< Previousstructured cabling www.networkseuropemagazine.com 80 The alternative insulation displacement contact (IDC) technology, on the other hand, will ensure a good quality contact over the whole lifetime of a product. For channels using continuous, high levels of PoE power, selecting patch cords with IDC termination is the right move to ensure reliable long-term connectivity. Higher bandwidth with extended reach is on the way for Wi-Fi and indoor 5G 25G Bandwidth with extended reach according to the ISO/ IEC 11801-9909 standard will support WiFi 6 Wave II and future WiFi. WiFi 6 (802.11ax), the emerging WiFi standard, features higher throughput and overcomes poor performance in crowded environments. Wave 2 will probably include uplink MU-MIMO capabilities. ‘High-Efficiency Wireless’, is said to quadruple average throughput per user, while remaining backwards-compatible with 802.11ac and 802.11n. 802.11ax delivers a throughput increase of some 40% thanks to higher-order QAM modulation, which allows more data to be transmitted per packet. WiFi 7 should have higher data rates and lower latency than WiFi 6. ‘WiFi Extremely High Throughput’ offers 30Gbps throughput, and is expected to be roughly three times faster than WiFi 6. It relies on multi- band/multi-channel aggregation and operation and delivers higher spectrum and power efficiency. Increased bandwidth also supports 5G indoor coverage with Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), with antennas placed at strategic locations to provide high-speed indoor wireless coverage. Cat.8.1 connections will be able to support extended reach 25Gbit/s application up to 50m channel lengths. A valid alternative to be considered for uplink connections for the next-generation wireless access points. The digital ceiling concept extends the data network through an entire building’s ceiling in a ‘honeycomb’ fashion, making it possible to connect devices to building automation via zones with pre-installed overhead connecting points (service outlets). Real estate managers or tenants can benefit from digitisation with ‘Plug and Play’ – fit for purpose, without barriers, fast and at low cost. All they need to do is plug in network switches, sensors, controls, WLAN access points and other distributed building services at the nearest service outlet. Smart, converged networks means energy-conserving technologies and applications can be introduced, such as intelligent management of building space, resources and LED lighting. PoE can power LED lighting throughout entire buildings and address each LED via its own IP address. Infrastructure companies can integrate more and more devices into their systems, leveraging the benefits of a unified network. Smart, converged networks means energy-conserving technologies and applications can be introduced, such as intelligent management of building space, resources and LED lighting.structured cabling www.networkseuropemagazine.com 81 SPE will complement existing Digital Ceiling installations and cover the last metres in a high-density ALL-IP environment. The connectivity landscape is becoming increasingly standardised and unified, with IP as a common medium for previously disparate systems. Using Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) without interfaces to replace the traditional field bus can help realise high connection density required for the networks of today and tomorrow, and makes installation faster, easier and more secure. SPE works with 10BASE-T1 to 1000BASE-T1, offers 15-1,000 metre link ranges at Gbit/s transmission rates, and can supply terminal equipment with up to 50watts with Power over DataLine (PoDL). SPE based on xBASE-T1 protocols uses a single twisted pair for data transmission. LAN is compressed into a thin two-core cable with miniaturised connectors, making it possible to significantly increase terminal equipment connection density. IT and field bus components are integrated, installation and maintenance are simplified and the costs of material and operating expenses are reduced. Compared to traditional Ethernet cabling, this approach offers a significantly higher number of possible connection points. Connection to the LAN is done with switches either centrally in the floor distributor or distributed in the zone at the service outlets. Ethernet/IP transmits large quantities of (complex) data faster than field bus systems, allowing the collection and distribution of data from the entire network. Synergies reduce operating expenses and manufacturer-neutral standard products can be used. Single Pair Ethernet will become a key technology in smart buildings. It is the missing link for connecting devices down to sensor/actuator level by means of a standard Internet protocol (IP). It has the potential to replace existing field bus systems and helps with the integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) into the LAN. n Single Pair Ethernet will become a key technology in smart