HEAnet: providing network uptime for education
If there’s one sector that relies on network uptime more than ever before, it’s the education sector. For both in-person and virtual learning, students and staff connect to crucial resources around the world to share information. The infrastructure that enables this...
NetDevOps Transformation Process & Critical Steps for Network Professionals
The NetDevOps methodology helps organizations streamline their network, development, and IT operations through automation and cross-team collaboration. This blog will explain the NetDevOps transformation process and the critical steps you need to take to implement...
Security Service Edge (SSE) Implementation Guide for Enterprises
Security Service Edge (SSE) is an emerging network security model that rolls up technologies like zero trust network access (ZTNA), cloud access security broker (CASB), secure web gateway (SWG), and next-generation firewalls/firewall as a service (FWaaS) into a...
Top 5 IT Infrastructure Management Challenges & How to Overcome Them
IT teams are often caught in a balancing act. They're forced to juggle many disparate systems while responding to the fire drills they each present. Regardless of the industry, IT infrastructure management is defined by the struggle to maintain servers, networks,...
Top Security Service Edge Use Cases & Benefits for Enterprises
Security service edge (SSE) is an emerging network security model, first announced by Gartner in their 2021 Hype Cycle, that stems from the need to retool the industry’s thinking about SASE (secure access service edge). SSE protects your network edge by combining...
Understanding Key Components of SSE (Security Service Edge)
Modern network management involves a wide variety of distributed technologies. Because of this, enterprises have progressively moved towards the Security Access Service Edge (SASE) model to provide remote users with secure cloud-based services. Even though these...
How to Implement Zero Trust: Technologies to Shield You From Million-Dollar Losses
How to implement zero trust security is a growing focus of organizations across the globe. With cyber attacks frequently hitting some of the largest companies and threatening entire economies, it’s no wonder why comprehensive network security is a top priority among...
How Automated Network Management Helps in the Remediation of Human Error
Large enterprises rely on the management and administration of their networks to continue their daily operations. In recent years, networking trends have pointed towards using automated processes to regulate and administer enterprise networks. Automated networks free...
What Is Zero Trust Security? 5 Critical Things You Need to Know
Zero trust security is not a new concept, but it has gained popularity in recent years. As companies become increasingly distributed, they must offer flexible network access without putting sensitive data at risk. That’s where zero trust security comes in. What is...
3 Data Center Management Challenges—and How to Solve Them for Good
Data center infrastructure adds an extra layer of complexity to enterprise networks since you need to remotely manage hardware at scale. The network perimeter needs to extend across a geographical distance—which could be several miles or several continents—while...
Data Center Modernization Strategy: How to Streamline Your Legacy Environment
The rapid development of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools leaves most software quickly becoming outdated. Consequently, it is replaced by the next trend on the market, after a short time. The use of such software following its “expiration” creates...
ZPE Systems hosts Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma SD-WAN for edge flexibility
Fremont, CA, September 21, 2021 – ZPE Systems, an innovator of network and critical IT infrastructure management at the data center and edge, today announced its ability to host Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma SD-WAN solution. Until now, organizations migrating to...
SASE & Zero Trust: How They Come Together to Improve Network Security
How do secure access service edge (SASE) and zero trust work together to improve network security? Simply put, SASE works by deploying security via the cloud, and zero trust deploys security in the least privileged access method. Networking trends have heavily shifted...
DigiCert: improving critical network infrastructure for 50% less work
Critical network infrastructure drives business. Like a system of roadways, it determines how efficiently communications move to and from your organization. This affects everything such as the speed of customer banking transactions, to the reliable access IT support...
SASE vs Security Service Edge: What’s the difference?
Security Service Edge. Is it just another fancy networking term? After all, we’ve already got SASE (Secure Access Service Edge), so why throw another buzzword into the mix? The truth is, there’s a big difference between Security Service Edge (SSE) and SASE. SSE is a...
4 Enterprise Network Management Trends to Expect in 2022
With remote working becoming the new normal over the last year, companies have experienced a complete restructuring of their business operations, from how deadlines are met and meetings are held to how clients receive their deliverables. This transition has also...
3 Tips to Improve Edge Network Resilience
When it comes to improving edge network resilience, traditional WAN architectures can easily get in your way. Suppose you’re setting up an electrical substation, cellular base station, or other distributed remote infrastructure to incorporate cloud-based networking....
SASE Implementation: A Step-by-Step Guide for Businesses
SASE—which stands for secure access service edge—is a relatively new framework that converges wide-area networking with security into one cloud-based service stack. SASE uses software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology to directly connect branch offices and...
The Importance of Micro-Segmentation for Zero Trust Networks
As workloads, applications, and data move to the cloud and business operations expand to include branch offices, remote data centers, and work-from-home staff, how do you define your network security perimeter? With zero trust networks, you don’t have to. Zero trust...
Detecting Ransomware on a Network: 3 Critical Steps to Ensure Network Security
Ransomware is one of the biggest threats to enterprise network security. Recent findings show that 37% of organizations were affected by ransomware attacks in 2020 alone. These attacks can be financially devastating, costing companies an average of $1.85 million in...
What Are the Key Zero Trust Security Principles?
Perimeter-based security is no longer sufficient for today’s enterprise network. You may even struggle to define your network perimeter anymore, mainly if you use cloud infrastructure, have remote data centers and branch offices, or rely on “Internet of Things” (IoT)...
Centralized vs. Distributed Network Management: Which One to Choose?
Though every business network is unique, they all broadly fall under one of the following architecture categories: centralized (or decentralized using server clusters) and distributed. Let's discuss how centralized vs. distributed network management models work,...
Zero touch provisioning: 3 drawbacks you need to know
It’s Friday morning, and you’re bringing a new site online with zero touch provisioning. Your remote branch devices arrived the night before, and all you want the store manager to do is plug them in. A few minutes later, your job is finished and you’ve still got your...
Understanding Key SASE Components & Benefits
SASE—secure access service edge—combines SD-WAN technology with network security functionality into a single cloud-native solution. SASE uses SD-WAN’s intelligent routing to connect remote and branch users directly to cloud services, improving network and application...
ZPE Systems strengthens growth strategy with strategic hire
Fremont, CA, August 24, 2021 – ZPE Systems, an innovator of network and critical IT infrastructure management solutions, welcomes Steve Jehring as Vice President of Sales and Business Development. Steve brings more than 30 years of sales, business development, and...
Out-of-Band Network Management: Fundamental Principles & Use Cases
Out-of-band network management gives enterprises secure and remote access to critical network infrastructure, even during outages and service interruptions. It separates your production network from your management plane, allowing you to remotely troubleshoot,...
3 Zero Trust Security Benefits for Large Companies
Network security has become more challenging for large companies whose employees, devices, and applications no longer reside within one easily defended perimeter. Zero trust security, which operates under the assumption that every user, device, and application is...
ZPE Systems announces Nodegrid Data Lake, app marketplace, and sensors to help organizations uncover valuable data for edge operations
Fremont, CA, August 10, 2021 – ZPE Systems launches a new applications marketplace, along with a portfolio of USB-type environmental sensors, meant to help organizations leverage valuable data generated by their IT components. As networks and users become more...
Network Management Best Practices for Enterprises
Enterprise network management is the practice of administering, managing, and operating an extensive business network, often (but not always) with multiple branches in different geographical locations. Network management best practices aim to ensure the enterprise...
The SASE Model: Key Use Cases & Benefits
Secure access service edge (SASE) is the recommended architecture for security and connectivity. SASE combines wide area network (WAN) technology for robust onramp to cloud and network security services into one cloud-delivered connectivity and security software...