FEATURE: DATA CENTRE SOLUTIONS
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New technologies are enabling us to reimagine the data centre and with the latest levels of storage efficiency, organisations are being empowered to realise the full potential of their most important asset – data. We speak to two experts to find out more about the latest developments.
Data centre infrastructure still sits at the heart of global ICT and enables all of us to enjoy the services we use every day. Despite the rapid growth and adoption of the cloud, data centres are continuing to thrive because companies still need on-premise systems.
Intelligent CIO spoke to two industry experts to find out more about developments in the sector and what we can expect in the future.
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Siemon is an industry leader specialising in the design and manufacture of high quality, high performance low voltage infrastructure solutions and services for data centres, LANs and intelligent buildings.
The company offers a suite of copper and optical fibre cabling systems, cabinets, racks, cable management, data centre power and cooling systems and intelligent infrastructure management solutions.
Here we speak to Prem Rodrigues, Director of Sales and Marketing for Middle East, India and SAARC at Siemon.
How will the data centre sector cope in the future with an everincreasing amount of data?
There is immense pressure to handle extreme data volumes within switch-toswitch backbone links to the core and to the storage area network( SAN) and to cope with the ever-increasing amount of data, the data centre sector needs to rapidly migrate to speeds of at least 100 gigabits per second via optical fibre cabling.
Most large data centres are now embracing singlemode fibre cabling due to its greater distance capabilities and unlimited bandwidth capabilities, as well as its established ability to handle wavelength division multiplexing( WDM) applications that support even higher speeds.
In addition to higher speeds, as the sheer number of equipment and fibre links continues to increase, data centres will seek to deploy solutions that facilitate managing ultra-high densities of fibre connections.
Will the advent of 5G change the way data centres operate?
While limited 5G networks are just now being launched, and the world won’ t see widespread 5G coverage for at least another five years, these fifth-generation mobile networks will bring IoT to a whole new level, and that means even more data for data centres to handle.
Preparing for the future
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