Akorri and Datalink Announce Partnership
06/23/2009
Akorri, Inc. and Datalink (Nasdaq: DTLK), an independent information storage architect, today announced that they have entered into an alliance partnership. Within its StorageScape suite of software tools, Datalink now offers Virtualization Infrastructure Services, powered by Akorri’s BalancePoint. By leveraging Akorri’s technology as part of its service offering, Datalink can provide customers with an end-to-end view of their virtualized environment combined with advanced visualization and analytics. This allows organizations to proactively identify and resolve problems, increase utilization, and improve performance in the virtualized data center.
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“Virtualization technologies introduce a new level of complexity to the data center. Through our virtualization infrastructure services, we are committed to helping customers manage those complexities so they can take full advantage of the benefits of virtualization,” said Kent Christensen, Datalink Virtualization Practice Manager. “Akorri’s BalancePoint, combined with our virtual infrastructure audit and assessment services, provides customers with unprecedented visibility into their virtualized environments. They, in turn, are able to optimize performance and ultimately drive increased return on investment and business value to their organizations.”
With this announcement, Datalink becomes a premier partner within the Akorri Optimize Channel Partner Program. Akorri Optimize partners bring specialized virtualization and storage knowledge of how to deploy virtualization and storage solutions rapidly and effectively, optimizing the existing infrastructure and enhancing existing technologies.
“We are delighted to have a national company of Datalink’s caliber and scope as a premier partner and to be part of the Datalink StorageScope suite,” said Warren Mead, Vice President of U.S. Channels.com at Akorri. “We look forward to reaching and helping a new segment of customers through Datalink understand how server and storage resources impact one another and optimize overall performance of the virtualized infrastructure.”