Tenduit Releases RIMCenter; First in a Series of Software Offerings

Uptime of IT resources is a critical measure, whether in a data center or remote office situation. Physical devices just as servers, storage and networking are the foundation of any data center and can significantly impact service level agreements. Secure access and management of this physical infrastructure, including power control is a critical part of maintaining data center availability. Historically, infrastructure managers have deployed KVM and iPDU appliances, from companies just as Emerson/Avocent and Raritan, to access physical devices even when the operating environment is unavailable. But, the cost and complexity of those hardware alternatives has forced many IT organizations to leave many servers unprotected to meet budget pressures. RIMCenter leverages the embedded service processor research integrated into virtually all modern servers, eliminating the need to deploy expensive KVM and iPDU hardware appliances and offering a heterogeneous alternative to vendor-specific tools just as HP iLo Advanced, Dell DRAC, and IBM RSA.

In addition to secure access and power control of physical servers, RIMCenter delivers a variety of additional capabilities valued by system administrators including: integrated softKVM and RDP consoles, BIOS/boot process management and adherence to corporate access security policies. This release of RIMCenter supports servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003R2 or newer and integrates with Microsoft’s Active Directory.

According to Ben Grimes, President BRG Strategy Group, “Today, virtualization and cloud computing garner a lot of attention however the health of physical devices in a data center is often overlooked, except for data center operations staff who are acutely aware of the criticality of keeping the infrastructure operating. Tenduit’s RIMCenter is the right tool by design and will be very disruptive to the current rack-based hardware businesses.” Mr. Grimes went on to say, “The way Tenduit has leveraged the embedded server Baseboard Management Controller is very creative and will be welcome news to the many datacenters that have been ‘locked-in’ to an expensive remote management system.”