Akorri announced the availability of its flagship BalancePoint management platform for Citrix XenServer virtualized environments and certification in the Citrix Ready program. BalancePoint for Citrix XenServer offers cross-domain management and advanced analytics for virtualized environments running Citrix XenServer. For Citrix XenServer customers, BalancePoint provides deep visibility into server and storage resources to help resolve data center performance problems and improve service levels.

"As the leader in application delivery infrastructure, we are very pleased to have Akorri's BalancePoint solution in our Citrix Ready Partner program, " said Frank Artale, Vice President, Business Development at Citrix. "With BalancePoint's ability to ensure data center server and storage resources match application requirements, users can further optimize their XenServer virtualized environments to deliver the best possible performance."

"In order to realize the full capabilities of enterprise virtualization, organizations need a broad, deep view of all virtual infrastructure that provides the analysis to allow resource utilization to meet application needs," said Jeff Byrne, Senior Analyst & Consultant, Taneja Group. "Tools that can provide these capabilities will add value to any business."

"We are pleased to expand our management capabilities in the virtualized data center with Citrix," said Tom Joyce, President and CEO of Akorri. "With today's announcement Akorri continues to support market leading virtualization offerings, building upon our initial support for VMware. Now that server and storage virtualization adoption has reached critical mass in data centers of all sizes, real world production-ready virtualized data center management is essential for making virtualization work."