Branch locations—retail stores, shipping warehouses, and satellite offices—present a big network management challenge to the engineers supporting them. Traditional remote network management requires a WAN link to each branch, but what happens if that link goes down?...
Sales Engineering Manager Rene Neumann walks you through the new features in Nodegrid OS v5.4. Don’t miss these out-of-band and security updates.
Today, many businesses are completely unable to operate without their data center infrastructure, so data center downtime is getting more and more expensive. According to Uptime Institute’s 2021 Global Data Center Survey, over 60% of respondents lost more than...
The Gen 3 serial console is the latest innovation in out-of-band management.But what exactly is it, and where did it come from? In this post, we’ll briefly cover the basics of serial consoles and why you need them, and then dive into the evolving needs that brought...
Hybrid cloud—using a combination of public and private clouds to host your data, applications, and services—is one of the most popular enterprise infrastructure models. According to Flexera’s 2021 State of the Cloud Report, 82% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud...
Environmental threats—such as heat, moisture, power, smoke, and tampering—constitute a significant cause of data center downtime. According to a recent ITIC survey, a single hour of downtime could cost over $300,000 in lost business, which means you can’t afford to...
Data center infrastructure management, or DCIM, involves monitoring and controlling the infrastructure within a data center. That means supporting the appliances and the underlying infrastructure—everything from servers and switches to power and HVAC systems. Though...