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Banta Corporation Uses NetMRI

"While we have a number of other tools we use for performance monitoring on the network, NetMRI is able to do more long-term analysis of issues than any other product we have."

—Derek Dolan, Network Engineer

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Netcordia Survey: Managing Change in a Recession

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In December 2008, more than 450 network administrators weighed in on biggest worries, and plans for doing more with less in a tight-belt economy.

From where do you anticipate the greatest threat to network availability?

From where do you anticipate the greatest threat to network availability?

With 64% of our respondents votes, internal change continues to be network administrators' greatest worry. While the vast majority of these changes are inadvertent, and probably trying to help the network, in the end they can end up hurting or crippling network performance.




Has your department recently experienced layoffs, or are you anticipating workforce reduction in the coming months?

Has your department recently experienced layoffs, or are you anticipating workforce reduction in the coming months?

With the current economic conditions, 30% of our respondents have either experienced or will experience departmental layoffs. IT teams are now tasked to do more with less–most network administrators are already doing the job of 2-3, and we are seeing that will magnify.




If you anticipate a reduced IT staff, how will you manage?

If you anticipate a reduced IT staff, how will you manage?

To cope with a reduction in force, administrators plan to work longer hours, focus on only mission-critical work, and step up automation efforts. By eliminating manual collection of data, and identifying conflicts before they become crises, NetMRI 3.0 gives administrators back precious time. As Willis Marti, CISO of Texas A&M University says "NetMRI lets us do more with the same amount of people. Otherwise, we would need three people going through hundreds of routers and thousands of switches."



When and if someone from your IT team leaves or is laid off, how worried are you that they'll leave a "back door" open to an IT vulnerability?

When and if someone from your IT team leaves or is laid off, how worried are you that they'll leave a

In a time of layoffs and cut-backs, security is increasingly becoming a concern for administrators. The safety net Netcordia provides, in seeing changes as they are being made to the network and limiting the staff that can make changes to the network, greatly reduces the chance that a back door can be left open.