DCIM: Is Integration Easy?
By Jason Sherman - January 19, 2021We recently heard from a prospective customer who asked us, “can I integrate with other tools such as CRM, NMS, and BMS?”. Good question! How easy is integration with DCIM software? In this blog, we’ll try and answer this by giving you a look at how integration with our software (netTerrain DCIM) works. Keep in…
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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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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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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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DCIM Software: Marketing Fluff You Should Avoid
By Fred Koh - October 23, 2020Since Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software first hit the market over a decade ago, there has been a lot of hype and discussion around it. At first, the promise was that DCIM software was going to boil the ocean. When that didn’t happen, a slew of negative press followed suggesting that the software was…
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Where DCIM Wins, Where DCIM Fails
By Fred Koh - October 19, 2020Since it started really generating buzz about a decade ago, DCIM has developed two distinct reputations: the first is that DCIM is poised to completely revolutionize your data center and the way in which you work. The second reputation DCIM has? It’s an expensive piece of shelfware. Clearly, there’s a Grand Canyon-sized gap between the…
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Good DCIM Software is Constantly Evolving
By Fred Koh - October 16, 2020Our company, Graphical Networks, has been in the data center sphere for many years and there’s one constant: technology, and how we manage it, is constantly evolving. To keep up, IT and network engineers need to be able to get information, and visualize, the different environments they manage. Good DCIM software needs to evolve alongside…
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