buildings. It is the missing link for connecting devices down to sensor/actuator level by means of a standard Internet protocol (IP). Movers and Shakers www.networkseuropemagazine.com MOVERS AND SHAKERS www.networkseuropemagazine.com 82 Cisco’s Wendy Nather to be crowned in Infosecurity Hall of Fame Reed Exhibitions Ltd, organiser of Infosecurity Europe, has revealed that Wendy Nather, Head of Advisory CISOs, Cisco, will be inducted into the Infosecurity Hall of Fame and join a list of renowned information security personalities. Nather is recognised as a leader, influencer and mentor, at the forefront of cyber security. She is Head of Advisory CISOs at Cisco. She was previously Research Director at the Retail ISAC, where she was responsible for advancing the state of resources and knowledge to help organisations defend their infrastructure from attackers. Nather was also Research Director of the Information Security Practice at independent analyst firm 451 Research, covering the security industry in areas such as application security, threat intelligence, security services, and other emerging technologies. She led IT security for the EMEA region of the investment banking division of Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS), and served as CISO of the Texas Education Agency. Nather is also recognised for her coining of the term “security poverty line”, the point below which a company cannot effectively protect itself from cybersecurity threats. She is known for debating this and the need for small businesses that sit below the line, to receive expertise, resources, and influence to address the issue. Established in 2008, the Infosecurity Hall of Fame recognises the pioneers who have made a significant and long-term contribution to information security on a global level. It acknowledges and celebrates the achievements of these visionaries, luminaries, practitioners, advocates and thought leaders who have provided intellectual or practical input that has shifted the advancement of the industry. Nather said “I’m more honoured than I can say, especially since it was in Europe where I first started to learn this endlessly changing and challenging craft. To everyone I’ve met in security, from every country and region and industry, thank you for teaching me. We all have knowledge to share, and many hard-working professionals never get a chance to do it. But it’s critically important, because the more perspectives we hear, the better we can build security that works for everyone. Keep sharing your stories and telling your truths. Technology belongs to us all, and so does cybersecurity.“ n Quantum Appoints Mauro Ballerini as Area Vice President for Southern Europe & MEA Quantum Corporation has announced the appointment of Mauro as Area Vice President of Sales for Southern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. With more than 25 years of enterprise Go-To-Market (GTM) experience, Ballerini will help drive Quantum towards its goal to be the leading provider of management and storage solutions for video and unstructured data. Accelerated data growth and lack of visibility and control over data are among the challenges organisations face in managing and harnessing the value of their unstructured data. In addition, advances in AI and analytics are driving the need to ensure data is accessible for decades and beyond, as well as protected against disasters and cyber attacks. Quantum’s software-defined offerings enable organisations to manage data across their lifecycle with a subscription- based, fully managed offering, enabling them to unlock the value of their unstructured data. "We’re on the precipice of an industry shift towards storing data using software-defined and multi-cloud data management solutions,” said Henk Jan Spanjaard, Vice President EMEA at Quantum. “With his track record in building winning sales teams and experience with SaaS models, Mauro’s appointment is a catalyst in driving that momentum within the Southern EMEA region.” Prior to joining Quantum, Ballerini was Senior S ales Director for the EMEA Mediterranean Area at Cohesity, where he was directly responsible for the leadership and development of Cohesity’s business in the region and a key player in accelerating the company’s revenue growth and market share. He also served as Area Vice President for Southern Europe and Africa at A10 Networks, and has held various sales management positions at Pure Storage, Data Domain and NetApp. "It’s an exciting time to join Quantum as it transforms into a leader in unstructured data management, analytics and storage,” said Ballerini. “The company’s innovations for managing unstructured data across its lifecycle are paying dividends and I look forward to building on this success in the Southern EMEA region.” nTo include your movers and shakers in the next issue of Networks Europe, contact: editor@networkseuropemagazine.com NETWORKS EUROPE The magazine for network and data centre