Cisco's global partner awards recognise top-performing partners' business success, innovation, and best-in-class sales and service delivery that enable substantial business outcomes for customers.

"Cisco partners are engines of growth and innovation in our shared success. Together, we have come through a challenging year to achieve outstanding results, respond to customer challenges, and meet our business imperatives," said Oliver Tuszik, Senior Vice President, Global Partner Sales and Routes to Market, Cisco. "Congratulations to Datacentrix for being recognised as the Services Partner of the Year for Middle East and Africa. You have demonstrated your expertise and commitment to performance and are well positioned for continued success in the Age of the Partner."

"Datacentrix has taken its partnership to the next level with Cisco, recently attaining Tier One Gold Level partnership status, which demonstrates our deep knowledge and expertise and confirms our status as a strategic local Cisco partner," explains Chris Pretorius, Business Unit Manager at Datacentrix. "This is further confirmed by the Services Partner of the Year award win for Middle East and Africa.

"Our Cisco partnership is truly growing from strength to strength. In fact, 2022 has marked one of our most successful years together, with growth of more than 25 percent, an excellent achievement by any standards," he notes. "We're anticipating additional positive development in the new year and look forward to making even greater headway together."

Datacentrix is a Tier One Cisco Gold Certified Partner with reseller specialisations in advanced data centre architecture; security architecture; collaboration architecture; and enterprise networks architecture. The company is authorised to sell enterprise agreements in data centre, cloud, security and collaboration.

About Datacentrix:

Datacentrix is a leading hybrid IT systems integrator and managed services provider that enables digitalisation success.

Our expert teams leverage the power of ICT technologies to connect, transform, optimise and future-proof business, supporting clients throughout their digital journey.

Datacentrix offers deep technical expertise across a mature offering and provides proven execution capability that is endorsed by the world's foremost technology partners. With a strong African footprint, the company is recognised for its agility, in-depth industry knowledge, ethical practices and strong overall performance.

The company is a Level One (AAA) B-BBEE Contributor, with 135 percent procurement recognition.