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Akorri Introduces Industry’s First Cross-Domain Performance Predictor to Prevent Dynamic Data Center Outages Before They Impact the Business
August 2010 by Marc Jacob
Akorri, Inc. announced the latest version of the company’s award-winning BalancePoint software that introduces automated predictive analysis to help IT organizations prevent outages and bottlenecks in increasingly complex virtualized infrastructure. The first in a series of predictive capabilities, BalancePoint Predictor(TM) for Storage automatically detects issues that can quickly lead to application outages. In addition, the new BalancePoint software continues its cross-domain leadership adding new analytics and expanding heterogeneous infrastructure management via new features such as Disk Utilization, support for Microsoft Hyper-V, and expanded multi-vendor storage support.
BalancePoint Predictor for Storage — Automatically detects physical or virtualized I/O workload "bullies" and "victims" and alerts on disk contention issues to prevent brownouts and downtime.
Disk Utilization — Provides an intelligent early warning for stressed disks. This new metric warns against dangerously increasing loads on a disk.
Heterogeneous Hypervisor Support — New support for Microsoft Hyper-V in addition to support for VMware vSphere 4.1 allows users to manage both vSphere and Hyper-V with a single BalancePoint system.
Expanded Storage Support — Support for NetApp V-series, HP SVSP, HDS Dynamic Provisioning.
