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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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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Graphical Networks to Host First Annual Users Meeting
By Fred Koh - April 8, 2019Graphical Networks, a leading global provider of IT visualization solutions for data center (DCIM), outside plant, and logical network documentation, has announced its first annual users meeting May 14th – 15th, to be held near the Graphical Networks headquarters at the William F. Bolger Center in Potomac, MD. The purpose of the inaugural netTerrain Users…
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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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netTerrain Complaint of the Week: dwg files?
By Jan Durnhofer - March 1, 2019Welcome to a new weekly update in which we do something a bit odd for a vendor: expose holes in our product. We’re pulling from complaints, rants, and problems our customers have experienced using netTerrain. The goal is to discuss real-life problems netTerrain users have encountered, and by doing so, to foster a collaborative environment…
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Discover your Network Like a Boss with the New netTerrain Collector
By Jan Durnhofer - February 7, 2019Up until now, the discovery of the network in netTerrain was done through the Integration Toolkit (ITK). This discovery process worked quite well across multiple scenarios; there were cases, however, where the ITK discovery fell short. What did we do? We took a look at all the instances in which our discovery had limitations. Starting…
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netTerrain Cloud Software: FAQ
By Fred Koh - February 4, 2019I just finished an article discussing about DCIM pricing and the last section I discussed there was our netTerrain Cloud offering. Wait a second…Graphical Networks offers a cloud version of netTerrain? Yes! Where can I find this? Can I try this out for free? Does it include all of the features of an on-premise netTerrain…
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