News & Events: Enhanced Remote Data Center Management
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Xceedium's Patent-Pending Secure Point-To-Multipoint Connectivity Provides Enhanced Remote Data Center Management
Industry-First Feature Enables IT Operators to Simultaneously Service Multiple IT Data Centers and Branch Offices Around The Globe
Jersey City, NJ – June 19, 2006 –Xceedium, a company that provides a centralized solution for secure IT operations management, today announced the addition of its patent-pending Secure Point-to-Multipoint Connectivity to its core solution GateKeeper. The new features provide IT Administrators the resources and tools needed to solve problems across multiple data centers and branch offices simultaneously. The first feature offers a centralized console to allow IT Administrators the ability to work between disjointed networks in multiple data centers seamlessly with a complete audit trail. The second feature allows all automated jobs that IT Operators create to fall under the identity management access policy with complete audit and tracking reports for compliance and diagnosis.
Unique to Xceedium and an industry-first, this technology within GateKeeper enables IT operations personnel to create remote centralized hubs in "real time" and collaborate resources to diagnose and fix problems. Adding these features to the already powerful integration of in band, out of band and power functionality delivers the most powerful IT Operations solution for remote "respond and repair" capabilities. For instance, an IT administrator at the headquarters can use this technology to connect to multiple branch offices securely and can apply server patches to all of them at the same time to reactively fix a problem in one data center and proactively prevent this problem in other data centers. This functionality keeps each network separate, while revealing portions of the others that are needed to complete a task within the security footprint of the individual. Administrators are able to move files from one data center to another without having to download additional software or worry about different platforms or other problems associate with a heterogeneous environment.
Additionally, the ability to track and audit server to server communication under a centralized reporting function allows previously invisible activities to become visible and enhance the ability of the IT managers to determine problems and satisfy compliance requirements.
"The combination of GateKeeper and Secure Point-to-Multipoint Connectivity enables IT operations personnel to complete tasks on multiple disjointed networks from one location," said Cheryl Traverse, CEO of Xceedium. "Since companies are faced with distributed architectures, it is increasingly important for enterprises with multiple remote sites and branch offices and managed service providers to have more capabilities in delivering access and touch free support in a highly secure way."
Secure Point-to-Multipoint Connectivity provides the following benefits:
- Powerful tools needed by IT Operations in diagnosing and repairing data centers and branch offices
- Simplification of security aspects of connectivity to multiple data centers simultaneously
Gatekeeper's new multiple connections capability delivers major security benefits and simplifies life for IT administrators and managed service providers, who typically are challenged with spending countless hours working on one network at a time. Key capabilities include:
- Simultaneous connection to multiple networks
- The ability to work within a single management interface
- Flexibility to handle several different problems at once
- Drag-and-drop functionality between different platforms and data centers
- Machine-to-machine interaction wrapped under company identity based security policy
GateKeeper provides a centralized service-oriented solution that delivers vendor access control and secure, touch-free support for IT professionals across geographically distributed data centers and branch offices. The Secure Point-to-Multipoint Connectivity feature is available immediately. For more information visit: http://www.xceedium.com/solutions/Solutions_Overview.php
About Xceedium
Xceedium provides centralized, policy-based, secure access for IT operations management. The most comprehensive solution available, Xceedium's service-oriented framework delivers vendor access control and secure touch-free support for IT infrastructure across geographically distributed data centers. Xceedium's solution is platform-independent, integrates in-band, out-of-band and power and includes blade and legacy architectures. This increases security, reduces costs, provides audit tracking, and improves service levels. Xceedium's, Common Criteria and FIPS 140 compliant, solution has been successfully deployed at the large government agencies as well as Fortune 1000 companies. Xceedium was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ. For more information about the company, please visit www.xceedium.com.
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