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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How to Choose the Right DCIM Solution (pt. 5): Pulling the Trigger
By Jan Durnhofer - July 22, 2015In parts 1 and 2 of this series, we discussed the importance of discovering your organization’s unique needs and the features you would need from a DCIM tool. We talked about identifying the core tenets of a system such as openness, security, flexibility, network visualization and so on. In part 3, we outlined the importance…
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How to Choose the Right DCIM Solution (pt. 4): Basic Vendor Research
By Jan Durnhofer - July 21, 2015In the previous article, we discussed how to determine if you’re really at the research and demo stage. If you have determined that yes, you do have pain points that DCIM can solve, and you do have buy-in from your organization, the next step is to narrow down a DCIM vendor from all the options…
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How to Choose the Right DCIM Solution (pt. 3): Are You Ready?
By Jan Durnhofer - July 14, 2015In the two previous posts of this series, we discussed the importance of discovering your organization’s unique needs and the features you may need from a DCIM tool. We went on to cover identifying the core tenets of a system such as: openness, security, flexibility, visualization and so on. Now that you have a solid…
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