DCIM vs. BMS
By Jan Durnhofer - September 30, 2022At Graphical Networks, one of our main focus points is helping our customers optimize their Data Center Operations with an efficient Data Center Infrastructure (DCIM) system. Now, a Data Center can also be considered a building and, as such, the building contains many elements outside of the usual purview of a DCIM solution; these elements…
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netTerrain 9.5: Enhanced Monitoring & Usability, Mobile Audits & More
By Jan Durnhofer - September 12, 2022netTerrain 9.5’s release marks another giant leap toward documentation nirvana. In 9.5, you’ll see that we worked on the usual mix of new features, small fixes and improvements. Significantly improved diagram loading times, the newly-launched event console, and, in beta mode, IP address management (IPAM) are of particular note. We’ve made numerous improvements to the…
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netTerrain Lootbox: Earn Rewards for Your Accomplishments
By Jan Durnhofer - August 18, 2022Are you a raving netTerrain fan or developer? If so, keep reading: Graphical Networks now offers a Lootbox program that rewards you for going above and beyond what a regular netTerrain user does. It’s a win-win for you and our team. Afterall, your contributions help shape the future of netTerrain (DCIM, Logical, OSP) and our…
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Getting Started with REST API: Part 3 (Collections, Filters, Expansions)
By Jan Durnhofer - July 25, 2022Welcome back to the final post in our series on getting started with netTerrain’s REST API. In the first blog post we reviewed some of the basic setup procedures to get started with the netTerrain REST API. In the second blog post, we delved a bit deeper into data retrieval, writing into netTerrain and deleting…
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Getting Started with REST API: Part 2 (Data Retrieval, Writing, Deletions)
By Jan Durnhofer - July 18, 2022Welcome back to our series on getting started with netTerrain’s REST API. In the previous blog post we reviewed some of the basic setup procedures to get started with the netTerrain REST API. Here we will go a bit deeper into data retrieval, writing into netTerrain and deleting some stuff. As a quick refresher: this…
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Getting Started with REST API: Part 1 (Basic Procedures)
By Jan Durnhofer - July 12, 2022We make netTerrain — an IT documentation & visualization platform for data centers(DCIM), networks(Logical), and fiber plants(OSP) — easy to integrate with third-party databases via pre-built connectors and highly extensible, well-documented APIs. We get a lot of questions from customers that appreciate our swagger REST API documentation but still struggle a bit to get started….
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ROI Series: Calculate Your ROI from DCIM Software
By Jan Durnhofer - December 30, 2021In 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
By Jan Durnhofer -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
By Jan Durnhofer -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
By Jan Durnhofer -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
By Jan Durnhofer -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
By Jan Durnhofer - December 23, 2021One 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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