Ensure continuity and quality of care with a powerful,
proven IT management platform
The Avocent® Health Care Solution
HEALTH CARE
It’s a matter of life and death.
(Unfortunately, in your world
that’s no longer an
exaggeration.)
Congratulations. You’re uniquely
positioned to have one of the most
stressful jobs around.
You do not work in the average business
data center where a downed server, hung
connection or malfunctioning power unit
means inconveniences for a pencil-pusher
somewhere. Mothers, fathers, children,
families, friends are all depending on what
you do; depending on their medical
caregiver having reliable access to the
information they need. (Again, no
pressure!)
We’ve taken more than 20 years of
success developing data center
optimization and endpoint control
products and created a unique, multitouch solution specifically for health care.
Whether your devices connect to the
bedside, floor, wing, campus or across the
globe, this consolidated solution will give
you more efficient and effective control of
your physical IT assets.
The Challenge:
Always available. Always accessible. Always
ready to help make someone feel better.
The time has long since passed for health care data centers to
simply be electronic filing cabinets, filled with old billing records,
accumulated patient information and employee payroll records.
Now the data center is a critical part of real-time patient care,
with physicians and staff depending on immediate access to
clinical information 24/7. The challenges this presents can be
overwhelming: how do you control and maintain a broad
spectrum of ever-changing devices (many hastily added in the
rush to compliance); how do you continue to meet evolving
mandates and regulations; how do you do your part to help the
organization deliver on the promise made to each and every
patient and family member?
No matter how complex or distributed your health care IT
system is, Avocent technology delivers secure, automated,
real-time tracking and control of all your servers, embedded
technologies, network equipment and power devices. It enables
you to manage change from any location, at any time of day or
night, without regard to hardware type, operating system or
network status. But most importantly, it helps you protect
patient electronic health information while ensuring
uninterrupted quality of care.
The Answer:
A powerful platform that’s just what the
doctor ordered.
You’ll have to forgive the health-themed idiom, but this solution
really can answer the most demanding expectations of your
organization’s management, from the Chief of Staff to the CFO.
Created from our large portfolio of proven, industry-leading
hardware, software and embedded technologies, the Avocent
healthcare solution is designed to address three areas of utmost
concern to health care IT management.
“Avocent gives us the ability to manage a
very large data center infrastructure with a
small headcount and manage our distributed
environments as if we were there.”
– Luis Cortes, Systems Admin,
Adventist Health System
Availability:
It’s critical. Downtime is a non-option.
The unique demands on your infrastructure require attention
above and beyond what the average business data center gets.
The Avocent hub and spoke architecture ensures failover access
authentication across all components, all the time. It is also
designed to enable click-and-connect management of everything
from blades and servers to routers and power distribution units.
But, control is not limited to in-band connections only. Out-ofband management options give you access to components even
when the network server hardware or installed operating system
is having problems. This is tremendously important considering
that studies show up to 20% of unplanned downtime is caused by
infrastructure failure.
• Enterprise-class architecture for maximum uptime
• Remote access to your data center equipment provides
faster time to repair
• Power management – monitoring and control down to the
port for remote power cycling
Efficiency:
The effective cure for tool sprawl and
administrative overlap.
Avocent technology gives administrators a single-rack view of all
computer systems, servers, serial-based devices and power
distribution products, no matter the vendor management (iLO,
DRAC, RSA, etc.) or operating system. The Web-based, single
sign-on interface enables you to remotely configure and manage,
or even reboot a server, from just about anywhere.
Security:
Meeting not only government standards, but
also the high expectations of your
organization.
Offering a unique, layered security model to meet Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance,
this solution is ready to integrate into your existing security
protocols.
Here’s how the layering works: At the logical/network layer, the
Avocent KVM acts as an internal “firewall” to prevent
unauthorized users who have penetrated perimeter defenses
from gaining access to data center resources. At the same time,
the Avocent KVM provides host-layer security from a physical and
logical standpoint. Physically, the technology allows host
resources to be placed in a secure environment so that their use
can be restricted to those users who are authorized. Logically, it
protects host resources by providing the means by which users
are given access.
The solution also supports all levels of access from individual LDAP
to fully-managed authentication and reporting across all KVM,
USB and serial ports. Once implemented, users are only
presented with a view of the resources for which they have been
granted access. Additionally, virtual media is fully supported,
allowing managers to map various media types to a remote server
for efficient upgrade and patch downloads.
• Remote access allows for limited physical access to data
center equipment
• Auditing and compliance down to the individual user
• Robust user permissions
• Encryption
• Centralized, secure management and control
• Vendor-neutral connectivity and access
In Conclusion
• Remote configuration and management
Whether you manage a level 1 trauma center, a sprawling
research lab, a system of regional clinics or simply want to get
your server-hogging imaging equipment aligned with your main
data center resources, the Avocent proven health care solution
is ready to solve your challenges. Vendor neutral, it readily
leverages existing investments and allows for dependable
additions of new acquisitions.
Components
Avocent Health Care Solution
Centralized Management
The Avocent DSView™ management software enables secure, out-ofband, centralized management of all connected IT and network devices
in today’s often complex and geographically dispersed data centers.
When used in conjunction with KVM appliances, serial console
appliances, service processor gateways and PDUs, the hardware and
software combine to allow IT administrators to remotely access,
monitor and control target devices on multiple platforms at numerous
locations–anywhere, anytime.
The Avocent DSView™ management software provides data centers with
secure, centralized management for physical and virtual IT assets. By
allowing administrators to remotely diagnose and modify any managed
device, regardless of the health or status of the OS or network connection,
the Avocent DSView™ management software makes data center
management and remote offices more accessible, extensible and secure.
Power Management
The Avocent® Rack Power Manager is a standalone solution with a plug-in
to the Avocent DSViewTM software that allows companies to fully leverage
the investment into PDUs by providing centralized management
capabilities. The Avocent® Rack Power Manager can manage enterprisesize PDU deployments with ease, providing access and control capabilities
to maintain and configure your PDUs.
Rack Management
AVOCENT® UNIVERSAL MANAGEMENT GATEWAY
The appliance combines the functions of KVM over IP, serial console over
IP, rack PDU, SP and environmental management in a single chassis.
When used in combination with the Avocent DSView™ management
software, the solution provides remote access and control to any device
that can be controlled by any of the consolidated functions.
In a convenient single U chassis, the Avocent® Universal Management
Gateway appliance reduces rack space and footprint, providing
complete connectivity (IPMI, SNMP, OPC, Modbus, BACnet, Velocity),
and installs across various remote access technologies.
This single appliance can run up to 40 simultaneous KVM sessions, and
up to 1024 service processors, with KVM and SPM capability per port
using a dongle.
The Avocent® Universal Management Gateway appliance is the
ultimate consolidation appliance for the larger enterprise.
AVOCENT® ACS ADVANCED CONSOLE SERVERS
The Avocent® ACS 6000 advanced console servers provide remote
access for console port management. They provide secure, remote
access to IT devices and UNIX®-/LINUX®-based servers.
The Avocent® Rack Power Manager also provides state-of-the-art
monitoring capabilities that enable intelligent server grouping across
disparate racks. It also enables custom reporting and scheduled regular
reports. It has the ability to set real-time threshold alerts to give you the
highest quality information on your data center’s power infrastructure
and so you can truly leverage the investment in PDUs.
Full support for Avocent PDUs, Liebert MPH and MPX Rack PDUs.
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