Avocent Upgrades MergePoint™ Infrastructure Explorer to Help IT Better Manage Their Data Centres
Enhancements provide a unique view into capacity planning, bringing additional ROI and total cost of ownership benefits to enterprise customers
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - November 18, 2009 - Avocent
Corporation (NASDAQ: AVCT), a global leader in IT Operations
Management, announced today at Interop Fall in New York City several
new management capabilities to the Avocent MergePoint Infrastructure
Explorer software platform to help IT managers better manage their
data centers. These enhancements provide a unique view into capacity
planning, bringing additional return on investment (ROI) and total
cost of ownership benefits to enterprise customers. By integrating
resource management (heating, cooling, power, and space) with asset
management, MergePoint Infrastructure Explorer provides a
centralized, automated view of these resources from a single
location and within a single product. Additionally, Avocent
MergePoint Infrastructure Explorer provides the most detailed view
of data center conditions and assets in the industry, and offers
ways to design and run data centers more effectively.
"Companies want to view and manage their data center assets in
real-time using one management tool," said Ben Grimes, CTO, Avocent.
"Avocent has leveraged its hardware and software expertise to create
a tool that accomplishes these goals, allowing customers to know
where their assets are, as well as plan for different 'what if'
scenarios, and manage their data centers to reduce risk - all while
bringing improved ROI and total cost of ownership benefits to
customers."
New in this release of MergePoint® Infrastructure Explorer 2.2
are enhanced change management, capacity search capabilities, and
rack timeline, allowing customers to manage their environments even
better than before. Avocent will showcase these enhancements to its
powerful data center software offering at Interop Fall (Booth #537),
a leading global technology event being held this week in New York
City at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Attendees of Interop
will be able to view Avocent's full line-up of offerings for IT
operations management such as LANDesk® Asset Lifecycle Manager and Avocent's DSView. In addition, Avocent will again be among the
select companies whose products will interoperate to run the show
network, or InteropNet.
About Avocent MergePoint Infrastructure Explorer
Avocent MergePoint Infrastructure Explorer allows organizations to
measure return on investment (ROI) on their data center expenditures
by comparing before and after costs when a change is made to their
data center configuration. It also allows IT managers to map out and
model new efficiencies in "what if" scenarios that can help data
center managers control costs. Offering an advanced user-friendly
interface, paired with integration of technology such as probes,
intelligent power distribution units (IPDUs) and switches placed in
the data center, Avocent MergePoint Infrastructure Explorer gives IT
managers a real-time view of data center conditions and the ability
to catalog, plan, track and define outcomes with capacity planning
and asset management. Avocent MergePoint Infrastructure Explorer
complements other pieces of Avocent's IT operations management
portfolio, including its DSView 3 solution for managing, diagnosing
and modifying physical and virtual managed IT devices and the
LANDesk Asset Lifecycle Manager for managing hardware and software
assets throughout their lifecycle.
Avocent MergePoint Infrastructure Explorer 2.2 will be generally
available on November 30, 2009. More information on this product can
be found at www.avocent.com
About Avocent Corporation
Avocent delivers IT operations management solutions that reduce
operating costs, simplify management and increase the availability
of critical IT environments 24/7 via integrated, centralized
software. Additional information is available at www.avocent.com.
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