Problem?! Retiring Network Engineers & The Impact on Business.
By Fred Koh - August 22, 2023According to a Washington Post article, more than 1 in 6 Americans will be 65 and older in 2020 and continues to grow older. Why am I writing about this on my blog about network documentation? Many of the long-serving employees are or will be retired soon and this has been really impacting Data Center…
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Avoid Headline-Making Network Outages: Prevent Expensive Downtime
By Fred Koh - May 22, 2023There’s been a rise in news stories lately about companies experiencing network disruptions, like the infamous Southwest Airlines outage that was caused by a vendor-supplied network firewall. Headline-making incidents like this underline the need to take measures that prevent network disruptions…before you become a news story! According to the Uptime Institute, third-party outages – such…
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Upgrading IT Documentation/Visualization Software Shouldn’t Be Hard
By Fred Koh - March 8, 2023IT visualization and documentation software is essential for successful troubleshooting, capacity planning, cost control, and security, among other things. To keep up with today’s rapidly changing technology landscape, it’s crucial to keep your IT visualization and documentation software up-to-date with the latest vendor version. However, upgrading can be a daunting task, if your vendor does…
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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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