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By Lisa CreweBalancePoint is one of the Hottest Virtualization Products at VMworld!
By Lisa Crewe
Akorri’s recently announced BalancePoint upgrade has generated a lot of industry buzz! This week at VMworld we’ve been having a great reaction from VMworld attendees as we demo the product in booth #1331. We are also proud that reporters and analysts are recognizing BalancePoint’s unique features such as its automated predictive analysis to help IT organizations prevent outages and bottlenecks. Today both Network World and CIOmagazine named Akorri as one of “The Hottest Virtualization Products at VMworld!” Check it out here and here.
Finding The Needle in the Haystacks
By Lisa Crewe
SandRidge Energy is a rapidly growing independent natural gas and oil company concentrating in exploration, development and production activities.
SandRidge deployed server virtualization over two years ago and has virtualized 60% of its application environment (including test and production applications). Today, over 140 machines are running on nine physical hosts supported by NetApp storage. The complex environment made it challenging to troubleshoot performance problems using the existing element management tools. When performance problems occurred, SandRidge consulted four different tools to resolve issues, which took a few systems engineers and up to a day to review data and find the “needle in the haystack.”
Cameron Han is the Infrastructure Operations Supervisor at SandRidge Energy, Inc. I’m thrilled to share that he’s presenting his story at VMworld on how SandRidge’s IT department was able to improve their infrastructure performance using Akorri BalancePoint.
Here’s what he had to say about the product.
“BalancePoint is the only tool we found that can decipher our virtual machines, storage, and operating systems together, and we like that it will proactively notify us of potential performance bottlenecks.”
Check out the Session @ VMworld
Who: Cameron Han, Senior Systems Engineer at SandRidge Energy, Inc.
What: SandRidge Energy Increases IT Virtualization Efficiency
When: August 31, 2010 at 3:30 p.m.
Where: VMworld 2010, Moscone Center, San Francisco
Session ID: V18113, Track: Virtualization 101
If you can’t make the session, you can read the case study here.
See Us at VMworld, Booth #1331
- See a demo of BalancePoint v3.5 that Predicts Performance Issues.
- Get a cool t-shirt and wear it for a chance to win a new Apple iPad or GPS.
- Get a free drink (or two or three) during the VMworld “Hall Crawl”, Tuesday, August 31 from 4-6 p.m.
Stop by the Akorri booth and visit us! Tell me you read my blog for an additional chance to win.
My Crystal Ball
By Lisa Crewe
I predict HP will buy 3PAR. It could happen. Or, Dell could outbid HP as Dell is expected to make another run at the prize. If I knew the answer, I would tell you.
What I do know how to predict is infrastructure performance issues. (You had to see that one coming.)
Along with a bunch of our friends in the virtualization management space making pre-VMworld announcements, Akorri introduced today our newest version of BalancePoint.
The most exciting new capability is the ability to prevent outages and bottlenecks in a virtual infrastructure. The first in a series of predictive capabilities, BalancePoint Predictor™ for Storage automatically detects issues that can quickly lead to application outages.
No other product has this capability. BalancePoint looks at the workloads, capacity and a new analytic, disk utilization, and what pops out is an email that tells you the causes of the problems.
The “bullies” are defined as the potential causes. They are the VM workloads competing for disk resources.
It also identifies the business impact or “victims” which are the workloads that are experiencing slower response times. All of this is delivered in an email that gives you direct links into BalancePoint to investigate further. The information can also be sent as an alert to a 3rd party tool.
We think it will save anyone administering a virtual environment a ton of time and aggravation. You can learn more in the press release and by visiting Akorri at VMworld, booth #1331, to see a demo. We’re not giving away $5k, but we do have free beer (on Tuesday from 4-6) and iPads and GPS’s to giveaway, so I hope you’ll check us out. Hope to see you there!
Wanna Race?
By Lisa Crewe
I’ve been to a lot of trade shows in my day (too many), but I have to hand it to VMware, they really have a lot of fun events at VMworld.
Just learned about the VMworld Fun Run today and I am really psyched. I happen to be on a running kick this year having finished my first sprint triathlon and I’m psyched for a reason to bring my running sneakers to San Fran. In all honesty, I would have brought them anyway, but this is more fun. Who wants to race?
New Webcast: “Lost in the Clouds? Think Service Infrastructure, not Element Infrastructure”
By Lisa Crewe
Slow response time? Unforeseen conflicts? Unpredictable performance? If you’ve had these problems in your virtual environment, you need to get them under control before you consider a private cloud infrastructure. On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 1:00 p.m., Akorri will present: “Lost in the Clouds? Think Service Infrastructure, not Element Infrastructure”
Attend this webcast to learn:
| 1. | How IT organizations can leverage virtualization to create a private cloud |
| 2. | A three-step process to prepare for the cloud |
| 3. | How to manage to service levels using Key Performance Indicators that predict and prevent performance issues and avoid outages |
Webcast Details
Date:
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Time:
1PM EDT / 10 AM PDT
Duration:
1 hour
Register here
Speaker:
Rich Corley, Founder and CTO for Akorri
About Rich Corley
Corley brings more than 25 years of experience leading and contributing to technology-based companies including founding Pirus Networks which was acquired by Sun Microsystems. He is responsible for leading Akorri’s engineering and R&D teams. Corley is a frequent industry speaker, most recently speaking at Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, VMworld, and Interop. Corley authors his own industry Blog.
Akorri News Releases- Akorri BalancePoint Achieves VMware Ready™ Status September 3, 2010
- Akorri Introduces Industry’s First Cross-Domain Performance Predictor to Prevent Dynamic Data Center Outages Before They Impact the Business September 3, 2010
- Akorri Customer SandRidge Shares the Secret to Increasing IT Virtualization Efficiency at VMworld 2010 September 3, 2010
- Lost in the Clouds? Akorri Helps you Think Service Infrastructure, not Element Infrastructure September 3, 2010
- COMPUTERLINKS helps resellers develop virtualisation opportunities with addition of Akorri performance management software September 3, 2010
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