Netcordia, Inc. was a developer and marketer of network configuration and change management software. Founded in 2000 by Terry Slattery, the first non-Cisco employee to be awarded the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert certification, Netcordia developed

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that automate the management of network configurations, by tracking network changes and compliance requirements, such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX and GLBA, and correlating how change impacts network health and performance. In May 2010,

Infoblox Infoblox, formerly (NYSE:BLOX), is a privately held IT automation and security company based in California's Silicon Valley. The company focuses on managing and identifying devices connected to networks—specifically for the Domain Name System ...

announced that it acquired Netcordia. Headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland, Netcordia had a regional sales office in the United Kingdom. Customers included the United States Army, TIAA-CREF, Duke University, CareFirst Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Texas A&M University, Neiman Marcus, and The Container Store.

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, Netcordia was funded by Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Gold Hill Capital. In 2009 Netcordia was ranked the thirtieth fastest-growing privately held software company in the United States by '' Inc. Magazine'' and among ''

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s Top 100 Most Promising Tech Companies in North America. Infoblox is expanding into a new market segment, buying network systems management software Netcordia for an undisclosed sum. The sale was on May 4, 2010 https://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/infoblox-acquires-netcordia

Software

Netcordia produced NetMRI, that automatically collects configuration (CLI), SNMP, syslog / events, and VoIP data from multi-vendor Layer 2 and 3 network devices. The NetMRI appliance records changes that are made to a network, and identifies the correlation between change and overall network health, issuing alerts that can assist network managers in fixing problems that might increase network downtime. In September 2009, Netcordia released a downloadable,

VMware VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture. VMware's desktop software ru ...

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version of NetMRI."Netcordia Introduces Downloadable Virtual Appliance and 30-Day Free Trial"
''RFP News''. 2009-10-01. Retrieved on 2009-10-01.

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