Data Center Remote Control Made Easy with DCIM

Data Center Remote Control Made Easy with DCIM

By - November 30, 2020

The recent pandemic has profoundly disrupted nearly all facets of everyday life: its impact on data center managers and teams has meant the need to remotely manage assets and power. Managing multiple sites with unique power systems is hard during a normal year — during a pandemic…when you’re working with a reduced team for a…

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Unlock Your Data Center’s Hidden Capacity with DCIM

Unlock Your Data Center’s Hidden Capacity with DCIM

By - November 25, 2020

Planning for data center capacity? Sick of playing, ‘eenie meenie minie mo’ everytime you need to lay down a new piece of equipment? You’re not alone. Most data centers have slowly grown up over time. They’re like an old farmhouse: things are tacked on here and there as needed. Data centers have quirks…and sometimes these…

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Network Incident? DCIM Helps Eliminate Stress & Cost

Network Incident? DCIM Helps Eliminate Stress & Cost

By - November 23, 2020

Downtime is an expensive and pervasive problem. A survey conducted in 2019 by the Uptime Institute highlights how much of a problem it is when it found that “almost one-third of data center owners and operators experienced a downtime incident or severe degradation of service in the past year, and half in the previous three…

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Meet Your SLAs with Network Diagram Software

Meet Your SLAs with Network Diagram Software

By - November 19, 2020

Ever set out to fix a common household problem like a leaky faucet? How much of that time do you spend actually fixing the problem — and how much of the time do you spend trying to figure out what’s wrong, where exactly the leak is coming from, which part you need, and so on….

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You Don’t Need One-Size-Fits-All DCIM: You Need Communication

You Don’t Need One-Size-Fits-All DCIM: You Need Communication

By - November 17, 2020

Over the years in this blog, we’ve said this too many times to count: no singular software can do it all. Yes, many organizations are looking for the single pane of glass view — and for good reason: you have so many moving pieces and tools and you need one central repository in order to…

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$60 Mil Question: Are Your Data Center Devices Properly Decommissioned?

$60 Mil Question: Are Your Data Center Devices Properly Decommissioned?

By - November 13, 2020

Morgan Stanley recently agreed to pay a whopping fine…to the tune of $60 million dollars. The crime? They did not properly decommission data centers connected to one of its business arms. They hired contractors, failed to keep tabs on customer data stored in obsolete devices, and, though no data breaches were found, $60 million later,…

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Considering DCIM? You May Want to Start Small

Considering DCIM? You May Want to Start Small

By - November 10, 2020

As you may already know, Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software is becoming more and more critical to the modern data center. With it, you can plan and manage for capacity, power, manage cabling, and get a single-source-of-truth of your entire IT infrastructure. You can share insights across teams and provide different views to different…

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What is Data Center Network Documentation?

What is Data Center Network Documentation?

By - November 2, 2020

We often discuss network documentation in this blog — it is, afterall, what our flagship product netTerrain, does (and well)! netTerrain, in a nutshell, is a complete network and data center documentation solution: it encompasses network diagrams/mapping, data center infrastructure management (DCIM), and outside/fiber plant…in one solution. In this article, we’ll discuss what data center…

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How Network Diagrams & Documentation Overhaul Your Workflow

How Network Diagrams & Documentation Overhaul Your Workflow

By - October 28, 2020

Over the years on this blog, we’ve often discussed the merits of network diagrams and documentation. We say it again and again, and use different examples to prove it: good network documentation and automated network diagrams save you time, stress, and money. Yeah, yeah…saving money, stress, and time all sounds great on paper, but what…

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No Network Diagrams? You’re Starring in a Psychological Thriller Movie

No Network Diagrams? You’re Starring in a Psychological Thriller Movie

By - October 26, 2020

Do you manage an IT network? You might just be trapped in a psychological thriller movie…. and you’re the star! What am I talking about? Ever watched “Memento”? In that movie, the star suffers from short-term memory loss. He’s on a mission, though, so he has to rely on makeshift reminders such as polaroid photos…

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DCIM Software: Marketing Fluff You Should Avoid

DCIM Software: Marketing Fluff You Should Avoid

By - October 23, 2020

Since Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software first hit the market over a decade ago, there has been a lot of hype and discussion around it. At first, the promise was that DCIM software was going to boil the ocean. When that didn’t happen, a slew of negative press followed suggesting that the software was…

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Where DCIM Wins, Where DCIM Fails

Where DCIM Wins, Where DCIM Fails

By - October 19, 2020

Since it started really generating buzz about a decade ago, DCIM has developed two distinct reputations: the first is that DCIM is poised to completely revolutionize your data center and the way in which you work. The second reputation DCIM has? It’s an expensive piece of shelfware. Clearly, there’s a Grand Canyon-sized gap between the…

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