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.

Best Practices to Control Your Data Center

Virtualization technology offers cost savings through server consolidation and increased efficiency–but only if your IT staff can meet the management challenges it presents.

A practical guide to VMWARE ownwership.

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.

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.

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.