Tag Archives: DCIM
Buyer, Beware: DCIM Pricing Add-Ons
By Fred Koh - November 10, 2022Do you need data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software? Before you select a vendor and solution, proceed with caution: when it comes to what you need and the pricing structure you agree to, make sure your i’s are dotted. Why? DCIM software is priced differently…depending on the vendor. Afterall, most software vendors are motivated to…
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Should You Buy Perpetual DCIM or Subscription DCIM?
By Fred Koh - November 2, 2022Do you need data center infrastructure management software (DCIM) to solve headaches in your data center? If so, read this. We make netTerrain — a data center and network documentation platform that documents everything from your data center rooms, rack capacity, assets, cable connections, and managing power — and we offer both annual subscription and…
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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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DCIM vs. BMS
By Jan Durnhofer - September 30, 2022At Graphical Networks, one of our main focus points is helping our customers optimize their Data Center Operations with an efficient Data Center Infrastructure (DCIM) system. Now, a Data Center can also be considered a building and, as such, the building contains many elements outside of the usual purview of a DCIM solution; these elements…
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Buying DCIM Software 101
By Fred Koh - September 26, 2022Have you been tasked by your boss to look for Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software for your team? The reason could range from needing to replace free open source DCIM tools, migrate from an existing DCIM solution that’s not delivering ROI, or perhaps because you’ve finally outgrown your spreadsheets and Visio diagrams! and need…
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Why Tiered Support Can Bring You “Teared” Support
By Fred Koh - January 28, 2022When something goes wrong with an application, or if your internet or cable tv goes out, the first thing you do is contact customer support and pray that you won’t get a robo service and end up stuck in a loop of pressing buttons just to try and reach someone, right? We’ve all been there…
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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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ROI for Network Documentation & DCIM Software: Basics
By Jan Durnhofer -Whether your organization is investing in a network documentation system, or a data center infrastructure management (DCIM) system (or something similar), chances are that, to secure funding for purchasing the software, you may need a certain level of approval. While it may seem painfully obvious to you as to why operations will run a lot…
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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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Network Incident? DCIM Helps Eliminate Stress & Cost
By Fred Koh - November 23, 2020Downtime 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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