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Achieving Control Over Data Center Implementations and Operations
Out-of-control data centers that lack reliability and proper security often result in systemic instances of lost productivity and operational cost overruns. By proactively enabling services for controlling access to the infrastructure and monitoring for activity, management decisions can be made to improve data center services that more effectively meet organizational requirements.

Achieving Data Center Optimization with Visual Modeling
Achieving Data Center Optimization with Visual Modeling An ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES (EMA) White PaperPrepared for AvocentApril 2009IT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH,INDUSTRY ANALYSIS AND CONSULTINGIT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS AND CONSULTING Table of Contents Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Are You Getting a True Picture?
The Facts About KVM over IP, Bandwidth and Video  

Avocent Tackles Critical Demands of Healthcare IT Management
In this report, ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA) analysts examine how the Avocent solution tackles these vital demands of healthcare IT. Avocent provides a single, centralized resource for managing a wide range of IT environments, with out-of-band access capabilities that expand assurance of always-on availability and compliance-supporting security and resilience built in.

Back to the Future: The New IT Infrastructure Opportunity
As we look out into future of the IT infrastructure landscape, it is becoming ever clearer that we are reinventing our past. The legacy of the IT industry took shape around the concepts of centralized computing, in which the computing intelligence was warehoused in a consolidated fashion in data centers filled with mainframes, and the user was relegated to the large green screen entry terminals where the data was entered at the desk but stored back in the data center.

Best Practices in Data Center Power Management
Best Practices in Data Center Power Management

Best Practices in Power Management: From Desktop to Data Center
 Best Practices in Power Management: From Desktop to Data Center

Beyond the Profile: The Next Generation of Secure KVM Switching
So how secure is a secure KVM switch? It depends less on the device and more on how the specifications in its PP, ST, and Validation Report align with an agencys needs, policies, technology, and requirements.

Branch Infrastructure Management (SRMI)
Challenges and solutions for centralized remote office management.

Centralized Management Software
Best Practices to Control Your Data Center

Designing a Responsible Cloud Infrastructure
Le implementazioni del cloud computing potrebbero apportare notevoli miglioramenti dellefficienza e abbattere sensibilmente i costi di esercizio.

Five Reasons Every IT Organization Needs to Capitalize on IPMI
How IPMI can help you better manage more infrastructure with fewer resources

How to Get the Full Value of Virtualization
Virtualization technology offers cost savings through server consolidation and increased efficiencybut only if your IT staff can meet the management challenges it presents.

How to Manage the Data Center Power Problem
Getting a handle on power means installing tools that help you not only measure consumption but also right-size your electrical infrastructure and increase uptime.

How to select a KVM over IP system to assist with HIPAA compliance
Hub and spoke failover architecture, virtual media, exit macros and other security elements you should insiston in a KVM over IP switching system for your health care network.

Implementation of IPv6 for Avocent Network Appliances
The U.S. Government, other country governments and commercial customers have mandated IPv6 compliance for all network equipment (and software applications where applicable).

Managing IT in Tough Economic Conditions
Technology: Manage IT Assets and Power Consumption to Control Complexity

Managing the Virtualized Data Center
 A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO VMWARE OWNERSHIP

New Protection Profile (and your USB Devices)
That little flash drive. How something so small caused a security upheaval.

Optimizing Data Center Efficiency: A Prescriptive Model for Reducing Energy Consumption and Improving Performance
In this ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMATM) white paper, EMA expands its popular IT Management Maturity Model into a Prescriptive Model that provides actionable steps for optimizing Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM).

Power Distribution Considerations for Data Center Racks
The following paper discusses the considerations that need to be made while choosing the appropriate power distribution products at the rack level. Interestingly enough, several of these considerations also help data center operators manage and control the largest portion of data center power consumption, which are the actual IT loads.

Pragmatic Approach to Data Center Management Control and Manageability
ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA) analysts explore a pragmatic view of data center management in order to deliver the best practices in real-world data centers for over-arching management solutions.

Raising the Bar on Remote Access
Organizations must secure systems remotely without compromising the computing experience, hampering administration or adding unnecessary costs.

Ready Your Federal Infrastructure for the Cloud
For agencies and departments that understand the risks as well as the best practices necessary to address them, a Cloud approach affords flexible capacity and maximum availability and ensures any new capital expenditures are allocated toward creating innovation, continuity and driving competitive advantage.

Ready Your Infrastructure for the Cloud
While cloud computing offers a number of long-term benefits over traditional, distributed computing architectures, enterprises should not discount the significant risks. Understanding that business-critical applications and data have made network infrastructures more vital than ever, enterprises can take steps now to optimize their data center infrastructures before experimenting with cloud computing.

Secure Remote Access for IT Infrastructure Management: ACS Advanced Console Server
The Avocent ACS advanced console server offers the most feature-rich set of capabilities in modern console servers. The ACS console server provides the scalability, reliability and security a company requires to control and manage servers and other networked devices.

The Promises, Challenges and Imperatives of Data Center Infrastructure Management
Todays data centers are no longer just an enabler to the business; they can often provide corporations with competitive advantages and are the underpinnings to corporate success.

The Road to Data Center Infrastructure Management
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) offers IT service improvements that can greatly improve the value of technology investments to the business through each phase of data center maturity.

Unleashing the Power of iLO, IPMI and Other Service Processors
A Guide to Secure, Consolidated Remote Server Management