Customers of a global information, communication and technology infrastructure

management company are benefitting from its association with labelling solutions specialist,

Silver Fox.

Cormant claims Silver Fox labels are ‘just right’.

Silver Fox’s wrap-around self-laminating cable labels are popular with Cormant Inc.

Cormant, a US-British-Australian information, communication and technology infrastructure

Management Company, focuses on providing DCIM and connectivity infrastructure

management systems for medium to very large organisations spanning all industries across

the globe. Cormant’s key customers include multinationals from the banking, consulting, IT,

travel, hotel, government, manufacturing, health and telecommunications industries.

Cormant - based in San Luis Obispo, California, but with offices or partners on six continents

- is focused on helping its customers to improve their management, control and reporting

processes by delivering a solution that provides a ‘single-pane-of-glass’ view to where the

physical and logical layers of IT infrastructure meet in the data centre and beyond. The

holistic view of the IT infrastructure that the Cormant-CS solution provides enables

customers to take better, faster and more accurate decisions when planning or making

change.

Its constant search for the most efficient and cost-effective products to support its data

centre infrastructure management (DCIM) solution led it to Silver Fox, the Hertfordshire-

based leader in UK-manufactured, independently tested, durable labelling solutions which

are designed to turn time into profit. Silver Fox has spent over 30 years developing its

products. Its commitment to global business was recognised in 2005 by the Queen’s Award

for Enterprise – International Trade.

According to Paul Goodison, the Co-Founder and CEO of Cormant, Inc., the company needed

to find a specific sized ‘self-laminating’ label on which it could print barcodes to supply to its

customers. He explained: “The label is applied to cables to support auto-identification of

these cables using the Cormant-CS DCIM mobile computer and barcode scanner.”

The Cormant-CS DCIM solution suite is an advanced infrastructure management (IM)

software system for operations in the data centre and beyond. The Cormant-CS IM

suite provides efficient and effective IM through the use of a technology solution that

includes network, client, web and mobile components to consolidate all the information

necessary to manage the IT infrastructure – wherever and whatever it is. Cormant has staff

and trained partners who supply customers with a full range of components including

software, training, process consulting, implementation and auditing services. All are

designed to get customers up and running as soon as possible and keep their IM solution

running smoothly for years to come.

“Silver Fox was able to make a custom-sized wrap-around, self-laminating label to optimise

the label readability once it was applied to a cable,” said Paul. “All the ‘standard’ sized labels

that we’d looked at before we discovered Silver Fox and its products were either too small,

making identification problematic, or too big - meaning that there was an additional cost to

apply them and, potentially, they still resulted in lower readability.

“Silver Fox’s solution was ‘just right’ for Cormant.”

Available in laser or thermal printer options, Silver Fox’s wrap-around cable labels – known

as the Prolab® range - self-laminate to protect the ident (ID) on the label. Unusually for

wrap-around self-laminating labels, the Prolab range includes labels up to 50mm wide, to

accommodate longer cable IDs.

“In addition, with environmental considerations becoming more prominent these days, it’s

important to remember that all Silver Fox Prolab thermally printable labels are made of

polyethylene. This is more environmentally friendly than the PVC traditionally used for such

labels,” said Silver Fox’s CEO, Nick Michaelson.

Paul Goodison commented: “The Silver Fox labels allow us to supply our customers with the

optimal label for the task – and, crucially, this ensures a very high identification rate. This

means that our customers can manage all aspects of their data centres - which can cost tens

of millions of pounds to build and operate.

“With standard labels, the time to identify a cable could be longer and this leads to lower

staff productivity and the potential for processes not being followed,” added Paul, who has

more than two decades of experience managing major IT projects across the globe. He

believes that every data centre requires an IT physical layer infrastructure management

solution.

Paul has managed IT infrastructure across Asia, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and

the Philippines. Realising that portability is the critical key to solving the challenge of IT

infrastructure management, notably ensuring records are updated and trusted, Paul and

two of his colleagues were inspired to found Cormant which, subsequently, developed

CableSolve, now called Cormant-CS.

“We’ve always found Silver Fox to be responsive to our needs,” said Paul. “They took the

time and trouble to figure out our need and our business, rather than just ‘sell us some

labels’. That’s the difference between having a simple customer/supplier relationship and

engaging in a true partnership.

“We operate globally and it is great to see that, while Silver Fox is a pure UK company, it

also has a worldwide reach and can support our needs anywhere in the world.

“As a consequence, we expect to see our volume of business with Silver Fox increase as our

business grows,” he continued. “There should also be the opportunity to expand the range

of labels Silver Fox will be supplying to Cormant as new applications for labels of varying size

cables occur. We know that Silver Fox has its own printing process and we see the

opportunity to have them supply pre-printed labels as a possible step in the future.”

About Silver Fox Ltd

A leader in UK manufacturing labelling solutions using a special Plug’n’Play thermal printer

or a standard office printer - ensuring fast and efficient identification of cables, wires,

optical fibres, panels and equipment - Silver Fox delivers solutions for the Energy, Power,

Rail and Data & Telecoms industries worldwide.

Silver Fox’s production of independently tested durable labelling is only part of the story. It

also offers three levels of software, all of which are downloadable from the Silver Fox

website, for free trial. Developed in conjunction with engineers over the past 15 years or so,

these software solutions offer an array of unique time-saving options which, for the time-

critical project, can turn time into profit.

Silver Fox tests its labels at recognised independent UKAS certified test laboratories in

compliance with a number of different MIL and other standards. Silver Fox is ISO 9001:2008

registered. Silver Fox has spent over 30 years developing its products. Its commitment to

global business was recognised in 2005 by the Queen’s Award for Enterprise – International

Trade.

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Further information from:

Nico Frame, Marketing Manager,

Silver Fox Ltd, +44 (0)1707 373727; nico.frame@silverfox.co.uk