professionals MOVERS AND SHAKERS www.networkseuropemagazine.comwww.networkseuropemagazine.com 83 Globant appoints Stuart Deignan as UK MD to spearhead nationwide expansion Netskope names Michael Herman as VP Channel Sales for EMEA and LATAM Netskope has announced the appointment of Michael Herman as VP Channel Sales for EMEA and Latam. With extensive experience in technology sales, and over twenty years leading and architecting channel strategies, Herman joins with a remit to build out Netskope’s channel partnerships, support team and programmes across both the EMEA and Latam regions. Herman joins Netskope from Palo Alto Networks where he served for almost six years as VP EMEA Channels and Commercial Sales. Before Palo Alto Networks, Herman filled senior leadership roles at IBM and Cisco, all of which equipped him with powerful knowledge and experience in the convergence of network and security in a cloud-first environment. He will report to Dave Rogers, Global Head of Channel. Herman commented on his appointment, “Security and networking channels are undergoing significant evolution at the moment, driven by two major factors. Firstly, they are working hard to respond to customer demand for new, cloud-native technologies to transition network and security architectures towards the SASE model of data-centric security. "Amid this transformation landscape, the second change agent is the emerging threat to their existing revenue streams and margins from customers exploring new delivery and commercial models from cloud service providers. “The old guard of network security vendors are playing catch-up on native cloud security which leaves their hybrid offering expensive, difficult to deploy and unsuited to new commercial models. From the get-go, Netskope technology has been built in the cloud and for the cloud, so it doesn’t have to retrofit its products to deliver SASE. Netskope stood out for me for its technical vision, strong leadership and ambition to be the leading vendor in the fast-growing SASE market.” n Globant, a digitally native technology services company, has appointed Stuart Deignan as UK Managing Director to spearhead its nationwide expansion strategy. Deignan will run and oversee all aspects of Globant’s UK operations, including business development strategy and management of the overall client relationship to boost the business. With over 20 years of experience in digital, technology and business services, Deignan will work to expand Globant’s UK market presence, providing organisations across the UK with innovative end-to-end IT and software solutions. Federico Pienovi, General Manager Europe & Asia, commented: “We are delighted to have Stuart on board and to benefit from his experience in organisational change. Stuart will play a key role as we expand our footprint in the UK and in overseeing our studios’ efforts, augmenting our clients’ capabilities and providing them solutions to the most complex business problems.” Along with Deignan, Vikas Krishan has joined Globant as Managing Director and Head of Clients, for leading strategic business initiatives, identifying innovative and technology convergence needs to scale clients’ business. Deignan concluded: “The UK is an important market both domestically and as a gateway to Europe and beyond. In my new role as UK Managing Director, I plan to replicate Globant’s explosive growth across LATAM and EMEA here in the UK.” Globant’s fast growth rate globally has included the acquisition of financial services management consultancy Bluecap in Europe. Only recently, Globant also acquired CloudShift in the UK, expanding the company’s multi- cloud digital transformation capabilities. A long-standing player in the digital consultancy field, Globant has had its eyes on the UK as an important part of its global expansion and growth plan since it was born, as its first clients came from the UK. nSolarWinds expands leadership and executive team with new appointments SolarWinds has expanded its leadership team in the UK and Ireland, appointing a new Senior Sales Director— Charles Damerell. Damerell will work alongside Ludovic Neveu, Group Vice President EMEA sales, SolarWinds. The sales leadership team will support the company in its regional efforts to strengthen the brand and further solidify its position as a market leader for IT operations management solutions. As Neveu explains, “Welcoming Charles onto our UKI leadership team is a major step in our ambitious sales strategy focused on building collaborative business relationships and expanding beyond traditional market sectors. His experience will help us to grow the existing sales team, focus on strategic alliances and expand channel business. Charles’s appointment will also help SolarWinds explore new opportunities, growing into new market sectors, including education, public sector, and local government.” Damerell joins with more than 20 years of experience working in the technology sector. Prior