Achieving Network Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Compliance
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This paper describes the ways that Netcordia's NetMRI can help you quickly achieve and maintain PCI DSS compliance across your network. NetMRI can manage and monitor the many demands of PCI DSS by automatically performing security audits, configuration updates, and policy compliance verification on IT infrastructures of any size.

Network Testing Labs Review: Netcordia's NetMRI Network Analysis Appliance
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By Barry Nance, Network Testing Labs

This new whitepaper, written by Network Testing Labs, shows how NetMRI quickly identified outages and network slowdowns, gave timely and relevant information about the problems, was easy to use and scaled extremely well.

10 Simple Steps to ITIL Network Compliance (pdf - 92k)

There has been a remarkable rise in recent years of a set of principles and processes that were first put together by the British government called ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library). These best practices have proven tremendous benefits to organizations worldwide. This whitepaper describes ITIL in more detail and how you can use 10 simple steps to reach ITIL network compliance.

How NetMRI's Unique Intelligence Simplifies Network Management (pdf - 382k)
By Dennis Drogseth, Vice President of Enterprise Management Associates

This whitepaper, written by EMA's Dennis Drogseth, highlights how business is experiencing a growing dependence on network service along with a shortage of appropriately skilled IT staffs. And how, it is not longer efficient or cost effective to use fragmented post-event investigation to prevent potentially catastrophic network service interruptions. A holistic, enterprise-wide view supported by efficient analytics is becoming crucial to maintain network service levels to meet user expectations at minimal business risk.

Demonstrating the ROI for Management Systems (pdf - 337k)
Justifying the purchase of more network management tools is difficult because most organizations already have a big investment in network management. We describe how networks have changed in the recent past and how that drives the need for network analysis. The ROI factors include a relatively new view from Forrester Research: Total Economic Impact™. Check out these factors in this whitepaper and the detailed steps to sell the CIO on tools that do more than monitor — they analyze the network.

Network Downtime, the Configuration Errors (pdf - 101k)
This paper shares market research that highlight the importance of employing automated management tools to make networks more reliable. It discusses how some organizations fail to properly apply proven techniques to make networks function better. Furthermore, it shares how incorrect configuration on network elements can lead to downtime.

Ensuring Network Compliance - an Opportunity to Optimize the Network (pdf - 460k)
As the number and type of regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and Basel II continue to multiply and change, organizations are struggling to understand how to comply with the relevant mandates for their industry and geographic territories. With the cost of non-compliance ranging from hefty financial penalties to jail sentences, the topic is top of mind in the boardroom. This paper focuses on the impact of legislation on network operations, the requirements for network compliance, the parallel optimization benefits companies may experience from the compliance process, and how NetMRI from Netcordia helps companies manage and enforce network compliance with both best practices and official mandates.

From Research to Production: The University Network (pdf - 3.8MB)
University networks have migrated from the research world into production networks that are essential to acquiring and retaining faculty and students who require excellent network connectivity as part of their daily environment. Many University networks are often a problem to handle because of their size and because they are often multi-vendor by design or by financial requirement. This paper identifies the top six major issues that drove a number of Universities to deploy Netcordia's NetMRI network analysis solution and the benefits gained.

Proactive Analysis is the Key to Optimizing Networks - An Executive Guide to Addressing Network Challenges (pdf - 1.7MB)
With today's complex, heterogeneous, and far-flung networks, the information and functionality the network staff needs to address these challenges requires proactive information that can complement traditional reactive network management information. What's needed is a way to continually evaluates and improves the health of the network, while helping to ensure compliance and security of the network. This paper describes how some organizations have addressed the issues of performance, security, reliability and compliance. It also shows the benefits to the staff when they can respond to potential problems before they happen in a more productive and efficient manner.

New Developments in Network Management (pdf - 154k)
Network management is going to see significant changes in the next few years. Networks will continue to become more complex as new technology like wireless and voice become more integrated. This paper summarizes some of the changes to come.

Knowing Your Network - Part 1 (pdf - 76k)
Part I of series of articles about what you need to know about your network, this article describes some of the most specific things that are critical in knowing about your network to ensure smooth operation.

Knowing Your Network - Part 2 (pdf - 151k)
Part II of series of articles about what you need to know about your network, this article examines HSRP and trouble shooting the network.

Network Management, What Works, What Doesn't, and Why (pdf - 862k)
On April 23rd, Terry Slattery, CEO & Founder of Netcordia spoke at the Combined IEEE & NCUG meeting in Nashville, TN. Terry led a lively discussion of Network Management, What Works, What Doesn't, and Why.

The ROI of NetMRI (pdf - 113k)
This paper describes the costs associated with outages and degradation of modern networks in organizations today, the productivity increases for staff in using advanced tools like NetMRI™ to minimize these impacts, and why tools with minimal complexity and low operational costs achieve the best gains.