Next Time an IT Asset Goes Missing, Don’t Call the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
By Hannah Ash - April 13, 2017In the world of outside plant management, you get used to seeing different headlines related to the industry. Exciting ones such as, “TIA updating outside-plant, residential cabling standards”, if you catch my drift. So, when this gem of a story crossed my desk, “Miscommunication: 68 foot cell phone tower reported missing wasn’t stolen after all”,…
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netTerrain Support: Monthly Newsletter 11/16
By Hannah Ash - November 22, 2016Welcome to the netTerrain Monthly Support newsletter with your questions answered, videos full of tips, and the inside scoop on all things netTerrain. It’s through your questions and suggestions that netTerrain gets even better with each new release: thank you for being an active part of the netTerrain community!
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netTerrain 6SigmaDCX Integration
By Hannah Ash - November 7, 2016Gain visibility of data center performance with netTerrain DCIM & 6SigmaDCX. GAITHERSBURG, MD — The Green Grid has defined data center performance in terms of a Performance Indicator – the combination of efficiency and resilience. netTerrain DCIM users who want to baseline data center performance or quantify the performance impact of operational plans can now…
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netTerrain 6.7 @ Gartner’s Data Center Conference
By Hannah Ash - October 26, 2016Coming up in December, 2016 – Las Vegas: See netTerrain DCIM, 6.7, in action. Don’t miss our DCIM lecture in the learning lab at Gartner’s Data Center, Infrastructure & Management Conference.
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How are DCIM, Network Documentation & OSP Priced?
By Fred Koh - August 18, 2016As you may have noticed, there’s been a series of interesting developments at Graphical Networks lately… For starters, we have a completely revamped website. We also just launched netTerrain 6.6 (finally!) and we introduced a new product for outside plant called netTerrain OSP. netTerrain OSP is ideal for campus fiber management, wireless network documentation, advanced…
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Outside Plant Software: Meet netTerrain OSP
By Hannah Ash - August 3, 2016Our customers asked for it – and we delivered: a solution for documenting wireless and fiber optic networks. With the release of netTerrain 6.6, netTerrain Outside Plant (OSP) software is live. In this introductory blog to our new series on Outside Plant software, we’ll give you an overview of what netTerrain OSP is and how…
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Buying DCIM? If You Overlook This, You’ll End Up Stuck
By Jan Durnhofer - March 15, 2016In this 3rd part of our 8 part blog series, we’ll explore the process of creating an entire Data Center hierarchy – everything from a world level map down to sites, Data Center buildings, floors, racks, devices and ports. Though you may not pay much attention to hierarchies when you’re first on the market for…
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Why DCIM 3D Views Might Be Snake Oil
By Fred Koh - February 24, 2016A post on another blog got us thinking about our days as part of the netViz team and how we still get lots of 3D requests for netTerrain (which does not support 3D for specific reasons we will go over here). While netViz supported 3D, we found it problematic for most applications. Sure, those canned 3D…
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Define a DCIM Custom Object…in 60 Seconds
By Jan Durnhofer - November 19, 2015Almost every DCIM solution comes with standard objects such as model floors, racks, devices or power & cooling elements; many solutions will probably offer some virtual equipment, circuits and cables. There are even some vendors who may model less common things – such as panels or doors – but inevitably, you will need something modeled…
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The #1 Reason Your DCIM Tool May Not Deliver
By Jan Durnhofer - October 26, 2015Extra, extra! DCIM vendors recently discovered something earth-shattering: customers just need a tool that is easy to use and flexible so that it can adjust to a set of specific problems in their Data Center… Further, it seems that customers have been mostly unfazed by all the psychobabble, acronym changes and other gimmicks that DCIM vendors have been…
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If Only DCIM Vendors Had Tinder Accounts
By Hannah Ash - October 19, 2015Considering purchasing DCIM software for your organization? If so, you’ve probably identified which pain points you need the software to solve, but you may not have given as much thought to the vendor with whom you will be working. Data center infrastructure management software is an investment, and just as you wouldn’t buy a car…
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Kill Those Zombie Cables Haunting Your Data Center
By Jan Durnhofer - September 24, 2015It’s been a few weeks since we posted our last DCIM blog (a 4-part series on choosing a DCIM software). What have we been up to? We were rolling out the newest version of our DCIM and network documentation software netTerrain. As part of this release, we added some outstanding features, including a few that…
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