Tag Archives: data center

ROI for Network Documentation & DCIM Software: DCIM Analysis

ROI for Network Documentation & DCIM Software: DCIM Analysis

By - December 30, 2021

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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Easily Visualize Your Data Center Floor Plan

Easily Visualize Your Data Center Floor Plan

By - December 23, 2021

One of the things that you may want to document in a Data Center Infrastructure Management System (DCIM) like our software netTerrain is how objects like racks or power equipment are distributed in a data center floor plan. When you’re documenting a data center floor plan, there are lots of objects that you may want…

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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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How to Calculate Data Center PUE

How to Calculate Data Center PUE

By - September 19, 2018

PUE, which stands for Power Usage Effectiveness, is a ratio used to measure data center energy consumption. This ratio was first released in 2007 via The Green Grid, which is a nonprofit consortium of data center end-users, tech professionals, utility providers, and policy makers dedicated to ‘greening’ modern data centers. Data Center PUE: What’s the…

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DCIM PUE and alternative facts

DCIM PUE and alternative facts

By - September 10, 2018

Before we deconstruct the loaded title of this blog — ‘DCIM PUE and alternative facts’ — let’s first remove any mutual mystification around these two acronyms: PUE and DCIM. Or at least, let’s try… PUE stands for ‘Power Usage Effectiveness’. It measures the total amount of energy used by a data center to the total…

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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)

By - February 27, 2018

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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Dear Prospect: If You Want Everything, You Need Nothing

Dear Prospect: If You Want Everything, You Need Nothing

By - January 17, 2018

“The demo with Jan was incredibly unprofessional. It seemed like he refused to go into any detail about the product. He wanted me to narrow down the focus of what he demo’ed to only what I immediately was interested in.” — Feedback from a Recent Prospect Ouch…that was a first. Apparently, I am unprofessional. Ok,…

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The 12 Days of DCIM

The 12 Days of DCIM

By - December 20, 2017

‘Tis the season….in the spirit of the holidays, we’re bringing you the “12 Days of DCIM”: a look at 12 days in the life of an engineer who goes from zero documentation to using DCIM software. Day 1: ♫ On the 1st day, my boss gave to me: a network without documentation and a whole…

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DCIM Hierarchies & Layers: Just Double-Click & Drag-and-Drop

DCIM Hierarchies & Layers: Just Double-Click & Drag-and-Drop

By - December 18, 2017

In this blog (and video), we’ll explore how you can easily create hierarchies and navigate in and out of them using netTerrain (our network documentation network mapping tool and data center infrastructure management tool). Many DCIM solutions offer users just two or three predefined layers; with netTerrain, you can create an unlimited number of your…

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Does Data Center Automation Pay Off?  Federal Agencies Release ROI Reports

Does Data Center Automation Pay Off? Federal Agencies Release ROI Reports

By - December 3, 2017

Recently, I stumbled upon the current DCOI optimization dashboard — which is an overall look at how data centers in federal agencies are performing across different categories. If you’re not familiar with the DCOI yet, here’s some background: DCOI is short for the Data Center Optimization Initiative. It’s a federal initiative that falls under the…

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Stop Wasting Money on Data Center Power

Stop Wasting Money on Data Center Power

By - November 8, 2017

Federal government data centers are now required to install DCIM and achieve a power usage effectiveness rate (PUE) of 1.5 or lower thanks to the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI). Why? What’s the push behind this? Data centers use a whole bunch of power (we know, we know: this isn’t a news flash to you)….

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