IT performance analytics vendor Integrien today announced that the company has completed a funding round of $8 million.

The financing round was led by Clearstone Venture Partners and joined by the Acartha Group and Mariner Capital Ventures.

The company says it will use the funds to increase both its direct and indirect sales channel to attempt to become the world’s leading IT performance management platform vendor.

Integrien’s had a good year, scoring “seven figure” deals with multiple Fortune 100 companies, who use Integrien to manage the performance of mission-critical applications and services. The company also said it experienced 140% growth year-over-year in 2009, and added that it is now cash-flow positive.

The company’s flagship performance analytics platform is dubbed Alive; they recently launched Alive 7.2, extending it with additional analytics and new visualizations.

The company also announced AliveVM for VMware vCenter administrators, providing an analytics-driven view of VMware performance along with tools for visualizing and optimizing ESX workload and VM density.