Welcome to Akorriblog. My name is Rich Corley and I am the founder and CEO of Akorri. I’ve been described by many people as a serial entrepreneur. Like most entrepreneurs, I have a passion for creating and building. That passion for creating started as a teenager building ham radio’s from scratch. Nothing is more satisfying then seeing something you’ve designed and built from the ground up work.

I’ve found that building successful companies that solve real customer problems delivers similar satisfaction. The serial part of “serial entrepreneur” comes from the fact I’ve done this six times! I guess that qualifies this as an addiction for me.

Another passion for me these days is the evolution of the enterprise data center. It’s amazing to see the transformation in twenty years from mainframes to distributed systems and now to the emerging on-demand, service-orientated data center. The focus of this blog will be to explore the directions I believe the enterprise data center is heading, and to share with you some of the thinking behind Akorri’s business–which was built to help companies make it through this transformation.

I’ll look at some of the current challenges that exist in today’s data center and how Akorri can solve those problems, while keeping an eye towards the technology and business initiatives that will transform the data center over the coming years.

I’ve brought together a seasoned team of system and software engineers, world-class mathematicians and business people in order to create solutions for the issues that data centers face today and become leaders in helping in the evolution of the data center. I’m looking forward to sharing some of the insights that this great team has as we tackle some very challenging issues for our customers.

I can’t promise to be brief in every post, but I will be focused. If you’re interested in the changing world of the datacenter, or your ears perk up when you hear words like storage, virtualization, application performance, SLAs, troubleshooting and capacity planning, you’ve come to the right place. I hope you’ll come back. Thanks!

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