Summary

Rack Power Distribution Units (RPDUs) are critical to data center infrastructure. These ensure adequate power is distributed to all servers, storage, networking, and other equipment. Much like this equipment, however, RPDUs must be configured and maintained; otherwise, outages can occur and affect the business’ bottom line.

The common practice for managing RPDUs involves manually configuring and performing frequent updates. This poses three challenges:

1. Skilled engineers need to be on-site to perform configuration tasks
2. RPDUs must be configured individually, which consumes valuable time
3. Manually configuring RPDUs can introduce human errors that may lead to catastrophic failures or compliance issues

ZPE Systems solves these challenges with its Nodegrid platform. Nodegrid enables automated deployments and centralized management, which help IT teams configure multiple RPDUs simultaneously, reduce the risk of errors, and eliminate the need for extra networking equipment. These advantages save valuable time and money by allowing efficient, hands-off data center operations.

Download the RPDU solution guide below for full details about this solution, including a wiring diagram and a step-by-step outline of how to set it up.

Summary

ZPE Cloud centralizes global fleet management under a single UI. With Nodegrid devices connected to ZPE Cloud, IT teams get a bird’s-eye view of their critical IT infrastructure, regardless of its location. This provides full remote management capabilities for data center, branch, and edge networking equipment. Here are just a few of the benefits of using ZPE Cloud:

• Fast, repeatable deployments using zero touch provisioning
• Minimize outages with instant remote access for troubleshooting and remediation
• Optimize system health using sensors and Nodegrid Data Lake

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Summary

At ZPE Systems, we take the security of our supply chain very seriously. While we do not publicly disclose specific details about the members of our supply chain, we ensure that every step of our product lifecycle—whether it involves hardware, software, or cloud offerings—is safeguarded through a comprehensive, layered security approach. We strictly adhere to compliance with government regulations, including any restrictions on the use of technology by enterprises due to regulatory mandates.

Our value chain security is designed with the following key objectives:

• Secure Development, Manufacturing, and Deployment: ZPE Systems solutions are developed, manufactured, and deployed within securely controlled environments. We use only ZPE Systems-approved
  processes, tools, and components throughout these stages to ensure the integrity of our solutions.
• Prevention of Malware and Rogue Materials: Our processes are designed to prevent the introduction of any malware or unauthorized raw materials that could compromise the functionality of our products.
• Counterfeit Prevention: Our build and deployment processes are structured to make it extremely difficult for malicious actors to produce counterfeit solutions. By securing every stage of development, we protect our products from being altered or replicated in unauthorized ways.

Read the full 3-page guide now for a comprehensive look at ZPE’s supply chain security.

Summary

Business relies on network resilience. But network management now requires more than a ‘break/fix’ approach. Decentralized and growing architectures are spread across cloud, premises, and large IoT footprints. For shrinking IT teams, this presents resilience problems, as many are unaware of the best practice to help them care for their vast digital estate, maintain complex and delicate architecture, and recover quickly in case of attack. This gap means the network is a source of anxiety.

Big Tech solved these problems 10+ years ago, by doubling down on their management architectures. This best practice, which is now recommended by CISA, involves fully separating management networks from production networks into what’s called Isolated Management Infrastructure. IMI goes far beyond serial console and out-of-band access, providing the management and service delivery capabilities teams need to reduce on-site upkeep, stabilize delicate architecture, and accelerate ransomware recovery.

Big Tech’s network resilience secret lies in ZPE Systems’ Nodegrid hardware and software. Nodegrid is the only network resilience platform, delivering the Gen 3 capabilities that are required to build IMI. Now, organizations in every industry benefit from the best practices that have been trusted to run the public cloud for over a decade. Download the solution guide to get your step-by-step walkthrough on building IMI for network resilience.

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 devices and architectures present teams with a question they need to answer: How can IoT and OT disappear from the attack surface?

Zero Trust security models call for nano-segmentation, which cloaks connected devices. But most solutions lack the ability to limit lateral movement if found out by attackers. ZPE Systems’ Nodegrid Mini SR — a smartphone-size device — solves this by creating an overlay network and running preferred security solutions directly on the box. Organizations in manufacturing, healthcare, utilities, and more can use this solution to remove their sprawling IoT/OT from the attack surface and add an extra layer of protection to their critical operations.

Close your IoT/OT attack surface with a low-cost Nodegrid device. Download the solution guide now for details.

