Akorri introduces their BalancePoint 1.5 management software and ties it to the rising virtualization market. The company hopes their new software will help accelerate consolidation by improving performance and efficiency of the virtual infrastructure. The new version offers IT administrators cross-domain visibility into application performance and infrastructure utilization that is critical to making capacity p Akorri introduces their BalancePoint 1.5 management software and ties it to the rising virtualization market.The company hopes their new software will help accelerate consolidation by improving performance and efficiency of the virtual infrastructure. The new version offers IT administrators cross-domain visibility into application performance and infrastructure utilization that is critical to making capacity planning decisions across the infrastructure. Akorri says its product’s analytics technology enables IT organizations to quickly solve performance problems, optimize application performance, improve infrastructure utilization and accurately plan for growth and change. “Customers of all sizes have asked us to help them maximize their investments in virtual infrastructure,” said Rich Corley, Akorri founder and CEO. “Virtualization offers tremendous advantages over traditional approaches, but new management technologies are required to achieve the full benefits in data center environments. BalancePoint 1.5 provides new levels of visibility and control for applications running on VMware by mapping the server and storage resources supporting each application and using Akorri’s advanced analytics to help deliver enterprise-class performance.”The new BalancePoint 1.5 capabilities for VMware include: BalancePoint Examiner for VMware: Delivers end-to-end performance information for ESX Server and VM guests running on data center infrastructure, enhancing native VMware VirtualCenter management capabilities Provides deep visibility into the server and storage resources that are being used by applications running on VMware Helps troubleshoot and resolve VMware application performance issues BalancePoint Analyzer for VMware: Helps optimize performance by identifying points of resource contention and assessing the impact of data center infrastructure changes Provides specific recommendations for improving application service levels Analyzes performance and capacity utilization over time, keeping track of metrics even as VMs are migrated to different servers using VMotion Software Development