How to Keep the Network Compliant with Security Standards

How to Keep the Network Compliant with Security Standards

By - March 26, 2018

Is your network in compliance with industry security standards such as the PCI Data Security Standard? These standards exist to safeguard sensitive information from vulnerabilities. The PCI Data Security Standard exists to ensure that organizations handling credit cards keep information secure in the following ways: Ensure Secure Networks and Systems Secure/Protect Cardholder Data Manage Vulnerability…

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Why My Uber Driver Quit Working as a Network Engineer

Why My Uber Driver Quit Working as a Network Engineer

By - March 19, 2018

So…I had an interesting ride this morning: my car is in the shop and I used Uber. I had a great ride and my driver got five stars and a tip from me — but that’s besides the point. Over the course of our conversation, he shared that he was a relatively new driver for…

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Manage Your Outside Plant with Dynamic Maps (Intro)

Manage Your Outside Plant with Dynamic Maps (Intro)

By - March 15, 2018

Need an easier way to document and map your fiber backbone? netTerrain OSP*, our outside plant management platform, is used by our customers to manage their inside and outside plants — from fiber splices to manholes to GIS-enabled street views (with 6-decimal precision) all the way to fiber patch panels inside buildings. This blog series…

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Does This Make My Server Look Fat?

Does This Make My Server Look Fat?

By - March 13, 2018

Does this make my server look fat? Is my floor starting to bulge? Yeah, we have all been there. The server room is starting to look a little heavy…or is it? Hey, we’ve all told ourselves a few little white lies from time to time, ‘maybe it’s just the way the light is hitting this…

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The DCIM Competitive Analysis Gone Wrong (Part Two)

The DCIM Competitive Analysis Gone Wrong (Part Two)

By - February 27, 2018

This article continues our previous blog on why we don’t engage in competitive analyses; it is designed to give you an example of why an ‘us vs. them’ DCIM vendor comparison fails. Let’s break it down. First, here’s a link to a competitive analysis on netTerrain from another vendor (who’s never used netTerrain). Now, let’s…

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Why We Won’t Waste Your Time with a DCIM Competitive Analysis (Part One)

Why We Won’t Waste Your Time with a DCIM Competitive Analysis (Part One)

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Sometimes a prospect asks us if we can give them a competitive analysis: you know, how we stack up against some other DCIM competitor. I totally get why we’re asked for these; it is part of the usual song and dance and many organizations want them. We’re not immune: in fact, we have something like…

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From Hieroglyphics to NASA, Data Visualization Isn’t Anything New

From Hieroglyphics to NASA, Data Visualization Isn’t Anything New

By - February 26, 2018

I was spending some time (or wasting….you decide) on Reddit last week when I came across this article on how NASA uses IT visualization to tell visual stories from technical details. While we’re not a BI tool, what NASA is doing — and why they’re doing it — is at the very heart of the…

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Why Do You Need Flexible DCIM & Network Mapping Software?

Why Do You Need Flexible DCIM & Network Mapping Software?

By - February 14, 2018

netTerrain, an automated DCIM and network mapping software suite, adapts to your project…and its unique needs. Let me be clear: netTerrain adapts to your needs — without consultants, months of waiting time, an onboarding process that feels more like training for Mount Everest, and a bunch of extra expenditures you (and your boss) didn’t see…

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How Does Automatic Network Mapping Work?

How Does Automatic Network Mapping Work?

By - February 8, 2018

SNMP is an old time workhorse of information. If you’ve been a network engineer for a while, the ability to automatically discover objects when you’re documenting the network can’t be overhyped. Automatic network mapping, on this level, significantly reduces your manual workload and ensures that your documentation is accurate and up-to-date. If you’re looking at…

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What’s New in netTerrain 7.1?

What’s New in netTerrain 7.1?

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1.1 What’s new in 7.1 We like to stay on the move here at Graphical Networks and keep improving netTerrain. 7.1 is the second incarnation of the 7.x series (also called “Southwest”, as you may have seen from the pretty guide covers featuring beautiful landscape from the breathtaking American Southwest). The main theme of 7.1…

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Fun Network Diagrams? Use Visual Overrides

Fun Network Diagrams? Use Visual Overrides

By - February 5, 2018

Network documentation can be fun and fulfilling…never thought I’d say that. Truth is…maybe it’s not exactly the same fun as, say, Superbowl Sunday (depending on which team you’re rooting for, of course)… but it can be a little more fun when you have the right tools for the job at hand. Using netTerrain, our network…

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If You Need to Replace netViz, Read This

If You Need to Replace netViz, Read This

By - February 2, 2018

Since the beginning of time…or, ok, since the 90’s (more or less), network administrators have created a demand for network diagramming software. netViz, a (now discontinued) product of CA Technologies, was introduced to meet network diagramming needs of IT teams. The software offered users hierarchies, (limited) automatic discovery with a graphical interface — with thousands…

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