Avocent Helps Data Center Customers Speed Deployment of Higher Performance Serial Devices

Business Wire, March 18, 2008

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Avocent Corporation (Nasdaq: AVCT) today expanded its serial device management solutions allowing for faster, less expensive deployments and further easing the complexity of managing multi-vendor, multi-platform data center infrastructure. The ACS 6000 series, part of the market-leading family of Avocent console servers, are new secure highly available models that allow data center managers to discover, connect and manage infrastructure more quickly.

"As the market leader, we help our customers manage more than 2 million servers, routers and switches in data centers worldwide with our serial console servers. Our success is a result of working with our customers to develop solutions to adapt to the needs of their growing and changing environments," said Dave Perry, executive vice president and general manager of Avocent's Management Systems Division. "Customers have asked for help with speeding deployment and repurposing of data center assets and our ACS 6000 models meet that need while also enhancing availability and security."

Save Time and Money

Upgrading remote management capability in the data center often requires extensive re-cabling of server racks. The ACS 6000 models are the industry's first console servers to provide software configurable pin-outs for connecting to Cisco routers eliminating the need for expensive, time consuming re-cabling. The result is faster and simpler installation, critical for customers in the process of data center upgrades or consolidations. Auto discovery of asset hostnames saves time and money too. Rather than spend time manually locating and naming target devices the ACS 6000 auto discovers the servers and network equipment - such as routers, firewalls and switches - to be monitored, reducing deployment time by half.

Highly Available and Secure

Today's enterprise requires flexible access options from anywhere in the world to ensure 100-percent availability of critical servers. The ACS 6000 provides a wide range of flexible access options, such as a built-in optional modem and wireless PCMCIA cards to ensure 24/7 availability. Policy-based access controls, an IT security best practice, can easily be utilized with multiple pre-determined and customizable secure access levels, data and event logging, and real-time intelligent monitoring.

In addition to the ACS 6000, Avocent also introduced the ACS 5000 series designed at a value price for mid-sized data centers that do not require full enterprise-level access and security capabilities. Both the 6000 and 5000 families enable IT professionals to remotely manage any serial device - including Linux, UNIX and Sun Solaris servers, network infrastructure, including routers, switches and firewalls, and public branch exchange (PBX) telecom equipment - from anywhere in the world. For customers seeking an integrated console to consolidate management of their IT Infrastructure all models are manageable from Avocent's DSView[R] 3 management software.

"There is a growing demand for the management of serial devices not only by our largest enterprise customers, but also by the mid-market. Therefore, we created the broadest family of console servers that can meet the remote management needs of any data center environment," said Perry.

The ACS 6000 and 5000 series will both be available this week. For more information, visit the serial and console management section of Avocent's Web site.

About Avocent Corporation

Avocent delivers IT infrastructure management solutions that reduce operating costs, simplify management and increase the availability of critical, "always on" IT environments via integrated, centralized in-band and out-of-band hardware and software. Additional information is available at: www.avocent.com.

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