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American Water Cyberattack: Another Wake-Up Call for Critical Infrastructure

American Water Cyberattack: Another Wake-Up Call for Critical Infrastructure

The American Water cyberattack shows why resilience is key to critical services. Here’s how the attack unfolded and how to stop it.

3 Reasons to Use Starlink for Out-of-Band (and How to Set it Up)

3 Reasons to Use Starlink for Out-of-Band (and How to Set it Up)

Starlink is a high-speed alternative to POTS lines, and offers plenty of flexibility when cellular coverage is lacking. Here’s our setup guide.

What is Passive Optical Networking?

What is Passive Optical Networking?

Passive optical networking (PON) is a high-speed broadband technology that enables the delivery of multiple services over a single fiber optic cable.

Comparing Console Server Hardware

Comparing Console Server Hardware

Console server hardware can vary significantly across different vendors and use cases. Learn how to find the right solution for your deployment.

Data Center Scalability Tips & Best Practices

Data Center Scalability Tips & Best Practices

This blog describes various methods for achieving data center scalability before providing tips and best practices to make scalability easier and more cost-effective to implement.

Edge Computing Use Cases in Banking

Edge Computing Use Cases in Banking

This blog describes four edge computing use cases in banking before describing the benefits and best practices for the financial services industry.

AI Data Center Infrastructure

AI Data Center Infrastructure

This post describes the key components of AI data center infrastructure before providing advice for overcoming common pitfalls to improve the efficiency of AI deployments.

AI Orchestration: Solving Challenges to Improve AI Value

AI Orchestration: Solving Challenges to Improve AI Value

This post describes the ideal AI orchestration solution and the technologies that make it work, helping companies use artificial intelligence more efficiently.

Edge Computing Use Cases in Telecom

Edge Computing Use Cases in Telecom

This blog describes five potential edge computing use cases in retail and provides more information about the benefits of edge computing for the retail industry.

Edge Computing Use Cases in Retail

Edge Computing Use Cases in Retail

This blog describes five potential edge computing use cases in retail and provides more information about the benefits of edge computing for the retail industry.

Why Securing IT Means Replacing End-of-Life Console Servers

Why Securing IT Means Replacing End-of-Life Console Servers

Rene Neumann, Director of Solution Engineering, discusses why it’s crucial to replace end-of-life console servers to protect IT.

Edge Computing Use Cases in Healthcare

Edge Computing Use Cases in Healthcare

This blog describes six potential edge computing use cases in healthcare that take advantage of the speed and security of an edge computing architecture.

The CrowdStrike Outage: How to Recover Fast and Avoid the Next Outage

The CrowdStrike Outage: How to Recover Fast and Avoid the Next Outage

The CrowdStrike outage on July 19, 2024 affected millions of critical organizations. Here’s how to recover fast and avoid the next outage.

Benefits of Edge Computing

Benefits of Edge Computing

This blog discusses the five biggest benefits of edge computing, providing examples and additional resources for companies beginning their edge journey.

Improving Your Zero Trust Security Posture

Improving Your Zero Trust Security Posture

This blog provides advice for improving your zero trust security posture with a multi-layered strategy that mitigates weaknesses for complete coverage.

Edge Computing vs Cloud Computing

Edge Computing vs Cloud Computing

This guide compares edge computing vs cloud computing to help organizations choose the right deployment model for their use case.

ZPE Systems at Cisco Live 2024

ZPE Systems at Cisco Live 2024

Jennifer Autry presents the story of Isolated Management Infrastructure and why it’s crucial to network services. See how IMI brings speed and resilience to installation day, ongoing operations, and doomsday-type outage scenarios.

Edge Computing Architecture Guide

Edge Computing Architecture Guide

This edge computing architecture guide provides information and resources needed to ensure a streamlined, resilient, and cost-effective deployment.

PCI DSS 4.0 Requirements

PCI DSS 4.0 Requirements

This guide summarizes all twelve PCI DSS 4.0 requirements across six categories and describes the best practices for maintaining compliance.

The Future of Edge Computing

The Future of Edge Computing

Discussing the future of edge computing as described by leading analysts at Gartner, which relies on comprehensive strategies and centralized, vendor-neutral edge management and orchestration.

DORA Act: 5 Takeaways For The Financial Sector

DORA Act: 5 Takeaways For The Financial Sector

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA Act) outlines significant resilience changes for the financial sector. See how to comply here.

Network Resilience: What is a Resilience System?

Network Resilience: What is a Resilience System?

This guide to network resilience defines resilience systems, discusses use cases and related technologies, and describes the key components required to build them.

