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On the 40th anniversary of one of the coolest high school movies of all time, we honor the one and only Francis Bandwidth, Lumics’ own IT rebel with a cause. Fran is the man and from his first day on the job (also approx 40 yrs ago) he’s been tickling the keyboard like Elton on them ivories. Hats off to you, Sir Francis, king of the systems engineers. If you’re a network or systems engineer monitoring and protecting a network, there’s nobody better to have in your corner. #networkmonitoring #systemsmonitoring

A little over 8 years ago the Lumics brothers Gario and Gavinigi, along with their sidekicks Young Master Francisco and J-Brownie set out to rescue Princess IT from the evil clutches of subpar network and infrastructure monitoring systems. They were successful, and became known as the Super Monitoring Brothers. Movies and video games have been made about their epic adventures. They continue to rescue all IT teams in distress and under the dark shadows of the old, oppressive, taxing monitoring regimes.

29 years ago Clash of the Titans introduced some then-cutting edge stop-motion and special effects to theaters across the country. Then 16 years ago it was remade, this time with some impressive CGI and even more epic special effects, making the phrase “Release the Kraken!” (Liam Neeson as Zeus) a legendary pop culture reference. Fun fact we learned from ChatGPT: Neil Corbould who worked on the original Clash as a teenager (he assisted with the mechanical owl Bubo) returned for the 2010 version as the Special Effects Supervisor. Sadly, Bubo did not return (apparently Sam Worthington – the “new” Perseus – didn’t like the idea of a mechanical owl sidekick). OpenAI and Anthropic and other tech Titans have now “released the Kraken” of AI upon us. If we can tame it and use it properly, it can be an incredible force for good in the world. If we’re not wise, however, it will surely destroy us all. I’m an AI optimist and stand on the side of harnessing its power to rapidly accelerate innovation to benefit humanity. We’re building some cool AI stuff (with serious security guide rails) into Lumics to help IT warriors accomplish nearly impossible tasks with ease.

On the last weekend of March in 1999, The Matrix hit theaters. People walked out of the theaters completely stunned, mind melted, totally blown away. It was a huge hit. The Matrix was a quantum leap forward in cinematography. We’re accelerating towards the Convergence – where the lines between human and digital are blurring. In so many ways this is amazing! AI will enable us to exponentially increase innovation in every field. It will replace many current jobs, but will simultaneously generate multitudes more. AI is so powerful we have to be incredibly thoughtful about how we leverage it. At Lumics we’re building AI into our core architecture in a way that will enable our MSP and IT clients to do so much more with their current talent, while simultaneously protecting customer data. It’s a fun time to be alive! #redpill

As a network or systems engineer you are frequently called upon to put out fires, defend and protect the critical data, keep everyone communicating efficiently and securely regardless of where they’re located or what types of devices they’re using. Sometimes things get so hairy you’re not sure what to do. With Lumics, you can always call a Hail Gary (he’s one of our best) and we’ll get him to fix all your issues. Network and infrastructure issues, that is.

Many years ago on this very weekend, Gavinardo, Franatello, Garyael, Kyleangelo, and Jason joined forces in the dark hidden caverns of the Lumics NOC to form the now-famous band of network and infrastructure defenders known as the Middle-Age Mutant NetFlow Ninjas. They live to help IT teams across the globe monitor and protect the precious data flows that keep businesses businessing. Cowabunga!

Six years ago, the critically acclaimed and globally celebrated Captain Marvel had one of the largest March movie openings of all time. Very few people know that Lumics’ own Kyle Larson, originally selected for the lead role, opted to play in a local golf tournament and missed the call from his agent. Brie Larson (Kyle’s distant cousin) was chosen instead – thankfully for the studio and fans. That did free Kyle up, however, to help Lumics enter some new markets that year, much to the delight of network and systems engineers everywhere.

Critical data moves across your network like Spice on Arrakis. Your task, intrepid network engineer, is to protect that data and keep it flowing efficiently at all costs while fighting off bandwidth bandits and Harkonnen-like hackers. Lumics is the most powerful tool to help you monitor and tune that precious data flow. With Lumics, you are the Monitoring Muad’Dib.