to SolarWinds, he held positions at Astadia, AVG, T-Mobile and International Network Services (INS), among others. He implemented a range of fast-start, sustainable go-to-market strategies that helped to accelerate growth and brings an understanding that will prove invaluable when exploring new opportunities at SolarWinds. Chief Product Officer, Rohini Kasturi Rohini Kasturi joined SolarWinds on March 4 as Chief Product Officer, responsible for the IT operations management product organisation, inclusive of engineering, product management, and product marketing. He is a seasoned product executive with more than 25 patents in the SaaS, cloud, data, analytics, security, and SDx spaces. He comes to SolarWinds from Pulse Secure where, as Chief Product Officer, he transformed its on- premises product portfolio to SaaS while driving product excellence. Kasturi will define the SolarWinds product strategy and be a part of a global organisation responsible for product management and positioning and engineering execution. He will also lead the development, launch, and integration of new and enhanced SolarWinds products, accelerating the company’s integrated journey into cloud and SaaS in support of hybrid deployments. Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President, Security, Tim Brown Tim Brown joined the company in 2017 as Vice President, Security with responsibilities spanning internal IT security, product security and security strategy, and has now expanded his role as SolarWinds CISO. As a former Dell Fellow and CTO, Brown understands the challenges and aspirations of the person responsible for driving digital innovation and change. He has over 25 years of experience developing and implementing security technology. He is also an avid inventor and holds 18 issued patents on security-related topics. As CISO and Vice President, Security, Brown will be responsible for SolarWinds security compliance, internal audit, IT operations, risk measurement and remediation efforts. He will promote the company’s “Secure by Design” initiative internally and externally, enabling SolarWinds and the overall development community to produce exemplary secure and resilient software and services. Chief Customer Officer, Andrea Webb Since joining the company in 2002, Andrea Webb has built a world-class team contributing heavily to the renewals, customer service, sales engineering, and customer success areas of the business. In her new role as Chief Customer Officer, Webb will focus on expanding our customer success culture and simplifying user experiences. She will be tasked with improving the teams’ ability to share expertise across the organisation in support of the SolarWinds vision to put customer success at the forefront of its corporate strategy. Webb’s team will be responsible for the company’s comprehensive post-sale customer experience, partnering closely with global sales leaders on the end-to-end customer lifecycle. “I’m delighted to appoint Tim, Rohini, and Andrea to their new, respective roles at SolarWinds,” added Ramakrishna, “I’m confident their experience and leadership will help us successfully accelerate our focus on customer success, security and product innovation.” n SolarWinds has also extended its executive team with three new appointments. The newly appointed executive roles reinforce the company’s commitment to customer experience and success, security, and product innovations to support an increasingly hybrid IT world. “These three executive functions are strategic in supporting the mission I stated upon joining the company in January 2021—to continue to build on the earned trust of our customers by delivering powerful, affordable, and secure solutions,” said Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President and CEO, SolarWinds, “The appointment of these new executive roles marks a key moment in our company’s evolution, signaling our commitment to invest in the next phase of SolarWinds transformation and growth to better serve the expanding needs of our customers as they accelerate their digital transformation efforts in a hybrid IT world.” Rohini Kasturi Charles Damerell Tim Brown Andrea Webb MOVERS AND SHAKERS www.networkseuropemagazine.com 84CENTIEL expands sales team CENTIEL UK has expanded its hardware sales team with the addition of Graham Murray as Sales Engineer. Murray will be responsible for external hardware sales, specialising in UPS system replacements. Murray confirms: “My new role is varied and includes working on new projects and replacing end-of-life systems. I will be helping clients upgrade to the very latest technology which is right-sized to reduce the overall total cost of ownership (TCO) and at the same time offers the highest levels of efficiency, availability and reliability. “Having worked in the UPS industry for several years, I’ve been involved in my fair share of modular projects. Modular’s design and levels of resilience have changed the way