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Case Study: Symcor Banks on Avocent for IT Success

From Avocent Corporation
 

 
As an essential service to major financial institutions, it is important that Symcor maintain efficient management of their data centres. Symcor's 10-member IT staff watch over 450 servers operating a mix of platforms from PC to Sun to UNIX and beyond, located in two separate sites in the Greater Toronto Area and a new site in Montreal, Quebec. It's easy to imagine how serious the situation becomes when a problem arises or a critical server goes down, hundreds of miles away. Symcor relied on Avocent AutoView® KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switching systems for local access and control of some servers. While this older technology served its purpose, Symcor required new technology. Technology that could effectively provide their IT department with rapid, remote access and control of their servers – especially in their new Montreal location. 'Once we were commissioning our new Montreal location, we knew that we would have to upgrade to a more advanced KVM over IP switching solution,” said Misana Bannister, a Symcor intermediate technical systems analyst. 'One that would make more efficient use of our manpower resources, save us time and money associated with travel, and ultimately reduce the 'cable clutter jungle' strangling our server rooms.”
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