Avocent
Company profile
Developed over two decades of successful data center and desktop innovation, our industry leading portfolio of software, hardware, and embedded technologies can solve whatever challenges face enterprise-level IT organizations, helping them control, plan, evolve, and secure their heterogeneous, multifaceted information technology infrastructure.
Our proven, award-wining solutions improve efficiencies, deliver greater agility and produce rapid ROI. They empower IT to progress beyond the role of business process sustainer to that of competitive differentiator. Highly available. Acutely responsive. Infinitely extendable.
Avocent has grown through product innovations, global expansion and strategic acquisitions. In 2001, Avocent acquired Equinox Systems; 2C Computing was acquired in 2002; and Soronti, Inc. in 2003. Crystal Link Technologies, OSA Technologies, Inc., and Sonic Mobility, Inc. were acquired in 2004. Cyclades Corporation and LANDesk Corporation were acquired in 2006.
Some of the world’s leading brands – such as Microsoft Corp., Intel, HP, Dell, IBM, Time Warner, Verizon, General Electric, Exxon Mobil, Disney, FedEx and Home Depot – depend on Avocent technology to help them simply manage mission critical physical resources, in the data center, remote branch location, and at end point devices.
Avocent has more than 1,800 employees. Sales, operations and R&D centers are located globally, with corporate headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama.
Effective December 11, 2009 Avocent Corporation became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Emerson Electric Co. and is no longer a publicly traded company
The State of the Global Data Centers
24 Nov 2011
Quorrica interviewed 919 data Center managers all over the world and found that 20% of large organizations have no formal systems management capabilities. This is not good because they have no visibility to what is happening in their own data centers, which results in not being able to support the business.
View video detailsThree Steps for CIOs to Take Today to Drive the Data Center Forward Into the Future
25 Aug 2011
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View video detailsNational Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) Investing in Greater Data Center Performance and Control
25 Oct 2011
Ranked as one of the top 50 safest banks in the world and the best bank in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has more than 100 branches and more than 450 ATMs in the UAE. The NBAD overseas network stretches across Hong Kong, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
View articleBest Practices in Power Management: From Desktop to Data Center
06 May 2010
Power management techniques for reducing IT energy consumption can provide significant opportunities for operational cost savings and other business value. A comprehensive solution, however, must include a variety of approaches to ensure maximum energy reduction effectiveness both on the desktop and in the data center.
View articleEmerson Network Power Introduces the Avocent Universal Management Gateway Appliance as part of the TrellisTM Platform
15 Dec 2011
Announced at Gartner Data Center Conference 2011, best-in-class appliance delivers unmatched industry performance in service processor management, monitoring, access & control across IT and facilities systems
Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today introduced the Avocent Universal Management Gateway, the first data center appliance that enables true real-time, integrated monitoring, access and control across IT and facilities systems in the data center.
Posted on: 15th December 2011 at 12:00am
Emerson Network Power Improves System Availability in National Bank of Abu Dhabi’s Data Centers by 20 Percent
25 Oct 2011
Collaboration significantly increases the lifespan of the bank’s data center systems
Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR) and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today announced its market-leading Avocent infrastructure management technologies have delivered 20 percent greater system availability to the National Bank of Abu Dhabi’s (NBAD) data centers. NBAD is the number one bank in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Posted on: 25th October 2011 at 11:00pm
