In brief: Avocent announces KVM switches

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• Avocent last week announced the AutoView 2020 and 2030 keyboard, video and mouse switches for data centers supporting mixed environments of as many as 16 servers. Among a number of features, the switches have the ability to transfer to servers the data stored on USB media devices, such as CDs, and external drives. Prices of the 2020 and 2030 start at about $1,300 and $1,500, respectively.
• The latest addition to Symbol Technologies' MC3000 line of mobile computers is a pistol-grip model, running Windows CE 5.0. The MC3090G is aimed at retail, transportation, logistics and government applications that require lots of bar-code scanning to acquire data in real time. As with Symbol's other 3000 models, the 3090G has a built-in laser scanner. In some configurations, the scanner can rotate to three positions (left, right, forward) for user convenience. It's also the first model to include a single wireless LAN radio chipset that can work with 802.11b, 11g or 11a access points. Previously, the line supported 802.11b/g. The device costs $1,215 to $2,435, depending on options, and is scheduled to ship by mid-November.
• Virtual Iron Software this week is expected to update its virtualization and management tools to include support for Opteron-based servers, as well as IBM BladeCenter systems. The company launched earlier this year with software that enables end users not only to slice up single physical machines, but also to aggregate multiple servers into a single symmetric multiprocessing system. Initially, the software ran only on Intel Xeon-based servers. Virtual Iron's platform is priced per CPU bundle, typically 32, 64 or 128. The average price per CPU is less than $1,000.

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