IT Infrastructure Management Best Practices

IT Infrastructure Management Best Practices

This guide discusses IT infrastructure management best practices for creating and maintaining more resilient enterprise networks.

Collaboration in DevOps: Strategies and Best Practices

Collaboration in DevOps: Strategies and Best Practices

This guide to collaboration in DevOps provides tips and best practices to bring Dev and Ops together while minimizing friction for maximum operational efficiency.

Terminal Servers: Uses, Benefits, and Examples

Terminal Servers: Uses, Benefits, and Examples

This guide answers all your questions about terminal servers, discussing their uses and benefits before describing what to look for in the best terminal server solution.

Exploring ZPE Cloud – Tech Talk Tuesday from ZPE Systems

Exploring ZPE Cloud – Tech Talk Tuesday from ZPE Systems

Todd Atherton (Channel Sales Director) and Marc Westberg (Channel Sales Engineer) walk you through the benefits of using ZPE Cloud. This fleet management solution offers centralized access and control over your global devices, and enables true zero-touch provisioning via #cloud to eliminate the hassle and risk of pre-staging equipment.

Edge Management and Orchestration

Edge Management and Orchestration

This post summarizes Gartner’s advice for building an edge computing strategy and discusses how an edge management and orchestration solution like Nodegrid can help.

SSE Magic Quadrant: Key Takeaways of the 2023 Report

SSE Magic Quadrant: Key Takeaways of the 2023 Report

Gartner’s SSE Magic Quadrant for 2023 identifies 10 key vendors currently providing secure service edge capabilities for the enterprise market. In this guide, we’ll summarize the common factors shared among leading SSE vendors, discuss what separates them from niche...

Vapor IO & ZPE Systems featured on Packet Pushers

Vapor IO & ZPE Systems featured on Packet Pushers

Packet Pushers recently sat down with Frank Basso (Vapor IO) and Rene Neumann (ZPE Systems) to discuss out-of-band networks for automation. This architecture allows teams to recover from mistakes and also achieve lights-out management, with dedicated infrastructure to automate Day 0 through Day 2 operations.

99.999% Uptime for a Top-10 Engineering School

99.999% Uptime for a Top-10 Engineering School

From data center to edge, see how Nodegrid Services Routers saved hundreds of hours per month for an engineering school’s IT team.

2022: A Network Automation Odyssey – ZPE Systems

2022: A Network Automation Odyssey – ZPE Systems

Based on the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke: Do you want to know what #networkautomation has to do with 2001: A Space Odyssey? Check out our video for details, and head to our webpage to download your copy of the network automation blueprint trusted by 6 of 10 top tech giants.

How to remove IoT & OT from your attack surface

How to remove IoT & OT from your attack surface

Summary With IoT and OT (operationalized technology) sprawling across the globe, organizations are able to provide more value to their customers. But for IT security teams, this presents a growing attack surface that’s easy for malicious actors to exploit. Weak...

Zero Touch Deployment Cheat Sheet

Zero Touch Deployment Cheat Sheet

This post provides a “cheat sheet” of solutions to the most common zero touch deployment challenges to help organizations streamline their automatic device provisioning.

3 Gaps That Will Leave IT Teams Scrambling

3 Gaps That Will Leave IT Teams Scrambling

Today’s IT teams must maintain a growing infrastructure of on-prem and cloud solutions. These range from physical routers, out-of-band devices, and firewalls, to Zero Trust Security solutions, micro-segmentation tools, and network automation integrations. Despite an...

Nodegrid OS Version 5.8 – Product Updates

Nodegrid OS Version 5.8 – Product Updates

Watch as Director of Solution Engineering Rene Neumann walks you through Nodegrid OS v5.8 and how it supports the Network Automation Blueprint. Rene shows you how v5.8 enables essential building blocks of the blueprint, including out-of-band management, visibility, out-of-band automation, and security.

ZPE Systems Demo: Go Beyond Standard Out-of-Band

ZPE Systems Demo: Go Beyond Standard Out-of-Band

This demo goes beyond the standard of remote access. ZPE will show the open ecosystem that makes IT wishes come true by enabling flexible automation & orchestration by Zero Touch/Zero Trust Provisioning, and open 3rd party orchestration stack as well as 3rd party tools like Rumble scanners, pen testing, and automation playbooks.

ZPE Systems Zero Pain Ecosystem Overview

ZPE Systems Zero Pain Ecosystem Overview

Explore the gaps in existing solutions and the downtime-inducing issues that inspired development of our Zero Pain Ecosystem. See ZPE’s core elements that enable the world’s largest enterprises to improve network reliability, address personnel & expertise shortages, and strengthen weak security postures. Learn about the latest Gen 3 requirements and see the blueprints for implementing the Zero Pain Ecosystem in data center, campus, colocation, branch, and edge environments.

