Ropes & Gray Law Firm Uses Akorri Virtualization
Based on BalancePoint virtualization management solution
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on February 15, 2008 at 3:50 pmAkorri, Inc. announced that national law firm
Ropes & Gray LLP
has leveraged Akorri’s BalancePoint virtualization management solution
for data centers supporting global offices in Boston, New York,
Washington DC, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Tokyo.
Less than
two days after installing BalancePoint, Ropes & Gray was able to
fully manage its five data centers – proactively avoiding performance
issues and enabling long-term planning of resource consumption.
“BalancePoint
was able to immediately provide us deep, meaningful analysis of what
was happening throughout our data centers and help us create more
complete control of our VMware environments,” said Craig Dodson, Senior
Infrastructure Architect, Ropes and Gray LLP. “We are thrilled to be
proactively managing and optimizing application and infrastructure
performance now through BalancePoint.”
“The move
to a virtualized environment has its own set of management challenges,
and Ropes & Gray’s situation is one we see frequently – where the
move creates a need for a better, more complete view of both server and
storage infrastructure combined with advanced analytics for an
understanding of how resources and their capacity utilization are
affecting applications service levels,” said Tom Joyce, CEO of Akorri.
“We are delighted to help Ropes & Gray enhance performance with our
breakthrough data center management solution – BalancePoint.”
“We are
very pleased we were able to match Ropes & Gray with Akorri’s
BalancePoint to ensure their virtualization efforts are expertly
managed,” said Doug Weisberg President and CEO of Expert Server
Group. “As one of the first VMware channel partners and the Northeast’s
most experienced and award-winning enterprise virtual solutions
provider, we are passionate about ensuring clients get the best
solution for their needs, and have complete confidence that Akorri
provides this solution.”











