The professional & managed services provider for advanced IT lifecycle solutions and a Cisco Systems Gold Partner – Presidio Networked Solutions, Inc. has attained the Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Authorized Technology Provider Certification. Presidio has become one of the Cisco’s twenty partners in North America.

Joel Schleicher, the chairman and chief executive officer of Presidio, has stated that the Data Center Unified Computing ATP, in combination with their existing expertise in systems, storage and virtualization, will drive their continued and accelerating success in designing, implementing, operating and optimizing data center solutions for their customers.

John Growdon, Director, Worldwide Channels Go-to-Market Group at Cisco, has said that taking advantage of an architectural shift in the data center, the company’s new computing model help customers transform the data center into a dynamic IT environment with the power to increase productivity, improve efficiency and drive virtualization to an entirely new level.

However, in order to qualify as a Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Authorized Technology Provider, Presidio has to meet a number of requirements including achieving the Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure Specialization and the Cisco Data Center Storage Networking Specialization as well as demonstrating mature competencies in server, storage and virtualization technologies.