Secure Remote Management Appliance Enhanced by Uplogix

The leading provider of next-generation secure remote management (SRM) solutions, Uplogix®, announced today the general availability of a fully-integrated remote management platform, Envoy™ and Envoy Management Station™ (EMS) v3.4, which enterprise customers worldwide are adopting as a critical component to their network and server infrastructure. Large IT organizations are helped by the enhancements in this new version to further automate routine maintenance and recovery tasks to alleviate the risks, complexity and costs in managing dispersed networks.

An IT Security Consulting firm specializing in corporate computer and network security services, Got Net Security, offers Uplogix as part of their service offering thanks to a surge in customer interest.

CEO, Got Net Security, Chris Boykin, said: "Remote management is an area we are seeing a lot of demand in by our customer base". "This new version has allowed us to expand our service offering to include an intelligent product that will more than meet customer expectations of what an integrated remote management appliance can do. As network architecture and IT infrastructures become more increasingly complex, new approaches and technologies like Uplogix are required. Both Got Net and Uplogix are well positioned to deliver not just today's infrastructure management needs but future needs as well, and we look forward to building our prosperous relationship together."

An always-available, secure and intelligent direct connection to the remote devices it manages-like putting your most trusted IT administrator everywhere, all the time, is integrated in Version 3.4 of Uplogix' award-winning architecture. Traditional network management tools, in combination, are not equipped to automate routine maintenance and recovery tasks because they depend on the network being available, and thus rely on people to do the work. The Uplogix solution is a new approach that significantly reduces labor costs and allows IT professionals to focus on more critical responsibilities. Enhanced features include:

    * Improved User Authentication Flexibility. IT administrators now have the ability, by enhancing the security model to expand beyond global settings, to choose user authentication options on a more granular level, promising only the right users have the right access to the right devices. Envoy integrates with the leading third party authentication systems including RSA SecureID, TACACS, Secure Computing's Safeword and Radius.

    * Additional Fault Tolerance Options. Envoy now supports bonding between primary and secondary Ethernet ports. Envoy can failover the secondary interface, if a connection to the primary interface is lost, ensuring devices are always accessible and available.

    * Web-based Archiving. Formerly transferred through Secure Copy Protocol (SCP), data files capturing device changes such as configurations, alerts, and events, can now be archived more efficiently through a HTTPS session. To Improve overall performance of large enterprise-wide implementations, key and configuration management challenges are minimized.

    * Extended Device Support. Uplogix, continuing to meet network device and server requirements of the largest, most advanced distributed IT environments, has added support for Alcatel 6600 and 6800 Omniswitch product lines.

Uplogix has pioneered the industry's first SRM appliance that integrates critical Access, Control and Enforcement (ACE) remote management functions to alleviate the risk, complexity and costs inherent in managing distributed IT infrastructures such as branch offices and remote datacenters:
    * Access. Secure always-available access to the distributed devices you need to manage.
    * Control. Local automation and control of routine maintenance, configuration and recovery tasks.
    * Enforcement. Consistent security and policy enforcement, even during network outages.