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Benefits
SLACi simplifies accessibility for users while
automating workflow management and distribution for administrators.
- Ease-of-Use
- It eliminates the need to remember if your router is configured for telnet or ssh.
- Automated, non IT users don't need to know when to choose between
in-band Remote Desktop connections, out-of-band I/O switches or access to a maintenance port.
- Quick implementation and fast access to existing technologies.
- Security
- Central database of devices managed by an administrator.
- Masked IP and Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN)
- Policy based remote access management.
- Compliance Tracking and Reporting
- Centrally managed access enables tracking of user activity across diversified technologies
- Reports access requirements, conversions, RMI resource consumption and interface activity
- Administrative alerts and monitoring of remote user accesses.
- Automation
- Administrator and User level automation profiles
- Responds to network events, user scripts and API calls
- Improves IT response reducing
MPI (minutes-per-incident) of downtime
- Failover Forwarding: Finds users based on availability, proficiency and accessibility
- Integration
- SLACi is middleware acting as a broker between remote users, processes and technology
- Conditionally launch required interfaces pre-configured with access parameters
- Consolidates diverse technologies under a common user interface
Control Time, Manpower, Cost & Resources
Leading analyst and consultants all agree, many server farms and data centers
can overspend levels exceeding five hundred thousand on remote management
infrastructures (RMI). Global Serv solutions provide valuable independent
insight into actual RMI requirements of any operation.
Proprietary vendors often recommend solutions that are complex and require
expensive retrofitting of the remote management infrastructure, even though
modern remote management solutions are inherently embedded in the operating
system and hardware as de-facto standards.
See the ROI model on Replacement vs. Integration
for saving details associated with SLACi.
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Failover Forwarding Simplifies Administration
Patents pending technology reduces cost, down-time and simplifies the administrator
experience.
System, failures inherently occur when on-call personnel are in transit or
fighting another IT fire. How can we prioritize one failure over another?
Equipment failures seem to know when technical personnel are unavailable
leaving the task to administrators.
Administrators can eliminate last minute calls from users and technicians
trying to get from the office to home. Dynamcally route system failures to
available personnel using any combination of external and built-in metrics.
Forwarding benefits users by initializing protocols and configuring access
correctly on the fly.
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Diveristy - Inexpensive and Flexible
Data center operations choose different vendors, technologies and implementation
for many reasons.
- Less Expensive
- Meet Operating Requirements
- Technological Advancements
- Inherent Value
- Autonomy & Flexibility
- Freedom of Choice
SLACi solutions offer a way to operate different devices as a common infrastructure
- as if they were all purchased from the same vendor.
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