When data center management solutions provider Raritan began in CEO Ching-I Hsu’s basement in 1985, it focused on selling PC clones. Back then, the demand for low-cost IBM clone PCs was greater than the supply, and so Hsu’s company built these PCs primarily for local customers.
As PCs proliferated, computer room administrators found it overwhelming to manage multiple computers, each with their own peripherals. “PC builders realized that to test 20 computers, you didn’t need 20 monitors, 20 keyboards, or 20 mice. You just needed one,” explains Henry Hsu, director of power management accounts at Raritan (www.raritan.com). “Yet there was no tool at the time that allowed you to multiplex that one connection to many computers.”
So Raritan built a tool that became a precursor to what is now known as the KVM switch. “To be fair, other people were doing similar things at the same time, but we are known as the father of the KVM switch,” says Hsu.
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