42U Product Update: Raritan Upgrades CommandCenter Secure Gateway Appliance

Press Release - Raritan Upgrades CommandCenter

42U Product Update: Raritan Upgrades CommandCenter Secure Gateway Appliance

Broomfield, CO - January 23, 2007: 42U, the nation's largest independent value-added reseller (VAR) of datacenter and server management solutions, announces that Raritan is releasing an upgrade to its CommandCenter Secure Gateway appliance. This device provides centralized management of servers and IT devices managed by Raritan KVM- and Serial-over-IP products and IT equipment with embedded service processors.

The 3.1 version of CommandCenter Secure Gateway (CC-SG) includes many new features that provide an improved user experience. It comes with a revamped graphical user interface and a user-defined Node View that enables IT administrators, from a single screen, to view target servers and devices, as well as all available remote access methods and remote power management on/off/recycle options -- in-band and out-of-band -- for each device.

From CC-SG's centralized management dashboard, users can define a target device's access and power interfaces, including a combination of the following:
• KVM and Serial access using Raritan Dominion and Raritan Paragon products.
• Virtual KVM access through iLO/RiLOE II, Dell DRAC4 or IBM RSA II embedded solutions; and through software applications, such as RDP, VNC and SSH.
• Power control for power on, off, and recycle through power strips connected to Raritan Dominion products; IPMI-enabled servers; and embedded power solutions, such as iLO/RiLOE II, Dell DRAC4 or IBM RSA II.

Raritan also unveiled today a new CC-SG appliance model, the CC-SG E1, for larger enterprise deployments. The CC-SG E1, which comes in a 2U form factor, provides dual processors, each with a dedicated memory chip; dual power supply; and dual Ethernet connections for redundancy or network gateway configurations. Special node license packages are available for the E1, as well as a cluster configuration for failover situations.

In addition to existing security attributes such as 128-bit encryption and third-party authentication through Active Directory, TACACS+, LDAP, and RADIUS, the CommandCenter Secure Gateway 3.1 will provide strong password support, the ability to control concurrent user login privileges, and will allow for enhanced compliance with the SAS70 auditing standard by "locking out" contact information.

For more information, visit http://www.42u.com/raritan-commandcenter.htm or contact a 42U solutions sales engineer at (800) 638-2638. To upgrade software for the CommandCenter Secure Gateway 3.1 device once it is released, visit http://www.42u.com/firmware-update.htm or http://www.raritan.com/support.

About DirectNET, Inc.
DirectNET (http://www.directnet.us), founded in 1995, is comprised of three independent companies/business units: 42U (http://www.42u.com), the leading value-added reseller (VAR) of enterprise KVM Switch Solutions; KVM Switches Online (http://www.kvm-switches-online.com), the largest KVM Switch e-commerce store in the US; and Server Racks Online (http://www.server-rack-online.com), the largest "click and build" online rack superstore.

About Raritan
Raritan, based in Somerset, N.J., is a leading provider of products for managing IT equipment and the mission-critical applications and services that run on it. For more information, please visit Raritan.com.

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