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...

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...

With all the existing network management products on the market, what was the motivation for creating NetMRI? I found in my consulting work that people often had a lot of products, but that they didn’t regularly use them (yes, there are exceptions). The existing systems were difficult to use, weren’t...

I visited a customer yesterday who is using eight (!) tools for network management (this count includes NetMRI ). It wasn’t much of a surprise to find out that they are using only a fraction of each product, often only one specific function. One product was used for displaying a map with red/green...