify and measure IT projects such as server consolidation, virtualization and technology upgrades. This paper explains the Performance Index, how it works and how enterprises can get the most value from it.
Akorri BalancePoint and Network Appliance: Managing Application Performance Across Server and Storage Domains (1.25 MB)
This application note describes how Akorri BalancePoint™ software and Network Appliance (NetApp®) storage solutions work together to troubleshoot application performance issues in complex IT environments.
Optimizing IT Infrastructure in the Virtualized Data Center (471.83 KB)

Published by Enterprise Management Associates

Learn how cross-domain analytics provides huge advantages to IT managers who are fed up with existing tools that can’t provide insight across multiple domains (servers and storage) of the virtualized data center
Akorri BalancePoint: Cross-Domain Analytics & Capacity Management for the Virtual Data Center (47.93 KB)

published by Taneja Group

In this product profile, Taneja Group reviews the challenges of the virtualized data center and how Akorri BalancePoint agentless software provides cross-domain visibility, analysis and management for troubleshooting, capacity planning and performance management.
Akorri BalancePoint: Bridging the IT to Business Gap (119.13 KB)

Published by Enterprise Strategy Group

In this management brief, analyst Bob Laliberte of Enterprise Strategy Group describes how Akorri BalancePoint enables companies to best align IT resources with applications, dramatically improve infrastructure visibility and significantly accelerate problem resolution.
ESG Lab Review: Akorri BalancePoint (1.36 MB)

Published by Enterprise Strategy Group

Comprehensive product lab report on Akorri BalancePoint agentless software reviewed by third-party expert Enterprise Strategy Group.

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