Netcordia, Inc. is a privately held developer and marketer of network configuration and change management

Network configuration and change management

Network configuration and change management a discipline in information technology. According to research from IDC and Gartner, NCCM is one of the fastest growing markets in the ITOM market. Organizations are using NCCM as a way to:* automate changes;* reduce network downtime;* meet compliance....

 software. Founded in 2000 by Terry Slattery, the first non-Cisco employee to be awarded the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert certification, Netcordia was created to develop network software

Networking software

Network Software is a set of primitives that define the protocol between two machines. The network software resolves an ambiguity among different types of network making it possible for all the machines in the network to connect and communicate with one another and share information.network...

 and applications that automate the management of network configurations, by tracking network changes and compliance requirements, such as PCI DSS

PCI DSS

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is an information security standard for organizations that handle cardholder information for the major debit, credit, prepaid, e-purse, ATM, and POS cards....

, HIPAA, SOX and GLBA, and correlating how change impacts network health and performance.

In May 2010, Infoblox

Infoblox

Infoblox, Inc. is a privately held developer and provider of enterprise network infrastructure automation software and hardware that provide DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and NCCM network services...

 announced that it had acquired Netcordia in order to broaden its range of network infrastructure automation products.

Headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland, Netcordia also maintains a regional sales office in the United Kingdom. Netcordia’s customers include the United States Army, TIAA-CREF, Duke University, CareFirst Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Texas A&M University, Neiman Marcus, and The Container Store.
Privately held,
Netcordia is 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

Inc. (magazine)

Inc. magazine, founded in 1979 and based in New York City, is a monthly publication focused on growing companies. The magazine publishes an annual list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., the "Inc...

 and among Red Herring

Red Herring (magazine)

Red Herring was a technology business magazine, which flourished during the dot com boom, with global distribution and bureaus in Bangalore, Beijing, and Paris. It also sponsored conferences designed to bring venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and technologists together. But the magazine went into...

s Top 100 Most Promising Tech Companies in North America.

Software

Netcordia produces NetMRI, a plug and play integrated network appliance 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

VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....

 virtual appliance

Virtual appliance

A virtual appliance is a virtual machine image designed to run on a virtualization platform ....

version of NetMRI with a free trial option.