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Out-of-Band Management: The Integrated Approach to Remote IT Infrastructure Management

For decades, business imperatives for Information Technology IT have remained constant - to cut costs and improve service levels and productivity. Although not new or unique, these imperatives have taken on renewed urgency in today's Internet-driven economy. IT is no longer the inwardly focused domain of technology specialists, but rather...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Avocent Corp., Imperative, Strategy, Management

White papers 2006-12-01

Virtual Media: Optimising the Efficiency and Security of Data Center Operations

To ensure non-stop delivery of critical business services IT administrators need the right tools to manage their data centre devices quickly and efficiently without compromising security. Using the virtual media feature in Avocent Infrastructure Management Solutions, administrators can extend remote management capabilities by mapping removable media to remote servers....

Tags: Security, Data Center, Media, Avocent Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Data Centers, Marketing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2006-02-15

Secure Switching

Avocent's secure switching technology enables network administrators or government network analysts to securely switch between channels using a front panel push button. The easy-to-use desktop unit is designed to eliminate keyboard character buffering, thereby removing a traditional KVM switch function that could otherwise be tracked and read by others. Building...

Tags: Avocent Corp., Keyboards, Desktops, Security, Hardware, Peripherals

White papers 2005-08-17

Avocent Remote Data Centre Control: The Benefits of KVM over IP

By consolidating access to all of your IT hardware resources through a single remote interface, you can dramatically improve your system availability and hardware recovery times. Download the Avocent Remote Data Centre Control Whitepaper and see how the IT administrator can improve quality of service and...

Tags: Benefit, IP, Avocent Corp., Hardware

White papers 2004-10-01

Avocent Whitepaper: A Better Way to Access, Diagnose, and Manage Servers With IPMI

Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMI is an open standard developed to simplify server management and lower TCO. Now widely adopted by major server manufacturers, IPMI is a non-proprietary embedded management specification that defines a common and secure interface to monitor system hardware and sensors (temperature, voltage, fan, etc), control...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Avocent Corp., Intelligent Platform Management Interface, Roi/Tco, Monitors & Displays, Servers, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Components

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Sonicadmin Customer Success Story: Capture Resource Inc.

Capture Resource is a leading provider of integrated image and data capture services. The challenge for them was that the welcome growth resulted in increased burden on the IT department. They needed to more effectively manage the 2nd and 3rd shifts to ensure that issues were dealt with quickly and...

Tags: Data Capture, Avocent Corp., Capture Resource, Wi-Fi, Wireless

Case studies

Interwise Case Study: Avocent

Avocent is the leading worldwide supplier of KVM (Keyboard, Video and Mouse) switching and connectivity solutions that provide IT managers with access and control of multiple servers and network data center devices. Avocent had traditionally relied on instructor-led training to successfully introduce new products and communicate product upgrades to the...

Tags: Avocent Corp., Interwise, Business Structures, Data Centers, Storage, Finance, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies

Avocent Achieves a More Efficient Help Desk

Avocent Corporation, located in Huntsville, Alabama, is the leading supplier of connectivity solutions for enterprise data centers, service providers and financial institutions worldwide. Although the company leads the market with connectivity and manageability solutions, they needed a little help with the efficiency of their help desk. After a thorough selection...

Tags: Avocent Corp., Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations

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Additional Resources

VMworld is bringing out the vendors

Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...

Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Five reasons Chrome will take over the world

Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...

Tags: Development tools, Web browsers, chrome, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?Really?"I think we all know what the answer is, but we’re afraid to say it — Google is taking an entry directly from the Microsoft playbook: Embrace and Extend."Really? By basing it on open source projects? ;-)Google is going after the platform, the same way...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Web browsers, Desktops, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Google to launch browser to battle IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner?

Updated: Google will launch a Web browser called Chrome that will take on Microsoft's Internet Explorer and apparently Mozilla's Firefox, which the search giant essentially funds. In an odd leak, Google sent Google Blogoscoped a comic book outlining the technology in its Chrome browser. The leak was...

Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Philipp Lenssen, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-01

Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated

News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service. Although the service quickly retracted the release, it's an eerily-fascinating read complete with XXXX marks for the cause and...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Magna Charta: Welcome Back, Ross Perot

So, EDS is gone again, subsumed by HP. But, lo and behold, H. Ross Perot is back, just in time for the presidential elections. Now, you can view his slides about the dangers of the federal deficit and debt online, any time you want. Or, hear him posit...

Tags: Ross Perot, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Highest-paid US public company executives

Associated Press published a list of highest-paid public company executives out of S&P 500 index. Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp. ORCL, $84.6 mln John Thain, Merrill Lynch & Co. MERPO, $83.1 mln Leslie Moonves, CBS Corp. CBS, $67.6 mln Richard Adkerson, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., $65.3 mln Bob Simpson,...

Tags: Company Executive, CBS Corp., GPS, Financial Accounting, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Finance, Hardware, AM

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality

Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality....Look, our resident troll is back! ]:)OK everybody!Shut everything down. Open Source doesn't work. Go back to proprietary because they never have any security breaches. How many repositories are we talking about? You site one breach and declare the Open...

Tags: open source, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeover

If Yahoo's battle with Google has taught us anything it's that the company isn't run by engineers. Sure, Yahoo is tech savvy. Sure it has an open platform. And sure it'll do things like plan a Widget Channel with Intel and tout it at a developers conference. But Yahoo is...

Tags: Disney Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Widget Channel, Minyanville, Harrison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-20

3D HD cellphone video: a killer app for next decade storage

Terabyte notebooks are coming in a couple of years. But what will we fill them with? Glad you asked. How about 3D HDTV cell phone footage? Don't laugh. It's coming. Flashback When I bought my first external hard drive - 30 MB for $300 - I...

Tags: 3D, Phone, Killer Application, Storage, Cell Phone, Video, Terabyte Notebook, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates

Robert Meltzer, CEO of VisaNow offers this guest blog post on the questions we should be asking the candidates on the ever-contentious H1-B issue. Consistently throughout U.S. history, immigration has been a divisive topic. Cultural biases, misconceptions, racism and fear continue to influence both opponents and...

Tags: U.S., H-1B Visa, Immigration System, H-1B, Government, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-13

MySpace lands official presidential debate gig

News Corp.-owned MySpace is continuing its push to become the online destination for U.S. politics amongst the social networking generation. by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Network, MySpace, MyDebates.org, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-08-06