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Rack-Level Physical Remote Access Security for Datacenters via Resource Manager Monitoring and Management Platform Introduced by AFCO Systems

(September 16, 2009) - In order to ensure data integrity as well as privacy and compliance with industry and government regulations such as HIPAA it is extremely important that there should be physical security inside datacenters and co-location (co-lo) facilities. And while room access is protected via keys, codes and biometric devices, individual cabinet-level security has often required additional structures such as gates and individual rooms within the datacenter. To improve this situation for datacenter managers, IT professionals and facilities managers, AFCO Systems has added remote access security capabilities to its AFCO Resource Manager real-time power and cooling performance management tool. Resource Manager now enables datacenter and facilities staff to remotely provide individual access to specific AFCO datacenter enclosures outfitted with electronic locks.

As datacenters and co-lo facilities become the heart of more businesses; they also become the single most vulnerable point of potential data loss due to accident or intentional interaction. Currently, in many datacenters, it is possible that an IT professional can mistakenly or purposely open and access, shut down or remove the incorrect computing equipment within a datacenter, simply by accessing the wrong enclosure. Traditional datacenter-level room security cannot provide protection against this inevitability. AFCO Resource Manager now provides the ability for datacenter professionals to remotely lock or release individual AFCO datacenter enclosures that have been outfitted with electronic locks. Now, when providing access to their secure datacenter facilities, IT pros can also enable access to specific cabinets within the datacenter, while limiting or eliminating access to others.

"By empowering datacenter professionals to lock down or unlock specific cabinets within their datacenters, we have given them the tools to secure and protect their businesses' most powerful resources - their data," said John Consoli, AFCO Systems Chief Technology Officer.

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