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Mon, November 9, 2009 Akorri Continues Robust Growth and Market Expansion in Third Quarter 2009
LITTLETON, MA--(Marketwire - November 9, 2009) - [ Akorri ], Inc., the leader in [ virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management ] for the [ dynamic data center ], announced today it continued robust growth and market expansion in the third quarter of 2009, increasing its revenues by 50 percent over third quarter 2008.
New industry leading [ customers ] as well as existing customers purchasing additional BalancePoint licenses drove this quarter's growth. Enterprises continue to buy Akorri's award-winning [ BalancePoint ]® software to optimize their virtual and physical [ server and storage ] environments.
Also within the third quarter, Akorri launched and announced its new [ PartnerPoint Channel Program ], featuring new marketing and sales support, better online education and certification, deal registration and margin protection features, enabling the company to secure more than 15 new channel partners. One of the new partners was [ Rutter Networking Technologies ], a leading end-to-end technology solutions provider in the Northeast.
"We have been very pleased with our new relationship with Akorri. Adding BalancePoint to our portfolio has enabled us to continue providing our customers the solutions needed to manage virtualized data center environments. Akorri's channel support program has been extremely helpful in getting us up to speed and assisting our customers with deployment," said Drew Koellmer, Director of Sales and Marketing from Rutter.
In the third quarter Akorri also:
-- Introduced [ BalancePoint 3.0 ] - the latest version of the company's award-winning virtual infrastructure management software, with richer virtual machine and storage analysis, broader interoperability, and user interface improvements.
-- Announced a cooperative marketing and sales support agreement with 3PAR® (
-- Expanded into European, Asia Pacific, and Latin American markets, as the company added new partner Syrix in Latin America and opened regional sales offices.
"We have experienced remarkable growth in our first three quarters this year despite economic conditions, and as the economy starts to improve we are well positioned with our new channel program and growing list of partners to help companies take that next step in optimizing performance while they virtualize their IT environments," said John Gavin, CEO and COO for Akorri. "We believe the market will continue to choose BalancePoint for an infrastructure-wide view and analysis of a combined virtual and physical environment that traditional systems management tools can't offer."
About Akorri BalancePoint
BalancePoint allows IT organizations to optimize virtual and physical server and storage infrastructure to reduce costs and assure service levels as companies advance through the stages of virtualization adoption and into private cloud computing. BalancePoint provides an infrastructure-wide analytical systems management solution that offers visibility and control to troubleshoot and assure performance, plan server and storage capacity, and manage service levels. BalancePoint is available as a virtual appliance, supports VMware vSphere, plugs into VMware vCenter and plans to support Microsoft Hyper-V and all other major hypervisor technologies. It interoperates with all the major storage vendors including EMC, HP, NetApp, IBM, Dell EqualLogic, Hitachi Data Systems, and 3PAR.
To view a short overview of BalancePoint 3.0 click [ here ]
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About Akorri
Akorri develops cross-domain analytical software solutions that optimize performance and utilization in the dynamic data center. BalancePoint virtual infrastructure management software provides automated, infrastructure-wide visibility and analysis to help enterprises fix problems, optimize utilization and improve performance for both virtual and physical servers and storage. IT organizations use BalancePoint to reduce IT infrastructure total cost of ownership and ultimately enable a service oriented infrastructure. Follow Akorri at [ http://twitter.com/Akorri ]. For more information, visit [ www.akorri.com ].
Akorri, BalancePoint, Cross-Domain Analysis and the Akorri logo are trademarks of Akorri, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
