Lewan Achieves Cisco Master Collaboration and Master Cloud & Managed Service Designations

In addition to successfully passing the requirements and audit to re-certify as a Cisco Gold Partner, Lewan Technology is honored to announce achievement of two Master Specializations: Collaboration and Cloud & Managed Services.

“These Master level certifications are the absolute highest achievement that a Cisco partner can attain in any technology area. There are only 43 partners in the United States that hold these two certifications,” explained Ray Dean, Lewan’s Director of Networking and Communications. “This honor recognizes the great engineering teams and processes we have in place, as well as our commitment to ongoing customer satisfaction and solution integration.”

Cisco Gold Partner Certification

Gold Certification offers the broadest range of expertise across high growth market opportunities known as architecture plays – Enterprise Networking, Security, Collaboration, Data Center Virtualization and SP Technology. Gold Certified Partners have also integrated the deepest level of Cisco Lifecycle Services expertise into their offerings and demonstrate a measurably high level of customer satisfaction.

Lewan has been a Cisco Gold Certified Partner since 2005.

Cisco Master Collaboration Specialization

The Master Collaboration Specialization demonstrates the highest level of expertise attainable with Cisco collaboration solutions.

Master Collaboration Specialized Partners represent an elite partner community that has met the most rigorous certification requirements and are therefore the best for complex deliveries. Lewan demonstrated the ability to design and deploy solutions that conform to Cisco validated designs. In addition, Lewan showed current examples of successful projects in which we integrated multiple solutions and technologies to support client needs. No other Cisco specialization or certification demands such extensive proof of the partner’s design and implementation capabilities.

Cisco Cloud & Managed Services Master Service Provider

The Cloud and Managed Services Program (CMSP) helps partners respond to their customers’ business needs with innovative and validated Cisco Powered services. The exclusive Master Cloud and Managed Services designation recognizes partners at the highest level of achievement, competency and capabilities.

Lewan is recognized as a partner uniquely positioned to offer best-in-class Cisco Powered services and Cloud Managed services which are validated to insure security, reliability, and performance.

Lewan Awarded for Customer Satisfaction Excellence from Cisco

Lewan is honored to announce achievement of Cisco’s Customer Satisfaction Excellence award. Customer Satisfaction Excellence is the highest distinction a partner can achieve within the Cisco Channel Partner Program.

“Congratulations to the entire Lewan team on this recognition of your great work over the past year and continued delivery of a world class customer experience to our customers,” said Fred Cannataro, Lewan’s CEO and President.

And from Cisco, “Customer Satisfaction Excellence is a core value we both share and a key driver of our current and future success. Thank you for your commitment to the success of your customers.”

Lewan will be recognized for Customer Satisfaction Excellence in the Cisco Partner Locator (www.cisco.com/go/partnerlocator) with a special star indicator representing our achievement. Customers, Cisco personnel and partners will be able to identify you as having achieved outstanding customer satisfaction as part of Cisco’s worldwide assessment process.

Channel Customer Satisfaction Excellence assessment is based upon the customer satisfaction results captured in the Cisco Partner Access Online tool.

About our Partnership with Cisco

Lewan has been a Cisco Gold Certified Partner since 2005. Gold status is Cisco’s highest partner designation.

Our team of engineers holds 46 individual Cisco certifications including CCIE certifications in Routing & Switching, Voice and Security. The Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) certification is accepted worldwide as the most prestigious networking certification in the industry. Combined with our sister companies, we offer the breadth and expertise of over 132 individual Cisco certifications nationally.

Our Cisco Certified engineers are able to offer assessments, performance evaluations, design workshops, and full installation and training around each of the areas that we hold Cisco certifications. Lewan’s certified areas of expertise are unified communications and business video, traditional route & switch environments, wireless, data center (including servers, storage, & virtualization), security & mobile device management.

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Manage Cisco UCS from an iPhone

I don’t have an iPhone, I wish I could get one on Sprint and I’m anxious for the Samsung Epic 4G that I hope to get at the end of this month to replace my ridiculously slow Palm Pre…but I digress…

Here’s a link to an app you can load to manage your Cisco UCS system remotely…from your iPhone… VERY COOL

http://www.techhead.co.uk/manage-your-cisco-ucs-environment-from-an-iphone

Cisco UCS vs HP Virtual Connect

Keep in mind this is written by a Cisco employee but it’s a good explanation of some of the differences between Cisco UCS networking and HP Blades Virtual Connect technology.

http://bradhedlund.com/2010/08/16/cisco-ucs-qos-vs-hp-virtual-connect-rate-limiting/

How NIV and FCOE Play Together

If you are interested in Cisco UCS (very cool stuff), FCOE, DCB, Nexus 1000v then this is a must read article from Scott Lowe.

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2010/03/21/how-niv-and-fcoe-play-together/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slowe%2Fcontent%2Ffeed+%28blog.scottlowe.org+Content+Feed%29

Interesting FCOE/DCB analogy

If you didn’t know there was not multi-hop in FCOE/DCB you might want to consider reading this post which helps explain why this is.

http://nickapedia.com/2010/03/19/fcoe-multi-hop-why-wait/

Cisco UCS QoS vs. HP Flex-10 vNICs in VMware

Great article pointing out the VMware networking differences between Flex-10 and UCS QoS.  Of course HP is getting ready to make some more changes to their Flex-10 (Flex Fabric I think it is called) so stay tuned.

http://blog.aarondelp.com/2010/03/cisco-ucs-qos-vs-hp-flex-10-vnics-in.html