Changing the Channel: Networking VAR news » certification http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/networking-channel-var A blog for networking channel professionals Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:40:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 2006-2007 contactus@itknowledgeexchange.com (Changing the Channel: Networking VAR news) contactus@itknowledgeexchange.com (Changing the Channel: Networking VAR news) http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/networking-channel-var/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Changing the Channel: Networking VAR news http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/networking-channel-var 144 144 A blog for networking channel professionals Changing the Channel: Networking VAR news Changing the Channel: Networking VAR news contactus@itknowledgeexchange.com no no Cisco’s new elite architect certification http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/networking-channel-var/ciscos-new-elite-architect-certification/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/networking-channel-var/ciscos-new-elite-architect-certification/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:14:02 +0000 Shamus McGillicuddy http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/networking-channel-var/ciscos-new-elite-architect-certification/ Cisco Systems announced this week its new Cisco Certified Architect (CCA) program. This new elite certification is meant to sit above Cisco’s CCIE and CCDE certifications and comes with a price tag of $15,000. Cisco channel partners, particularly those who are going after large accounts, might want to have someone on staff with a CCA. However, the certification will be highly elite and rare for now – Cisco only expects to certify a few dozen individuals over the next few years.

Zeus Kerravala, group vice president at Yankee Group, told me the CCA will eventually become a differentiator in the channel community.

“In order for some consulting firms to bid projects, you have to have X number of CCIE’s on staff,” he said. “Once this [CCA] has been out there a couple years you’ll start to see it included in RFPs, too.”

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/networking-channel-var/ciscos-new-elite-architect-certification/feed/ 0 Video: Cisco’s new data center virtualization certifications http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/networking-channel-var/video-ciscos-new-data-center-virtualization-certifications/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/networking-channel-var/video-ciscos-new-data-center-virtualization-certifications/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:31:08 +0000 AmyKucharik http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/networking-channel-var/?p=49 At Cisco Partner Summit 2009′s Wednesday news conference, Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn, General Manager for Learning@cisco, announced Cisco’s new data center virtualization certifications: The Data Center Unified Computing Design specialization for data center architects, and the Data Center Unified Computing Support specialization for data center engineers.

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I also spoke with John Growdon, Director of Go-To-Market Worldwide Channels for Cisco, about the new certifications. Growdon explained how training people this way will help them work across traditional silos (in technology, company structure and sales structure) that must be broken down for virtualization technology to be implemented successfully. I’ll be posting the full Growdon Q&A soon on SearchNetworkingChannel.com.

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