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Cross Domain Application “Fingerprinting” Startup Focuses on Capacity, Performance, SLA

in E2E Service Management, Service Management, Startups

New start up Akorri founder Rich Corley is hitting the nail on the head here. I called this “Application Profiles or Application Performance Signatures” back when I was preaching about doing the same thing while at ELNK in ’02-’03 as part of my “Zero Latency Operations Center” initiative. Focusing on the cross-domain / organizational silo is key here. If what Rich is working on can help close the organizational silo gap as well and be truely service centric he may have a winner here.

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“After leaving Sun in 2004 I continued to think about this problem. It occurred to me that the only way to truly solve this complexity issue was to fully understand the “cross-domain” (i.e., server, network, and storage) technologies that 1) make up the data center, 2) characterize the applications requirements for the infrastructure, and 3) use advance analytical techniques to pull it all together.”

“I realized that if I could characterize, or “fingerprint” an application and use that fingerprint information against a mathematical representation of the infrastructure then I could bring the knowledge needed to effectively control the data services and virtual resources. My challenge was to bring together infrastructure and application engineers along with mathematicians to work on this complex problem. I felt it was a perfect problem for a startup to attack. Being able to get a small, focused, diverse set of people together in order to solve a complex issue is what startups are best at.

So with that understanding I founded Akorri. With many man years of development already behind us, we’ve produced our first product, BalancePoint. BalancePoint will give IT administrators the visibility and knowledge they need in order to troubleshoot, optimize and plan around their complex environments.”

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  • John Seyerle

    Hmmm. sounds a bit like the SMARTs Codebook.

  • Doug,

    With the advances and deployment of technology such as VMWARE and TagmaStore the time has come to start realizing the vision of “Zero Latency Operations Center.” Virtualization technology has allowed physical resources to become manageable services.

    This vision will not be achievable though without advanced analytic and modeling techniques. The Codebook technology that John Seyerle commented about is based around event correlation. Akorri’s technology, on the other hand, uses some fairly complex analytics that were originally developed for economic analysis and modeling.

    The time is right for solutions that truly solve IT services management.

  • Thanks for commenting Richard. I look forward to watching your technology and products evolve! Please continue to share as you progress!

    Doug