Industry/Analyst Quotes

Industry Testimonials

Donald Jenkins, vice president of marketing, Business Critical Systems Group at HP
"HP's entire line of Integrity IPF servers use IPMI. With Avocent...existing HP customers can benefit from simplifying management operations and reducing TCO."

Vicki Martell, HP Networks Division's manageability strategist
"IPMI technology has provided amazing benefits to customers...HP is committed to IPMI technology."

Ben Williams, AMD's director of the Server/Workstation Business Segment
"The OSA IPMI solution will provide our shared customers a new level of system manageability across 32- and 64-bit platforms..."

David Hamilton, Director of the Enterprise Management Division at Microsoft Corp
"We are excited about the work OSA is doing with WMX-enabled IPMI firmware to lower ongoing hardware monitoring and management costs for IT administrators."

Keith Larson, Director of Intel Capital's networking / storage investments sector
"OSA's focus on standards-based embedded management solutions complement Intel's networking products..."

Russell Holt, vice president of enterprise engineering in Dell's Product Group
"OSA's... solutions complements Dell's OpenManage products by providing IT users with pre-integrated system management features based on IPMI."

Analyst Testimonials

John Abbott, the451 group
IPMI...is a key piece of functionality for remote server, networking and storage management.

Anne MacFarland, The Clipper Group
If your technology supports IPMI, turn it on. If it doesn't, consider a KVM switch...

Enterprise Management Associates
IPMI is gaining momentum because of it's ability to capture granular system management data...

John Enck, Gartner
IPMI is emerging to provide commoditization of common management/configuration layer in new class of mainstream servers.

Richard Kastner, Aberdeen Group
IPMI support should be a checklist requirement for IT Managers when evaluating server infrastructure.

John Humphries, IDC
The hardware and software tools that assist in the monitoring and management of individual devices or elements... include...silicon standards like IPMI.

Jeffrey Hewitt, Gartner
Adding IPMI manageability can help to enhance the appeal of a server platform.

Winston Bumpus, DMTF
DMTF...allows for the exchange of management information - including IPMI - in a platform-independent and technology-neutral way.