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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
BalancePoint: A fresh new tool for your IT arsenal! This product is a lifesaver for those trying to actively manage their ever growing cloud infrastructure.
By Lisa Crewe
One of our partners, Trent Steele, a Varrow IT consultant, recently blogged about Akorri BalancePoint. Read his thoughts below and then see how our product can help you at: www.akorri.com/video.
Akorri BalancePoint: The Dynamic Data Center Optimization Tool
BalancePoint: A fresh new tool for your IT arsenal! This product is a lifesaver for those trying to actively manage their ever growing cloud infrastructure.
Over the past few days our Varrow engineers have been involved with training surrounding a product that the company is extremely excited about! Our engineers have been through introductions with the company and its product BalancePoint. BalancePoint “is a third generation software product that is the only analytics based solution for server to storage performance analysis and capacity planning for both physical and virtual environments. Think of Akorri as the GPS of your IT infrastructure. Akorri supplies critical information and guidance versus a monitoring tool which just reports on a single infrastructure element (physical or virtual servers or storage or network).” What I really found interesting with the product is its ease of use. You are really able to get this product installed and configured rather quickly and when used for troubleshooting issues between virtualization, physical servers and storage there may not be another player in the market as strong currently. The reporting features of the product are pretty amazing and are readily for IT administrators and their management teams to show performance within the virtual environment.
The amount of work being placed on administrators these days is tremendous and only gets heavier from there. Most companies have the philosophy to do more with less. These are just a few reasons why a solution must be found to keep up with network sprawl which grows at a weeds pace. Everything in the data center is evolving and if things aren’t setup immediately for monitoring sometimes things get lost in the shuffle. “BalancePoint agent-less software collects statistics from the entire infrastructure, creates a dynamic model and then intelligently analyzes the information to understand how an application workload’s server, SAN and storage resources are utilized and interact. BalancePoint uniquely enables IT administrators to visualize their infrastructure, proactively identify and troubleshoot performance problems within minutes, plan future capacity requirements and measure infrastructure service levels to demonstrate efficient resource utilization to management.” Below are some of the benefits gained by using Akorri BalancePoint in your workplace, especially those who have committed to the private or public cloud and the management challenges that it provides.
BalancePoint™ deploys quickly, providing immediate benefits including:
- Same-day non-intrusive implementation
- Rapid cross-domain troubleshooting
- Optimal IT performance delivery
- Effective Infrastructure capacity planning
- Justification for IT Virtualization and Consolidation projects
With BalancePoint™ in your environment you will:
- Identify Performance Bottlenecks — Find problems and contention points before they impact operations
- Troubleshoot Problems Faster — Identify root cause quickly so people can get back to work
- Improve Storage Utilization — Use storage and server resources more efficiently and eliminate or defer new storage purchases
- Manage VMware in Production — Improve VMware server and storage performance and utilization through “single pane of glass” management·
- Optimize and Plan — Identify opportunities for improvement and plan for future growth requirements
- Maintain Service Performance — Avoid application brownouts with cross-domain correlation of applications, servers, and storage
- Guarantee Future Service — Enable performance-based capacity planning across applications, servers, and storage
- Reduce Risk — Mitigate potential issues with what-if modeling for data-tier disaster recovery plans and data center optimization projects
The BalancePoint product has won many awards and if you are interested in the product, Varrow is a certified partner and reseller and can assist you with your project. Please feel free to contact us with any questions concerning the product.
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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