Cisco announces Meraki India Region to empower businesses embrace cloud-first transformation

Cisco is doubling down on its commitment to India’s digitization by launching Cisco Meraki India Region, a new cloud region that is hosted on a cloud service provider empaneled with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India. The Meraki India Region will empower businesses across the nation to embrace a cloud-first transformation, while helping customers meet their local data storage and privacy needs.

Cisco Meraki is already trusted by over 810,000 customers globally and leads the charge as the premier cloud-managed IT platform. It accelerates cloud-first business transformation through simpler operations, secure networking, and an ecosystem that drives future growth and innovation. Meraki offers comprehensive Networking (Wired, Wireless, SD-WAN), secure networking, and IoT (Sensors) capabilities that empower customers with centralized visibility and control, unified management of wireless and wired networks, and reduced operational expenses.

“Launching the Meraki India Region is a critical step to ensuring customers can securely connect and scale their business with the simplicity they expect from Meraki,” said Lawrence Huang, SVP/GM – Cisco Networking – Meraki & Wireless. “The Meraki India Region helps our customers meet their local data storage needs with advanced security features such as penetration testing and daily vulnerability scans, continuing the drive towards digital transformation across the country.”

Daisy Chittilapilly, President, Cisco India & SAARC, said, “As businesses continue to embrace a cloud-first environment, they are seeking a comprehensive networking platform that offers agility, flexibility, and secure access to drive operational efficiencies and succeed in an interconnected world. With the launch of the Meraki India Region, we aim to do just that.”

As India transforms into a digital-first nation, Cisco is committed to help drive digital transformation at scale and power a connected and inclusive future for all. With Meraki, Cisco will provide customers with more choice to access resilient and secure cloud infrastructure to develop innovative solutions, simplify network operations, create scalable networks that are easy to manage, unify secure IT experiences and address dynamic customer needs.