Listed IT services company, Gijima has shrugged off competition from other local Cisco gold partners to become the first company to certify in all three of the networking giant's architectural specialisations.
The company says it has achieved advanced borderless network architecture, advanced data centre architecture, and advanced collaboration architecture specialisations from Cisco.
These specialisations recognise a company as having fulfilled the training requirements and programme prerequisites to sell, design and deploy Cisco's data centre solutions, borderless networks solutions and collaboration architecture solutions.
According to Pieter Albertse, Gijima's alliance and partnerships manager, other competitors in the space include Cisco gold partners like Dimension Data, Business Connexion and Bytes Technologies.
“There's a healthy level of competition within the Cisco space locally, which is beneficial for SA's IT industry requirements,” notes Albertse.
The advanced data centre architecture specialisation provides role-based training in three areas - unified fabric for optimising data and storage needs; unified computing for streamlining data centre resources and uniting network, computational, storage and virtualisation platforms; and unified network services for advancing the way application delivery and security services are provided in the data centre network or computing environment.
On the other hand, Cisco's advanced collaboration architecture specialised partners work with new and existing technologies to align components of architecture with customers' goals.
The Cisco advanced borderless network architecture specialisation enables integration of the network with business processes and applications.
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