28th January 2009

iSimile Announces the Availability of Netcordia's NetMRI 3.0 - Adds Impact Analysis to NCCM

Netcordia’s new flagship software solves the number-one challenge that undermines network performance and policy compliance – internal changes to the network, whether malicious or inadvertent – by giving network administrators a crystal-clear picture of every modification, and a ‘hot’ list of likely network problems they cause.

Netcordia’s NetMRI 3.0 takes Network Configuration and Change Management (NCCM) capabilities one step further–by providing multiple views of the network and every device connected to it, and then showing the impact of changes on interdependent network initiatives. New diagnostic capabilities outpace anything else on the market, highlighting the potential impact of even the smallest changes, which can–and do–wreak havoc in unexpected ways.

Available today, NetMRI 3.0 answers the three critical questions that short-staffed IT departments worry about:

• What is the impact of this change to our network?
• Is our network compliant with policies and 'gold standards'–and can we prove it?
• Can we operate to our full potential with a limited head count?
  

"In today's climate, companies need to do more with less - and Netcordia’s new release allows customers to do just that, by ensuring that operations, support and management teams have a clear understanding of how their network is configured and how it has changed," said Leigh Collett, Managing Director at iSimile. "It helps share the knowledge of how the network is configured as well as validate it against best practice and policies, which is vital when IT teams are shrinking and demands on the network are increasing."

Multi-dimensional, Web-based Visuals Tell the Full Story

NetMRI 3.0 distills complex data into easy-to-interpret images and topology views. Each data point can be viewed in rich detail, set in context, and analysed in three ways:

• Timeline dashboard – to show changes over time and visually correlate network health and policy adherence, for faster root cause analysis
• Topology status views – to see exactly where in the network a change occurred, overlaying both health and policy compliance status, to correlate by topology location and dependence
• Network Explorer – providing ad-hoc analysis to identify common threads by device attributes, through a rich graphical interface

About iSimile:

iSimile designs, implements, and supports a range of performance, availability and security focused solutions and integrates best of breed products from Apani Networks, CA, Netcordia, Lancope, McAfee, Netcordia, nCircle and netForensics, which offer:

• Business service management
• Application performance management
• Network health management
• System & application management
• Voice management
• Security risk management
• Event consolidation and correlation
• Security reporting
• Incident resolution management
• Network segmentation & device authentication
• Encryption
• IT security surveillance and packet-level forensics
• Vulnerability management
• Flow analysis
• Change and configuration management
• Compliance management
  
• Data Protection
  

More information about iSimile can be found at www.isimile.com

About Netcordia

Netcordia is a leading provider of network automation software to the world's most complex and mission-critical networks. Its award-winning network change and configuration management (NCCM) software continuously audits multi-vendor infrastructures, identifies anomalies early and speeds resolution. Netcordia helps more than 275 leading healthcare, financial services, academic, service and government organizations stretch IT budgets, improve overall performance, meet corporate policy and comply with stringent federal regulations. Founded in 2000, Netcordia is headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland. For more information, visit www.netcordia.com.