Akorri, Inc., the leader in cross-domain performance management for the virtualized data center, today announced that International Computerware Inc. (ICI) has become a premier partner within the Akorri Optimize Partner Program. Based in Marlborough, Massachusetts, ICI is a top value added reseller providing virtualization and storage solutions for the New England and New York areas. ICI's recent achievements include 2008 VMware Market Maker of the Year for The Americas, 2007 EMC Mid-Market Partner of the Year North America, and 2008 EMC ASN Service Excellence Award for The Americas. Under the agreement, ICI will resell Akorri BalancePoint virtualization performance management software to help its enterprise customers manage, optimize and plan performance and resource utilization across the virtualized data center.

"As our customers have ramped up their virtualized environments, we see the need for a management solution that looks across the entire data center infrastructure to resolve performance bottlenecks and optimize utilization. Akorri's BalancePoint was the only product on the market we found to have this capability," said Jamie Shepard, Executive Vice President of Technology Solutions for ICI. "We look forward to offering BalancePoint to customers that need to get the most from their virtualized data centers."

"We are delighted to have prominent New England reseller ICI as a premier player within our partner program," said Tom Joyce, CEO of Akorri. "ICI's expertise in the storage mid-market and VMware space makes them an ideal partner. We are confident that their approach to integrating BalancePoint with their virtualized solutions will provide rapid time-to-value for their customers."