DCIM software selection: the don’t’s and don’t’s
By Jan Durnhofer - November 12, 2019I must say that we are quite proud of our customers as they really are a smart bunch. Now, I’m not just saying this just because they happened to choose netTerrain for their Data Center Infrastructure monitoring. That is far too easy for me to say being a (biased)vendor. I truly think our customers are…
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Don’t Make the Mistake of Buying DCIM If…
By Jason Sherman - October 21, 2019Ok…if you’re familiar with our company (we manufacture software: DCIM, OSP, and Logical network diagram/documentation software), you’re probably thinking “what???”. I admit: it’s a pretty strange title from a manufacturer of DCIM software. There is, I promise, method to my madness. Here it comes…the # 1 reason you should avoid buying DCIM software…. Let’s start…
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DCIM Software: How Long Will it Really Take to Implement?
By Jason Sherman - October 11, 2019“Yeah, it all sounds great but honestly, this seems like a lot of work: how long is this DCIM project going to take us?” The above is real question from a data center manager interested in purchasing data center infrastructure management software (DCIM), we hear questions like that a lot as vendors of DCIM software….
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Choosing a DCIM Software: The Devil is in the Details
By Jan Durnhofer - August 23, 2019There’s a saying that goes, ‘the best marketer always wins’. And, if you think about it, this kinda makes sense. Why, exactly? Well…if you’re buying software such as data center infrastructure management software (DCIM), you typically don’t really get into the details of a software until after you’ve actually bought it. If the best marketer…
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What Makes netTerrain DCIM Stand Out?
By Fred Koh - July 30, 2019There many DCIM software vendors out there, and for our prospective customers, it can be a difficult task to discern which vendor is the best choice. During the sales process, we are often asked, ‘what makes netTerrain DCIM stand out’? Before I dive into the specifics, I’ll start with a little background info on our…
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netTerrain mobile app developed using the REST API
By Jan Durnhofer - July 16, 2019In a previous blog, we discussed how a couple of customers had developed their own mobile apps for netTerrain DCIM. One of these customers, Acciona Energía (a global renewable energy provider from Pamplona, Spain) presented their results at our annual users summit (the summit took place between May 13th and 15th at the Bolger Center…
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Wanna excel academically? Use netTerrain DCIM!
By Jan Durnhofer - July 15, 2019At our recent users summit, one of our customers and a partner announced they had developed their own flavor of a mobile app for netTerrain DCIM. We will dig deeper into these implementations but, to briefly summarize: using our REST API , these customers developed a mobile app in which a user can scan devices…
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Is this the best DCIM implementation ever?
By Jan Durnhofer - July 11, 2019During our users summit this past May, we uncovered some truly fantastic projects from our customers. Over the course of the 3-day event, we saw great examples of automation using our API, we discussed some cool fiber plant deployments, touched upon CFD (computational fluid dynamics) integrations with netTerrain, but one project was, truly, the absolute…
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“netTerrain DCIM Won Fair and Square.”
By Jan Durnhofer - July 10, 2019I recently had the pleasure of catching up with Javier Iriarte, Communications Manager at Acciona Energy, for a quick interview right after our users summit. Acciona Energía, a global supplier of clean energy based out of Pamplona, Spain, started using netTerrain DCIM recently and we have to say that the results are nothing short of…
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Make Your CA Spectrum Diagrams Sing
By Jan Durnhofer - June 17, 2019I remember way back in my Concord (and later when I worked for CA) days: I took a liking to the recently acquired Spectrum network discovery software (this was probably around 2004 or 2005). Spectrum was one of the first tools that I remember was capable of bringing in link data from an SNMP discovery…
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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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