Cisco’s Intelligent Automation Business Unit and Terma Software Labs Inc today announced the integration of Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler and JAWS Workload Analytics. The combined solution will enable users of Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler to further align their workload processing environments with the needs of the business by leveraging JAWS to visualize workload performance as it relates to Service Level Agreements (SLA’s). In addition, users will be able to dramatically reduce business processing risks by taking advantage of predictive analytics to understand future performance, enabling a highly proactive workload processing environment.

“In speaking with many users of workload automation solutions, we continue to hear a need for better understanding and efficient management of workload performance.” said Torsten Volk, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Management Associates. “Tidal Enterprise Scheduler is at the heart of Cisco’s Intelligent Automation Strategy. JAWS will extend the functionality adding a layer of sophisticated analytics to ensure on-time SLA driven job completion.”

Workload Automation is a key enabler to business success in today’s enterprise. As data center complexity grows, SLA delivery times shorten and business demands becomes more event-driven, the need to automate is imperative. However, only automation with historic and real-time environmental visibility can produce the requisite infrastructure awareness necessary to ensure business processes complete in accordance with defined SLAs. Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler users will benefit from the following functionality in JAWS:

• Performance Intelligence (Predictive, Real Time, Historical, Business)
• SLA Assurance
• Critical Path Visualization
• Machine & Resource Correlation
• Flexible Reporting

“Extra Technology has been a long time partner and technology subject matter expert for both Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler and JAWS”, said Mark Mannion, Managing Director of Extra Technology Limited. “Our Cisco workload automation customers have been asking for extended analytics, prediction, and SLA awareness to enable them to better manage workload performance. JAWS is a very mature, feature rich solution, and a perfect fit for their needs.”

To learn more about the integrated solution of Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler and JAWS Workload Analytics we encourage you to view this short video. For further information or to request a live demonstration please contact your Cisco account team or email us at intelligentautomation@cisco.com.

About Terma Software Labs
Terma Software Labs is focused on providing Workload Automation Analytics, Workload Automation Aggregation, and a true Workload Automation Broker, bridging the gap between workload environments and the emerging technology markets of Business Service Management, Virtualization, and Data Center Automation. For more information, visit us at www.termalabs.com.

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Terma Software Labs was recently honored by being ranked #64 on the 2011 Technology 200 list. The list is ranked based on the highest percentage revenue growth from 2008 to 2010. More than 600 companies applied, all of whom are based in the United States, are private, and earned over $500,000 in revenues in the year 2010. Terma's percentage growth came in at 118%, which was tops in the State of Colorado. In addition, Terma's growth contributed to an average growth of 72% for both the Denver Metro and the State of Colorado. Please visit VentureBeat to learn more.

For the first time in Terma Software Labs history, the company has been ranked on the Mercury 100 Fastest Growing Companies List. This years report compiled by the Boulder County Business Report looked at annual revenue in 2008 as compared to 2010. Terma's record growth of 117.91% was good enough to land in the Top 10 at #9.