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The Next Big Thing
By Lisa Crewe
I’m excited to share that Akorri was named to the Wall Street Journal’s list of Top 50 Venture Backed Companies today. This is the first year the Journal has published this list and it’s exciting that Akorri made the cut.
The rankings were calculated based on how each company scored in the following components: the track record of success for the venture-capital investors who sit on the company’s board (Board Ranking); the amount of capital raised by the company over the last three years, in comparison to its peers (Total Equity Ranking); the track record of success for the company’s founders and chief executive (Executive Ranking); and the recent growth in the value of the company (Valuation Ranking). As a last component, Dow Jones venture-capital reporters and editors also reviewed and ranked the companies. Overall rank is based on a weighted combination of all five components.
Here’s the write up on Akorri from the article.
Founder: Rich Corley
Year begun: 2005
Industry: Information Technology
Product/Service: Software for managing virtualized servers and the entire network environment inside large datacenters
Investors: BlueStream Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners
Full-time employees: 52
Why it’s hot: An entrant in the hot datacenter-virtualization arena, Akorri said in a press release that it posted 134% fourth-quarter revenue growth from a year earlier.Akorri wants to make the view less cloudy for the cloud’s engineers — those datacenter managers who oversee the virtualized servers that power growing numbers of Web services for consumers and businesses. As virtualization caught on earlier this decade, it became clear to Rich Corley that datacenter management tools didn’t understand virtualized machines. “I saw the problems on the horizon,” he says, and concluded an entirely new paradigm was needed. So he founded Akorri with $8.4 million from early VC investors — he’s has raised $48 million total — and built a management system that both understands virtual machines and helps pros manage datacenters as a single system, rather than as individual components. The tools pinpoint problems quickly so datacenters can better utilize the equipment they have, get competing parts of the system to play better together, and boost overall performance, says Mr. Corley. Because they aren’t buying things they don’t need, equipment costs fall. Engineers’ time troubleshooting drops 80%, and finger-pointing among various tech teams goes away, Mr. Corley says. Meanwhile, they can plan more confidently for the future. Such selling points resonate. Fourth-quarter sales rose 82% from the third, says Mr. Corley. –Riva Richmond
SearchStorage Gold Product of the Year
By Lisa Crewe
I’m very excited to share that Akorri BalancePoint 3.0 took Gold in the SearchStorage.com Product of the Year Awards.
This is the second time BalancePoint has won this award, taking the gold in 2007 when the product was first introduced.
One judge said the tool “sets the bar for holistic capacity and performance-oriented infrastructure management.” You can read the full article here.
Vote for Akorri for Virtualization Journal’s 2009 “Readers’ Choice Awards”
By Lisa Crewe
Akorri is nominated for Virtualization Journal’s 2009 “Readers’ Choice Awards.” The Reader’s Choice Awards recognize excellence in the Virtualization software, solutions or services provided by the industry’s top vendors.
Akorri is nominated in three categories:
o Best Virtualization Management Tools
o Best Virtualization Platforms Capacity Planning
o Best Virtualization Platforms Monitoring & Reporting
Please take the time to vote for Akorri.
Voting ends October 23 and the winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009, at the “SOA in the Cloud” which is part of SYS-CON’s 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo. Thank you so much for your support of Akorri!
The 451 Group Take on Akorri
By Rich Corley
Recently The 451 Group did an evaluation of Akorri and recently published it’s article about us. I’ve included the entire article here for your reading pleasure.
Analyst:Rachel Chalmers
Sector: Enterprise Software »»
Date: 22 Dec 2008
Event summary
· Akorri has added a plug-in for VMware’s vCenter virtual-infrastructure management console to its BalancePoint software for performance management. The company has signed a global reseller deal with Dell and has greatly expanded its partner program.
· The latest version of BalancePoint, 2.3, includes enhanced topology maps and support for Dell EqualLogic SANs, NetApp NFS and Brocade SAN switches. Support for Cisco equipment is on the roadmap.
· Vancouver Coastal Health is using BalancePoint to keep tabs on key metrics around its datacenter virtualization and consolidation initiative, while FFVA Mutual Insurance has harnessed the software for active management of its virtual infrastructure.
The 451 take
These 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.
Details
Akorri’s BalancePoint handles agentless collection of management data from databases, servers, storage, VMware and storage virtualization, and analyzes that data in order to build models of infrastructure performance and utilization. With it, operators should be able to troubleshoot and pinpoint the root causes of problems in the near term, and plan for optimal capacity in the medium term. With the new plug-in, VMware administrators will be able to use BalancePoint directly from the vCenter console.
Akorri Announces Support for Dell’s Equallogic Storage Array
By Rich Corley
This past Monday Akorri announced it’s support for Dell’s EqualLogic Storage Array. This is important because this announcement gives Akorri the broadest capability of any virtual systems management company in the industry. Supporting Equallogic gives BalancePoint complete coverage of most common storage arrays used in the data center.
How do I know that? Well I haven’t seen any analysts studies on the subject but looking at our customer base and potential customers that I’ve had the pleasure to speak with I think I can firmly state that the most popular storage arrays deployed into virtual environments today are EMC CLARiiON, Dell Equallogic, NetApp FAS, and HP EVA.
These storage arrays all offer something very attractive to IT administrators who are deploying their virtual infrastructure…they are rock solid, well proven, good performing, cost effective arrays.
I’m looking forward to growing our Equallogic customer base. By utilizing our Analytics and Modeling capability Equallogic customers will be assured that they are getting the most out of their investment.
Akorri News Releases- E-Safe Technologies Joins Akorri’s PartnerPoint Program as an Authorized Reseller March 11, 2010
- Suburban Propane Optimizes Virtual Machine Performance, Saves On Hardware Costs Using Akorri BalancePoint March 11, 2010
- Bill Simpson, Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Akorri, Recognized as a 2010 Channel Chief by Everything Channel’s CRN March 11, 2010
- Akorri Wins the Gold in the 2009 Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Storage Management Tool Product of the Year Award March 11, 2010
- Akorri BalancePoint Selected for International Computerware, Inc.’s vCube Offering March 11, 2010
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