Entuity® today unveils Green IT Perspective™, the industry’s first-ever network management solution focused on Green IT for use with its award-winning Eye of the Storm® (EYE). Green IT Perspective quantifies operational costs and savings opportunities for network devices, servers, and workstations in any green business initiative. A customizable dashboard and integration point for policies, reports, reference materials, real-time statistics, communities, wikis, and other materials keeps employees knowledgeable and green initiatives on track.

Green IT Perspective helps customers manage complicated IT configurations with fewer resources to minimize wasted energy across the network. With rapidly increasing energy costs and mounting pressure to minimize their company’s carbon footprint, IT administrators are searching for solutions to reduce network inefficiencies. Green IT Perspective coupled with Eye of the Storm provides an intelligent network management solution that rates and identifies power consumption and utilization of physical devices, servers, and workstations enabling operations personnel to efficiently and effectively allocate both physical and virtual resources.

Green IT Perspective Product Features

• Power Rating – Proactively ranks network devices based on energy consumption, enabling users to make intelligent decisions for replacing outdated or wasteful devices.
• Underutilized Servers – Bolsters virtualization by identifying the operating characteristics of servers, providing insight into inefficiencies within the operational signatures and empowering IT departments to take on new enterprise applications or reallocate resources to maximize current inventories.
• Green Dashboard – Provides users a community-driven integration point with a heads-up display of real-time information based on personalization of different green information resources, allowing users to mix and match data to create versatile reports that address business needs.
• Shutdown Policy Conformance – Enables IT departments to monitor which departments are enforcing, and ignoring, shutdown policies and their associated costs to the company.

Availability

Green IT Perspective is a no-cost addition to EYE 2009 available at the end of November, and runs on Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Sun™ Solaris™, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, and VMWare® ESX Server. Entuity is actively seeking channel partners globally who are looking to complement their current framework or elemental tools offerings with the scalable, easy-to-deploy EYE 2009 management suite. For more information about Entuity's partner program, visit www.entuity.com/partners.

Quote, attributed to Michael Jannery, President and CEO, Entuity

“Using Green IT Perspective, IT departments can rest assured that their budgets and technologies are being allocated most efficiently. Because service providers and enterprise IT staff can now rate and identify devices based on energy usage, they have the ability to make intelligent decisions regarding which to load to capacity and which to replace with more efficient alternatives. In today’s economic climate, this is incredibly useful.”

Quote, attributed to Jim Frey, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Management Associates

“Green IT initiatives have most commonly been associated with server reduction, but another substantial challenge and opportunity is to recognize carbon footprint improvements across all network-connected elements and devices. Network managers are in an ideal position to help IT departments find and monitor such resources for green policy compliance. As the first network management vendor to recognize this need and offer a commercial solution, Entuity has demonstrated thought and product leadership, bringing value to their customers by both enabling resource (and cost) conservation and meeting demands for sustainable business practices.”

Quote, attributed to Pete Bartz, Assistant Director, University of Minnesota Office of Information Technology

“The Green IT Perspective in Eye of the Storm is quite effective in several ways. It helps us give guidance including cost metrics to the collegiate groups that we support. The included EYE utilization reports provide insight into direct network architectural strategies to best leverage our existing infrastructure. Most importantly, it tracks compliance to our group shutdown policies. With tens of thousands of connected hosts, even small improvements can result in considerable reductions in power consumption and associated operational costs.”

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About Entuity

Entuity is a leading provider of network management and service delivery solutions. The Company’s Eye of the Storm (EYE) software suite automatically discovers and captures unrivalled network data and analytics, and provides integrated fault and performance management capabilities that help businesses reduce network downtime, commit to, deliver and prove service level commitments, and ensure network configuration compliance.

Winner of numerous industry awards in the last year and a finalist in the current SYS-CON’s Virtualization Readers’ Choice Award, EYE has been praised for its fast deployment, ease of use, and low cost of ownership. Entuity customers include enterprises, SIs, and MSPs such as ABB, Amtrak, Astra Zeneca, BMC Software, Deutsche Bank, IBM Global Services, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Sony, Visteon, and the Williams Companies. For more information on Entuity, please visit www.entuity.com or call +1-508-357-6346 (North America) or +44 (0) 20 7444 4800 (Europe).

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