Working remotely? Out-of-band lets you manage your network infrastructure from home

In times like these, networks, remote tools and network managers are being put to the test while many are suddenly working remotely. Networks and communications are the keys to maintaining business continuity with a home-bound workforce and mandatory travel restrictions.Uplogix out-of-band management has the secure access, reliable automation and troubleshooting tools you need to manage [...]

Remote access overcomes travel limitations

Media coverage of the Coronavirus outbreak and related quarantines and threats of quarantines across the world has expanded into how technology is making it possible for work-from-home on an unprecedented scale. With many companies already employing remote worker strategies, the technologies needed are in place, including those for remote access to manage network infrastructure. Uplogix [...]

Edge computing takes center stage in 2020

Forrester Research (and others) are predicting 2020 as a landmark year for the expansion of edge computing related to IoT solutions with on-demand compute and real-time apps also driving growth. While some applications of edge computing will look familiar like processing data at aggregation points instead of in the cloud, others will need form factors [...]

DoS attack strikes renewable energy company

sPower, a Utah-based renewable energy company fell victim to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that disrupted communications between the company and a dozen generation sites. During the incident, each site experienced one five-minute outage that was attributed to a known vulnerability on a Cisco firewall. The firewall issues were already known, and the devices were on [...]

Maritime operators face “worrying complacency” about cybersecurity

A survey of attendees at the recent Maritime Cyber Risk Forum in London revealed ongoing challenges when it comes to cybersecurity on the high seas with 89% of respondents agreeing with the statement that there is a worrying level of complacency about cyber attacks in the maritime industry. An equal number attributed the complacency to [...]

Cyber Resiliency through Out-of-Band

[fsn_row][fsn_column width="12"][fsn_text] The Uplogix out-of-band platform brings a combination of network independence, intelligence and automation to give your team the tools to make your network more resilient -- especially during a network hack. Here's how it works. Uplogix locates with — and directly connects to — managed devices. Like a virtual technician, Uplogix performs the monitoring, [...]

Cost of downtime is a personal question

[fsn_row][fsn_column width="12"][fsn_text] Everyone has one, but it's still not an easy subject for most people. We're talking about the cost of downtime in their network. It's not an easy calculation if you want to be accurate, but one would be hard pressed to find anyone that says network downtime today is LESS expensive than in [...]

Can edge computing impact the cloud forecast?

No matter what growth rate predictions you subscribe to for cloud computing in the next few years, the demand for cloud is going to drive a counter-demand for computing at the network's edge. Requirements for low latencies, massive data volume as well as non-technical rules around maintaining data control will drive the need for processing [...]

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 [...]

Bringing out-of-band into the data center

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 [...]