This week's giant data breach story was Equifax, the credit score reporting agency hadn't patched an Apache Struts vulnerability putting personal information on 143 million consumers at risk. The bad news? Odds are your data is included in the breach. The good news? If you are an Uplogix user, this vulnerability was already patched. Uplogix [...]
Uplogix is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has strong ties to Houston with employees, family and numerous customers impacted by the flooding. We support the dedicated and significant efforts of our customers like HEB (@HEBPrepared) and MD Anderson (@MDAndersonNews) and wanted to help out too. If you are in Austin, we're collecting needed items through [...]
Uplogix customers delivering satellite communications to oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico are using out-of-band for a graceful shutdown of gear ahead of Hurricane Harvey. Ocean-based energy discovery and production is a tough business. Even if you take for granted the technical challenges of drilling in deep water through thousands of feet of rock, [...]
Data centers today come in all shapes and sizes, but deploying data center out-of-band solutions has some universal benefits whether your DC is just downstairs or buried underground -- lights-out or just locked up. A factoid that floats around from time to time is that 90% of the world's data was created in the last [...]
Out-of-band isn’t a new concept. As network requirements have become more extreme and critical to all aspects of the enterprise, out-of-band is more commonplace. But what we often hear at Uplogix is disappointment with other out-of-band systems. This post highlights some of the features of OOB that works — because like in extreme sports, [...]
Maritime networks are getting even more serious about security following the high-profile cyber attack of shipping giant Maersk in June. The coordinated attack impacted business on a global scale as Maersk had to take IT systems offline to respond to the breach over the span of about a week. It's not the first time maritime [...]
As with traditional network architectures, NFV or Network Function Virtualization, still faces some of the same challenges when it comes to reliance on the network itself for monitoring and managing the network infrastructure, rapid identification and resolution of network issues and ensuring secure access to and logging for network components. The Uplogix out‐of‐band platform brings [...]
In a study out from Cisco this week, one of the key vendors in IoT, says that only 26 percent of companies in their survey feel that they have been successful with their IoT initiatives. The danger zone for most IoT initiatives is the proof of concept (POC) stage, where 60 percent stall. The complexity of moving from [...]
Granted not all of us spend our time relaxing on one of the increasing number of luxury yachts charting the high seas and exclusive tropical island destinations, but they are becoming more common and more connected. Luxury yacht network security is growing in importance as some of the world's titans of business take their work [...]
If you haven't come across it yet, the HP Enterprise blog ran an article back in February that is worth reading today, May the Fourth, also known as Star Wars Day. While not as important as an opening day, 5/4 is a great day to geek out a bit and enjoy an article that shows [...]
