Avocent switches earn KVM security certification

The Kernel-based virtual machines (KVM) switches of Avocent have recently been awarded a certification showing that they pass security standards.

Avocent, a new business unit of Emerson Network Power after it was acquired in 2009, said the Avocent SwitchView SC600 and 700 series received the EAL2+ Common Criteria Certification. Avocent said the switches are the "first secure KVM switches" to receive the Common Criteria certification.

Common Criteria is an internationally recognised set of guidelines (ISO 15408), which defines a common framework for evaluating security features and capabilities of information technology security products.

Avocent said the certification is the latest achievement in the history of the company's KVM switches. The secure KVM switches were first introduced in 2000, along with the first secure USB KVM switch and the first secure dual-head DVI (digital visual interface) switch.

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"Being the first to market with EAL2+ certification marks another significant milestone and underscores our commitment to provide secure access for any desktop environment where security is mandatory while keeping pace with stringent government standards," said Michael Helms, director of product management, Avocent.

The Avocent SwitchView SC600 and SC700 switches offer multiple layers of security, including tamper-proof hardware security at the desktop. To further safeguard the switches from other USB devices, they ignore communication from other USB devices when switching data to the target.
The switches also allow consolidated multiple workstations of varying security classification levels with one keyboard, monitor and mouse without compromising the network security. This saves desktop space as redundant hardware and cables are eliminated.

Emerson Network Power acquired Avocent to strengthen its data centre infrastructure management portfolio.

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Obama faces "Titanic struggle"

President Barack Obama’s arch domestic confidant on Tuesday conceded that a dark cloud looms over the American economy and Obama’s domestic future, maturation the president’s highway to a second tenure in the White House as “a Titanic struggle.”

“We have the breeze in our face because the American people have the breeze in their faces,” David Axelrod told an assembly of New Hampshire politicians and business leaders. “So this is going to be a Titanic struggle. But we resolutely trust we’re on the right side of the struggle.”

But even as he concurred the sheer domestic reality, Axelrod said the boss would eventually win re-election, in part because of the injured margin of Republican candidates. He characterized their skeleton to correct the nation’s bum economy as the same kind of deregulation and taxation cuts that caused the downturn in the initial place.

“This isn’t new booze and ancient bottles. This is ancient booze and ancient bottles,” Axelrod said.

He also assailed Republican contenders, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, in an talk with The Linked Press.

Axelrod took emanate with Romney’s avowal that he’s among the possibilities with the least domestic confront in the Republican field. Romney hold just one full tenure as administrator but has run for aloft bureau 4 times since 1994.

“I don’t know how you conclude a competent politician, but using for bureau off and on for dual decades seems to qualify,” Axelrod said.

He also went after Perry.

“He binds adult Texas as a model,” Axelrod said. “You demeanour at Texas and they have among the lowest salary in the country, the top rate of uninsured people, some of the worst slight in their schools.”

“I reckon most Americans will demeanour at that and say, `Why would we wish to obey that?” Axelrod added.

Obama’s debate has said that the 2012 choosing will be a “choice, not a referendum” on Obama, making transparent they intend to pull pointy contrasts with whomever Republicans commission subsequent year. Democrats have begun lifting questions about Romney and Perry’s annals both in and out of government, anticipating to make the box that Obama would be best positioned to revive a center category that has been smashed by the mercantile downturn.

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Power and information line filter protects apparatus from transients

EMERSON Network Power’s ONEAC AC energy business has launched the SLIMtec energy filter, expanding into the digital signage market.

Digital signage is theme the hazard of transients caused by electrical line sound that can degrade, interrupt and even ruin its supportive electronic components.

As integrated circuit densities and microprocessor clocking speeds boost while concurrently handling voltage levels decrease, digital apparatus continues to turn some-more supportive to transients on energy lines.

The ONEAC SLIMtec five-amp energy filter aims to guarantee the trustworthiness of digital signage equipment. It reduces IEEE C62.41 Category A pulses in both normal and common modes to reduction than 20V.

According to Emerson Network Power, the section combines the advantages of filter apparatus and swell termination to yield an additional turn of guarantee over a unreasoning TVSS alone. It offers both energy and information line safeguard.

The filter is really compress and wall-mountable, and fits behind skinny show screens. It can also yield guarantee to kiosks, video monitors and projectors, gaming machines, computers, point-of-sale equipment, and tiny printers.

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Advanced Controls For Refrigerant Chiller

Emerson Network Power's Libert ICOM Controls Have Been Added To The XDC Refrigerant Chiller.

Emerson Network Power’s Liebert iCOM controls have been added to the Liebert XDC refrigerant chiller. Providing refrigerant circulation and control in applications where the building’s chilled water system is not available, the Liebert XDC with iCOM can cool more than 30 kW per rack and 160 kW per system. With dynamic fan control, the Liebert XD Smart modules can save 50% to 70% in energy costs over traditional precision cooling methods. The Liebert XD refrigerant-based cooling modules work as a system to support the hot aisle/cold aisle approach to cooling high-density data centers. The addition of Liebert iCOM controls to the Liebert XD family of cooling solutions increases the flexibility of the data center. The Liebert XDC with iCOM and the Liebert XDP with iCOM now employ a controller-area network (CAN-bus) configuration, enabling a new communications network bridging a data center’s building management system (BMS) or data center infrastructure management (DCIM) system to Liebert XD Smart Module level.

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