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Keeping tabs on your network

A couple of scenarios commonly tested by potential Uplogix customers are built around cyber security features of Local Management. Uplogix enhances enterprise security by extending role based administrative access policies to network devices and by providing detailed auditing and reporting in support of attaining and demonstrating regulatory compliance. Importantly, all of these capabilities are maintained [...]

Mixing Local Management with rocket science

Last week was the Satellite 2013 Conference in Washington DC. Uplogix was there exhibiting in the large hall featuring a variety of vendors promoting everything from rocket launch vehicles to nondescript signal conversion widgets to air time. As usual, our message was a little different, but well received in the satellite market. There were some [...]

Treating sequestration symptoms with local management

Avoiding the politics of the sequestration drama isn't easy, but here we'll try to just state some facts and discuss a few things that Uplogix can help out with. Change brings opportunity, and in a time of broad budget cuts there are probably many federal agencies that are going to look (hopefully) to technology to [...]

Staying Connected: Out-of-band options with local management

One of the key features of Local Management is persistent connectivity to remote gear. With Uplogix connected to your network and communications devices, and an out-of-band connection of some sort, you can count on maintaining management access and two-way control even when the network is down or degraded. In addition to being able to connect [...]

Fighting Corruption with Local Management

Face it. Corruption happens. Maybe it's a hardware issue, maybe it's a software conflict, maybe it's just the result of an honest mistake by an admin trying to do their job. The good news is that Local Management can fight corruption in your network devices automatically. Like a superhero watching over your network, Uplogix wages [...]

Case Study: Local management along a long and lonely pipeline

Uplogix helps secure and simplify management of the network that controls the transportation of energy for millions in North America Enbridge operates the largest and most complex liquids pipeline system in the world For over 60 years, Enbridge has operated pipeline systems. Today, millions of people across North America rely on energy transported by Enbridge [...]

Out-of-this-World Managed Services

What's a greater risk? Asteroids or network downtime from Level 1 support issues? [UPDATED: 2/15/13 We survived!] While the threat of an asteroid's path bringing it inside the orbit of geosynchronous weather and communications satellites and taking one out is real, it's much less of a concern for most satellite-based managed service providers than meeting [...]

Giving potential customers that light bulb moment

When you have a solution like Local Management, that can impact a variety of IT groups and reach across network management and security processes, the sales process can be a long and winding road. One stop along that journey is the proof of concept (POC). Thomas Edison said, "Anything that won't sell, I don't want [...]

Permission to come aboard?

Most experts agree that human error or ignorance is responsible for more security breaches than technology flaws. The challenge is to use technology to try to overcome these human weaknesses. An article in CSO magazine promotes the use of Least Privilege Management (LPM) as one method to cut down on security issues. The methodology works like [...]

New year, new hardware for Local Management

The Uplogix 500 (top) and Uplogix 5000. We recently announced two new hardware platforms for deploying Local Management in your network. They represent the fourth generation of Uplogix hardware are the latest result of our continuing investment in exceeding customer reliability, durability, form factor and power efficiency requirements. Both platforms are available immediately. The Uplogix [...]