Avocent


Avocent, a business of Vertiv, 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 equipment: Apex and Cybex Computer Products Corporation. As of August 2006, the company employed more than 1,800 people worldwide.
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. On August 2, 2016, Emerson announced an agreement to sell Network Power to Platinum Equity. On December 1, 2016, Emerson Network Power announced they were rebranding under the name Vertiv and appointing Rob Johnson as CEO.

Product range

Avocent focuses on out-of-band infrastructure management solutions within seven major fields:
  1. Server management
  2. Power management
  3. Service-processor management
  4. Console-server management
  5. KVM management
  6. IPMI solutions for OEM partners
  7. A wide range of embedded-software solutions
  8. Desktop management
  9. ITIL market
  10. IT service management
Avocent's product development has spanned three eras:
  1. the growth of the analog KVM switch - paralleling the growth of server architecture in the data center
  2. the growth of the digital KVM switch - enabling the remote control of geographically dispersed data-centers
  3. the diversification and “management” phase and Touchpaper software

    Acquisitions

Avocent's history of acquisitions includes: