Akorri Rapidly Expands Customer Base By VSM News Staff published: Tuesday, February 05 2008
Increases Sales and Marketing Efforts with Channel Partners to Meet Customer Demand
Littleton, MA, February 4, 2008 – Akorri, Inc., the leader in cross-domain performance management for the virtualized data center, today announced that it has significantly increased its customer base for BalancePoint, its award-winning management software, as the company marks the anniversary of its first year in the market. The new Akorri customers include AutoTrader.com, Colorado Housing, Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association (FFVA), and Ropes and Gray as well as a number of other companies. These customers are using BalancePoint to optimize performance and resource utilization in their data centers that rely upon server and storage virtualization.
In 2007, Akorri expanded its sales channels and marketing efforts by adding 20 new reseller partners that specialize in virtualization to the Optimize Channel Partner Program. These include 2Virtualize, AccessFlow, AvTek Solutions, Daymark, Expert Server Group, Gibraltar Solutions, Hipskind, LogicsOne, Long View Systems, Lumen21, Nth Generation, and Razor Technology.
In addition, in the last year Akorri garnered three awards and was named to several industry "Watch Lists” which include:
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SearchDataCenter.com's Silver Data Center Product of the Year
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VMware's Best of VMworld Gold Award for Performance Monitoring and Optimization
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SearchStorage.com's Product of the Year Finalist
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Five Star Recommendation within CMP Channel's CRN Test center review
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CIO Magazine's 10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch in 2008
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Network World's 10 IT Management Companies to Watch
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Byte and Switch's Top 10 Startups to Watch
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One of American Venture Magazine's 2008 most promising start ups selected for vision, market leadership and technological achievements
"The growing popularity of virtualization is driving the need for better management of the entire data center infrastructure,” said Tom Joyce, President and CEO at Akorri. "Akorri's flagship product – BalancePoint – was launched in January 2007, and is well positioned to meet that need and ensure the data center is running at peak performance and optimal capacity.”
About Akorri
Akorri cross-domain performance management software with advanced analytics provides automated visibility and analysis across IT silos to help enterprises fix problems, optimize utilization, and improve performance in the virtualized data center. Akorri BalancePoint software provides visibility into the root cause of performance issues through deep drill down into server and storage resources, and the ability to understand both server and storage virtualization. BalancePoint enables IT organizations to optimize performance and capacity to meet service level objectives at the lowest possible cost. For more information, visit www.akorri.com.
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