Akorri’s Balance Point: “virtualization aware” monitoring

In my constant search for high end monitoring tools, I have been stumbling across Akorri’s BalancePoint quite frequently. The marketing mumbo jumbo:

BalancePoint’s Cross-Domain Analysis™ technology collects information from servers, storage, and infrastructure software, and automatically correlates application performance across these domains. By providing a single view across IT silos, Cross-Domain Analysis shortens troubleshooting, saves money, and helps prevent disruptive outages to business-critical applications.BalancePoint’s Application Fingerprinting™ technology characterizes application workloads and analyzes the infrastructure’s ability to service it.

It can even predict the future. BalancePoint’s advanced analytics and modeling can give early warning to potential application performance problems before they happen. The system can help companies understand their storage capacity requirements so they can plan and manage purchases well in advance.

BalancePoint is fully “virtualization aware”. It supports many storage virtualization platforms and was designed for VMware. Akorri is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner.

IT Operations and Infrastructure managers, system/storage administrators, and application owners all benefit from BalancePoint’s ability to:

* Plan for growth and change, getting actionable provisioning recommendations that account for the impact on application performance.
* Optimize application performance and resource utilizations. Automatically find deeply buried contention, hotspots and bottlenecks.
* Manage performance across applications, servers and storage with cross-domain visualization and performance-based service alerting.

When problems are found get direct automatic troubleshooting analysis.

Too good to be true? Well, I’ll know more when the sales reps responds to my sales inquiry…