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BalancePoint 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.
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.
Who’s What in Service & Capacity Management
By Lisa Crewe
Virtualization Practice Analyst, Bernd Herzog, recently included Akorri in his “Who’s Who in Virtualization Management,” blog post. His point is well taken that VMware is currently offering a set of disjointed point products as its set of management offerings and each one of these offerings should be evaluated individually against the relevant third party competition.
He listed Akorri in the “Service & Capacity Management” category along with a few other vendors. In this list, Akorri BalancePoint is the only analytics-based solution for server to storage performance analysis and capacity planning for both physical and virtual environments.
We’ve long held that solutions that can understand interdependencies 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, predicting performance issues, avoiding outages, and optimizing utilization for total data center visibility.
For more information about BalancePoint visit: www.akorri.com/video
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
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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