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Government
Government agencies are extremely risk-averse, and conscious of budgetary constraints when choosing a product.
In the larger office, with more than thirty Locations, you'll typically have some IT staff on-site and the infrastructure and applications are often replicated relatively uniformly (such as in bank branches, Govt agencies). Such branches often have a dedicated data room with a few racks with multiple servers and heavy networking requirements
The local and remote administration requirements for such sites go well beyond the services found in legacy KVM-over-IP devices and serial consoles servers. The servers in the branch will have been supplied by a major server vendor they'll be equipped with integrated out-of-band server management tools (e.g. HP servers will have ILO controllers, Dell/DRAC, IBM/RSA and Sun/ALOM or ILOM controllers).
On the other hand the enterprise remote or satellite offices can be quite small, Such smaller branch and remote offices will generally be far less organized, not as homogeneous and not have any dedicated IT staff on-site, IT staff in the branch office can connect through the service processor on the Windows server and use WTS/RDP to manage the operating system and configure applications. Assuming there's a dedicated management LAN, there is no need for the administrator to connect at all over the corporate operating LAN. Also external KVM devices would only be required where there were older servers on site.


