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Cisco breaks ground on data centre in Frankfurt
16 March 2021 | Abigail Opiah Cisco today has launched a new data centre in 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 facility is scheduled for operation by end of June 2021. The company pointed out that the shift to remote working, combined with the need to keep distributed teams connected have increased the demand for cloud-based Collaboration platforms.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the use of digital collaboration tools, such as Cisco Webex, has increased by 74%, according to the company.
Cisco issues 3 critical warnings around ACI, NS-OX security holes
Tech giant issues patches for high-end software systems ACI, Application Services Engine and NX-OS operating system Credit: Dreamstime
Cisco has issued three security advisories rated “critical” for some of its high-end software systems - two aimed at its Application Services Engine (ASE) implementation and one at the NX-OS operating system.
The most concerning warning came for Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) installed with the ASE which was rated a worse-case scenario, 10 out of a possible 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). The ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator lets customers control application-access policies across Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller-based fabrics.