Akorri balances application resources

Storage in the Enterprise This newsletter is sponsored by Arsenal Digital Solutions Data Protection for SMBs: Beyond Tape Backup As more employees work from remote locations, the risks and potential costs of data loss are too great. The stakes are even higher for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), as they lack the resources a larger company can use to survive a data loss. In this paper, you'll learn how more and more SMBs are using on-demand data protection services as an affordable, workable solution to their growing backup, recovery and business continuity challenges. Network World's Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter, 05/10/07 Akorri balances application resources By Deni Connor Akorri, a start-up in the application service level management space, introduced software this week that ties in virtual environments. The Balancepoint 1.5 management software, which comes loaded on a rack-mounted appliance, now supports applications running on VMware virtual servers. BalancePoint gives IT administrators visibility into the server and storage resources needed to resolve performance problems and improve service levels. The company, which first introduced BalancePoint in January of this year, also is now supporting Oracle databases. ENTERPRISE NAS - TRENDS, ISSUES & OUTLOOK Watch Network World's Editorial Perspectives webcast on Enterprise NAS for the issues, trends and new developments affecting today's enterprise network storage environment. View to understand the latest thinking on Network Attached Storage (NAS) and its place in today's enterprise. Click here to watch now! Analysts say there is a need for software that can manage performance in virtual environments. “Akorri’s BalancePoint product can help ensure success of server virtualization projects by providing fine-tuned control mechanisms to optimize the virtualized data center end-to-end,” says Arun Taneja, senior analyst for the Taneja Group. BalancePoint provides visibility across applications, servers and storage. The software uses analytics to allow IT to resolve performance problems and optimize application operation, as well as make capacity planning decisions. BalancePoint 1.5 consists of BalancePoint’s Examiner and Analyzer modules. For VMware support, customers would buy BalancePoint Examiner for VMware and BalancePoint Analyzer for VMware. The Examiner module expands on VMware’s VirtualCenter management capabilities and gives end-to-end performance information for ESX Server and virtual machine guests. The BalancePoint Analyzer for VMware module identifies points of resource contention and allows IT to optimize performance. The module analyzes performance and capacity utilization over time. BalancePoint can discover, collect and analyze information from Windows, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Red Hat Linux and VMware servers as well as EMC, IBM, HP, Hitachi, Sun, Engenio and Dot Hill storage arrays.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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Contact the author: Deni Connor is senior editor for Network World magazine covering storage, archiving and compliance, IT in healthcare, Novell and data center-related issues. E-mail Deni.   This newsletter is sponsored by Arsenal Digital Solutions Data Protection for SMBs: Beyond Tape Backup As more employees work from remote locations, the risks and potential costs of data loss are too great. The stakes are even higher for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), as they lack the resources a larger company can use to survive a data loss. In this paper, you'll learn how more and more SMBs are using on-demand data protection services as an affordable, workable solution to their growing backup, recovery and business continuity challenges. ARCHIVE Archive of the Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007