Being able to effectively monitor your entire distributed infrastructure and the performance that it is providing to end users is critical, and is what all network management systems are designed to do. However, not all are equally adept.You wouldn't use a street light down the road to read a magazine at your house -- they [...]
Everyone knows what a “black box” is on an airplane – it’s the flight data recorder. These hardened devices mounted in the aircraft record key information about the status of the flight controls, pilot inputs, and the results of their actions. Some of the features of the Uplogix local management platform work like a black [...]
Application Performance Management (APM) is nothing new and continues to remain both a science and an art form. For large IT organizations ITIL provides a framework to align IT services to the needs of the business. Whether ITIL is a good fit for your organization, or you use more of an ITIL-Lite approach, most tools [...]
An article in the current issue of the IEEE newsletter, Smart Grid, describes the importance of network interoperability as a key to success to creating the smarter grid of the future. "As information technology (IT) and operations technology (OT) converge in the smarter grid of the future, network interoperability will be the starting point and [...]
In a recent article for Network World, Cisco CEO John Chambers gave the networking industry a brief look back and asked a few questions about our vision of the network going forward.He asks if the network will be robust-enough to accommodate the forecast that 91% of global internet traffic will be internet video by 2013, [...]
First, we're not here today to bash your enterprise network and system management suites. IBM/Tivoli Integrated Service Management, BMC Business Service Management, CA IT Management, HP Business Technology Optimization and others are all powerful tools for managing complex, distributed networks. But what they all have in common is that they rely on the very network [...]
There are plenty of examples of catastrophe these days, but in the IT world, catastrophic losses typically are the result of anticipated technology failures combined with unanticipated human failures.The best laid plans often go awry due to the human nature to take shortcuts. Repetitive processes and time-consuming steps get skipped. It's a human problem, and [...]
Service level agreements are common for defining services, availabilities and performance specs both between providers and their subscribers and internally between IT departments and their customers.With the unique position Uplogix occupies alongside network infrastructure, but outside of the critical path of network traffic, we're able to provide enterprise service level verification that monitors from the [...]
A recent survey by EMA shows that network automation is increasing in use, with over 80% of respondents indicating they are actively using or deploying network automation, and saving anywhere from 16% to 50% of their network group's daily administrative tasks. While targeting automation for configuration backups, config monitoring and IP address management ranked highly [...]
Cisco announced this week that they conducted the first-ever software upgrade of an IP router in space. The Internet Router in Space (IRIS) program involves the Cisco 18400 Space Router -- hardened for radiation and launched on-board the Intelsat 14, a geostationary communications satellite. The router runs Cisco IOS and is testing the idea of [...]
