What is “Easy DCIM”?
By Fred Koh - March 22, 2021‘Usability’: it’s one word that means a whole lot, right? Before you purchase any new enterprise-grade software, your IT team probably wants to know: how’s the usability, or, in other words, how easy is it for your organization’s users to use a new application to create and foster adopt-ability for a new software program such…
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netTerrain 9.0: Mobile App & More
By Jan Durnhofer -A new year and a new version: welcome to netTerrain 9.0! The advent of 9.0 marks our last single digit major release and the first incarnation of the 9.x series, also called “Europe” (which you’ll notice as soon as you log in or take a look at the guide covers featuring beautiful landscapes from the…
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Need DCIM? Why The Price Isn’t Always Right
By Fred Koh - March 18, 2021We’ve been in the IT documentation and visualization business for so long that I remember a time before Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) was even coined: we were in the network and data center rack and cabling documentation business back in the early 2000’s and I remember sitting down with our Marketing Director who said,…
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Want to Visualize Your AWS Infrastructure?
By Jason Sherman - February 23, 2021Use Amazon Web Services (AWS)? The AWS interface is great: you can service anywhere in the world and more. It’s not, however, without its limitations. What’s missing? What if you want to view relationships between things (such as backups, volumes, and snapshots) in a documented view of information and data? This helps you to better…
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Small Business Friendly DCIM?
By Jason Sherman - February 19, 2021If you take a gander at our customer list, you’ll probably notice that many numerous large companies use netTerrain (and that is, by no means, our complete customer list). We are not, however, a company that just offers software for large companies: we have customers from small to large. Our customers range from the one…
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Faster Network Troubleshooting: 2 Must-Have Ingredients
By Fred Koh - February 17, 2021You know the drill: the phone starts ringing and your inbox is blowing up because something’s wrong with the Network…again. Never before in history has there been a time like today: the demand for the technology that powers business operations is growing exponentially and the IT infrastructure — that lays the foundation for the technology…
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Crash Course: Find DCIM That Pays Off
By Fred Koh - February 10, 2021Your data center needs to deliver 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That’s a monumental task in and of itself. Add on to that all the various tools, teams, and KPIs associated with your data center’s performance. Given all of this, it goes without saying that most organizations today need a Data Center…
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What are Dynamic Network Diagrams & Documentation?
By Jason Sherman - February 8, 2021If you’re a regular reader, you know that we often discuss network and IT documentation given that our software, netTerrain, is all about documenting and mapping the network. Recently, we received a request from a prospective customer who said they needed a tool for dynamic network documentation and dynamic network diagrams. They wanted to know…
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DCIM Pricing: Should You Pay by Racks or Objects?
By Jason Sherman - February 4, 2021Need DCIM software? Are you currently looking at various vendors, capabilities, and options? Wondering what’s better…pricing DCIM software by rack or object? I’ll make this one easy for you: pricing by objects…hands down! Why is that? Pricing DCIM by objects gives you far greater control over your data center and all your network documentation and…
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Need Logical Diagrams? 3 Use Cases
By Fred Koh - January 28, 2021Network diagrams, which include both physical and logical diagrams, are a crucial source of truth and actionable information in a well-documented network. Because they show the components of a network and how they are connected, they’re a visual way to understand IT networks. Logical network diagrams show network engineers and administrators how information flows through…
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…Network Documentation Doesn’t Matter? Think Again.
By Fred Koh - January 22, 2021Network documentation, as we’ve blogged about before, has been something of a myth. It exists somewhere…so-and-so has seen it before…maybe that’s it? For many organizations, it’s relegated to the ranks of being some kind of mythical sea monster…you’re fairly certain it’s out there somewhere….somewhere… For other organizations, the idea of network documentation is less myth…
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Need to Manage Remote Sites? DCIM Helps
By Jason Sherman - January 21, 2021Recently, a prospective customer told me that a key reason behind their interest in netTerrain DCIM is the need to manage remote sites…I thought, “I’m sure I can send him a blog about that since netTerrain DCIM helps our customers manage remote sites all the time”. Nope: I realized we didn’t have a blog detailing…
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