Tag Archives: dcim software
Need Data Center Diagrams? How to Start
By Fred Koh - October 28, 2022If you’re reading this, you probably need data center diagrams. If that’s the case, any of the following could apply to you: You’re the new data center manager…maybe you’re the network guy or gal that manages the network equipment for your organization…perhaps your company recently acquired a new entity and you don’t have any documentation…
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ROI for Network Documentation & DCIM Software: DCIM Analysis
By Jan Durnhofer - December 30, 2021In 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
By Jan Durnhofer - December 23, 2021One 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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Scanning QR Codes in Your Data Center Using netTerrain
By Jan Durnhofer - December 21, 2021With the release of version 9.1, netTerrain has a new feature for scanning QR codes using the netTerrain mobile app. The ability to scan QR codes is most useful in a data center environment (as you may want to quickly identify and locate a device in your IT inventory — for example: you may want…
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Unlock Your Data Center’s Hidden Capacity with DCIM
By Fred Koh - November 25, 2020Planning 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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Successful DCIM Implementations: Our Top Tips
By Fred Koh - February 24, 2020As the sales director for a DCIM/Outside Plant/Network Diagram software (netTerrain), I answer many questions each day. One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “well, how do we get started?” as well as, “If we decide to go ahead and use netTerrain, how can people get netTerrain up and running and get trained?”…
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How is DCIM Software Priced?
By Fred Koh - January 17, 2020Your boss has tasked you to research procuring a DCIM software for your organization… after a series of exhaustive and endless meetings with different stakeholders to determine your set of requirements what you need from a DCIM solution should include from your department and colleagues, its time to finally start the search for DCIM vendors…
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DCIM software selection: the don’t’s and don’t’s
By Jan Durnhofer - November 12, 2019I must say that we are quite proud of our customers as they really are a smart bunch. Now, I’m not just saying this just because they happened to choose netTerrain for their Data Center Infrastructure monitoring. That is far too easy for me to say being a (biased)vendor. I truly think our customers are…
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How DCIM Software Improves Data Center Security
By Fred Koh - April 1, 2019My colleague Jan Durnhofer wrote an article about how to secure your DCIM solution from security attacks (click here to read it). Continuing the discussion around DCIM and security, I’d like to discuss another key aspect of security for your data center: how DCIM can help managers secure the data center from within the organization….
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DCIM Software: 6 Questions Before You Start Your Quest
By Fred Koh - February 28, 2019Several months back, I wrote an article about DCIM 101 — which aims to dispel some myths and cover the basics of what DCIM software is. As that article has been popular, I want to follow up and discuss the next steps in finding the right DCIM software for your organization. You may be wondering…
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DCIM: What’s the Cost? What are the Options?
By Fred Koh - February 1, 2019Exploring DCIM software and trying to figure out the pricing from your DCIM vendors shouldn’t take a rocket scientist.In this blog, we will discuss: the specific items you should be looking for in a quote, what is included, are there any modules needed to fulfill your needs, and any hidden costs associated with your shiny…
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DCIM PUE and alternative facts
By Jan Durnhofer - September 10, 2018Before 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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