AI is amazing. And fun. Sometimes brilliant. Sometimes stupid. Extra fingers, legs blending into other objects, random objects floating in images. It’s fun, and funny, to see what you’re going to get from a prompt.
But it is changing the world at a more rapid pace than any other technology wave in history. We’re heading into unmapped territory – to borrow a network engineering term. It’s exciting.
Jobs are changing, industries are changing, the world is changing. Old roles will disappear, while myriad new ones present themselves. When 1 person can do what 10 or 100 or 1,000 could do before it doesn’t mean there is nothing now for those 9 or 99 or 999 to do, it means they can now do 10 or 100 or 1,000 cool new things.
Batten the hatches, tighten your belts, strap in because the adventure is just beginning.

10 years ago, the highest-grossing film ever tied to Valentine’s week opened. The Notebook? Nope. Valentine’s Day (the movie)? Guess again. Hitch? closer, but still no. True movie buffs know it was the now-infamous “DHCP Pool” – a superhero action flick that defied all expectations, featuring a motley crew of network and systems infrastructure monitoring nerds from Lumics saving humanity one firewall at a time. The ultimate chick flick. #loveisinthenetwork

In the world of network and systems monitoring, you’re bombarded by a billion (small exaggeration for the sake of alliteration, but not by much) three- and four-letter acronyms. Engineers love long names for stuff, and love even more converting those long names into acronyms. LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol for those who aren’t network ninjas), SNMP, WinRM, WMI, DNS, LAN, WAN, VPN, DHCP, TCP, HTTP, FTP, MPLS, IPAM, NOC… the list is almost endless. Luckily the wicked smart engineers that built Lumics network and systems monitoring understand what all these acronyms mean, and how to help other wicked smart engineers utilize and monitor them all successfully.

Your network engineers make sure your bandwidth is optimal. Lumics has their back. Lumics is the tool of choice for your network and systems warriors protecting the communications and infrastructure that keeps your business, and your world, running smoothly. #bandwidthboysforlife

At Lumics we work hard, but it’s no hustle. It’s a grind to be the best at what you do. We compete with companies with hundreds of millions in funding, hundreds or thousands more employees than we have, big fancy campuses, and millions in marketing budget. But we still win. We win with a phenomenal product, designed by network and systems engineers for network and systems engineers. And we win with fanatical customer support. We care about every customer – regardless of size – and we want them to win. That makes Lumics the tool of choice for the engineers working around the clock to help their companies win.

Your network can become a pretty wild mess. You need experts to help you tame it and navigate it – and it’s no game. Your network and systems engineers are in that digital jungle every day keeping your data safe and moving from one place to the other as quickly as possible. Lumics is the weapon of choice for those intrepid defenders of your network jungle.

28 years ago a genius kid solved a seemingly impossible math problem on a university blackboard. 8 years ago several other genius kids solved a few more seemingly impossible problems – this time in the world of network monitoring. If you’re lucky, you have a few genius “kids” working for you on your IT team, solving the incredibly challenging problem of keeping your network working perfectly and securely. Lumics is the tool your genius IT team can use to help them pull off that nearly impossible task on a daily basis.

Network and systems engineers spend a lot of their time in the upside down. They often work in the dark, protecting your business and your world from the demons and bad actors that are trying to hack in, steal your most valuable assets, and destroy everything you’ve built. Lumics is the weapon of choice for these unsung heroes, helping them monitor your network, and when necessary, tap into the hive mind to keep evil away.

Lumics is a network and systems monitoring platform for IT professionals. Lumics helps the people guarding and optimizing your network keep the snakes in the jungle where they belong, not in your business. Merry Christmas!

In the network and systems / IT industry it’s difficult to stand out. All the vendors look the same, sound the same, make the same promises. At Lumics we’ve had a little fun trying to stand out from the crowd. AI has helped a little bit with this, making us funny thumbnails for our website home page video – hopefully just unique enough to catch your eye and make you smile. We try not to take ourselves too seriously. One thing we take very seriously, however, is helping organizations answer this extremely critical question related to their success: What is happening on my network right now? Your network is the lifeblood of your business. Too many of us take for granted the fact that we can instantly communicate with our customers and co-workers anywhere around the globe. We take for granted that money flows instantly and securely from customers to us and from us to our vendors and employees. We take for granted that we can instantly access information about our patients and deliver critical care to them using databases and machines that are all connected. We take for granted that we can deliver products and services to customers securely and quickly regardless of their location. One group that doesn’t take any of this for granted are the IT teams – the network and systems engineers – that work tirelessly to keep us all connected and all the information and money flowing securely and instantly. Lumics is the weapon of choice for this group of network warriors. It is the critical tool helping them to help you succeed.

