I recently came across a survey of 400+ IT Execs and DC Managers regarding the efficiency of their Data Centers, and what they believe would help them make improvements.

In general the survey uncovered some interesting challenges. I’ll focus on two. “Daily Distractions” and “Adequate Physical and Virtual Machine Management.”

Daily Distractions

It states that IT departments (in general) spend an average of 32 hours per week dealing with roughly 16 unexpected IT issues like “Network Slowdowns and Outages”, “Equipment Failures”, “Technology Upgrade Requests” and “Availability and Capacity Issues”, all taking about 2 hours and 20 minutes each to resolve. These issues shift IT managers’ focus away from planned projects and higher level future planning activities, and each issue required roughly “9” or so staff members to help resolve. I’m not sure I buy or understand the need for 9 staff members, but that was the result in the survey.

Adequate Physical and Virtual Machine Infrastructure Management

The survey also pointed out that 75% of the IT managers surveyed felt they lacked the proper “Physical and Virtual Infrastructure Management Tools” and adequate training on the use of these Tools. The survey also pointed out that 71% believed if they had proper tools and training, their efficiency and productivity would improve by 30%. A total of 71% also felt their overall risk would shrink considerably.

These are some interesting numbers since one of the first and foremost requirements of any IT manager should be to have management solutions and training on their use in place from the get go. I can only assume this is not the case here, or the solution(s) they do have in place, don’t meet their current requirements or are difficult to understand and use.

ZPE Provides Secure Access and Control of Physical and Virtual Infrastructures

So I leave you with this request: if you can relate to this survey, and have issues with your current “Physical and Virtual Machine Management Tools”, I would love to speak with you about what might (arguably) be the easiest and most complete “Physical and Virtual Machine Management Solution” you’ve ever seen: “NodeGrid Manager” Software Defined Infrastructure from ZPE Systems.

Five reasons to consider Nodegrid Manager ™ for Managing Access to Your Organization’s Data Center Assets

1. Nodegrid Manager Makes Life Easy

You’ve got a laundry list of virtual and physical multi-vendor assets (of all types) all over the globe and no simple one screen, identical user interface solution for providing appropriate sysadmin/user access and full power control to them all. This didn’t exist until now.

ZPE Systems is now delivering a secure one-screen access and control solution that provides just that. One Screen for your Data Center of Everything ™. Yes, we provide secure In-Band and Out-of-Band user access for practically everything – VMware and KVM VMs, Cisco and Juniper routers, OpenGear, Raritan, Digi, and Avocent console servers, APC/Schneider PDUs and UPS devices, HP, IBM, Dell, Cisco, and Supermicro servers, storage from EMC and NetApp… you name it, we most likely provide secure access to it.

2. Nodegrid Manager Delivers “Everything You Need in a Screen”

• Enterprise AD/LDAP access to all your data centers’ assets – give the right people access to the right device (both physical and virtual)
• Mouse-Keyboard-Screen (MKS) access to all your VMware VMs and virtual appliances
• DeviceURL™ Direct URL device bookmark for MKS, Console, Web or Tunnel.
• Power on/off control – not simply rebooting live machines. Nodegrid turns on cold ones too.
• Cloud Clustering™ – easy cloud clustering with elastic search capability for large or distributed environments.
• FireTrail™ Secure Tunneling – give users secure tunnel access to all their appropriate devices (and ports) across data centers and through firewalls. All port forwarding happens inside of a secure Nodegrid tunnel. At no time do you need to punch holes in or provide users with credentials to any firewalls. Users only see the devices and ports they are authorized to see.

3. Nodegrid Manager Saves you Time, Money, and Trouble

See our Use Cases to find out how – and get cool implementation ideas for Nodegrid Manager in disparate environments. We’re adding new cases each month!

4. Schedule your Exclusive Personalized Demo today

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5. Cloud Cluster Management

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