As an avid follower of both Network World and Denise Dubie , I really enjoyed the a recent post on the " 5 Must-Have IT Management Technologies for 2010 ." While the article includes service hot topic trends like virtualization/virtual systems and IT service assurance, I was excited to see...

Scott Hogg just did a post on his Network World Blog that mentioned SLAs (Service Level Agreements). It is a very timely article for me because I'm working with a customer who wants to define network SLAs. The task becomes one of selecting an appropriate SLA for the organization. Good SLAs will have...

There are plenty of stories in the news on how employees or ex-employees have sabotaged the network or the IT. What's even more interesting is that based on a recent Netcordia survey, many organizations are worried about this issue. So, would an employee purposely sabotage your network? Well, we...

We were talking with Debra Curtis of Gartner yesterday about Network Configuration and Change Management ( NCCM ) and the topic of Rollback came up. Juniper has supported the 'commit' operation since they started, allowing their devices to be rolled back easily. However, Cisco only recently added...

Jamey Heary, CCIE No. 7680, who writes for Network World's Cisco Subnet, recently wrote about a set of new features in Cisco's IOS 12.4(20)T release . One of the features he describes is pretty neat: Packet Capture. At times, the only way you can troubleshoot a network problem is to get a packet...

Network World published an article yesterday, Dear IT: Forget the technology , in which Josh Hinkle is quoted "Somebody will say, 'There's a big sinkhole in front of the building' -- and everyone wil think, 'Oh, it must be the network.'" This article struck a chord with...

On Wednesday this week we'll be at Network World's IT Roadmap - Boston event. I will be speaking and we'll have other Netcordia staff there to showcase our solutions. If you're going to be there, make sure you stop by and say hello. We look forward to seeing you!

I was just reading about a neat free wireless vulnerability scanner written by Josh Wright, WiFiDEnum . It scans both wired and wireless systems and checks for vulnerable wireless drivers. Josh was interviewed by Network World and the resulting 'chat' is at Wireless security foiled by new exploits...

Network World just did an article on network management of IPv6 in which Netcordia was mentioned. ( Where eight network management vendors stand on IPv6 ) Of course, a short interview doesn’t provide much opportunity to say much about a reasonably complex topic, so I’ll add some other thoughts here....

We were informed yesterday that NetMRI was awarded second place in Network World's Clear Choice Test: Management Tools, that evaluated mid-tier network management products. There are many big competitors in the lineup and we’re proud to have produced a product that could compete with them and...