Tour ZPE Systems’ Nodegrid and ZPE Cloud

Tour ZPE Systems’ Nodegrid and ZPE Cloud

In this demonstration, Sales Engineering Manager Rene Neumann shows true Zero Touch Provisioning via ZPE Cloud, and bare-metal EdgeOps automation with Ansible and Nodegrid. Rene also shows Day 2 Operations, as well as troubleshooting, identification, and remediation of different targets and Network Infrastructure using application sensors and Nodegrid Data Lake.

Deploying & Managing Critical Remote Edge Infrastructure with ZPE Systems Nodegrid

Deploying & Managing Critical Remote Edge Infrastructure with ZPE Systems Nodegrid

Koroush Saraf explains why edge infrastructure is increasingly distributed, and why configuring, updating, and managing IT now presents more challenges regarding connectivity and security. ZPE systems’ Nodegrid Services Routers and ZPE Cloud overcome these obstacles. Nodegrid devices serve as the on-ramp to Security Service Edge and EdgeOps, able to onboard edge services such as SD-WAN and security, and spin up edge compute workloads such as data thinning and NGFWs — all using automation delivered securely via ZPE Cloud.

Introduction to ZPE Systems

Introduction to ZPE Systems

ZPE Systems enables ‘anywhere’ operations from the data center to the edge, with global out-of-band, modular hardware & software, and cloud-based, end-to-end orchestration. In this presentation, VP of Product Management Koroush Saraf walks you through the evolution of data, compute, and networking to explain how ZPE’s visionary approach helps enterprises overcome challenges of modernizing their networks using virtualization, containerization, Software-Defined Networking, edge computing, SD-WAN, and remote access.

Nodegrid Gate SR: Versatile Services Router for Critical IT

Nodegrid Gate SR: Versatile Services Router for Critical IT

For critical IT, the Nodegrid Gate SR enables more than networking and connectivity. This powerful services router features a variety of interfaces to enable remote out-of-band management of your sites. Connect to servers, routers, switches, USB devices, sensors, PoE appliances, and IoT with a single box.

Networking Field Day 26: Tour Nodegrid & ZPE Cloud

Networking Field Day 26: Tour Nodegrid & ZPE Cloud

Koroush Saraf explains how data centers are becoming modernized. A new generation of serial consoles, like the Nodegrid Serial Console Plus, makes network deployments simple by consolidating many appliances, and allows teams to monitor critical systems with sensors that can be accessed, managed, and controlled on one UI with Nodegrid Manager.

Cyber Attacks: 5 Security Must haves for Hybrid Infrastructure Gateways

Cyber Attacks: 5 Security Must haves for Hybrid Infrastructure Gateways

Hybrid infrastructure makes cybersecurity incredibly difficult. The explosion of cloud and on-prem interconnectivity means there are now so many attack vectors, including credential theft, unpatched systems, human error, and others. This video shows you how to seal out cyberattacks with 5 must-haves. ZPE Systems’ Director of Solution Engineering discusses these must-haves including secure network deployments, flexible automation, and secure hardware root of trust.

Minimize Downtime: Control Your Critical IT Infrastructure Anytime, Anywhere

Minimize Downtime: Control Your Critical IT Infrastructure Anytime, Anywhere

As enterprises look to reinforce their network infrastructure, connectivity finds new life in the form of out-of-band (OOB) setup. The increasingly complex and distributed nature of businesses requires a resilient network that ensures reliability. Enterprises are dealing with a workforce that is largely connected remotely – ensuing major business dependency on their networks. OOB delivers network scalability and performance that can deliver enterprises a competitive edge.

Get Through Survival Mode with Smart Out-of-Band

Get Through Survival Mode with Smart Out-of-Band

It’s no secret — your network is one of the only things keeping you in business right now. But… How long will it last? Will sudden downtime add too many zeros to your support costs? And would you risk putting staff on-site if you need to reboot a router or troubleshoot issues? Because it’s what you need now more than ever. Nodegrid packs SD-WAN, security, and 3rd party application hosting capabilities into one remote platform, and you can deploy it on your existing infrastructure.

Survival mode is scary, but at ZPE Systems we know that better networking will get you through it. That’s why we created Nodegrid, an out-of-band solution that’s more flexible, more reliable, and more secure.

Modernize your IT Infrastructure: How to Implement a Simple, Secure SD-Branch

Modernize your IT Infrastructure: How to Implement a Simple, Secure SD-Branch

It takes only 30 minutes for ransomware to affect 45,000 instances. But it takes an average of 280 days to identify and contain a breach. These are just some of the reasons why an IT modernization strategy is crucial to business continuity and cybersecurity. This video shows you how ZPE Systems and Palo Alto Networks have teamed up to create some of the toughest network security, with features including cloud integration and automation.

