Over the past several years, the capacity planning area for IT professionals has become much more challenging when dealing with managing active switch ports. For most organizations, the challenge is threefold: The sheer number of ports requested has continued to grow year over year. The transient nature...

Over the past year, I have had the opportunity to talk with many customers, partners and prospects of Netcordia and it’s been very interesting to see the changes in terms of requirements and functionality in dealing with network configuration, change and compliance management. Our engineering team has...

As virtualization gains steam, it’s becoming more confusing because different organizations and vendors use the term interchangeably. Can virtualization mean putting multiple application servers on a single piece of hardware? Can it mean virtualization for network devices like core switches? Is it delivering...