In a Galaxy far far away there are self-monitoring, self-optimizing, self-healing, and self-updating networks. In our Galaxy, wicked smart network and systems engineers use Lumics to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their networks and infrastructure. Some day we’ll get to self-aware networks, with the help of our A.I. overlords, but until then Lumics is the weapon of choice. Lumics provides a real-time comprehensive view of everything happening on your network, with the ability to instantly troubleshoot issues when they arise. Lumics is the way. This is the path the network Jedis follow.

In 2012, the world met Wreck-It Ralph and fell in love with the big guy. Then 6 years later, right before Thanksgiving in 2018, Ralph came back and broke the internet with his emotionally unstable clones in a global DoS attack. Ultimately Ralph lets go of his insecurities, deletes his clones, and makes amends with his good friend Vanellope. During all the main plot action, however, Lumics’ own Fran G, the systems OG, fixed the intranet for hundreds of customers and saved them from this, and many other, DoS attacks using Lumics network and systems monitoring to stay in front of any network and infrastructure problems. Fran’s story didn’t make even the Director’s cut for the movie, but he will go down in Lumics lore as one of the great unsung heroes of our day.

Not everything is as it seems. Especially in the world of network and systems monitoring. How can you discover the truth? Find out who the good actors and the bad actors really are and respond quickly? Lumics is the answer. Lumics helps MSPs and internal IT teams monitor, optimize, and protect their communications and data flows and keep their networks green and golden.

It’s not easy being a network or systems engineer. You work in the shadows, you drag cables through crawl spaces, you keep outdated and under-spec’d hardware alive as long as possible, and hardly anyone knows you’re there until something goes wrong. Lumics is the weapon of choice for the unsung heroes in that world. You keep the networks running, man! We’re trying to make your job, and your life, easier. We see you. We appreciate you. You keep us all connected and keep the data and dollars flowing! You got this.

No sleight of hand here. Lumics is stealing customers from big incumbents in the network and systems monitoring industry who are changing their prices, ignoring their customers, and tricking them into buying packages of services that include stuff they don’t need. What we do isn’t magic. It’s just putting customers first and consistently doing the right thing.

On July 3, 1985 Marty McFly drove into his past in a flux-capacitor-fueled Delorean, an iconic stainless-steel sportscar that, in appearance, was the great grandaddy of the cybertruck.
When Marty later travelled to 2025 (this visit was cut from the movies due to time constraints ;-)) he met with some of his grandkids who had founded a network and systems monitoring tool called Lumics.
He told them that Lumics was “far out” and that he was proud of what they’d built and the type of people they had become. 
Lumics helps network and systems engineers stay on top of their most valuable asset – their communications and data lifeline – to make sure their businesses keep running smoothly and everything is groovy.

42 years ago, The Right Stuff launched. An exciting and entertaining tribute to the men and women who were willing to push the boundaries of what was possible with flight and space exploration, and who in some cases sacrificed it all to push the country, and the world, forward. Lumics honors the innovators, the inventors, the explorers, the risk-takers, and the bold souls who challenge the status quo to make the world better. Lumics helps MSP and in-house network and systems engineers keep their networks running smoothly. A critical, and mostly overlooked and under-appreciated role – until something goes wrong. Like many of the mostly forgotten, behind-the-scenes heroes of the early space program that, with creativity and ingenuity, helped our astronauts go where no man had gone before, the engineers we work with keep critical systems working in hospitals, airlines, banks, first-responder hubs, military bases, and more. We see you. We appreciate you. Our mission is to make your critical mission easier and less stressful.

Network and systems engineers are the mostly unseen protectors and miracle workers that keep our communications and commerce lifelines (networks and critical systems infrastructure) safe and working properly. Most of the time – especially when everything is good – you may hardly know they exist. Working in the literal closets, crawl spaces, and shadows they keep us connected and keep our hospitals, universities, banks, companies, entertainment, and social spaces operating as expected. Lumics supports these guardians with tools to help them excel at their critical mission. At Lumics we’re helping them serve up network miracles daily.