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...

Network Management just moved up another rung on the strategic IT priorities ladder with the announcement from CA that it’s acquiring NetQoS. The biggest message: It’s becoming increasingly clear that getting network management right is critical to building, operating and optimizing next generation IT...

I am pleased to announce that we have a new web site , which of course includes a new home page. The goal of this new web site was to simplify the navigation and content, integrate it with our community site , and share some of the testimonials we hear from our customers about our products. In this new...

We are excited to have a leading analyst, Dennis Drogseth from EMA , as the featured presenter for our live webinar - Managing Change Across the Network - on 9/30/08 at 12:00 Noon Eastern Time. During the interactive session, Dennis will discuss how configuration management and performance management...

There are several key components used by successful IT and networking organizations: People Processes Tools People are the most important assets, followed by proper processes, then the tools to implement and automate those processes. Great people, with the right processes, can overcome the lack of tools...

Today, I was talking to one of Netcordia's university customers in the state of Texas. They have over 40 merchants and store fronts on campus allowing students and others to pay by credit card. And they've started to get audited at least once per year for PCI DSS compliance, as they have obligation...