netTerrain Users Summit 2019 (Recap)
By Fred Koh - May 30, 2019We’ve been busy here at Graphical Networks: in addition to our ongoing projects, we recently hosted our first annual netTerrain Users Summit, held on the campus of the William F. Bolger Center in Potomac, MD. The Users Summit, which attracted netTerrain infrastructure administrators, managers, network engineers, and partners from four continents (North and South America,…
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Convince Your Boss You Need DCIM Software
By Fred Koh - May 29, 2019I’ve heard it before too many times to count: a well-meaning administrator knows their organization will benefit from the right DCIM solution. Afterall, their organization is struggling with prolonged troubleshooting times and associated expenses, wasted money on IT assets that weren’t actually needed due to improper utilization, cables that aren’t decommissioned, servers drawing power but…
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How DCIM Helps You Manage Your Infrastructure Cabling
By Fred Koh - May 21, 2019‘Spaghetti’: it’s a funny word for a not-so-fun problem facing many data center teams today. If your cabling is in a state of chaos aka spaghetti, you may need to consider DCIM to get your cabling under control. Data center cabling messes, or spaghetti, can truly wreak havoc on your operations: you end up dealing…
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Graphical Networks to Host First Annual Users Meeting
By Fred Koh - April 8, 2019Graphical Networks, a leading global provider of IT visualization solutions for data center (DCIM), outside plant, and logical network documentation, has announced its first annual users meeting May 14th – 15th, to be held near the Graphical Networks headquarters at the William F. Bolger Center in Potomac, MD. The purpose of the inaugural netTerrain Users…
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How DCIM Software Improves Data Center Security
By Fred Koh - April 1, 2019My colleague Jan Durnhofer wrote an article about how to secure your DCIM solution from security attacks (click here to read it). Continuing the discussion around DCIM and security, I’d like to discuss another key aspect of security for your data center: how DCIM can help managers secure the data center from within the organization….
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DCIM Software DCOI Compliance for U.S. Federal Data Centers
By Fred Koh - March 12, 2019netTerrain is the DCIM software of choice for numerous U.S. federal data centers and networks (check out our federal government customers here). Our users rely on netTerrain DCIM for a solution that’s both easy-to-use and affordable when they need to get their networks, and documentation, into regulatory compliance. When it comes to the Data Center…
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DCIM Software: 6 Questions Before You Start Your Quest
By Fred Koh - February 28, 2019Several months back, I wrote an article about DCIM 101 — which aims to dispel some myths and cover the basics of what DCIM software is. As that article has been popular, I want to follow up and discuss the next steps in finding the right DCIM software for your organization. You may be wondering…
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Network Diagram Software: How It Benefits Your Organization’s Bottom Line
By Fred Koh - February 13, 2019I’ve written a number of articles about why network documentation is important and why it should be a priority project (instead of being sidelined and pushed as a lower priority project). At this point in my career, I’d take out a billboard ad if I thought it would help: “automated network diagram software (aka network…
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Need a Magic Red Button for Network Documentation? Read This.
By Fred Koh - February 6, 2019We get countless inquiries from people looking to ditch their spreadsheets and Visio diagrams: they are looking for an automated network documentation/network mapping solution. More often than not, network folks want to find the holy grail, for example: “What exactly can I discover, and can it automatically place the network device inside my data center…
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netTerrain Cloud Software: FAQ
By Fred Koh - February 4, 2019I just finished an article discussing about DCIM pricing and the last section I discussed there was our netTerrain Cloud offering. Wait a second…Graphical Networks offers a cloud version of netTerrain? Yes! Where can I find this? Can I try this out for free? Does it include all of the features of an on-premise netTerrain…
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DCIM: What’s the Cost? What are the Options?
By Fred Koh - February 1, 2019Exploring DCIM software and trying to figure out the pricing from your DCIM vendors shouldn’t take a rocket scientist.In this blog, we will discuss: the specific items you should be looking for in a quote, what is included, are there any modules needed to fulfill your needs, and any hidden costs associated with your shiny…
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FAQ about netTerrain DCIM, OSP, & Logical Software
By Fred Koh - January 2, 2019As the head of sales here at Graphical Networks, I field many questions about our different software offerings for network mapping, data center infrastructure management (DCIM), and outside plant. Many organizations with whom we work have an idea of what they need, have heard netTerrain may be a good solution, but want to know more…
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