NETGEAR Announces Business Network Management Platform and 10GE Managed Switch

Wednesday, July 13, 2011 by Eden Mondanaro
One of the things we're proud of at Dorado Software is our long history of creating OEM element management systems (EMS) for leading manufacturers.

The new NETGEAR ProSafe® Network Management System (NMS200) gives customers a way to discover, configure, monitor and manage all NETGEAR Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches on their network from a simple, single interface. The ProSafe® 24-port 10 GE Managed L2+ Switch (XSM7224S) provides 10 Gbps server performance and scalability across the network. The...Read More »

One Interface for Services and Devices: Advanced Multi-Vendor Network Management

Friday, September 24, 2010 by Eden Mondanaro
How nice would it be to have 1 common interface... A single GUI, not a bunch of different tools... for everything?

One aspect of network management: Inventory/deep discovery. This is something that on the surface sounds simple, but really is the foundation for everything else that takes place in your network. For example, "How are my devices configured?" or "How are my services provisioned?" You can't begin to fix a system or process that's broken without knowing first what you have.

Discovery al...Read More »

Lights-Out IT Management

Thursday, May 6, 2010 by Alan Taylor
We were just perusing the collection of white papers on the Dorado Software website  and ran across a great write-up regarding lights-out IT Management. If you haven’t seen the actual white paper, you can get it here.

In a nutshell, Lights-Out IT Management is the ability to provide automated remediation including event, configuration, service level and security management in an unattended environment. This helps move IT resources further up the food chain – being able to provide value-add...Read More »

How to simply manage a Multi-Vendor Network?

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Eden Mondanaro
When it's time to invest in a network monitoring and/or network management system, one of the first questions to arise is, "will I need to manage a network with elements from multiple vendors, or is my network equipment going to be all from one single vendor?"

The answer is usually - you guessed, it - both! "We need a network management system that needs to seamlessly blend our legacy systems into whatever is the hot new upgrade (or even more frequently, the necessary infrastructure investment...Read More »