Dorado Software is a
multinational information technology
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company specializing in the development, licensing, and support of
network management software
Network management software is software that is used to provision, discover, monitor and maintain computer networks.
Purpose
With the expansion of the World Wide Web and the Internet, computer networks have become very large and complex, making ...
. Dorado develops and maintains the Cruz product suite (formerly Redcell), which provides infrastructure and service lifecycle management for heterogeneous and multi-technology environments.
Cruz
Dorado's Cruz product suite (formerly branded as Redcell) combines a range of management functions in a single console and also automates the deployment and management of network devices including routers, switches, PCs, servers, storage and security appliances. Cruz product features include automated configuration, change management, monitoring the health and performance of assets, trend reporting, network traffic analysis, service provisioning, and
managed service provider
Managed services is the practice of outsourcing the responsibility for maintaining, and anticipating need for, a range of processes and functions, ostensibly for the purpose of improved operations and reduced budgetary expenditures through the re ...
features.
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Dorado has an
OEM
An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is generally perceived as a company that produces non-aftermarket parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer. It is a common industry term recognized and used by many professional or ...
relationship with other companies such as
Dell EMC
Dell EMC (EMC Corporation until 2016) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and Round Rock, Texas, United States. Dell EMC sells data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, cloud c ...
and CommTelNS that private-label or embed its technology. Notably, Cruz serves as the basis for
Open Manage Network Manager which is sold by Dell EMC as a means of managing their various lines of switches and/or network equipment from other vendors such as
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develo ...
,
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The company develops and markets networking products, including routers, switches, network management software, network security products, ...
, etc.
History
Dorado was founded in 1998 in
El Dorado Hills, California
El Dorado Hills (''El Dorado'', Spanish for "The Golden") is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in El Dorado County, California. Located in the Greater Sacramento region of Northern California, it had a population was 50,547 at t ...
as a provider of application development environments for OEM element management systems (EMS). The company used this experience to build a multi-vendor management system that evolved into the suite of Cruz products.
See also
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Communications service provider
A telephone company, also known as a telco, telephone service provider, or telecommunications operator, is a kind of communications service provider (CSP), more precisely a telecommunications service provider (TSP), that provides telecommunica ...
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Infrastructure management services
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of detailed practices for IT activities such as IT service management (ITSM) and IT asset management (ITAM) that focus on aligning IT services with the needs of business.
ITIL de ...
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External links
* {{Official website, www.doradosoftware.com
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Software companies based in California
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