vFoglight Illuminates Physical Storage in a Virtual Environment

Many clients ask us for recommendations on how to better manage physical storage in a virtual enviornment. Quest's vFoglight Storage is a great solution for this need. It monitors virtual infrastructures and provides performance metrics to help optimize the physical storage shared throughout a virtual environment. vFoglight Storage also monitors virtual storage utilization enabling administrators to intelligently project storage capacity requirements. You’ll have the information you need to optimize virtual storage performance ensuring you meet SLAs and retain cost savings you've achieved through virtualization.

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NetApp Announces Aquisition of Akorri Inc.

NetApp announced on Friday that they entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Akorri, Inc. Together NetApp and Akorri will provide customers with comprehensive tools to automate and analyze their shared IT infrastructure, efficiently deliver on service levels, and respond to rapidly changing business needs.

Akorri enables IT organizations to increase virtualization ROI through optimization and planning of their virtual and physical infrastructure resources in a continually changing IT data center environment.

Akorri’s BalancePoint software uses cross-domain analysis and advanced analytics to help companies manage, optimize, and plan performance and utilization across their data center infrastructure. BalancePoint provides visibility into the root cause of performance issues through deep drill-down into server and storage resources and the ability to understand both server and storage virtualization. Akorri BalancePoint helps IT organizations to optimize performance and capacity to meet service level objectives at the lowest possible cost.

Traditional enterprise systems management products focus on a single “silo” in the infrastructure, such as storage. Akorri technology correlates both physical and virtual resources across servers and storage, extracting data from multiple sources and layers in a heterogeneous infrastructure to provide near real-time insights and analysis throughout the application workflow path.