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The distributed enterprise problem

Managing mission-critical servers and networks within the enterprise data center or central office is hard enough. But managing distributed infrastructure, diversely interconnected through the unsecured public network, introduces a totally new layer of challenges. And ever increasing regulatory and commercial pressures mean issues of security, reliability, and serviceability for these sites at the edge of the enterprise network have grown in importance for the IT manager. No longer is treating remote sites as part of “hostile environment” and limiting interconnection an option.

The solution

Opengear now offers a secure and affordable solution for remote access to and remote control of these distributed sites. Enterprises with hundreds (or thousands) of remote sites now have complete access to their remote locations. A single CM4000 device with Secure Desktop Tunneling at each site enables all the systems and network appliances at these sites to be remotely managed through their consoles, or through their graphical desktops.

In today’s down sized environment, there is growing management awareness that while the average cost associated with server and network hardware has decreased significantly over the past decade, the overall IT costs have not declined … and a major contributor is system administration costs which, as a percentage of total data center cost, continue to rise. So the cost effectiveness of the remote management solution needs close examination.

With a CM4000 solution, administrators can implement in-band and out-of-band remote management for all their servers and network devices without the complexity of installing an enterprise-wide Virtual Private Network (VPN). In addition, this can be done without the high costs that would have otherwise arisen when installing legacy KVM over IP solutions from vendors such as Avocent and Raritan.

Opengear has leveraged open source software and the latest purpose built hardware, to offer cost-effective quality solutions to be used beyond the data center (in enterprise branch offices, campus sites, retail outlets, schools, healthcare applications, industrial control networks and a myriad of replicated sites).