Name: Automating Visio Network Diagramming
Start: 2023-06-22T12:00:00Z
End: 2023-06-22T12:00:46.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.9

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

Widescale adoption of IP based technologies in manufacturing systems as well as expansion of IoT systems is increasing the complexity of manufacturing systems and systems understanding. Engineering drawings based on CAD are being overtaken by MS Visio based schematics for IT and OT shared infrastructure. In our webinar we look at the use of data driven diagramming to make diagram creation and updating simpler and faster, providing physical, logical and system diagrams for planning, design and operational management.

Visio Tips and Tricks - Part 4 Industrial and IoT Diagramming

Part 3 of our Visio webinar series covers the mapping of hosts, applications and service for high level design and change impact analysis. Areas such as mapping physical to virtual, containers, databases, data flows as well as application environments will be covered. Using data driven Visio automation methods the presenters will show how complex IT systems can be simplified and presented consistently with less effort by IT teams and contractors.

Visio Tips and Tricks - Part 3 Application / Services Diagramming

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

Is spaghetti cabling a result of design, implementation, materials, change management, lack of controls - or all of them? It’s obvious that unplanned, task only and project focused approaches inevitably result in problems later on. If only there was a standard for common sense covering IT infrastructure like TIA TR-60. Join the leaders of TIA TR-60 Infrastructure Life Cycle Management framework to see and understand good ways to sustain good performance and uptime, as well as reducing the cost and risks of change. Warning, some examples may be distressing for IT professionals.

Stress Free Infrastructure and 10 Pitfalls to Avoid

Visio is used extensively in data centre design and management as it enables data driven diagramming of floor plans, racks, cabling, power, networks and systems. Our presenters will show different methods and techniques of applying Visio in combination with Excel and database listings. The end result is less time spent creating and updating multiple sets of diagrams for project and operational information needs. or... you could do it manually in weeks instead of minutes using automation features.

Visio Tips and Tricks - Part 2 Data Centres

Our guest presenter is Terry Rice of Epigen who is considered to be one of the leading experts in AI development, and  has been working with Nvidia for 10 years developing the next generation of conversational AI. The webinar will cover the different types of AI and capabilities, along with the current state of AI and common platforms. Terry and Jerry Bowman (TR-60 Chair) will discuss the different uses of AI in managing technology life cycles and the impact on the TR-60 standards framework.

TIA TR-60: The Role of AI In Managing Technology Life Cycles

Many organisations would like more complete and accurate IT systems documentation, preferably with less effort. There are better ways than creating a multitude of isolated spreadsheets and diagrams that become impossible to maintain. Our webinar will cover techniques to reduce workload and improve consistency for documenting IT infrastructure technologies such as networks, servers, applications, data centres, cabling, etc. The larger the infrastructure the greater the benefits of the methods that we’ll cover. The solutions could be as simple as adopting standard naming conventions, linking Visio diagrams to Excel, or maybe integrating data sources to remove duplication.

How to Document IT

With increasing use of cloud and the associated data centers needed, governments and enterprises are impacting IT to reduce energy usage and improve sustainability. In this webinar we'll be looking at current environmental issues that impact life cycle processes, with disposal and reuse being included as part of governance and project requirements.

Please note that this webinar does not qualify for BICSI CECs.

TIA TR-60.TSB Infrastructure Life Cycle Management And Environmental Issues

How Visio can be used efficiently and flexibly to create and maintain different types of network diagrams for physical, logical and cloud infrastructures

Visio Tips and Tricks - Part 1 Network Diagramming

The final webinar of our series on Planning and Managing Cabling Infrastructure looks at the management reporting and life cycle issues that cover existing and new cabling infrastructure. Understanding and reporting capacity, decommissioning, upgrading, billing, evolving control processes and changes in contractors. The  management issues that need to be addressed to keep costs under control and meet business connectivity needs.

Planning and Managing Cabling Infrastructure - Part 4 Managing capacity

Sourcing products, services and people from external providers is well established within the ICT industry, to make best use of internal resources as well as access skills and capabilities from specialists. In our webinar we'll look at the issues this creates - positive and negative for infrastructure life cycle management (ILCM). Key suppliers may cancel product ranges, cease to provide managed services, not follow contract conditions, fail to meet SLAs as part of normal life. On the other hand, suppliers have specialist skills, a wider geographic reach and resources that can’t be replicated in house. So how can ILCM help enterprises manage supply chain and logistics risks, while still taking advantage of innovative new technologies and approaches in the market place.