that customers can choose to protect their critical load. CENTIEL’s true modular UPS CumulusPowerTM which is known for its industry-leading availability has raised the bar for modular UPS systems. In addition, its safe-hot-swap capability means a module added to a system can be fully isolated and tested within a running frame before it accepts any load. As a result, CumulusPower is currently the safest, most reliable and flexible UPS available for critical power protection. “These innovations and technological advances offer more flexibility for clients and will also ensure I can develop bespoke solutions, tailored to meet specific requirements. Every site is different, so being able to supply a variety of frame sizes or battery configurations will result in the most optimal solution to protect the power at critical installations.” Louis McGarry, Sales and Marketing Director, CENTIEL UK commented: “Graham’s appointment will further strengthen our team and offer support to our valued customer base. His experience with system integration and project sales will make a valuable contribution to the continued growth of CENTIEL in the UK.” n Glide Group has announced that it has acquired 100% of the shares of Concept Solutions People (CSP). Founded in 2010 by Steve Ives and Dave Bowler, CSP designs and builds bespoke fibre networks for clients such as councils, data centres, telecommunication service providers, and universities. During this time, the organisation has built over 100 kilometres of owned duct network in 27 locations. Following the acquisition, CSP will be renamed Glide Fibre. The CSP network will be joined to the Glide core network, enabling more opportunities to provide Glide Gigabit services to suit any business requirement nationwide. Ives, Founder of CSP, commented: “We share the vision that Glide has to build high quality, high-capacity networks across the UK. For the past ten years, our team have been building these networks and we are pleased to be part of Glide to build even more network." Bowler further commented: “When we looked at the two networks we were astounded how well they fit together and could easily see the synergies. As a small business, we wanted to scale and have now joined a company that we know can scale.” Tim Pilcher, CEO of Glide Group commented: “When we met Dave and Steve we knew that we had found the right partners to help us grow and expand our network further and faster than we could on our own. The team has a wealth of experience and knowledge that is invaluable to our ambitions to build fibre in difficult to serve and hard to reach areas. Our investors, Alinda Capital Partners who purchased Glide in 2020, invest in asset-rich infrastructure that will provide a lasting return for the next 20-30 years and this acquisition suited those criteria well.” n Men&Mice appoint Thomas Hawkes as SVP of the Americas Men&Mice, a network management company, has announced the appointment of former Infoblox Senior Vice President of Sales, Thomas Hawkes, as the Men&Mice SVP of the Americas. With more than 20 years of experience in senior-level sales positions in the technology industry, Hawkes is a veteran in developing global sales organisations. In his new role at Men&Mice, Hawkes will be tasked with building the sales organisation and growing the business in the Americas. Magnus Bjornsson, CEO of Men&Mice said: “I’m very excited to have Tom join the Men&Mice team. His years of experience building a successful world-class enterprise sales organisation will be put to good use as, together, we’ve created an ambitious plan to expand our presence and sales efforts in North America.” The appointment comes at a time of great innovation for Men&Mice, which recently updated its flagship unified DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI) orchestration platform, Micetro, to version 10.0. This latest version is aimed at establishing sustainable networking best practices in diverse and heterogeneous global enterprise networks. Hawkes will play an integral role in promoting Micetro 10.0 to the valuable US market while helping US enterprises gain access to Men&Mice’s leading network management solution. “With this new product comes a new brand identity for Men&Mice, I am excited to play a part in developing Micetro 10.0 as a first choice for organisations looking to optimise their DDI environments,” says Hawkes, “With continued growth and key customers in the US market, we are on the way to becoming the regional leader in sustainable networking.” n Glide Group acquires Concept Solutions People MOVERS AND SHAKERS www.networkseuropemagazine.com 85NETWORKS EUROPE reaches a readership of 26,000 network infrastructure professionals throughout Europe, landing on the desks of Data Centre Managers, Facilities Managers, CIOs, CTOs, ICT Directors, Consultants, Network Managers, Integrators and many others in the Data Centre industry. 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