Vanderbilt University Medical Center to Manage Data Center Infrastructure With Aperture

Located inNashville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has a reputation as a leader in medical education, research, and patient care in the Southeast and acrossthe United States.

Aperture is the leading global provider of software for managing the physical infrastructure of data centers. Aperture's VISTA 500 is an enterprise software solution that provides in-depth visibility into the physical status of data center equipment, space, power, cooling and overall capacity. It gives data center managers a complete view of power consumption, enabling them to better manage the provisioning of blade servers. The solution is relied on by more than 250 companies, including more than 50 of the Fortune 1000/Global 500.

In an initial phase, Aperture VISTA 500 has been implemented across 12,000 square feet of Vanderbilt University Medical Center's data center operations.

Lee Knight, data center facility engineer for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said, "We are a world-class operation with data centers that support intensive research operations and patient data that is needed around the clock. We needed a data center service management solution that would allow us to optimize our operations, mitigate any risks within them, and enable us to be ready to meet the organization's requirements."

Bill Clifford, CEO of Aperture Technologies, said, "Today's data centers face an unprecedented number of pressures including rising energy costs and the need to control costs all in the face of ever-increasing complexity brought about by high density computing, as well as virtualization and tricky- to-manage intelligent infrastructure. We constantly strive to deliver solutions that allow data center managers to address these challenges and organizations such as Vanderbilt University Medical Center to achieve total data center service management."

About Aperture

Aperture is the leading global provider of software for managing the physical infrastructure of data centers. Aperture's solutions reduce operational risk and improve efficiency through the planning and management of data center resources and real-time monitoring of the environment. Aperture delivers the best practice processes that enable organizations to take control of an increasingly complex physical infrastructure including equipment, space, power, cooling, network and storage.

With over 20 years of experience, Aperture provides organizations with the information required to optimize their data center operations, delivering better services at the lowest cost. Aperture's customers include the world's largest companies, half of which are Fortune 1000 and Global 500 organizations.

For more information, please go to: http://www.aperture.com

About Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, home to Vanderbilt University Hospital, The Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, the Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt and the Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital, combined for more than 46,000 inpatient admissions during 2007. Vanderbilt's adult and pediatric outpatient clinics treated more than 1.1 million patients during this same period.

Again this year Vanderbilt University Hospital was recognized by U.S. News & World Report as offering among the nation's best specialty care with nine specialty programs ranking among the nation's top 50 of their respective fields, including the only heart program inTennessee to be ranked.

The Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt was ranked among the nation's premiere pediatric hospitals, ranking 23rd in the first "Best Pediatric Hospitals" rankings by U.S. News & World Report.

For more information about Vanderbilt University Medical Center, see http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu

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