By Akanimo Sampson
US tech giant, Cisco, has announced plans for e new data centre to serve its customers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Cisco will bring a new data centre to Frankfurt, Germany, to serve customers using its Collaboration platform Webex in the European Union (EU) and the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia (EMEAR) region.
The new data center in Frankfurt is scheduled for operation by end of June 2021. Over the past 12 months, businesses have seen a huge spike in demand for remote working facilities as they scramble to keep their workforces productive during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the use of digital collaboration tools, such as Cisco Webex, has increased by 74%. Webex alone has grown to nearly 600 million participants quarterly on average.
“There is no doubt: the future of work will be hybrid. Collaboration technologies play a key role in enabling digital workers, regardless of geography, language or proficiency in technology. The velocity of innovation in this area is staggering.
Vice President, Cisco Middle East and Africa, Reem Asaad, says ‘’at Cisco, we have launched over 400 new enhancements for Webex since September 2020, underpinned by the security and privacy principles that are core to our technologies and processes.”
This year, Cisco is scaling and unifying Cisco Webex data centres to provide customers with more flexibility. The new data centre in Frankfurt, Germany is part of this effort and complements existing data centres in the region, providing additional opportunities to host data in the EU.
