Black Box will be exhibiting at DCW Frankfurt May 11-12 in Stand A114 with a focus on its data centre practice and related solutions and services. The Black Box Data Centre Practice follows a "glocal" ethos: reach globally and execute locally, providing a modular, global program that offers centralized solutions development and strategic planning while maintaining local project management and a local technical workforce for scalable delivery. Black Box experts will be on hand to consult with DCW Frankfurt visitors about how the Black Box Data Centre Practice can work for them.

[Black Box Highlights at DCW Frankfurt]

- Black Box Data Centre Practice

At DCW Frankfurt, Black Box will feature its global, end-to-end IT services for building and maintaining data centres that are efficient, consistent and secure. The Black Box Data Centre Practice builds and supports hyperscale, enterprise and colocation data centres through a comprehensive suite of services that includes hyperscale build and operation, custom planning and design, configuration, installation, deployment, and Day-2 and 24/7/365 RunOps support.

With more than 45 years of experience in deploying in-building IT and communications technologies, a footprint that spans 120 countries, time-tested methodologies, certified technicians, and a proven track record, Black Box has all design, deploy and managed services needed to support its customers' digital transformation. Black Box has also developed a variety of strategic partnerships and alliances with leading technology vendors of network, security, wireless, cabling and IoT solutions.

"We have invested heavily in building and developing the Black Box Data Centre Practice team, hiring data centre professionals throughout the world to ensure the practice has the right talent and capacity to meet customer demand," says, Adrian Jones, director of delivery & operations (EMEA) within the Data Centre Practice at Black Box. "The holistic practice provides a framework for end-to-end data centre services and management, comprising presales and solutions, PMO and BizOps, and delivery and mobilization teams."

- Data Centre of the Future Showcase

Black Box will participate in the "Data Centre der Zukunft" or Data Centre of the Future: the 6th Generation Data Centre, a unique and innovative data centre that will be built on the show floor. This mini data centre will feature multiple components (racks, servers, switching, cabling, cooling, security, power, alarms, etc.) from various partners.

- Global Partnership with HPE Aruba

For the first time live, the Black Box Data Centre Practice will showcase the high-performance, access layer/leaf data centre Aruba CX 10000 Series switch with Pensando. The Aruba CX 10000 represents a new category of data centre switches that combine best-of-breed data centre Aruba L2/3 switching with the industry's only fully programmable DPU (Pensando Elba) that delivers stateful software-defined services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and order-of-magnitude scale and performance improvements over traditional data centre L2/3 switches at a fraction of their TCO. Black Box will offer HPE Aruba switches to data centres along with its portfolio of data centre services.

Visitors to the mini data centre will also find a select array of cabling solutions, including high-performance ribbon fibre-optic cabling solutions from AFL and Corning and a variety of Panduit copper cabling solutions.

- Go Green with Black Box IoT: AlertWerks Wired and IoT Web

During DCW Frankfurt, Black Box will also showcase its AlertWerks Wired solution, which simplifies control and management of communications infrastructure. In today's world, businesses rely on infrastructure to support their communication need; to enable energy and cost savings that allow for greener and more efficient operations; and to maintain readiness to respond to any unexpected threats. A state-of-the-art IoT solution, AlertWerks Wired actively monitors conditions in a server room, or any other room, to protect and ensure the stability of the business. Black Box will provide demos of AlertWerks IoT Web UI on its DCW Frankfurt Stand A114, showing visitors how the solutions help users to learn about communication failures before they impact their business.