Akorri Adds Mainline Information Systems as a PartnerPoint Authorized Reseller

Mainline Leverages Akorri BalancePoint to Assess Customer IT Environments and Manage and Optimize Virtual and Physical Infrastructure to Assure Performance

Littleton, MA January 18, 2010 - www.akorri.com, Inc., the leader in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management for the dynamic data center, announced today that Florida-based Mainline Information Systems, Inc., an IBM Premier Business Partner and leading national provider of IBM servers, storage, software and services solutions, has become an authorized reseller within Akorri's PartnerPoint program. Under the agreement, Mainline now offers Akorri's BalancePoint software to its customers to provide data center visibility, performance analysis and optimization across complex virtual and physical server and storage infrastructure. Such insight and analysis enables customers to troubleshoot and optimize performance, plan infrastructure capacity and confidently manage service levels.

Mainline helps its customers reduce cost and complexity and increase efficiency in their IT infrastructure environments. By providing customers with innovative technology solutions like Akorri BalancePoint, Mainline offers comprehensive technology solutions to meet the dynamic data center demands of businesses across all industries.

"We partnered with Akorri not only because of BalancePoint's strengths as a virtual infrastructure management solution, but for the company's unparalleled commitment to its partners," said Greg Peterson, VP of Solution Sales for Mainline Information Systems. "Akorri's unique PartnerPoint program allows us to meet our specific business and customer needs and ensure that our customers can best optimize their virtual and physical server and storage infrastructure resources. We are pleased to add BalancePoint as one of our recommended solutions and provide our customers with an agent-less, easy to install solution that can quickly assess and improve operational efficiency."

"With our 100% channel model, Akorri places a high emphasis on meeting its resellers' needs as well as finding partners, like Mainline, who have proven experience in providing the right data center solutions for their customer," said Bill Simpson, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Akorri. "We are excited to partner with such a well-respected solution provider. As customers virtualize more Tier 1 applications, the performance requirements increase dramatically and enterprises need a way to assure service levels for the business while managing the virtual and physical infrastructure as a system and that's what they get with BalancePoint. We are pleased to help Mainline bring a critical tool like BalancePoint to its customers."

About Mainline Information Systems, Inc.
Founded in 1989, Mainline began by offering information technology solutions and consulting in the IBM midrange markets. Since then, it has become an IBM Premier Business Partner and global provider of information technology and business solutions with more than 600 employees nationwide. Headquartered at 1700 Summit Lake Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32317, Mainline provides solutions throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Brazil and Mexico. The company may be reached by phone at 850.219.5000 and on the Internet at www.mainline.com. For more information about this solution, call your Mainline account representative or call Mainline directly at 866.490.MAIN (6246).

About Akorri
Akorri develops cross-domain analytical software solutions that optimize performance and utilization in the dynamic data center. BalancePoint virtual infrastructure management software provides automated, infrastructure-wide visibility and analysis to help enterprises fix problems, optimize utilization and improve performance for both virtual and physical servers and storage. IT organizations use BalancePoint to reduce IT infrastructure total cost of ownership and ultimately enable a service oriented infrastructure. Follow Akorri at http://twitter.com/Akorri. For more information, visit www.akorri.com.


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