Of the many profound and metaphysical questions plaguing Philosophy majors today, none may be so important as why are hotdogs sold in packs of 10 and hotdog buns in packs of 8, followed closely by why does my Local Manager only have 56 serial ports when I clearly have 57 routers? Lucky for you, our founder and[...]

One of the most common questions we get from new and existing customers is whether the Uplogix Local Manager can support an XYZ SynergyDynamics  Router Model 390000. Our reply is always the same: if a device has a serial port that you can connect to with a laptop, then we support it. This is possible thanks to a[...]

If you subscribe to the many-worlds interpretation set forth by Hugh Everett in 1957, then there would have to exist a version of reality in which you purchase an Uplogix Local Manager for each of your 5,000 datacenters and once the product is delivered, we stop answering the phone. In this bleak reflection of our[...]

There’s a quote that gets attributed to Bill Gates a lot but was likely said by Clarence Bleicher in 1947 that goes “If you get a tough job, one that is hard, and you haven’t got a way to make it easy, put a lazy man on it, and after 10 days, he will have an easy way to do it.”  That’s pretty much been my mantra[...]

If the movie Wargames taught us anything, it’s that you shouldn’t leave your computer systems so wide open that even Ferris Bueller can just walk right in. Nowhere is that more important than in a remote management platform that is directly connected to your core routers and switches. Remote access and automation[...]

Twenty years ago, out-of-band solutions were just starting to move past the era of plugging a phone line into a Cisco 2811 with octopus cables and hoping it answered when you called it. Today, we not only have more options for out-of-band channels, including cellular, satellite, and secondary Ethernet connections,[...]