Italtel accomplishes Cisco master cloud builder specialization
CISCO LIVE EUROPE, ITALY: Italtel, next generation networks and services and IP communication solution source, pronounced that in fiscal 2013 it has attained the Cisco Master Cloud Builder Specialization.
This specialization distinguishes Italtel as partaking the competencies required in order to build and array cloud-ready integrated infrastructures founded on Cisco solutions and technology ecosystem partner cloud largesse across storage, followed by virtualization, cloud management and last but not the least; virtual desktop, that is.
“This new certification is the final achievement in our journey to the Cloud, started in 2010 and built through major awards from Cisco. This specialization recognizes our value in the market and our ability to develop business for data center infrastructures on Cisco technology and its ecosystem partners such as NetApp, VMware, EMC,” believed Camillo Ascione, co-head Product Unit Network & System Integration at Italtel.
“Today Italtel is focused on completing its offer in Cloud by moving gradually towards the IT area. To the infrastructure components traditionally in our portfolio and dedicated to delivering data center or cloud solutions, we are adding IT components, in particular Big Data with a focus on Analytics,” furthered Ascione.
“This specialization brings together data center infrastructure, cloud management, eco-partner relationships and cross-vendor solution capabilities like VCE Vblock, NetApp Flexpod and Cisco VXI,” reportedly said, Eric Moyal, head of Indirect Sales Channels at Cisco Italy. Rhetoricising further that- “It’s the customer’s ‘one-stop shop’ for the highest level of competencies for data center and cloud. Italtel’s Cisco Master Cloud Builder Specialization is an outstanding achievement.”
The Cisco Master Cloud Builder Specialization is approved towards a specific group of partners that hold in-depth technology and architecture expertise. These partners correspondingly have validated customer success as regards providing erudite, value-added Cisco Data Center and Cloud solutions including sales, deployment and services for Cisco data center and cloud solutions. Associates with a qualified data center and cloud practice can attain a Master Cloud Builder Specialization irrespective of certification level.
The Cisco Resale Channel Program delivers a framework for partners to build and showcase the sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle Services skills that from its barrio serves as prerequisite to successfully provide Cisco solutions to end clienteles. Through the program’s specializations and certifications, Cisco recognizes a partner’s expertise in deploying solutions based on Cisco advanced technologies and services.
By means of a third-party audit procedure, the program corroborates a partner’s technology aptitudes, business practices, customer satisfaction, presales and postsales support competencies, and other precarious factors that clients cogitate once cherry-picking a reliable, corporate spouse.
