New Functionality the Only Service Costing Solution for Both Virtual and Dedicated IT Environments

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., February 1, 2011—Sentilla Corporation, leading provider of energy performance management software for data centers, today introduced Sentilla Energy Manager™ version 3.3, incorporating the world’s first software to accurately track and predict application performance and energy use in both virtual and dedicated environments. Sentilla Energy Manager automatically records how much work is performed, how much energy is consumed, the cost of running each service, and the efficiency of each service. This enables enterprises to make informed, strategic decisions about where to run applications, how and when to virtualize, and how to get the most out of their equipment and power capacity.

As companies transition from IT-as-a-cost-center to IT-as-a-service, knowing the cost and impact of each application is essential to delivering more services to the business in a cost-effective manner. Having this information ensures businesses can maximize productivity and minimize capital while enabling intelligent outsourcing, private and public cloud rollouts, and financial assessments for IT projects like equipment refresh. Today, IT organizations don’t know what it is really costing them to provide an application or service. According to a 2009 study by The Alliance to Save Energy, “an overwhelming 83 percent of IT professionals admit they would benefit from a better grasp of their overall server utilization.” With this new version of Sentilla Energy Manager, IT managers now know the cost and utilization of each of their applications, where to most efficiently run them, and have ground truth data to make informed IT decisions.

“Sentilla is committed to providing a comprehensive IT performance management suite and is the only company that takes energy into account when looking at application performance,” said Mike Kaul, chief executive officer of Sentilla. “By knowing how well each application is performing, for the first time, IT organizations using Sentilla holistically plan the evolution of their IT environment—from equipment refresh to cloud adoption—thereby extending the life of their data centers and getting the most out of every dollar spent.”

Today’s data centers utilize less than 8 percent of their server and storage capacity and only 1 to 2 percent of available computing performance. Sentilla Energy Manager improves the energy-to-performance ratio through application benchmarking and strategic planning for organizations to extract much greater value out of their existing infrastructure.

“The new efficiency metric for data centers is compute per kilowatt,” said David Cappuccio, managing vice president and chief of research for the infrastructure teams, Gartner. “Application energy and cost information is becoming critical for enterprises concerned with optimizing their infrastructures. IT organizations armed with this information will increase their adoption of virtualization and realize energy savings and consolidation benefits more quickly.”

Along with the launch of its application tracking functionality, Sentilla today announced integration with VMware vCenter and vSphere. This integration serves to inform 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.

With the industry's first software-only approach and patent-pending virtual metering, Sentilla analyzes power usage directly and tracks requirements, performance and capacity of every piece of equipment—from facility infrastructure to power distribution to cooling to servers to storage to switches to applications. Sentilla's customers routinely defer millions in capital expenditures and easily achieve over 25 percent in energy and cost savings, resulting in more resources to focus on running the business. Since no other vendor can quantify the cost of running an application and the power and overhead it consumes, Sentilla continues to lead the market with innovative tools that increase data center productivity. Sentilla Energy Manager version 3.3, available immediately, includes Sentilla application tracking and integration with VMware.

Sentilla has received industry praise for the company and its technology. The Sentilla Energy Manager received a 2009 ABA Stevie Award for Best New Product of the Year – Computer S..., was named a finalist in the 2010 ABA Stevie Award New Product or Service of the Year – Computer Software – New Version, received the 2009 TechWorld Award for Green Product of the Year, and was named a finalist in the category of Best Technology Supplier of the Year in the 2009 UK IT Industry Awards. In addition, the company was named a New California 100 Innovative Business All-Star by Golden Capital Network and Hamilton Lane. Co-founder and CTO Dr. Joe Polastre was awarded the 2010 European CTO Award for Innovation in Data Centres by BroadGroup, named a winner of the 2009 Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal 40 Under 40 award, received one ofBusinessWeek’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs for 2009, as well as the Top 10 Entrepreneurs in Cleantech, Biotech and High Tech for 2009 byWorth Magazine.

About Sentilla Corporation

Sentilla® is a leading provider of energy management solutions for data centers. The company’s award winning Sentilla Energy Manager™ runs IT systems more efficiently within the enterprise. Whether the goal is to defer capital expense, lower operating expense, mitigate risk, or get more out of existing equipment, Sentilla provides software tools that optimize, automate and enable decision support for global businesses. Sentilla Energy Manager solves the problems caused by information and communication technology (ICT) growth in data centers and telecommunications offices, reclaiming energy capacity, stabilizing consumption and improving equipment utilization. For more information, please visit the Sentilla website atwww.sentilla.com or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sentilla.