Akorri Named to Network World's "10 IT Management Software Companies to Watch"

Akorri , Inc., the leader in cross-domain performance management for the virtualized data center , today proudly announced that it was named one of Network World's top " 10 IT Management Companies to Watch ." The details of the section were published in the September 17, 2007 edition of the publication. The selection was the second of its kind this year. In March 2007, Akorri was named one of Byte and Switch's "Top 10 Startups to Watch."

"Akorri is emerging as a recognized leader in cross-domain performance management," said Rich Corley, founder and CEO at Akorri. "We see enormous opportunities to help companies fully leverage their virtualized environments."

Launched in January 2007, Akorri's flagship product, BalancePoint , is the first management solution to provide cross-domain visibility into application performance and infrastructure utilization, which is critical to making capacity planning decisions across IT silos. BalancePoint's unique analytics technology enables IT organizations to quickly solve performance problems, optimize application performance, improve infrastructure utilization and accurately plan for growth and change.

About Network World

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About International Data Group (IDG)

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About Akorri

Akorri cross-domain performance management software provides automated visibility and analysis across IT silos to help enterprises manage, optimize and plan performance and resource utilization across the virtualized data center. Akorri BalancePoint software 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. BalancePoint enables IT organizations to optimize performance and capacity to meet service level objectives at the lowest possible cost. For more information, visit www.akorri.com .

Akorri, BalancePoint and the Akorri logo are trademarks of Akorri, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

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