Nemertes Impact Analysis:

Avocent Infrastructure Explorer Highlights Growing Need to Understand, Manage Power

Avocent (NASDAQ:AVCT) Mergepoint Infrastructure Explorer brings asset and power management together, intended to help IT better manage space and the use of power, and cooling resources, underscoring IT's continuing need to better know and control the physical aspects of the data center. Nemertes research finds that, although server virtualization is relieving the immediate crunch on many data centers, power and cooling concerns are still in the top 5 challenges data centers face; most organizations have no idea how much power their data centers consume over all, let alone rack by rack.

Impacts:

Enterprises: If power is a worry, consider adding monitoring tools that help you see how and where you actually consume it.

Vendors: Data center management vendors, if you are not building this kind of functionality, find a partner or an acquisition target.

Investors: Watch SynapSense, Modius, and Viridty (all private), which all approach power management from the infrastructure side.

John Burke, principle research analyst

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Avocent-Corporation-NASDAQ-AVCT-990
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http://www.nemertes.com/ongoing_research/nemertes_ongoing_research_spring_2009_research_benchmark_computing_and_communications 

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