Akorri Introduces BalancePoint 3.0 to Assure Virtual Infrastructure Performance and Capacity Providing Stepping Stone to the Private Cloud

LITTLETON, MA--(Marketwire - August 17, 2009) - Akorri,
Inc., the leader in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity
management for the dynamic data center, today announced the
availability of BalancePoint 3.0 -- the latest version of the company's
award-winning virtual infrastructure management software. BalancePoint 3.0
allows IT organizations to optimize virtual and physical server and storage
infrastructure resources to reduce costs. As companies advance through the
stages of server virtualization adoption, they need an infrastructure-wide
analytical systems management solution like BalancePoint that provides
visibility and control to troubleshoot and assure performance, plan server
and storage capacity, and manage service levels.

Cozen O'Connor, a law firm delivering legal services in 23 cities and two
continents, is one such company: "BalancePoint has given us confidence that
we can provide optimal IT performance and service as we continue with our
efforts to virtualize more and more of our key applications," said Amy
Freese, Director of Information Services at Cozen O'Connor. "BalancePoint's
holistic view and deep root cause analysis allow us to maximize our data
center resources and balance both cost and efficiency while delivering on
service levels."

Merkle Inc., one of the nation's largest and fastest growing database
marketing agencies, also relies on Akorri BalancePoint: "BalancePoint has
already saved us significant time by identifying the root cause of server
and storage problems and enabling faster, more informed decisions," said
Atul Gandhi, Sr. Director, Enterprise Technology Group, Merkle Inc.
"BalancePoint 3.0 provides deeper statistics for the HP EVA platform and
Cisco SAN switch support, which will likely give us an even deeper
understanding to quickly resolve bottlenecks, contention or latency issues,
and enable better performance from our data center."

BalancePoint 3.0 adds richer virtual machine and storage analysis, broader
interoperability, and user interface improvements including:

Troubleshooting Analysis

-- Virtual CPU Efficiency -- Identify and resolve CPU bottlenecks by
comparing guest O/S perspective with actual VM usage
-- SAN Switch Analysis -- Find and resolve SAN switch fabric bottlenecks
in infrastructures with Brocade and Cisco SAN Switches

Optimization and Planning Analysis

-- VM Performance Index -- An essential physical to virtual migration
metric for performance baselining and tracking, this feature enables
optimal sizing of each VM for its application
-- Virtual Resource Entitlement Analysis -- Identifies configuration and
capacity issues to avoid over- or under-allocating critical resources by
showing actual usage vs. allocation
-- Microsoft and VMware Cluster Support -- Maximize cluster level
management, optimization and planning with visibility across servers and
storage and analysis of both physical and virtual resource clustering

Broader Interoperability

-- VMware vSphere 4 Support -- Plug BalancePoint into vCenter Server for
deep end to end visibility and management
-- 3PAR InServ Series Support -- Now part of BalancePoint's broad storage
interoperability including Dell EqualLogic, EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, and NetApp

"Despite the proliferation of virtualization in the market today,
organizations will find it difficult to reap virtualization's rewards
unless they understand the dynamic relationship between all server and
storage elements, identify root causes of performance problems, and
optimally manage their combined physical and virtual environment," said
Rachel Chalmers, Research Director for Infrastructure Management at The451
Group. "Solutions such as Akorri BalancePoint provide the missing link to
optimize virtualization with end-to-end visibility and deep meaningful
analytics, helping customers reach their optimization goals much more
quickly and effectively."

"As companies become increasingly committed to virtualization -- moving
from early test environments for less business critical applications to
full production virtualization with mission critical applications and then
to enabling dynamic automated data centers and the promise of cloud
computing -- the need for an end-to-end infrastructure optimization
solution to achieve cost savings and operational efficiency has never been
greater," said John Gavin, CEO and COO for Akorri. "As scale and
complexity increases, so does the need for simplified, automated data
center level metrics that guide operations teams to better communicate,
collaborate and manage service delivery. BalancePoint 3.0 builds on our
unique, groundbreaking solution introduced in 2007 and will continue to
effectively address this expanding market need."

"55% of large organizations are citing performance under load (which
encompasses both capacity planning and inexperience) and manageability as
their greatest concerns regarding virtualization deployments. Simply put,
users are unsure of how many and of what kind of applications are able to
be co-located on a consolidated server running virtualization," said Bob
Gill, TheInfoPro's managing director of server research. "As such, end
users are looking for tools, such as Akorri's BalancePoint 3.0, that will
not only help them model co-located application loads, but will also help
with the ongoing monitoring of everything from processor load to
performance with associated storage to how well the VM is staying within
the resource range that has been allocated to it."

Attendees of VMworld 2009, held August 31 - September 3 in San Francisco,
can view a demonstration of BalancePoint 3.0 at the Akorri booth # 1432. In
addition, Akorri Founder and CTO Rich Corley is speaking in a session
titled "Infrastructure Performance Management in a Virtualized World" on
Thursday, September 3 at 2:30pm.

View a short overview of BalancePoint v3.0 here

Test drive BalancePoint here

Extra material:

Performance Analytics White Paper

BalancePoint Datasheet

About Akorri

Akorri develops cross-domain 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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