Upgrade Network Infrastructure With Minimal Business Interruption

Upgrade Network Infrastructure With Minimal Business Interruption

Vendor-neutral management devices, platforms, and ZTP allow you to upgrade network infrastructure with minimal business interruption.

Deploying Smart Edges to Support Modern Applications

Deploying Smart Edges to Support Modern Applications

The advent of AR/VR, autonomous cars, smart everything, IoT, and other 5G applications requires processing of data at the edge of the network to shave off response times, manage core bandwidth, and improve security. This drives the requirement for having high performance low- cost compute at edge locations along with intelligent discovery and routing to connect end-user devices to these locations.

The Definitive SD-WAN Security Checklist for Enterprise Networks

The Definitive SD-WAN Security Checklist for Enterprise Networks

Software-defined wide area networking, or SD-WAN, has made it possible to efficiently control highly distributed WAN architectures using software abstraction and automation. SD-WAN adoption is increasing, partially due to the rise in remote work during the pandemic,...

Mobile World Congress 2022 – Discounted Pass

Mobile World Congress 2022 – Discounted Pass

MWC Las Vegas 2022, in partnership with CTIA, showcases the hottest trends in connectivity and mobile innovation. It’s where the ecosystem meets face-to-face to build strong relationships, to discover the latest trends and technology—as well as learn from the thought...

Channel Matters – July 2022

Channel Matters – July 2022

Channel Matters Driving your Success with Continuous Innovation for Network Resilience & ReliabilityIn Stock Serial Consoles & Services RoutersEmployee Spotlight: Gretchen Miller "Love the culture, co-workers, and products at ZPE!"Gretchen Miller - Channel and...

Nodegrid OS Version 5.6 – Product Updates

Nodegrid OS Version 5.6 – Product Updates

The goal of every release is to reduce complexity and improve security for our customers, and the new Nodegrid OS version 5.6 is no different. Some of the improvements which we implemented in Nodegrid OS 5.6 are: Improvements to a Nodegrid deployment process by...

Why You Need a Next-Gen OOB Console Server

Why You Need a Next-Gen OOB Console Server

An OOB (out-of-band) console server is a fundamental data center tool that allows you to view, manage, and troubleshoot critical remote infrastructure on a dedicated network connection. While the functionality of generation 1 console servers is limited, generation 2...

Por que usar a solução de SD-WAN?

As soluções de SD-Wan chegaram para mudar o paradigma advindo do risco de uso de links de internet para conectividade entre empresas e filiais. Ela é uma solução que integra muitas características e serviços de uma rede como gestão, segurança e load balance, tudo isso...

Networking Field Day 26

Networking Field Day 26

Did you miss our presentation at Networking Field Day 26? Watch the recording below! Watch NowIntroduction to ZPE SystemsZPE Systems enables ‘anywhere’ operations from the data center to the edge, with global out-of-band, modular hardware & software, and...

Security Field Day 7

Security Field Day 7

Join us for Networking Field Day 27! Watch a live demo of Gen 3 Out-of-Band and our Zero Pain Ecosystem. Live stream at 8am Pacific, Jan 26, 2022. Don’t miss it!

ONUG Spring 2022

ONUG Spring 2022

ONUG Spring 2022Thursday, April 28 11:10am ESTMeadowlands Expo Center, Secaucus, New Jersey Want to see what the Ukraine conflict has to do with edge networking? Join us at ONUG on Thursday, April 28 at 11:10am for a first-hand look at how to protect intellectual...

Data Center World 2022

Data Center World 2022

Meet us at Data Center World, March 28-31 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Our engineers will be standing by to showcase some of our leading network resilience solutions, which are trusted by 6 of the top 10 global tech giants. Get hands on with our...

Security Field Day 7

Security Field Day 7

Did you miss our presentation at Security Field Day 7? Download the presentation or watch the recording below! Here’s an overview of what you’ll discover: Why cybersecurity can’t be solved by a single vendor How to overcome risks & ransomware by using immutable...

What Makes a Gen 3 Serial Console?

What Makes a Gen 3 Serial Console?

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What Makes a Gen 3 Serial Console?

What Makes a Gen 3 Serial Console?

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...

Data Lake Use Cases for Edge Networking

Data Lake Use Cases for Edge Networking

Data lakes are a powerful tool for capturing, storing and analyzing data from many different sources. A data lake provides an inexpensive, flat storage architecture in which to house massive amounts of unstructured data, which can then be easily accessed by your data...