Posted on March 23, 2017 by Marcio Saito, CTO
Before the 1980’s most of computing happened in centralized mainframe or mid-sized computers. Users accessed shared computing resources thorough “dumb terminals” (those green-screen terminals displaying text-based interfaces we used to…
Posted on May 13, 2014 by Dan Baxter
Earlier this week I found some best practice recommendations from Cisco on securing and controlling out-of-band management for their Nexus 7000 series supervisor modules. Although the recommendations made by Cisco…
Posted on April 14, 2014 by Keith Hansen
So one might ask, who’s the best? This question seems to get asked a lot as people make many important purchases; a new TV, car, smartphone, or even a console…
Posted on March 5, 2014 by Dan Baxter
WHY OUT-OF-BAND TERMINAL SERVERS BECOME GHOSTS It is not uncommon to see remote access solutions (terminal or console servers) still in the racks years after they were last upgraded or…
Posted on June 22, 2012 by Opengear Marketing
Wow, what a show! This years Cisco Live US show packed over 17,000 network engineers and systems administrators into the San Diego convention center. Thankfully we had extra staff on…
Posted on June 14, 2012 by Tony Merenda
When I co-founded Opengear, one of the challenges for me and my engineering team was to reduce hardware cost of infrastructure management in the data center dramatically. The initial result,…
