Analyst Rachel Chalmers with The 451 Group provides her take on Akorri BalancePoint.  Contrasting customer use cases demonstrate the flexibility and usefulness of Akorri's BalancePoint. Best known as a performance monitor able to span the virtual server and storage tiers, it's still extremely helpful in pure environments on either side of that divide. But virtualization seems to be driving adoption. Virtual environments are complex and new, and they interact with legacy IT in unpredictable ways. The powerful analytics tools Akorri can bring to bear are useful for both monitoring and managing the virtual infrastructure layer.