What does 2018 hold for Federal IT?

[fsn_row][fsn_column width="12"][fsn_text] The new year always brings predictions. In the federal IT space, it's no different. Predictions almost by a rule include both cool new tech (widespread adoption of biometric authentication methods) and less nerdy, but frightening prognostications like nearly one-third of the current federal workforce being retirement-eligible. The largest employer We'll get back to [...]

Fog computing expands critical remote infrastructure

[fsn_row][fsn_column width="12"][fsn_text] Several years ago one of the morning talks at CiscoLive was on fog computing. At the time the hype for cloud computing was well entrenched, so fog computing seemed to bring things back to earth with a more realistic promise of local processing of the massive amount of data expected from the ever-increasing [...]

Spectre, Meltdown exploits don’t impact Uplogix

[fsn_row][fsn_column width="12"][fsn_text] The New Year kicked off with a thud as the Meltdown and Spectre exploits dominated headlines with critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. Uplogix Local Managers are not impacted by these exploits. IN BRIEF The Uplogix 5000 and 500 Local Managers are not impacted by either the Meltdown or Spectre exploits. Hardware components in both Local [...]

Federal IT modernization law passes

[fsn_row][fsn_column width="12"][fsn_text] With the passage of the Modernizing Government Technology Act into law, several federal IT modernization efforts are likely to ramp up. Two of the more buzzworthy areas of modernization, artificial intelligence and blockchain, promise new ways to crunch mountains of data created by federal agencies and more secure ways to share information. But [...]

Using service level data to automate responses

[fsn_row row_width="container" row_style="light" background_repeat="repeat" background_position="left top" background_attachment="scroll" background_size="auto" background_image_xs="show"][fsn_column width="12" style="display: block;" column_style="light"][fsn_text] There are many options for managing service levels across networks. One of the key differentiators between the service level verification conducted by Uplogix and other service level monitoring solutions is just that -- other solutions monitor. Uplogix monitors AND uses that data [...]

Time to upgrade old Control Center servers

[fsn_row][fsn_column width="12"][fsn_text] End of Hardware Support Uplogix is announcing an End of Hardware Support for all Uplogix Control Centers running on Dell PowerEdge R710 servers due to the age of these servers and the availability of replacement parts. We will not renew maintenance on the R710 Control Centers after February 1, 2018. Any customers with [...]

Network virtualization to empty onsite racks, almost

Network virtualization is just the next trend in IT to shift spending between CapEx and OpEx. It's already happened with computation and storage in the cloud and things are beginning to take shape on the networking side. It's a "when a tree falls in the forest" sounding question, but when everything possible is virtualized, is [...]

Got SDN? But is the next big thing IBN?

If you have your head wrapped around SDN or software defined networking, you won't be surprised to hear the next big thing is already here. IBN or intent-based networking is Cisco's new entry into the long simmering pot of networking acronym soup. Announced this summer, IBN architectures combine software and hardware to control overall network [...]

Apples to oranges product comparisons

It's been a long week. Not just because we're rapidly racing toward the end of the year and holiday slowdowns, but because I keep getting asked for product comparisons—how are other products like Uplogix, how is Uplogix different from other products... It's a tough request. The first was a request from a federal partner to [...]

Uplogix customers transform maritime communications

[fsn_row][fsn_column width="12" column_style="light"][fsn_text] Uplogix customers BlueTide Communications and Orange Business Services announced a new partnership to transform maritime communications with a suite of services over Ku-band VSAT. The global services network will deliver communications, navigation and asset management services. Orange brings the managed Ku-band capacity with the ability to switch between satellite beams for seamless [...]