Tag Archives: network diagrams
ROI Series: Calculate Your ROI from Network Mapping Software
By Jan Durnhofer - December 30, 2021In this blog series, we’re diving into return-on-investment analyses for network mapping and data center infrastructure software. If network documentation and network mapping software can solve your pain points, then this blog and the previous one are for you. If you’re looking for savings in the Data Center, rack documentation, cabling, power and cooling and…
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The Automated Network Mapping Software Checklist
By Fred Koh - August 27, 2021Before you buy automated network mapping software (software that helps network operations to understand all the devices on a network and how they are interconnected through network discovery), you typically go through the process of making sure you really need it, make the case to the bosses upstairs that they really need to fund it,…
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2021: The Year of the Network Diagram
By Fred Koh - January 4, 2021This past year, the need for automated network diagrams and documentation has really been brought to the attention of many organizations — especially with what’s going on with this great world of ours: the pandemic, the different phases of the way we live, and the complete lockdowns. When was the last time you were in…
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Meet Your SLAs with Network Diagram Software
By Fred Koh - November 19, 2020Ever set out to fix a common household problem like a leaky faucet? How much of that time do you spend actually fixing the problem — and how much of the time do you spend trying to figure out what’s wrong, where exactly the leak is coming from, which part you need, and so on….
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Business Optimization Through Data Visualization
By Fred Koh - April 16, 2020Many of my recent articles explore netTerrain’s various use cases — with respect to network documentation, data center infrastructure management (DCIM), and managing fiber plant (outside plant). In this article, I am going to take a step back to talk about how you can optimize your business with the power of data visualization. Typically, IT…
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What is Network Diagram Software?
By Fred Koh - January 24, 2020Our IT visualization software netTerrain allows our users to create a wide variety of network diagrams — because of this we get a fair amount of search traffic to our website who want to know what is network diagram software, anyways? Before we launch into a long-winded and incredibly exciting (yes, I’m being sarcastic) explanation…
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Peace on Earth, Network Diagrams, & Network Documentation
By Fred Koh - December 20, 2019‘Tis the season…for snowmen, ugly holiday sweater parties, eggnog, and…network headaches. Aside from genuinely wishing everyone this season “happy holidays” — Happy Holidays to you, and yours! — the team at my company also wants to wish everyone this season the following: ‘Happy Documenting’. Why? Because good IT documentation leads to a happier holiday season:…
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What’s in a Network Diagram? Choose Your Flavor
By Jason Sherman - September 20, 2019We get a lot of visitors to our website who want to know (Google tells us this, we’re not psychic), “what’s in a network diagram?”. This makes sense, as we make netTerrain, a leading IT and network diagram software solution — and we write about network and IT diagrams/maps all of the time. They are,…
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Physical Network Diagrams Explained
By Hannah Ash - August 30, 2018When it comes to maintaining and managing an IT infrastructure, network diagrams are critical to compliance, security, troubleshooting, and minimizing downtime. Network diagrams, or maps, are visuals that use symbols/icons/shapes to depict the different objects and connections in a network. Depending upon what you need to document, you may will probably have different types of…
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Network Visibility for IoT Devices
By Fred Koh - August 27, 2018By now, we’ve all heard about the Internet of Things (IoT) via various news articles, social media posts, and maybe even stock analysts. How you define IoT depends upon what you’re doing: for some, it’s self-driving vehicles, sensor networks for monitoring, ‘smart cities’, or walking into an Amazon grocery store and picking up lunch without…
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Where Has All The Good Data Gone?
By Jason Sherman - August 13, 2018So…you’re sick of troubleshooting that takes forever, fed up with buying IT stuff just to realize 6 months later you didn’t really need it or already had it, and you’re completely exasperated by those expenditures that keep going up, up, and away? You’ve finally decided that you want – no, scratch that – need to…
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Network Documentation: Is It Really a Priority?
By Fred Koh - August 10, 2018Let’s face it: we all say “network documentation is important”… but for some reason it is never truly considered urgent or a higher priority. I hear it all the time. Yet, when the ‘you know what’ hits the fan, we all go desperately scrambling for those uninspired network documents…only to find them outdated and basically…
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