The need for Virtual Media
Research shows that close to 80 percent of IT administrators leave their desks and enter a data center to physically perform data-related tasks on-site, such as diagnostic testing, file transfer, and OS and application patches.
There are two reasons, however, why it is not wise to have technicians constantly going in and out of the data center to perform these daily management tasks. First, over-reliance on the physical presence of technicians in the data center is slow and inefficient. Every time someone gets up from his or her desk to install a patch or run some diagnostics, valuable time is lost - time that could be spent taking care of other important tasks. Second, foot traffic through the data center and around critical systems greatly increases exposure to both malicious and inadvertent security risks.
DSView® 3 software Virtual Media addresses these twin issues of operational efficiency and security by enabling you to map CD-ROMs and other storage media to a remote server to perform file transfers, application and OS patches, and CD-ROM diagnostics. It thus empowers technicians to do their jobs more quickly and efficiently, without compromising the physical security of the data center.