TIA TR-60.TSB Supply Channel and Logistics Impact On Life Cycle Management

In the third webinar on cable infrastructure we'll look at connecting up the IT and other systems to the cabling infrastructure and ongoing change management. Covering administration, change processes, troubleshooting and producing data and power diagrams to support risk management and monitoring systems.

Planning and Managing Cabling Infrastructure - Part 3 Connecting The IT Systems

Maintaining and evolving technology skills, as well as selective use of service partners is a key aspect of TR-60 Infrastructure Life Cycle Management. Changes to teams, roles and authority levels are inevitable with the potential to lose talent and not keep up with the skills required for long term management of ICT infrastructure. Our speakers are Jerry Bowman, TR-60 Engineering Committee Chair, David Cuthbertson, TR-60.B Subcommittee Chair, and Kelly Gambrell, CEO of K5 Construction Group and K5 Connect.

TIA TR-60.TSB Resourcing the Infrastructure, People and Skills

In the second webinar on cable infrastructure we'll look at optimising the detailed design and implementation of cabling systems. Both new build as well as upgrading or extending the current system.

Planning and Managing Cable Infrastructure - Part 2 Detailed Design

The second TR-60 TSB webinar focuses on how improved life cycle management reduces management costs, operational risks and downtime. If infrastructure design and implementation are focused only on the technology working day 1, then opportunities for cost savings and operational controls are missed. If racks are too densely packed the cabling will be messy. The cabling will become a risk every time changes are made and tracing connectivity when the network is down takes longer. You may save on Day 1 and then pay for it Day 2, Day 3 and for the next 20 years. The wise decision is to design and build for change, flexibility and ease of management with TR-60 standards as a reference.

TIA TR-60.TSB Reducing Management Costs, Operational Risks and Downtime

In this webinar series we'll cover our new AssetGen Cabling Architect system as well as the more detailed build and operational aspects of data cabling. Ideal for proposals, creating build and patching documents as well as maintaining connectivity information over the long term.

Planning and Managing Cable Infrastructure - Part One

As the TIA TR-60 ICT Lifecycle Management Standards are introduced into IT and ICT workstreams, this new Day 2 thinking may not be intuitive to some professionals in areas like HR, Governance, Supply Chain and Security.  This webinar, presented by Jerry Bowman TR-60 Chair and David Cuthbertson TR-60.B Subcommittee Chair will introduce the listener to some of the business problems that TR-60 will solve, and provide guidance on the use case for the thirty (30) standards as they’re released.  The webinar will also provide some examples of the planned TR-60 technology management benchmarking system to allow technology stakeholders to set performance objectives and measure achievement of them.  Benchmarking is vital to finding areas of opportunity to monitor, improve and empower every internal and outsourced IT department resulting in the right processes and overall productivity, which all drive revenue. The TR-60 TSB webinar will introduce the concepts, desired outcomes and some early prescriptive guidance on how to use TR-60 to achieve them. #supplychainmanagement #TR-60 #TIAstandards #ITgovernance

TIA TR-60.TSB The Gateway To Outcome-Based Infrastructure Management

Understanding how hardware, cabling, software and systems deliver data to users isn't simple - with change risks multiplied by the complexity involved. The database driven AssetGen system efficiently replaces 1000s of spreadsheets and automates multiple Visio diagrams that explain physical, logical and business dependencies. In this webinar we will show how complexity can be simplified so projects, changes and risks can be managed more effectively and with less engineering effort than current methods. The webinar will show how not to drown in documentation that needs to potentially cover all technologies and their dependencies.

Simplifying Infrastructure Complexity With AssetGen

Diagrams help with design and understanding of network topologies, but there are so many network types and information needs. Representing complex infrastructure is made simpler and faster using MS Visio with the automation techniques we’ll cover in the webinar. The convergence of IoT, security, signage and BMS with ICT results in many parallel “networks” on a mix of physical and virtual infrastructure – expanding the numbers of network diagrams required. This webinar focuses 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.

Automating Visio Network Diagramming

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