Don’t End Up a Prisoner to Your IT Documentation Software
By Jason Sherman - October 15, 2019How many characters can I fit into a field? Well…let me tell you: more than you would probably ever need. Wondering what the heck I’m talking about? Drumroll, please… I mean the data you can place into a field for an object: an object might be a building or a network device such as a…
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Procrastinating on Network Documentation? Your Ultimate Self-Help Guide
By Jason Sherman - October 4, 2019I was recently reading (ok, ok…listening, I’m lazy…) to a book. So, it was a book about habits…maybe to get some less lazy habits going on in my life, but hey: I am going off topic already! Anyway, what does me reading a book about adopting less lazy habits have to do with network documentation…
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What’s in a Network Diagram? Choose Your Flavor
By Jason Sherman - September 20, 2019We get a lot of visitors to our website who want to know (Google tells us this, we’re not psychic), “what’s in a network diagram?”. This makes sense, as we make netTerrain, a leading IT and network diagram software solution — and we write about network and IT diagrams/maps all of the time. They are,…
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Sorry, Reddit: Visio is NOT the Gold Standard for Network Diagram Software
By Fred Koh - September 13, 2019Recently, I read on Reddit something alarming: someone called Visio ‘the gold standard’ for network diagram software…what? Visio, really? While Visio may be an excellent diagramming software — made for diagramming the network it is not — #sorrynotsorry as the kids say. I got out the popcorn and I kept reading the comments on this…
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The Different Flavors of Network Documentation & Network Diagram Software
By Fred Koh - September 10, 2019As the Sales Director for a software company specializing in IT visualization (Graphical Networks), I’ve come across all different aspects of network documentation and network diagram solutions. What exactly do I mean? There are so many different possibilities that it’s kind of an overload trying to find the right solution to document your network. There…
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How Network Diagrams Help You Secure the Network
By Jason Sherman - August 6, 2019Just as the Equinox data breach seems to finally be on its way to being settled, Capital One gets hit with a massive data breach. In 2019, data is no longer just personal information: it’s a commodity that hackers want to steal and sell. For companies who are entrusted with keeping any kind of personal…
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Wanna excel academically? Use netTerrain DCIM!
By Jan Durnhofer - July 15, 2019At our recent users summit, one of our customers and a partner announced they had developed their own flavor of a mobile app for netTerrain DCIM. We will dig deeper into these implementations but, to briefly summarize: using our REST API , these customers developed a mobile app in which a user can scan devices…
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The Importance of Network Documentation
By Fred Koh - June 28, 2019I’ve written several articles about network documenting and automating the documentation process (you can see a recent article here)– afterall, our company specializes in IT documentation. In today’s article, however, I want to break documentation down into simple, easy-to-digest terms so you can arm yourself with the knowledge you need to really talk to upper…
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Implement netTerrain: Avoid the ‘Shelfware’ Effect
By Fred Koh - June 6, 2019Whether it’s for DCIM, network diagrams or outside plant, the majority of netTerrain users get the software up and running fairly quickly. Recently, however, I was in a meeting with a customer who bought netTerrain a year ago and haven’t really used netTerrain much yet. I asked, “why haven’t you used netTerrain much?”. Their response:…
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What Your Favorite Network Engineer Wants for Valentine’s Day
By Hannah Ash - February 14, 2019Valentine’s Day is upon us — and, if you know anything about Cupid, he is great at finding things — like true love. Here at Graphical Networks, we’ve noticed that many of the network engineers who use our software netTerrain had to become, like Cupid, pretty great at finding needles in a haystack before they…
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Network Diagram Software: How It Benefits Your Organization’s Bottom Line
By Fred Koh - February 13, 2019I’ve written a number of articles about why network documentation is important and why it should be a priority project (instead of being sidelined and pushed as a lower priority project). At this point in my career, I’d take out a billboard ad if I thought it would help: “automated network diagram software (aka network…
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Need a Magic Red Button for Network Documentation? Read This.
By Fred Koh - February 6, 2019We get countless inquiries from people looking to ditch their spreadsheets and Visio diagrams: they are looking for an automated network documentation/network mapping solution. More often than not, network folks want to find the holy grail, for example: “What exactly can I discover, and can it automatically place the network device inside my data center…
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