Equinox Egypt Achieves Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization From Cisco in Egypt

This specialization recognizes Equinox Egypt as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, design and deploy comprehensive Cisco® Data Center solutions.

Cairo, Egypt – August 24, 2012 – Equinox Egypt, the leading provider of infrastructure technology solutions and services in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region with a complete portfolio of solutions to meet the mission critical objectives of enterprises and service providers, announced today that it has achieved the Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization from Cisco. This specialization recognizes Equinox Egypt as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, design and deploy comprehensive Cisco® Data Center solutions.

The specialization provides role-based training in three essential areas: Unified Fabric for optimizing data and storage needs; Unified Computing for streamlining data center resources and uniting network, computational, storage and virtualization platforms; and Unified Network Services for advancing the way application delivery and security services are provided in the data center network or computing environment. 

 

"We are excited to achieve the Cisco Data Center Architecture Specialization. It is an achievement that caps more than six months of focused professional and business development for Equinox," commented Samer Haqoun, Chief Technology and PMO Officer, Equinox International. "For an organization of our size, with our traditional emphasis in networking, Voice, Security and Wireless, earning this credential speaks to our commitment to the data center and virtualization space in a way that we think makes an important statement to our customers and our partners alike. That is, we are deeply focused on these technologies and we look forward to continued rapid growth and success in providing these solutions for our customers." added Samer Haqoun. 

With this specialization, Equinox Egypt is one of three companies in Egypt that are holding this specialization. Moreover, Equinox boasts its training arm "EquiTrain" which enables the company to offer its clients with complete solutions including training and skills transfer. It is also worth mentioning that EquiTrain is a well-established Cisco Learning Partner that is capable of providing comprehensive data center training from design to operation management. 

“As a Cisco Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialized Partner, Equinox Egypt has made a significant investment in the training required to help customers accelerate their business growth, reduce the total cost of ownership, and extend the life of its current infrastructure by making its data center more efficient, agile and resilient,” said Ralph Nimergood, vice president of data center architecture for the worldwide partner department at Cisco.

The Cisco Resale Channel Program provides partners with the training required to build sales, design and technical talent and then validates their skills through a third-party au