Console management considerations for modern data centers

HealthData Management recently explained some of the goings on in the medical sector related to data center security, network protections and the push for meaningful use of electronic medical record systems. According to the news provider, many players in this market appear to be lacking in the risk management and performance measurement arenas, which can simultaneously lead to increased threat of breach or service disruptions.

The source explained that operational metrics are critical to gauge the successes and failures of the data center, as well as all of the networking hardware and other consoles that would be involved. After all, maintaining tight and resilientsystems without understanding which types of challenges have sprouted up is essentially like flying blind, and health care providers can run into compliance problems when falling into this category.

However, HealthData Management suggested building out policies and using solutions that will help to drive the effectiveness of performance measurement and risk identification.

Especially when starting up a new data center, console management is a critical aspect of security and performance over time, and must be a high priority from the outset of digital patient information overhauls.

Perle's wide range of 1 to 48 port Perle Console Servers provide data center managers and network administrators with secure remote management of any device with a serial console port. Plus, they are the only truly fault tolerant Console Servers on the market with the advanced security functionality needed to easily perform secure remote data center management and out-of-band management of IT assets from anywhere in the world.