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December 2009

SKY News Interviews CEO Bob Waldie on Tatts Group order

January 2010 | Opengear Scores $1 Million Deal
Opengear, provider of an open source console server, scored its first $1 million deal in December 2009. Next up, Opengear has won a deal involving Linode, a cloud and VPS (virtual private server) hosting company.

December 2009 | Tatts Groups bets on open source servers
Tony Merenda, CTO and VP of International business at Opengear told CRN that under the contract, Tatts Group has purchased 12,000 Opengear SD4000 series device servers (pictured) for its subsidiary, MaxGaming. The devices are used for secure remote control, monitoring and data acquisition on electronic gaming machines in the UK and in Australia.

October 2009 | Interview with TMC at Supercomm
Tony Merenda, Director and Vice President Engineering of Opengear visits TMC at Supercomm 2009

October 2009 | Opengear Console Servers To Support NERC CIP Standards
Opengear has added IPSec High Availability VPN gateway software to the IM4200 advanced console server to allow electric utilities to meet the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) critical infrastructure protection (CIP) standards.

September 2009 | Emerson's $1.2 Billion Avocent Purchase Worries Some Partners
"I've had about a dozen calls today from Avocent resellers," said Todd Rychecky, vice president of sales and marketing at Littleton, Colo.-based OpenGear. "They're concerned about availability -- we make similar products as Avocent -- and they're asking if we will be able to supply them, and we definitely can."

September 2009 | Opengear provides secure remote access to your management interfaces
All in all, the Opengear Infrastructure Manager is a very green choice whereby you can replace several power-hungry devices while still providing greater depth to your systems monitoring capabilities.

September 2009 | Budget-Beating Out-Of-Band management
Opengear's all-in-one appliance combines service processor aggregation, serial console, and environmental monitoring at a nice price. "I would need four Avocent boxes to do everything the Opengear does."

August 2009 | Frugal Friday with Todd Rychecky, US Head of Operations for OpenGear
Todd Rychecky, VP of Operations of North America, has more than 17 years of experience working with system integrators, global key accounts, OEM partnerships and implementing product marketing strategies.
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August 2009 | Opengear, Assisted by VAR's, Doubles Open Source Business
What recession? Those two words summarize the mood within Opengear, which has doubled its open source console server market business since this time last year.

August 2009 | Associated Content
Console Servers: Hidden Treasure in a Down Economy

June 2009 | Internet News
Managing power locally can be as simple as flipping a switch, but what happens when you've got hundreds of sites geographically dispersed? It's a problem that open source vendor Opengear is now tackling with a new release of its hardware console server software.

June 2009 | Opengear in Processor Magazine
A Look At The Market For Environmental Monitoring Equipment feature Opengear EMD5000 and IM4200.

June 2009 | Opengear in Mission Critical
Power Management Platforms from Opengear

May 2009 | Datamation Opengear Launches New KVM-Over-IP Solution
"IP-enable" existing analog KVM switches. - Daisy chain IP-KVM units to access multiple servers (dual LAN ports allow for easy cascaded wiring) or connect to existing analog KVM switches. - Give up to 16 (1 local user and up to 15 remote users) non-blocked BIOS level server access. Supports 150 user profiles. - Easily move the IP-KVM1001 because each unit has both PS2 and USB interfaces. - Have multi-function serial port for local admin or an external modem. - Save space with a sleek palm sized, "zero-U" device.

May 2009 | Opengear in Processor Magazine
Opengear also has the upper hand in managing Cisco devices because its console servers and connectivity solutions are advanced enough for both the remote branch and home data center. Opengear is superior to many console servers for numerous reasons. For instance, its simple cabling system allows for fast installation. Administrators can store offline logs for serial ports and available networks. Pattern match alerting guarantees uptime through serial stream scanning on the Cisco console.

April 2009 | Opengear Partner Program Gaining Critical Mass
Roughly three months since officially launching a partner program, Opengear is showing signs of channel momentum.

April 2009 | How Sun and Oracle Are Changing Their Open Source Diet
Opengear is joining together different proprietary markets for better standardization of data center management appliances and software, by integrating open source technologies into their products. Opengear's data center management appliances now interface with 78 proprietary vendors.

March 2009 | Opengear Console Servers for the dynamic datacenter
"Although the staff’s cappuchino machine wasn’t mentioned in the list of systems and equipment that can be managed by Opengear’s products, it seems that just about every other component of a dynamic datacenter is in their list. As organizations look for ways to squeeze every last bit of excess cost out of their datacenters while still maintaining operational integrity, products such as those offered by Opengear ought to be working side by side with those systems and equipment."

March 2009 | 'Open source' vendors push advantage IT buyers seeking cost savings
Ready to get jealous? How would you like to work in an industry that benefits from economic downturns and for companies that see revenue, customer acquisition and budgets grow during these toughest of times?

March 2009 | Opengear Juices Up Open Source Power Management Tools
Responding to users' need to cap runaway power costs in data centers, Opengear has integrated its open source power management tools, and beefed up its line of open source console servers with better power monitoring. With the new offerings company officials believe corporate users will be able to monitor upwards of 1,000 different uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and power distribution unit (PDU) products from about 100 vendors using a single console window.

February 2009 | Commercial Open Source blog Open Source Console Servers
Opengear, a leading provider of next-generation console server solutions, yesterday announced its record order bookings, largely due to its (open source) channel, according to a report. Opengear generating 75 percent of its revenue via partners, recently has put in place a very aggressive partnering program offering channel partners 25% margins, to further speed out-of-band management solutions sales.

January 2009 | Console servers become cash machines
Every so often, something unsexy and boring becomes interesting. Few people drool over console servers, even those who deal with them on a regular basis, but an announcement by Opengear, an open-source console server company, manages to make them look sexy by appealing to resellers' wallets. By using free open-source software like Nagios and Powerman in addition to writing their own code, Opengear passes along significant price reductions compared with their competitors like Avocent, Lantronix, Perle Systems, and Digi International.

January 2009 | Datamation Virtualization in Multi-Vendor Environments with Opengear, Citrix Zen
While virtualization is clearly one of the bright spots for IT during the recession, it’s getting perilously close to being overhyped. Vendors have moved beyond servers and are pitching virtualization as an enabling tool for everything from thin computing to cloud computing to SaaS. Yet as any good salesperson knows, what you want to do to ensure customer satisfaction is under-promise and over-deliver.