Summary

Enterprise IT teams struggle to secure their environments. One proven approach is for teams to attack their own network, a process called security penetration testing, which is executed externally or internally of the network and extends to all areas of internal networks. The goal is for teams to discover their level of security at remote locations, branch offices, affiliate locations, and all VLANs, to ensure third-party or insider attacks do not propagate to critical digital assets.

The main challenge is that pen testing requires a physical platform to sit at these satellite locations and that can execute the test. This platform must be able to host the pen test application, be managed as a fleet, and be security hardened (signed OS, CVE patching) to safely sit on VLANs without itself becoming an attack vector.

ZPE Systems’ Services Delivery Platform and Horizon3.ai’s NodeZero automated penetration test solution fills these gaps. This joint solution simplifies execution of internal pen tests, automates scheduling of retests, reduces pen test efforts to hours, makes tests repeatable, and expands their scope to cover all IT infrastructure at every location. This solution improves security while reducing operational costs, as it can easily integrate into existing processes to automate patching and configuration management.

See how to secure your network with automated pen testing that you can run anywhere. Download the ZPE Systems and Horizon3 solution guide now.

Summary

Cloudflare One provides Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). This industry-leading solution is trusted worldwide to provide enterprises with secure connectivity for their distributed workforces. The challenge is that many devices and solutions lack native support for the service. This leaves critical systems — from work-at-home networks, to healthcare machines, industrial control systems, and PoS systems — suffering from unreliable connectivity and poor security.

ZPE Systems’ Services Delivery Platform solves this challenge by extending Cloudflare One across environments. ZPE’s Nodegrid devices interface with a wide range of physical and virtual solutions, serving as the SASE on-ramp anywhere they are deployed. This brings reliable connectivity to locations small and large, while unifying the security posture with enterprise-wide ZTNA functionality. Cloudflare One hosted on the Services Delivery Platform makes SASE easy to deploy anytime, anywhere.

Secure your distributed users and infrastructure with Cloudflare One and ZPE Systems. Download the solution guide now.

Summary

Most enterprises operate a hybrid- or multi-cloud environment, which adds significant overhead, complexity, and architectural challenges. This turns networking and security into an operational battleground, where teams are ill-equipped to win against inefficient operations and outages.

The Nodegrid Virtual Services Router (VSR) solves this as part of an out-of-band infrastructure WAN (OOBI-WAN). The VSR bridges the gap between physical and virtual solutions, creating a dedicated and unified OOBI-WAN plane through which to manage diverse on-prem and cloud infrastructure. This allows enterprises to accelerate go-to-market deployments, reduce overhead & costs, and fortify IT against outages.

Make your on-prem and cloud infrastructure simple to manage. Download the VSR and OOBI-WAN solution guide now.

Summary

Ransomware attacks continue to be successful because organizations often leave infrastructure unpatched. IT teams sit on the latest patches and updates from their solution vendors, which exposes infrastructure for the taking and leaves it vulnerable to weaponized ransomware, increased cyber insurance fees, and prolonged recovery efforts. Why is this normal? Because IT teams lack best practices for applying patches, turning the Friday-night upgrade into a scary job that could break the entire system.

ZPE Systems solves this with the reference architecture for automated infrastructure patching, an architecture recommended by Gartner. This involves creating a dedicated control plane via out-of-band infrastructure, which enables teams to securely patch devices and automate recovery and rollback in case of issues. Big Tech uses this best practice to automate patching and recover systems in case of errors.

Close your attack surface and gain the ability to quickly roll back from bad configurations. Download the automated patching solution guide now.

Summary

Organizations struggle to manage the hundreds of products involved in enterprise security. Most NGFWs, SD-WAN, pen testers, and on-prem & cloud solutions require hardware platforms to be deployed with the rest of enterprise IT, which creates infrastructure sprawl. This hardware lock-in prevents IT from switching to other vendors and applications, while the technical overhead locks IT teams into performing tedious operational tasks — such as provisioning, installing, and orchestrating dedicated hardware — instead of enabling them to deliver services quickly and focus on providing business value.

ZPE Systems solves this with the Services Delivery Platform. This approach, which Gartner calls platform engineering, facilitates streamlined deployment, activation, and orchestration of services — when and where they are needed — via self-service capabilities and infrastructure automation. The Services Delivery Platform’s open hardware and software directly host VMs, containers, apps, and automation solutions, enabling teams to provide business value through flexible, on-demand service delivery.

Accelerate time-to-market by delivering any app, anytime, anywhere. Download the Services Delivery Platform solution guide to get started.