LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sentilla® Corporation, the leading provider of data center analytics, today announced that its award-winning Sentilla® software now includes Sentilla Analytics for Cloud, the first ever ability to perform predictive and financial analysis on transitioning from physical to virtual and cloud infrastructure. The new predictive analytics tool allows IT organizations to determine the impact of migrating existing applications or deploying new applications in virtual clusters, private cloud or public cloud offerings. Sentilla Analytics for Cloud also includes details on the impact of capital spend on equipment, operating expense on personnel, maintenance, power consumption and software licensing, along with other metrics.
While cloud computing is a top priority for enterprises of all sizes there is rampant confusion around the cost and transition strategy for cloud infrastructure. Organizations determining their cloud strategy lack visibility into the systems, applications and infrastructure to gain the information needed to properly evaluate the business impact of migrating to a more flexible infrastructure. Although most IT organizations agree that Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) or Platform as a Service(PaaS) infrastructure will drive down costs and deliver more services faster and cheaper, the exact business impact has not been quantifiable for specific environments until Sentilla Analytics for Cloud.
“At first glance, cloud computing appears to be about a very simple idea - consuming and or delivering services from ‘the cloud’. However, there are many issues regarding types of cloud computing and the scope of deployment that make the details not nearly so simple,” says Yefim V. Natis, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner Research. “The insight helping organizations extract business value from cloud computing will be a highly demanded skill in most IT and business planning organizations, encompassing the expertise in software engineering and the business use of IT.”
See: Gartner Predicts 2011: Cloud Computing Is Still at the Peak of Inflated Expectations, by David Mitchell Smith, David W. Cearley, Yefim V. Natis, Benoit J. Lheureux, Daryl C. Plummer, Matthew W. Cain and Donna Scott, November 22, 2010.
With Sentilla Analytics for Cloud, IT organizations are bridging the gap between operations and business initiatives. IT executives gain instant visibility into operations and make strategic decisions with credible information to minimize capital investment and operating expenditure. Sentilla is the only provider to collect, monitor and analyze both performance and cost data, from resource utilization and application workload to power consumption and operating costs. IT organizations can rely on Sentilla’s data center infrastructure software to determine the cost structure of running applications in a specific data center environment and, based on data from the actual applications and data center, accurately generate business cases and capacity impacts for different virtualization and cloud strategies.
“Sentilla Analytics for Cloud is a massive breakthrough because IT organizations can now see how cloud strategies impact the bottom line. Sentilla’s predictive analytics are an invaluable tool for enterprises moving from IT as a cost center to IT as a service,” says Dr. Joe Polastre, chief technology officer at Sentilla. “Sentilla Analytics is the first planning tool that provides executives the insight they need to create a smart, impactful cloud strategy that ties closely with business initiatives AND can be deployed with confidence that minimal cost and resources will be expended.”
Providing customers with the tools to make smart, strategic decisions has always been a top priority for Sentilla and the company recently received $15 million in Series C funding led by SingTel Innov8 Ventures, the corporate venture arm of the SingTel Group, to meet growing customer demand. In addition to an infusion of capital, Sentilla partners with leading virtualization and cloud providers including a recently announced integration with VMware vCenter™ Server and VMware vSphere® that informs customers of the cost of running their IT services (both virtual and dedicated), where opportunities for greater efficiencies exist, how to achieve the most out of virtualization and cloud projects, and the best way to deliver more services within the same power and space footprints.
Pricing & Availability
Sentilla Analytics for Cloud is available immediately and included as a
free upgrade for existing licensees of Sentilla. Sentilla will raffle
off a free license of Sentilla Analytics for Cloud along with a
complimentary data center assessment at VMworld 2011.
For more
information about Sentilla Analytics for Cloud, please visit www.sentilla.com/products/datacenter/cloud.
About Sentilla Corporation
Sentilla maximizes data center efficiency through physical, virtual, and cloud IT infrastructure optimization. With application software that discovers, monitors, analyzes, plans and automates data center workloads, Sentilla connects performance with spending to accelerate business agility at the lowest possible cost. Sentilla has received industry praise for the company and its technology, most recently being named a ‘Cool Vendor’ by Gartner in data center infrastructure management and included in GigaOM’s Structure 50 For more information, please visit the Sentilla website at www.sentilla.com, Twitter at twitter.com/sentilla, Facebook at facebook.com/sentilla, and YouTube at youtube.com/sentilla.
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