Sentilla Launches Global Reseller Program to Expand Market Availability of Sentilla Energy Manager

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sentilla^® Corporation, provider of demand-side energy management solutions for data centers, today officially launched its global reseller partner program, and announced its first three North America partners: OnX Enterprise Solutions, Vicom Computer Services and Kovarus. The program, which includes a select group of strategic partners who will resell and integrate the Sentilla Energy Manager™ into their offerings, is intended to meet growing enterprise demand for intelligent data center energy management solutions. The partner members of Sentilla’s new program represent best-of-breed in providing enterprises with comprehensive data center solutions, from virtualization to management.

“We plan to combine our expertise in data center consulting, virtualization and infrastructure with the Sentilla Energy Manager to deliver a total, energy-optimized set of data center solutions to our clients”

“The Sentilla Global Partner Program delivers a wide range of business benefits to our partners and their data center customers,” said Eddie White, senior vice president of business development, Sentilla. “The sales tools and technical resources help them better demonstrate the benefits of our data center energy management software to clients. As a result, their customers can begin achieving significant cost savings and increased data center capacity and performance almost immediately.”

Sentilla Partner Program Begins with Three

OnX is a market leader in North America, providing data center solutions to enterprise customers across the country. “Through this alliance, Sentilla becomes an important part of our offerings, extending our ‘Design, Build and Operate’ program to include a key management application for data center energy management and efficiency,” said Mike Cardy, chief technology officer, OnX Enterprise Solutions. “Having the Sentilla Energy Manager as part of the OnX data center practice will strengthen our offering of world-class solutions to our customers.”

Kovarus specializes in providing its clients with virtualization services and solutions, built around delivering total solutions to optimize the performance of their data centers and desktops. “We plan to combine our expertise in data center consulting, virtualization and infrastructure with the Sentilla Energy Manager to deliver a total, energy-optimized set of data center solutions to our clients,” said Steve Rogers, chief technology officer, Kovarus.

Vicom—The Data Efficiency Company—is a leading information technology company servicing the Fortune 1000, state/local government and emerging mid-size organizations. “As a major vendor in the IT infrastructure arena, we offer a full array of consulting services, products and solutions which allow organizations to operate in a more streamlined and efficient manner,” said Kevin Fitzsimmons, VMware solution manager, Vicom Computer Services. “Vicom will integrate the Sentilla Energy Manager into its infrastructure and virtualization offerings as a critical component of the Data Center Practice, delivering optimization, efficiency and cost reduction of a critical data center asset—energy.”

Sentilla Energy Manager

Sentilla has achieved strong momentum since the launch of its data center solution in January 2009. Recently, the company introduced Sentilla Energy Manager Version 3.0, the industry's first-ever software-only enterprise management solution for reliably tracking power utilization of every single asset in the data center, including both metered and unmetered equipment. Sentilla's technology provides data center customers a means to improve operations by optimizing both computing and facility capacity and performance, while reducing costs and mitigating risk—all through a software-only solution that ensures no disruption in operations.

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 Software: New Version, 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 Dr. Joe Polastre was a winner of the 2009 Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal 40 Under 40 award, was named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs for 2009, as well as the Top 10 Entrepreneurs in Cleantech, Biotech and High Tech for 2009 by Worth Magazine.

About Sentilla Corporation

Sentilla^® provides demand-side energy management solutions for data centers. Sentilla's platform, Sentilla Energy Manager™, is the only solution that analyzes energy use and waste at the equipment level to create actionable profiles of an organization's energy footprint. The resulting intelligence enables companies to not only improve performance and efficiency in the data center, but also reduce downtime and better plan for expansion or consolidation. By leveraging energy management as a key component of IT software portfolios, data center executives can deliver exceptional IT performance at minimal cost and without disruption. For more information, please visit the Sentilla Web site at www.sentilla.com or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sentilla.

About Kovarus

Kovarus, Inc. is a premier technology consulting firm, specializing in data center design, implementation, and optimization. With its extensive integrated expertise and proven methodologies, Kovarus helps companies align IT with strategic business goals and maximize their return on technology investments. Kovarus' unique ability to converge virtualization, storage, and networking technologies gives its clients a distinct operational advantage, enabling them to improve the efficiency, performance, and agility of service delivery. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, the company was founded in 2003 and has been chosen as a premier partner by leading technology companies including VMware, EMC and Cisco. For more information on Kovarus, please visit www.kovarus.com or call 650-392-7848.

About OnX Enterprise Solutions Ltd.

Voted one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies in 2008 and 2009, OnX Enterprise Solutions has been serving the Canadian market for over 25 years. OnX designs, builds and operates mission-critical computing environments. We help organizations optimize the use of technology to achieve their business objectives and build shareholder value. OnX has a proven reputation for delivering innovative technology solutions that reduce costs for our clients. Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, OnX has offices in Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Cambridge, Windsor, Ottawa, Halifax, Fredericton, Atlanta, Dallas, and Windsor, UK. More information is available at www.onx.com.

About Vicom Computer Services, Inc.

Vicom—The Data Efficiency Company—is a leading information technology company servicing the Fortune 1000, state/local government and emerging mid-size organizations. As a major vendor in the IT Infrastructure arena, Vicom offers a full array of consulting services, products and solutions which allow organizations to operate in a more streamlined and efficient manner. Vicom's core disciplines center around virtualization, systems (x86, IBM POWER and Mainframe), storage, unified networks, management, security, recovery/availability, infrastructure services and consulting services. Vicom's commitment to quality and customer service is the backbone of its corporate philosophy. In a recent survey conducted by a third party research organization, over 99 percent of Vicom's customers would have a “propensity to purchase” services and solutions from Vicom in the future. This statistic is not only indicative of Vicom's unyielding commitment to customer service; it is a result of the true partnership that the Vicom team creates with its customers. To learn more about Vicom, visit www.vicomnet.com or call 631-694-3900.