Founded 2000 | Parent organization Emerson Electric | |
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Type Wholly Owned Subsidiary Key people Steve Hassell, President Products KVM switches, serial consoles, IT infrastructure products Website www.EmersonNetworkPower.com Headquarters Huntsville, Alabama, United States Subsidiaries OSA Technologies Inc, Sonic Mobility Corp | ||
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Avocent, a business of Emerson Network Power, is an information-technology products manufacturer headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. Avocent formed in 2000 from the merger of the world's two largest manufacturers of KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) equipment: Apex and Cybex Computer Products Corporation. As of August 2006, the company employed more than 1,800 people worldwide.
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On October 6, 2009, it was announced that Emerson Electric would buy Avocent for $1.2 billion USD. The tender was finalized on December 11, resulting in Avocent becoming part of Emerson Network Power, a division of Emerson Electric.
Product range
Avocent focuses on out-of-band infrastructure management solutions within seven major fields:
- Server management
- Power management
- Service-processor management
- Console-server management
- KVM management
- IPMI solutions for OEM partners
- A wide range of embedded-software solutions
- Desktop management
- ITIL market
- IT service management
Avocent's product development has spanned three eras:
- the growth of the analog KVM switch - paralleling the growth of server architecture in the data center
- the growth of the digital KVM switch - enabling the remote control of geographically dispersed data-centers
- the diversification and “management” phase (revolving around the acquisition of LANDesk (2006) and Touchpaper software (2008) and the capabilities they provide)
Acquisitions
Avocent's history of acquisitions includes: