Name: Managing Connectivity With High Density Modular Cabling Systems
Start: 2017-06-01T12:00:00Z
End: 2017-06-01T12:43:53.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.5

How to implement improved practices and systems for enterprise environments covering data centres, networks, services etc.

Q. How can you easily create and update 100s or 1000s of Visio diagrams?  Visio is a great tool but it takes engineering time and skill to get good diagrams. We'll show how to automate the process for regular updating of schematics such as racks, networks, floor plans, data centers, wifi hotspots, systems, application maps, cloud computing, power, etc. Automation is the simplest way to get trusted, consistent diagrams for understanding of complex environments. We'll show how it can be achieved in our 45 minute webinar.

Visio Automation For Enterprise Infrastructure

Understanding cabling infrastructure capacity is not simple or easy, but is vital for managing projects and changes efficiently. This webinar will cover campus, data centre and building infrastructure where copper, fibre and blown fibre may be implemented using fixed and modular components. Understanding paths, end points, reservation and business uses is made easier with Visio automation techniques and data management. We'll also efficient ways to ensure that capacity reporting is maintained by project processes and activities.

Simplifying Campus And Backbone Cabling Capacity Management

Creating and maintaining IT focused Visio diagrams isn’t simple, but it is made a lot easier using our free AssetGen Visio utilities. This webinar will show you how to use our Visio add-in and data driven  methods to reduce manual effort and improve consistency. Our presenter will cover examples of rack layouts, network diagrams, ITIL service maps, cabling, floor plans etc, to show how days and hours of engineering time can be reduced to seconds. If you are an existing Visio user you can use some of the methods immediately!

Visio tips & tricks: Save time creating IT schematics using our Visio Utilities

Learn how we approach baseline auditing for IT environments with multiple data centres and equipment rooms. The objectives are to deliver a consistent, comprehensive understanding at a detailed level - removing the need for site surveys, tracing cables, understanding capacity, improving change processes and covering gaps in other toolsets. Our experience of delivering projects with many data centers, 1000s of racks and evolved technologies is quite unique, so you will not want to miss this presentation if you want to have confidence in data centre infrastructure documentation.

Baseline Auditing Of Data Centres & Equipment Rooms

Understanding services, risks, change impacts and transformation plans is much easier when they are visualised. We'll show how CMDB data can create and update multiple Visio diagrams covering service maps, status dashboards, data flows, architectures, environments, resilience, etc. It is easier than you think!

Visio diagramming using CMDB data

Infrastructure documentation is often inconsistent, patchy and untrusted - so unnecessary site surveys, audits and workshops are carried out to compensate. This webinar will show how project tasks can be mapped to determine where trusted information sets directly support faster delivery of projects and easier interfacing between teams. Its common sense that good, accurate documentation enables project teams to assess, plan, implement and deliver changes to IT infrastructure efficiently and predictably.

Mapping IT Projects & Tasks To Information Sets

Many organisations would like more complete and accurate IT systems documentation of their current and planned environments. The simplest way is to consolidate isolated spreadsheets and diagrams to reduce maintenance effort. Our webinar will cover techniques to reduce workload and improve consistency for IT infrastructure technologies such as networks, servers, applications, data centres, cabling, etc. The benefits of accurate documentation are cost reduction, faster delivery of projects, better management of capacity and faster fault resolution - across the various life cycles of technologies and team restructuring.

How to Document IT Infrastructure - legacy and planned

Problem – “We have to maintain 100s or 1000s of Visio diagrams to explain the complexity of our data centres, networks, applications, services and more. But… it’s difficult because it takes too much resource, it’s difficult to get consistency, we lack in-depth Visio skills and changes are constant.”

Answer – Use Visio’s automation features and get an infrastructure database to create and maintain large amounts of Visio diagrams which are consistent and up to date. 

Result - Less engineering effort and skills, faster decision making, improved communications between project and operations teams. Plus, information is readily available for migration planning, risk assessments, impact analysis, change and capacity across a large estate.

If you are currently manually maintaining Visio diagrams for racks, floor plans, cloud, data centres, servers, applications, ITIL service maps (and more). Then this webinar could reduce a lot of pain and cost. 

From a recent project, is 20 minutes (4% of a man day) more attractive than 68-man days to draw 270 rack layouts? Or 300 network diagrams refreshed every night?

Visio Diagramming On A Large Scale

Our webinar covers methods and best practices to manage multi-site connectivity and data centres. We will cover common issues such as naming and labelling, network configurations, build documents, workflow, etc. Alongside record keeping these are all challenges that make connectivity management difficult. The aim is faster delivery of change with less effort/cost and centralised control. Both data and power examples are covered in the webinar.

Managing Connectivity Across Multi-Site Enterprises

The convergence of industrial systems with IT and cloud technologies introduces additional complexity that has to be managed and controlled - often as with IT systems. This webinar shows how techniques used to efficiently document IT system complexity can be applied to other environments including manufacturing, medical, transportation, building and logistics management. With cyber attacks focusing on critical shared infrastructure, the same documentation needs apply to IT and non-IT systems for day to day operations and cyber resilience to be assured.

Documenting Complex Industrial Automation, BMS and IoT Systems

Mapping and understanding GRC (Governance, Risk Management and Compliance) is necessary to ensure cybersecurity policies and processes are maintained effectively, avoiding duplication of effort and clarifying focus for shared IT engineering resources. As well as having sector led regulatory needs, there is often a multitude of management frameworks and standards involved – CoBit, ISO27001, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, CSC, ISO2000, TBM, eTOM, etc. (to name a few). All have their own focus and recommendations, so efficient ways of defining and maintaining business objectives, appropriate internal controls, processes and policies is important to meet GRC business needs. With more regulations being introduced by governments, GRC requirements are becoming increasingly complex so we’ll cover systematic ways of mapping common requirements to save a lot of effort. We are pleased to have support from Charlie Muir, Consulting Services Director at cyber security specialists  Secrutiny.

Mapping GRC Policies, Regulations, Standards and Processes

Understanding and communicating change impacts, dependencies and risks is made all the more difficult when it is all conceptual. This webinar looks at the different methods available to create and maintain diagrams when 100s or 1000s of servers are involved. Makes meeting risk and compliance much easier for frameworks such as ITIL, NIST CSF, CoBit, 27001, PCI, NERC CIP, etc.

How to Map Applications, Systems and Cloud Infrastructure

We map data flows to show understanding of system transactions, dependencies, fail over, compliance with regulations, change impacts, cloud migrations, firewall settings and capacity needs. Capturing, creating and maintaining data flow diagrams across many systems and applications in a large enterprise is not simple, as just mapping one system can be a challenge. In our webinar we cover Visio automation techniques to capture and refresh multiple sets of data flows, creating an institutional knowledge base lacking in many enterprises and service providers.

Using Visio to Map Data Flows In Enterprises

Diagrams help understand network topologies, but it isn't easy to represent complex infrastructure when there are so many network types and information needs. The convergence of IoT, security, signage and BMS with ICT results in many parallel “networks” on a mix of physical and virtual infrastructure. This webinar will focus on reducing effort and improving quality of project and operational network topology diagrams, complementing discovery, monitoring and workflow toolsets. 
We will cover LAN, VLAN, SDN, SAN, cloud, copper/fiber/power, environments, data flows, resilience, addressing, etc.

Network Diagramming Multi-Site Infrastructure - 45 minutes

Many enterprises are finding that a mix of on premise, hybrid and cloud computing needs more efficient management of their data center estate. Having facilities provided by 3rd parties normally needs improved management controls between IT teams and service teams, otherwise cost, delays and mistakes occur in the "gaps" that appear in planning, build, capacity and risk management. This webinar focuses on the IT side of data centers covering active and passive infrastructure.

Planning and Managing Data Center "White Space"

Increasing connectivity densities and use of modular fibre components is great for flexible cabling provision, but presents extra challenges for those having to manage infrastructure connectivity. David’s overview of best practice methods will help avoid both low and high density “spaghetti” and unnecessary disruption in the data centres.

Managing Connectivity With High Density Modular Cabling Systems

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