Data Center Capacity Headaches? How DCIM Helps
By Fred Koh - August 27, 2020Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software (such as netTerrain DCIM) makes capacity planning easy: DCIM gives you the insights necessary for key infrastructure and financial decisions. WIth DCIM software, you can plan out new data center builds, expansions, consolidations, and consider different scenarios — all while armed with insights about current capacity and usage. netTerrain…
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Network Diagrams Improve Teamwork, Reduce Redundancies
By Fred Koh - August 26, 2020It’s a fact: inefficiencies, collaboration, and time-dependent tasks go hand-in-hand. Different teams and different engineers could end up working on the same issue, unaware the other side is doing the same…and wasting valuable time that could be better spent. Mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) is arrived at by how long it takes to identify a problem and then…
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IT Documentation Best Practices
By Fred Koh - August 11, 2020IT documentation (which is our business’s bread and butter) greatly benefits organizations of all sizes and across all industries. With solid IT documentation, you can: reduce the amount of time to find information decrease troubleshooting time manage capacity wrangle in the assets and inventory of your IT infrastructure Proper and up-to-date documentation gives your IT…
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System Integrators & Government Agencies: Need To Visualize Data?
By Fred Koh - July 31, 2020May I have your attention – system integrators and government agencies? Massive amounts of data can be difficult to disseminate in a crisis and yet decisions need to be based on fact for mission critical objectives. If you need to visualize data as part of a project, IT visualization software such as netTerrain can help….
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Logical vs. Physical Network Diagrams
By Fred Koh - July 30, 2020In the past, I’ve discussed how our IT documentation software netTerrain helps users discover and map the network as well as access up-to-date network diagrams. When giving demos of our software, we’re often asked if we offer logical or physical views of the network (and about the differences). As we’re often asked this, it only…
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Need DCIM? Questions Everyone Should Ask in a Demo
By Fred Koh - July 28, 2020Before you decide on DCIM software for your organization, do your homework. Ask well-considered questions and fully evaluate a potential DCIM vendor. Why? Unfortunately, not all DCIM solutions are created equal and some tools that look good in a demo or on paper may just fall short of your requirements. So much about a successful…
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4 Wrong Reasons Not to Buy DCIM Software
By Fred Koh - July 25, 2020As a DCIM vendor…the title seems to contradict what we sell. It’s not that we don’t believe in our product (we do), it’s that we’ve been in the business of DCIM for many years and have seen prospective customers come, go without making a purchase, and eventually come back and buy DCIM so many times…
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3 Reasons You Should Replace Visio Network Diagrams
By Fred Koh - July 23, 2020Change is hard. I get it. I understand why most folks don’t want to make changes: whether it is staying in the same job even if you don’t love it, waking up at the same time, eating at the same restaurants, and for network engineers, hopefully updating their network diagrams using Visio software diagrams and…
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DCIM & Documentation Software: Easily Import Your Data
By Fred Koh - July 22, 2020As I discussed in a recent article about tracking changes in the network, keeping your network diagrams up-to-date is critical to fostering greater adoption and usage of a network documentation and/or Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution. With a proper change management solution in place, you can ensure your documentation will be up-to-date (and, for…
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Need Software for Network Diagrams and Network Mapping?
By Fred Koh - July 14, 2020Recently, I wrote an article (about the three top reasons to replace Visio for network diagrams) which dives into the importance of having an automated solution for network mapping (you can read it by clicking here). So, how do network mapping and network diagrams correlate with each other? According to Wikipedia’s entry on network diagram…
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DCIM Software with Cable Management: Do You Need It?
By Fred Koh - July 13, 2020Do you need Data Center Infrastructure Management software (DCIM)? If so, what are your requirements when looking for a DCIM software? If you’re going through your checklist of features and looking at many DCIM software vendors (you can read more about putting your list of DCIM requirements together by clicking here) —- don’t forget to…
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How to Track Changes with IT Documentation Software: Change Management
By Fred Koh - July 12, 2020So, you’ve stepped up to the IT visualization plate and started to use netTerrain — either on a trial basis or as one of our customers…and now, you’d like to avoid your time investment becoming shelfware. Take note: one of the aspects that leads software straight into the abyss of ‘shelfware’ is a lack of…
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