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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netTerrain Complaint of the Week: I want my API call!
By Jan Durnhofer - June 10, 2019Welcome back to the next installment of our weekly update in which we do something a bit odd for a vendor: expose holes in our product! Let’s be honest: nothing is perfect — and by discussing problems netTerrain users have encountered, we want to foster a collaborative environment, share some workarounds around common issues and…
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Network Mapping of ServiceNow Data
By Jan Durnhofer - May 10, 2019I must admit that I am amazed by the amount of ServiceNow implementation in the corporate world today. With the proliferation of ServiceNow we get quite a few requests from customers to integrate some of the data they have in ServiceNow with their netTerrain projects. As I am no ServiceNow expert, I can’t tell you…
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netTerrain Complaint of the Week: ‘I want my pet feature’
By Jan Durnhofer - May 3, 2019Welcome back to the next installment of our weekly update in which we do something a bit odd for a vendor: expose holes in our product! Let’s be honest: nothing is perfect — and by discussing problems netTerrain users have encountered, we want to foster a collaborative environment, share some workarounds around common issues and…
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Visualize your VCenter Environment Automatically
By Jan Durnhofer - April 29, 2019As more and more IT information today resides within virtual environments, there is an increasing need to document this information within a visual repository. Because of this growing need, we are often asked if VMware data can be visualized in netTerrain. Why…? Here’s what we’ve gleaned from our customers: the main reason to visualize VMware…
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New Hires in Maryland & New Development Office in Buenos Aires
By Jan Durnhofer - April 15, 2019You may have seen some posts on the Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), netViz, or Network Documentation LinkedIn groups, or perhaps you saw it in one of our newsletters: we are in hiring mode! After a very auspicious 2018, in which we saw record profits and high 2-digit growth in virtually every area (bookings, revenue,…
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netTerrain Complaint of the Week: ITK Features
By Jan Durnhofer - April 12, 2019Welcome back to the next installment of our weekly update in which we do something a bit odd for a vendor: expose holes in our product! Let’s be honest: nothing is perfect — and by discussing problems netTerrain users have encountered, we want to foster a collaborative environment, share some workarounds around common issues and…
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netTerrain Complaint of the Week: when is netTerrain coming out?
By Jan Durnhofer - April 2, 2019Welcome back to the next installment of our weekly update in which we do something a bit odd for a vendor: expose holes in our product! Let’s be honest: nothing is perfect — and by discussing problems netTerrain users have encountered, we want to foster a collaborative environment, share some workarounds around common issues and…
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netTerrain 8.1: Enhanced Discovery & Outside Plant
By Jan Durnhofer - March 27, 20198.1 is finally here and, though I hate to admit it, we are releasing it a lot later than we would have liked. We are, however, very happy with the results. With every release, we keep improving our usability and feature set as we strive to always put out nothing less than the best IT…
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netTerrain not supporting netViz (insert pet feature) !
By Jan Durnhofer - March 22, 2019Welcome back to the second installment of a new weekly update that could as well be called “self-deprecation”…this blog series is for those old geezers like me who come from the netViz world. You’ll have a laugh, I promise! Anyways, the title of this blog has already given me away: “netTerrain not supporting netViz !”…I…
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DCIM Software: Integration with Existing IT is Crucial
By Jan Durnhofer - March 21, 2019Part 1: integration methods In a recent survey of netTerrain users (from a variety of customers large and small), 100% of respondents said that they would recommend netTerrain to others. That’s right: our users use netTerrain! One of the key aspects for a successful DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) implementation is its ability to be…
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netTerrain User Satisfaction Survey Results (for DCIM, OSP, Logical)
By Jan Durnhofer - March 19, 2019The netTerrain users have spoken and now it’s time to brag: we just got the results from our latest survey. For starters, exactly 0% of respondents would not recommend netTerrain to others. Yeah, that’s right: all users — but one — said that they would recommend netTerrain to others. The lone dissenter hasn’t implemented netTerrain…
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