Following on from part one of “How to capture fibre and copper connectivity of existing infrastructure” (View Here). Part 2 goes into the detail of capturing copper, fibre and power connectivity of multi-site IT infrastructure. Our Part 1 webinar on 18th February 2021 covered the planning and structure of the audit process, with many …

When connectivity documentation (or lack of) doesn’t support project, risk and capacity information needs, then a connectivity audit is needed. David Cuthbertson will cover how Square Mile captures multi-site IT infrastructure data, so physical connectivity can be managed and updated efficiently. It can be expensive and painful to capture copper, fibre and power connectivity – …

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 …

Documenting VLANs is a topic we are asked to cover frequently. So we have decided to show you how we recently created VLAN diagrams as part of a customer project for a large scale enterprise. Alongside this case study, our host David Cuthbertson will be demonstrating how to apply the brand new free VLAN Connector …

In our next free webinar, David Cuthbertson will be covering “How integrated IT documentation reduces costs and improve control”. Lack of accurate, up to date infrastructure documentation causes extra work and additional costs for any project, operations and risk management team. This webinar focuses on cost and control benefits, showing how process improvements need …

For our October webinar, Rene Samuels from the Netherlands is our guest presenter. Rene is often brought in by customers to help troubleshoot system and application dependencies, where complexity and change risks cannot easily be described or understood. By engaging with different IT teams to help simplify and map detailed system dependencies, Rene facilitates the …

Migrating data centres or moving to co-location is complex and subject to cost overruns, especially where existing infrastructure documentation is of questionable quality. Our host David Cuthbertson will show you how the use of database driven toolsets can help automate the project processes and avoid many of the typical problems that organisations with overstretched teams …

Our next webinar will show you how we approached the baseline auditing of a large multi-data centre environment – covering the issues and decision points along the way. As well as the common issues of inconsistent data on a large scale, there were also a few unexpected challenges on the way!

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We are glad to announce that for the next Visio masterclass on July 2nd, we are honoured to have David Parker of bVisual presenting advanced Visio capabilities and techniques. David has been a Visio MVP since 2004, has authored a number of Visio books and continues to work closely with Microsoft on data …

With multiple approaches to implementing cloud computing, customers have a variety of technical choices to consider as part of their cloud strategy. Many vendors have attractive offerings which may look tempting at first glance, but you could end up being locked in with no capability of porting to another platform. It’s good to make sure …