Sentilla Corporation, the leading provider of data center analytics, today announced that its award-winning software now boasts the most advanced planning and analysis capabilities available. Sentilla 4.0 builds upon its unmatched track record in maximizing data center efficiency. With Sentilla 4.0, IT executives will experience unparalleled visibility into data center operations. For the first time, companies can use real data to evaluate the impact of projects before they’re implemented, saving time and money.

According to the Gartner Research report entitled, ‘The Future of the Infrastructure and Operations Leader,’ by Jay E. Pultz and Ed Holub, “Ultimately, the goal of I&O [Infrastructure & Operations] is to become a full partner with the business — a trusted advisor when the business requires technological innovation.” To run IT like a business, IT organizations must first institutionalize business functions and processes. Every IT project has to have a business case, clear return on investment (ROI), tangible benefits to the business and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure how well each IT project aligns with and supports business initiatives.

Organizations rely on Sentilla data center analytics software to determine the right course of action based on costs, data, potential business cases and capacity impacts. IT executives use the Sentilla performance, utilization, energy usage and cost KPIs to benchmark efficiency, build performance accountability and increase IT credibility. With the intelligent capacity planning and predictive analytics of Sentilla 4.0, IT is able to remove any guesswork associated with managing and evaluating data center projects while minimizing capital investment and operating expenditure. Sentilla software allows IT executives to evaluate the impact of a project prior to implementation – from a financial, performance, efficiency or capacity perspective. Sentilla 4.0 provides accurate data that drives instant, actionable insights, freeing IT management from the time consuming process of creating and modifying traditional spreadsheets filled with assumptive data.

“Sentilla plays a pivotal role in helping our joint customers uncover a breadth of potentially missed business opportunities,” said Michael Cardy, global chief technology officer at OnX Enterprise Solutions. “It has proven to be critical for understanding and managing data center efficiency. Now with advanced analytics capabilities, Sentilla really puts IT executives in the driver’s seat to establish new lines of business. Customers will be excited about the new infrastructure planning modules- the opportunity to review options and learn the impact of a project before it is put in motion is a major breakthrough.”

Major new enhancements in Sentilla 4.0 include:

• Planning Modules
  • Financial planning provides comprehensive financial analysis for organizations to benchmark the cost of running their IT infrastructure and evaluate the financial impacts of moving IT infrastructure to virtualization, private cloud or public cloud.
  • Infrastructure planning allows users to evaluate the impact of infrastructure projects, such as hardware refresh, before implementation. It also forecasts when the data center will run out of capacity.
  • Asset analysis enables IT to quickly identify where the greatest opportunities for efficiency exist within an environment. For the first time, benchmark lines of business against each other and correlate data center activities to infrastructure changes and business activities.
• Multiple data center support provides a single pane of glass to manage multiple IT environments in diverse geographic locations. Sentilla 4.0 provides quick benchmarking of data centers, easy navigation between data centers, and single sign-on for accessing multiple data centers.
• Asset workflow automates the process of importing, synchronizing and managing assets to ensure an asset database is as accurate as possible. With extensive integration to existing enterprise management systems from IBM, HP, BMC, VMware, and others, Sentilla discovers, monitors, and manages new assets and updates changed assets quickly and seamlessly.
• Enhanced support for new systems and protocols including equipment from Dell, HP, IBM, NetApp and Sun/Oracle. Additionally, Sentilla 4.0 offers increased support for facility infrastructure from Eaton, Emerson, APC, and Schneider Electric and includes additional integration with BMC and HP software.

“A top priority at Sentilla is to empower IT to run like a business. Sentilla 4.0 delivers with needed analytics to ease the transition to IT as a service,” says Joe Polastre, Ph.D., chief technology officer at Sentilla. “We’ve packed Sentilla 4.0 with the most advanced data center infrastructure management (DCIM), planning and predictive analytics software possible so IT executives gain in-depth insight into every conceivable infrastructure angle to create a smart, impactful data center strategy.”

To meet the growing demand for IT to run as a service, Sentilla software is delivered in three flexible configurations to match enterprise needs: Software as a Service, a VMware Ready virtual appliance and physical appliance.

Availability

Sentilla 4.0 is available immediately. For more information, please visit www.sentilla.com/products/datacenter.