To ensure non-stop delivery of essential business services to users across and beyond the enterprise, IT data centers require constant, diligent managment. There are two reasons, however why it is not wise to have technicians constantly going in and out out of the data center to perform these daily management tasks. When too many people spend too much time around critical systems, it greatly increases exposure to both malicious and inadvertent security risks.

This paper looks at how Virtual Media addresses these twin issues of operational efficiency and security by allowing servers to access CD-ROMs and other storage media anywhere across the enterprise.