The data center serves as the backbone of the corporate network, connecting together servers, applications and storage across one infrastructure. Cloud computing and virtualization technologies are forcing enterprises to rethink their data center design to ensure the performance and efficiency of computing and storage resources in the face of increasing application demands.

To meet these challenges, enterprises require networking solutions that go beyond basic high speed connectivity. The network must be interoperable, scalable and optimized to meet the automation and visibility requirements of a highly dynamic data center.

Enterasys data center solutions drive down operational costs through a combination of management automation across both physical and virtual environments and a robust and highly resilient distributed architecture. Built-in compliance controls and an open, standards-based approach for interoperability with existing data center solutions ensures a solid foundation for virtualization.

Enterasys Data Center Manager (DCM) is a key member of the Enterasys data center solution family. This powerful unified management system provides IT administrators a transparent, cross-functional service provisioning process that bridges the divide among the server, networking and storage teams. By presenting an integrated view of virtual server and network environments, this solution provides significant operational efficiencies among teams in the IT organization. With a unique vendor-agnostic approach, DCM supports a variety of virtualization, storage and server platforms, enabling the unified management of the physical and virtual network and ensuring networks will have the high availability necessary for critical applications and business data.

With network intelligence that can easily and dynamically provision resources across both virtual and physical environments, Enterasys data center solutions are leveraged by enterprises around the world to:

• Ensure the highest availability for mission-critical data center applications
• Offer interoperability with leading virtualization platforms
• Reduce the work load and increase the efficiency of the IT organization
• Provide secure mobility of virtual machines across geographies