With IT staffs shrinking even as compliance requirements swell,companies want ever more sophisticated diagnostic capabilities toprotect against malicious or inadvertent network changes that canlead to costly downtime. Netcordia, an Annapolis, Md., vendor ofnetwork configuration and change management software, says its newNetMRI 3.0 offering fills that need.

“For companies to survive in this economy, they need to do morewith less, yet continue to uphold strategic network initiatives,such as assuring adherence with industry regulations like PCI[payment card security], HIPPA [Health Insurance Portability andAccountability Act] and Sarbanes Oxley,” says Jim Frey, a senioranalyst at Enterprise Management Associates.

Version 3.0 provides a single view of changes made to thenetwork, showing who, when and where they were made, according toDon Pyle, Netcordia CEO. Its dashboard views also show the impactof those changes and resulting tradeoffs from policy compliance tooverall network health.