NEWS
Cisco expands
DevNet Express
into Lebanon
to help
businesses grow
uilding on the success of previous
events around the world, Cisco’s
DevNet Express has been
expanded into Lebanon. DevNet Express is
Cisco’s two-day event which aims to teach
network engineers and architects how to
manage their networks using enterprise
network programmability tools and APIs
(application program interfaces).
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The goal of DevNet is to create a
community of infrastructure and
application developers and give them
hands-on experience and insights via pre-
packaged tutorials, instructor-led teaching
by highly qualified sales engineers and
rewarding through games.
DevNet Express uses emerging digital
technologies and Cisco DNA (Digital
Network Architecture) to help leaders with
business transformation, using intent-
based networking as a vital component.
The programme is open to a large
community of customers, partners
and engineers, aiming to make Digital
Transformation accessible to all.
Commenting on the launch of DevNet
Express in Lebanon, Hani Raad, Director
and General Manager – Middle East West
Region at Cisco, said: “As a market first,
Cisco’s DevNet Express aims to combine
our global vision with local knowledge
to help developers listen, learn and put
into practice a range of teachings and
software driven innovations that will aid
business growth.”
e-shelter secures second data
centre campus in Berlin
-shelter, a leading data
centre provider in Europe
and a member of the NTT
Group, has acquired a development
site from BMDF Gewerbepark
Berlin-Mariendorf GmbH & Co.
KG. It will enable the company to
develop a data centre campus of
60,000 sqm and 90 MVA of data
centre capacity with the first phase
scheduled to be ready in Q4 2020.
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‘Marienpark Berlin’ is located just
south of the city centre and is 14km
from the existing e-shelter Berlin 1
data centre which provides 13 MW
of capacity.
Customers at the Marienpark data
centre campus will have access
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to e-shelter’s e-connect platform
featuring multiple carrier and
cloud providers.
The close linear distance of the sites
within the Berlin city region means
customers will have the option to
operate infrastructure in both Berlin
1 and the new campus in an ‘active-
active-configuration’.
Volker Ludwig, Senior Vice President
Sales of e-shelter, said: “Demand
in the Berlin market has been
sustainably growing over the past
years. We see digitisation as one of
the key drivers and experience strong
demand from several industries
including hyperscalers, public sector
and media.”
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