REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–November 14, 2011–Sentilla® Corporation, the leading provider of data center analytics, today announced that its Sentilla software has achieved VMware Ready™ status. This designation indicates that Sentilla software has passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and is now listed on the VMware Partner Product Catalog. Passing the extensive VMware-specified testing helps ensure that Sentilla software makes best use of VMware technology and is ready for deployment in customer environments.

"We are pleased that Sentilla software qualifies for the VMware Ready logo, signifying to customers that it has passed specific VMware testing and interoperability criteria and is ready to run in production environments," said Sheryl Sage, Director, Alliance Programs VMware.

“As a leader in data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software, we are very excited that Sentilla’s software has earned VMware Ready status,” said Eddie White, senior vice president of business development and sales at Sentilla. “Through integration with VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter, Sentilla customers today have visibility into energy consumption, cost, carbon footprint and other utilization data on all of their virtual and physical systems in the data center. The next step is extending this visibility into cloud computing environments using Sentilla's data center analytics. Sentilla provides instant, asset-level visibility to help IT executives unlock energy capacity, reduce energy consumption and cost, and maximize business value and agility through increased data center efficiency.”

The VMware Ready program is a VMware co-branding program for qualified partner products and is a benefit of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. With more than 2,000 members worldwide, the VMware TAP program works with best-of-breed technology partners to provide them a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools and expertise to deliver enhanced value to joint customers.

Availability:
Sentilla can be found within the online VMware Partner Product Catalog at http://alliances.vmware.com/public_html/catalog/PublicCatalog.php. Hardware products can also be found within the online VMware Hardware Compatibility List at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php.

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 offers the world’s first software that tracks and predicts application performance and operational costs in dedicated, virtual and cloud environments, specifically:

• The cost and power impact of running each application
• The efficiency or utilization of the application's resources, such as CPU, disks and virtual machines
• A prediction of how much resources the application will require based on business growth

Sentilla software includes a new predictive analytics tool that performs “what-if” scenarios and financial analysis on the transition of physical infrastructure to virtual and cloud infrastructure. IT organizations are now able to determine the impact of migrating existing applications or deploying new applications in virtual clusters, private cloud or public cloud offerings. In addition, Sentilla analyzes the impact of capital spends on equipment, operating expense on personnel, maintenance, power consumption and software licensing, along with other metrics.

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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