ROI Series: Calculate Your ROI from DCIM Software

ROI Series: Calculate Your ROI from DCIM Software

By - December 30, 2021

In this blog, the fifth and final part of our ROI series on network mapping and DCIM, we’re looking at a return on investment calculation for data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software. In the previous blog, we analyzed which are the potential areas for savings, so If your area of implementation is DCIM, asset management…

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ROI for Network Documentation & DCIM Software: DCIM Analysis

ROI for Network Documentation & DCIM Software: DCIM Analysis

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In this blog, the fourth part in our ROI series, we’ll do a return on investment (ROI) analysis for Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software. If your main pain point is a lack of control over your Data Center spending, inefficient use of your space, power and cooling — and/or overall deficient asset and cabling…

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ROI Series: Calculate Your ROI from Network Mapping Software

ROI Series: Calculate Your ROI from Network Mapping Software

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In this blog series, we’re diving into return-on-investment analyses for network mapping and data center infrastructure software. If network documentation and network mapping software can solve your pain points, then this blog and the previous one are for you. If you’re looking for savings in the Data Center, rack documentation, cabling, power and cooling and…

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ROI for Network Documentation & DCIM Software: Network Mapping Analysis

ROI for Network Documentation & DCIM Software: Network Mapping Analysis

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In this, the second blog of the ROI series, we’ll do a return on investment (ROI) analysis for network documentation and network mapping software. If your main pain point is a lack of IT and network visibility and you need a better way to document and map your network and you were looking at netTerrain…

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ROI for Network Documentation & DCIM Software: Basics

ROI for Network Documentation & DCIM Software: Basics

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Whether your organization is investing in a network documentation system, or a data center infrastructure management (DCIM) system (or something similar), chances are that, to secure funding for purchasing the software, you may need a certain level of approval. While it may seem painfully obvious to you as to why operations will run a lot…

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Easily Visualize Your Data Center Floor Plan

Easily Visualize Your Data Center Floor Plan

By - December 23, 2021

One of the things that you may want to document in a Data Center Infrastructure Management System (DCIM) like our software netTerrain is how objects like racks or power equipment are distributed in a data center floor plan. When you’re documenting a data center floor plan, there are lots of objects that you may want…

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3 Big Fat Myths About DCIM Software

3 Big Fat Myths About DCIM Software

By - December 21, 2021

Here at Graphical Networks, we make netTerrain Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software: it’s used by hundreds of organizations to document and manage their data centers space, power, and cabling capacity. It can be used to not only document your data center rooms, but also your telecom rooms and even your office floor space too….

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Scanning QR Codes in Your Data Center Using netTerrain

Scanning QR Codes in Your Data Center Using netTerrain

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With the release of version 9.1, netTerrain has a new feature for scanning QR codes using the netTerrain mobile app. The ability to scan QR codes is most useful in a data center environment (as you may want to quickly identify and locate a device in your IT inventory — for example: you may want…

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Shadow IT? Mitigate Your Risks with Network Documentation

Shadow IT? Mitigate Your Risks with Network Documentation

By - December 17, 2021

The threat of Shadow IT… it sounds like something out of a Stephen King book or B-horror movie. I can see it now: “scary IT resources that are lurking and waiting — in the shadows — to attack at any minute or hour…coming to a network near you!” In this blog, we’ll look at what…

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netTerrain 9.1:Usability, Discovery, & Modules Upgrades

netTerrain 9.1:Usability, Discovery, & Modules Upgrades

By - December 10, 2021

Another release, another step closer to documentation nirvana: welcome to netTerrain 9.1. 9.1 marks the second incarnation of the 9.0 series (aka “Europe” as you’ve probably noted in the guide covers that feature striking images from the continent). With netTerrain 9.1, we worked on the usual run of new features, small fixes, and improvements, with…

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Complaint of the week: managing displayed fields?

Complaint of the week: managing displayed fields?

By - December 9, 2021

Welcome back to another installment in our “Complaint of the week” series: blogs in which we look at actual complaints from our users and share workarounds. As we’ve said before, while most vendors may not want to discuss any holes in their products, we believe it’s important to foster a collaborative environment and share knowledge…

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Dynamic Network Diagrams: Avoid the Headaches, Enjoy the Results

Dynamic Network Diagrams: Avoid the Headaches, Enjoy the Results

By - December 6, 2021

Over the course of the decades in which our team has been in the market of providing network engineers and admins with quality network documentation and dynamic network diagram software, we’ve listened to our customers a lot, we’ve talked to other vendors, we’ve met other folks at trade shows using various types of tools for…

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