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In October, 2009, President Obama issued an Executive Order (EO 13514) that set federal energy efficiency standards.  EO 13514 superceeds the previous executive order put in place by President Bush (EO 13423) from 2007.  While the previous order required the government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 3% per year, totaling at least a 30% reduction by 2015 from 2003 levels, Obama's order actually lets each department set their own goal.  EO 13514, in contrast to EO 13423, is much more specific about the improvements that have to be made in transportation fleets, building design, etc.  Just to be clear, this order only applies to federal government and their respective organizations, not the country at large.  You can think of it as a government-specific climate bill.

What's more important, is that EO 13514 has specific language about data centers.  Federal organizations must "implement best management practices for energy-efficient management of servers and Federal data centers."  The goal is to bring the Federal government in line with commercial best practices.  The government has thus set some very generic "Guiding Principals", and then it is up to each of the organizations to meet their stated GHG goals for Class 1, Class 2, and Class 3 emissions. Let's take a look at what some of the government organizations have done to comply with EO 13514.

The delivery of IT services is moving from IT as a cost center to IT as a service.  Enterprises are looking for flexibility to meet increasing demand, while not exceeding power capacity or budgets.  A common question arises: How much does it actually cost to run each of my services?  Which systems are performing real work for the business, and which are simply sitting idle?

This week, Sentilla is introducing application tracking, a unique feature that correlates workload with energy consumption and cost.  With Sentilla Energy Manager, customers can track where applications are running, how much useful work they're performing, and the amount of energy and cost required to run these services.  By integrating workload measurements with energy and cost data for the first time, IT organizations are now empowered to strategically plan for future data center needs with real ground truth data and real business cases.

What's the value of application tracking?  It helps you answer these questions:

Here's a sneak peak at an upcoming annoucement from Sentilla. We will be showcasing cloud analytics tool that will remove the rampant confusion around the cost and transition strategy to a cloud infrastructure (including hybrid cloud and private cloud).  Stay tuned, or visit us at Booth #352 at VMworld in Las Vegas, starting August 29!

Pssst, there's a chance to win a free license to Sentilla Analytics for Cloud and a data center assessment!

SENTILLA TO ANNOUNCE SENTILLA ANALYTICS FOR CLOUD AT VMWORLD 2011

Enter To Win Free License For First Ever Predictive and Financial Analytics Software that Enables Transition to Cloud Architecture

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—August 18, 2011

WHAT: Sentilla, the leading provider of data center analytics, will announce Sentilla Analytics for Cloud, with the first ever ability to perform predictive and financial analysis on transitioning from physical to virtual and cloud infrastructure.

More details on the new module and its capabilities will be announced and showcased on August 29^th at VMworld 2011, The Venetian and The Wynn, Las Vegas. Visit booth #352 during VMworld to see a demo and receive more information, August 29 – September 1, 2011.

Data Center Infrastructure Management, or DCIM, has become top-of-mind these days, and for good reason. There are a number of important trends out there fueling DCIM  market growth, including data center consolidation, the move toward virtualization and cloud computing, the need to accelerate service delivery growth, and the desire to reduce power consumption costs.