How DCIM Can Lower PUE
By Fred Koh - August 17, 2018Data center power and cooling costs are expensive…and as infrastructures continue to expand, these costs are only going up. Because of solutions such as DCIM software, costs don’t have to keep skyrocketing. DCIM can give insights as to where power is being drawn by servers that aren’t performing any functions, for example, or true power…
Learn MoreView Your Entire Cloud & Network Infrastructure
By Fred Koh - August 16, 2018The digital transformation movement is leaving no prisoners behind in its wake: infrastructure-as-a-service (the Cloud) — for example — has become immensely popular as it frees up IT and development time and the costs to maintain a data center. A 2016 IDG survey returned staggering results: 47% of companies have transitioned their messages to the…
Learn MoreHow Network Diagrams Help You with Compliance & Regulations
By Fred Koh - August 15, 2018Recently, I wrote a blog entitled ‘Network Documentation: Is It Really a Priority?’: in this blog, I discussed the importance of network diagrams and documentation in capacity planning, reducing mean-time-to-repair, lowering expenditures, cutting down on IT clutter, and more. One significant issue I didn’t discuss in that blog is this: regulatory compliance. Graphical Networks, my…
Learn MoreNetwork Documentation: Is It Really a Priority?
By Fred Koh - August 10, 2018Let’s face it: we all say “network documentation is important”… but for some reason it is never truly considered urgent or a higher priority. I hear it all the time. Yet, when the ‘you know what’ hits the fan, we all go desperately scrambling for those uninspired network documents…only to find them outdated and basically…
Learn MoreUntangle Your Cable Management Mess
By Fred Koh -Hey, I know what would be really fun to try at work today: let’s all spend hours trying to find a needle in a haystack! When you can’t see where your cabling is, and what exactly you have, you end up wasting countless hours trying to find cables you didn’t even know you have (or…
Learn MoreLower Data Center Power Costs & Control Unnecessary Spending
By Fred Koh - August 9, 2018The issue of zombie servers remains a major hurdle for data centers today. According to a Stanford University study, a staggering 1 in 3 servers is – for all intents and purposes – a zombie: it’s drawing power but not performing any meaningful functions. Why do I care about this costs problem haunting modern data…
Learn MoreHow to Centralize Your IT Infrastructure Views
By Fred Koh - August 8, 2018Here’s a common scenario you may find yourself in or are currently in: you’ve just started working for a company with a sizeable network….and the main person (who has all the knowledge) just left the company for good. The big ticket questions are: “What do we have on our network? Are there routers that are…
Learn MoreCloud vs. On-Premise Software for Managing the Network
By Fred Koh -2018 is the year of the Cloud (okay, maybe someone said that about 2017, and maybe they’ll say that about 2019, too). Right now, there is a lot of discussion around what’s better in software today: a Cloud or on-premise solution? There’s no doubt that the Cloud is trending upward. A 2017 tech forecast survey…
Learn MoreGraphical Networks Announces Partnership with Siemon
By Fred Koh - July 11, 2018After a search for the right data center hardware manufacturer with whom to partner, Graphical Networks is pleased to announce it has partnered with Siemon, a leading network infrastructure specialist. This partnership will afford Siemon’s customers the ability to manage, control, and document the data center. As an industry leader in network infrastructure, Siemon specializes…
Learn MoreWhat is DCIM? DCIM Software 101
By Fred Koh - June 15, 2018DCIM, which stands for Data Center Infrastructure Management, gives data center managers a central repository from which they can manage their data centers’ assets, space, power, cabling, cooling, and downtime. DCIM makes managing the ever-expanding ecosystems in data centers less daunting: with DCIM software, cable and circuit outages can be traced and resolved, new equipment…
Learn MoreWhy Big DCIM Vendors Have a Big ROI Problem
By Fred Koh - May 31, 2018Regardless of how much large software vendors may want it to be otherwise, DCIM, aka data center infrastructure management software, isn’t — by its very nature — a one-size-fits-all solution. It can function across a number of different data center functions. Don’t just take my word for it: ask ten DCIM vendors to define exactly…
Learn MoreU.S. Army Awards netTerrain Certificate of Networthiness (CoN)
By Fred Koh - January 19, 2018Press Release: The U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) has awarded the netTerrain IT visualization software suite from Graphical Networks with a Certificate of Networthiness (CoN). The CoN certification confirms that netTerrain meets — or exceeds — the criteria set forth by the Army and Department of Defense (DoD) standards for security, compatibility, and…
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