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Akorri goes to understand the Virtual Infrastructure

In a move to help manage the complexities of today's data center, Akorri, a Littleton, Mass.-based application service level management software provider, today announced BalancePoint 1.5.

The goal of BalancePoint is to help enterprise "understand the relationship from applications down to storage," said Tom Joyce, vice president of marketing at Akorri. "We look at the performance of an application and how you can tune it."

The appliance-based software analyzes your applications, servers and storage devices. For example, Joyce said, if there is contention between applications trying to access the same storage, you need to know when to move to a different array.


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