Automatic Network Diagram Software: What Is It? What Does it Solve? What to Ask?
By Fred Koh - April 19, 2021If you’re reading this, chances are you want to know exactly what automatic network diagram software is…or maybe you’re thinking you need it…or maybe both? If so, you’re in the right place! This article will cover both what automatic network diagram software is, how you can auto generage network diagrams with a automatic network diagram…
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IT Channel Partner, Value-Added Reseller, or Consultant? Read This
By Fred Koh - April 14, 2021Partners, value-added resellers (VARs) and consultants in the technology sphere: do your Clients need to document their IT infrastructures such as the data center, outside plant and fiber, or the Network? If your clients manage IT infrastructures, such as data centers, the Network, and/or fiber and outside plant, chances are that, at some point, they’ve…
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Stuck in a Visio Rut? Replace Your Outdated Diagrams
By Fred Koh - April 5, 2021When we first talk to a new organization that’s looking to document its network, create network maps, data center diagrams, and cable infrastructure, we often hear something like this: “Oh, we document everything in Visio and spreadsheets.” So…we ask “how that’s working out?” “It could be better. It is difficult at times to use them,…
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Crash Course: Manage Your Power with DCIM
By Fred Koh - April 2, 2021Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM): how do you, and your team, define DCIM? I ask because DCIM isn’t defined by a rigid list of capabilities; what DCIM means depends on who needs it (to read more about “defining DCIM”, click here). If I had to summarize what DCIM is, however, I would define it by…
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Need DCIM? Keep it Simple
By Fred Koh - March 30, 2021What makes a data center infrastructure management solution (DCIM) vendor rank highly in those various top ten lists out there? Well, as I’ve discussed previously, there are numerous factors, such as how scalable or supported a solution is. Ultimately, though, and coming from my perspective as co-founder of a company that makes and sells the…
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There’s No Magic 8 Ball for the Network…but there are Network Diagrams
By Fred Koh - March 23, 2021Your network is ever changing/growing. How do you gain insights on what is running on your network? What about a Magic 8 ball for the network that works like this: just give it a shake and find out if a device is up and down? No such thing exists, right? You can’t just shake the…
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What is “Easy DCIM”?
By Fred Koh - March 22, 2021‘Usability’: it’s one word that means a whole lot, right? Before you purchase any new enterprise-grade software, your IT team probably wants to know: how’s the usability, or, in other words, how easy is it for your organization’s users to use a new application to create and foster adopt-ability for a new software program such…
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Need DCIM? Why The Price Isn’t Always Right
By Fred Koh - March 18, 2021We’ve been in the IT documentation and visualization business for so long that I remember a time before Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) was even coined: we were in the network and data center rack and cabling documentation business back in the early 2000’s and I remember sitting down with our Marketing Director who said,…
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Faster Network Troubleshooting: 2 Must-Have Ingredients
By Fred Koh - February 17, 2021You know the drill: the phone starts ringing and your inbox is blowing up because something’s wrong with the Network…again. Never before in history has there been a time like today: the demand for the technology that powers business operations is growing exponentially and the IT infrastructure — that lays the foundation for the technology…
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Crash Course: Find DCIM That Pays Off
By Fred Koh - February 10, 2021Your data center needs to deliver 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That’s a monumental task in and of itself. Add on to that all the various tools, teams, and KPIs associated with your data center’s performance. Given all of this, it goes without saying that most organizations today need a Data Center…
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Need Logical Diagrams? 3 Use Cases
By Fred Koh - January 28, 2021Network diagrams, which include both physical and logical diagrams, are a crucial source of truth and actionable information in a well-documented network. Because they show the components of a network and how they are connected, they’re a visual way to understand IT networks. Logical network diagrams show network engineers and administrators how information flows through…
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…Network Documentation Doesn’t Matter? Think Again.
By Fred Koh - January 22, 2021Network documentation, as we’ve blogged about before, has been something of a myth. It exists somewhere…so-and-so has seen it before…maybe that’s it? For many organizations, it’s relegated to the ranks of being some kind of mythical sea monster…you’re fairly certain it’s out there somewhere….somewhere… For other organizations, the idea of network documentation is less myth…
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