Need IT Documentation? Why Organizations Choose netTerrain
By Fred Koh - December 21, 2020Are you ready to move away from the nightmarish tasks of updating your spreadsheets, Visio diagrams, and Google Earth diagrams? Need a better way to manage the capacity of your network and data centers? Fed up spending enormous amounts of time troubleshooting the network (that results in lost productivity and money)? Trying to find a…
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Import Your netViz Diagrams into a Modern Solution
By Jason Sherman - December 14, 2020We’ve written about in the past (as you may already know if you’re reading this): the team here at Graphical Networks used to work for netViz, an IT documentation software that was sunset in the late 00’s. When netViz was sunset by its most recent parent company, we saw a need — for current netViz…
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Find DCIM Software That Lasts for the Long Haul
By Fred Koh - December 10, 2020Constant changes and evolution define the modern data center. As a result of all of these changes, the software in which you invested just a few years ago still needs to be able to get the job done for your data center today and your data center five years from now. If you need Data…
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netTerrain OSP at BICSI’s Virtual Winter Conference & Exhibition
By Fred Koh - December 4, 2020To say that this year has been difficult, across the globe, is an understatement. Over the past several months, we’ve all found new ways to get the job done amidst adversity and logistical issues — including annual trade shows. Whether you’re a regular attendee at BICSI or have yet to attend a BICSI event, we…
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Data Center Remote Control Made Easy with DCIM
By Fred Koh - November 30, 2020The recent pandemic has profoundly disrupted nearly all facets of everyday life: its impact on data center managers and teams has meant the need to remotely manage assets and power. Managing multiple sites with unique power systems is hard during a normal year — during a pandemic…when you’re working with a reduced team for a…
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Unlock Your Data Center’s Hidden Capacity with DCIM
By Fred Koh - November 25, 2020Planning for data center capacity? Sick of playing, ‘eenie meenie minie mo’ everytime you need to lay down a new piece of equipment? You’re not alone. Most data centers have slowly grown up over time. They’re like an old farmhouse: things are tacked on here and there as needed. Data centers have quirks…and sometimes these…
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Network Incident? DCIM Helps Eliminate Stress & Cost
By Fred Koh - November 23, 2020Downtime is an expensive and pervasive problem. A survey conducted in 2019 by the Uptime Institute highlights how much of a problem it is when it found that “almost one-third of data center owners and operators experienced a downtime incident or severe degradation of service in the past year, and half in the previous three…
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Meet Your SLAs with Network Diagram Software
By Fred Koh - November 19, 2020Ever set out to fix a common household problem like a leaky faucet? How much of that time do you spend actually fixing the problem — and how much of the time do you spend trying to figure out what’s wrong, where exactly the leak is coming from, which part you need, and so on….
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You Don’t Need One-Size-Fits-All DCIM: You Need Communication
By Fred Koh - November 17, 2020Over the years in this blog, we’ve said this too many times to count: no singular software can do it all. Yes, many organizations are looking for the single pane of glass view — and for good reason: you have so many moving pieces and tools and you need one central repository in order to…
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$60 Mil Question: Are Your Data Center Devices Properly Decommissioned?
By Fred Koh - November 13, 2020Morgan Stanley recently agreed to pay a whopping fine…to the tune of $60 million dollars. The crime? They did not properly decommission data centers connected to one of its business arms. They hired contractors, failed to keep tabs on customer data stored in obsolete devices, and, though no data breaches were found, $60 million later,…
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Considering DCIM? You May Want to Start Small
By Fred Koh - November 10, 2020As you may already know, Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software is becoming more and more critical to the modern data center. With it, you can plan and manage for capacity, power, manage cabling, and get a single-source-of-truth of your entire IT infrastructure. You can share insights across teams and provide different views to different…
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What is Data Center Network Documentation?
By Fred Koh - November 2, 2020We often discuss network documentation in this blog — it is, afterall, what our flagship product netTerrain, does (and well)! netTerrain, in a nutshell, is a complete network and data center documentation solution: it encompasses network diagrams/mapping, data center infrastructure management (DCIM), and outside/fiber plant…in one solution. In this article, we’ll discuss what data center…
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