For Immediate Release - July 28, 2011
Siemon Launches Online Data Centre Learning Portal
Siemon, a globally recognised leader in network cabling solutions, has launched a new online resource dedicated to helping data centre professionals. Delivering educational resources and actionable guidance on a wide range of data centre issues, www.siemon.com/datacenters combines Siemon's extensive data centre cabling knowledge with expert input from representatives of the world's leading network infrastructure companies. Focusing on key data centre infrastructure issues such as energy consumption and cooling, high speed applications for networking and storage, cost-effective and future-proof cabling strategies and more, this new online resource provides an easily navigated portal to a vast library of in-depth data centre information. In addition to an expert panel discussion in which experts from Intel, Cisco, Aquantia and Siemon discuss 10GBASE-T advances and their impact on the data centre environment, visitors can access Siemon's comprehensive Data Centre e-book, instructional videos, webinars, customer case studies and more. Key topics included:
- 10GBASE-T advancements in the data centre
- Reducing data centre power consumption
- Data center cabling choices beyond 10Gb/s
- Strategies for co-location and cloud for operators and tenants
- Shielded cabling benefits
- Data centre cooling best practices
- Point-to-Point versus 'Any-to-All' cabling topologies
- Instructional data centre product videos
The portal also offers a new 'Ask Carrie' feature, which allows users to pose their data centre questions directly to Siemon's Carrie Higbie, a globally recognised data centre infrastructure expert. Carrie has been in the industry for nearly 30 years, with extensive background in all aspects of networking and application development - as a consultant, project manager, Fortune 500 data centre executive and college-level educator. Along with her involvement in IEEE, TIA, COMMON, ASHRAE, USGBC, WGBC, ISO, The Uptime Institute and various other standards consortiums, Carrie's experience delivers a uniquely broad perspective to users' data centre challenges.
To access Siemon's new data centre learning portal, visit: http://www.siemon.com/datacenters Learn more about Siemon's high-speed interconnect products at: http://www.siemon.com/sis
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- About Siemon
- Established in 1903, Siemon is an industry leader specialising in the manufacture and innovation of high quality, high-performance network cabling solutions. Headquartered in Connecticut, USA, with global offices and partners throughout the world, Siemon offers the most comprehensive suite of copper (unshielded and shielded twisted-pair) and fibre cabling systems available. With over 400 patents specific to structured cabling, Siemon Labs invests heavily in R&D and development of industry standards, underlining the company's long-term commitment to its customers and the industry.
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