Be Prepared – What Local Management can do in disaster

The expectations for the storm as of Monday morning, October 29. As the Northeast region of the United States hunkers down for the landfall of Hurricane Sandy it seems to be a good time to reflect (under the blue skies and cool temperatures of a nice early fall day here at Uplogix headquarters in Austin) [...]

Is Local Management valuable when you have redundant systems?

When adding redundant hardware, be ready for twice the cost of maintenance. When talking with someone for the first time about Local Management, sometimes they jump to a quick objection that goes something like this: "I don't need out-of-band access for my network infrastructure. I have a redundant architecture."  Sometimes people go on to detail [...]