Uplogix Local Managers (LMs) monitor, measure and manage the performance of critical network services and applications from the end-user’s perspective. This is done in two ways. First, the LMs can use Layer 2 visibility to collect 36 values from managed network devices such as Rx, Tx, CRC, Load, Line Protocol Status and more. Second, by [...]
How hard/expensive can 0.99% be? A recent two-part article in Network World gave a clear analysis of the basic networking and economic drivers of WAN service history over the last 30 years up to the present day where many enterprises continue to pay much more for MPLS connections than cheaper broadband options.It's about reliability, but [...]
Army General Keith Alexander, commander of the Cyber Command and head of the National Security Agency called for legislation to enable and encourage infrastructure organizations like electrical grids and banks to quickly tell the government when they are under cyber attack. “One of the things that we have to have (with legislation), is if the [...]
Cisco CEO John Chambers visits the Uplogix Launch Your Network booth at Cisco Live. (Or at least visits near our booth...) Exhibiting in the World of Solutions at Cisco Live and talking with the network engineers, admins, CCNAs and CCIEs attending the show is totally within the Uplogix wheelhouse. They just get what we do. [...]
The proof is in the conceptOne of the challenges we face at Uplogix is that the better mousetrap we bring to network management is such a leap from traditional network management that people really want us to prove ourselves. We've always been more than happy to do this, challenging potential customers to put us into [...]
Uplogix Customer Case Study: E! Entertainment Television Uplogix Local Management provides a network-independent platform that E!’s California-based IT staff uses to manage a network of global broadcast centers. Remote management of the broadcast centers is through Uplogix Local Managers that are directly connected to critical network infrastructure and installed with DSL out-of-band connections. Combining the [...]
20 years ago this month, the first SMS-capable phones went on sale in Europe. Use of SMS messages swelled, with over 6 trillion messages sent worldwide in 2010. For phone companies, they've been lucrative as well -- generating more than $110 billion in revenue on those 6 trillion texts. While many users have migrated from [...]
While your AAA servers might not be local,Uplogix will ensure their security is still in place. Your network infrastructure is only as good as its security. When it comes to controlling administrative access, organizations often want to limit and separate access and privileges among various IT groups. For example, the server people don't need the [...]
One in five data centers are soaring at peak efficiency. A January 2012 global study of CIOs and IT managers by IBM concluded that only about one in five data centers have reached the peak of efficiency. How exactly do they define peak efficiency? Like many things -- it depends. For some data centers it [...]
Here is a peek at the new white paper from Uplogix: Meeting the Network Requirements of Cloud and Virtual Computing with Local Management. Don't let the catchy title fool you -- this paper could be the plot of a movie. There is the introduction of characters, introduction of the conflict, rising action, heroes, villains... but [...]
