Zagreb, March 2009

A leading Croatian Cisco Partner, RECRO-NET, is the first IT company in that has obtained the Advanced Data Center Networking Infrastructure specialization.

The leading global network equipment and system producer, Cisco Systems, uses a network of Partners to operate with End-Customers. The Partner System is evaluated in two ways: by certificates and by specializations. The Certified Partners include Gold, Silver and Premium Partners. The status is determined by the size of the company, and is achieved according to the compliance with the Vendor’s business rules, i.e. according to the specific number of annual transactions and the number of generally specialized Employees. Specializations, on the other hand, single the Partner out as a competent Partner for service sale and provision in a distinctive networking domain. To obtain a particular specialization the company needs to have a specific number of certified Employees, whereas some specializations also require the possession of demonstration equipment.

RECRO-NET has been continuously making strategic investments in its Employees and in the establishment of a good quality and professional team, which has resulted in highest Partner statuses and accolades.

Advanced Data Center Networking Infrastructure is a specialization that recognizes the Partners according to their skills of solution sales, design, installation and support, which includes infrastructure and applications. The objective of this specialization is to help Partners fulfill a broad range of Customer requirements from SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses) to large enterprise Customers. RECRO-NET is currently the only company in to obtain this specialization. Over the past two years the Customers have increasingly become aware of the critical importance of network and application services for their business operation. In addition to the critical service importance, the cost importance in the context of IT infrastructure maintenance has also become more prominent, particularly in the midst of the economic crisis. Centralization and redundancy are best routes to increase availability and reliability of critical services. Development of Date Center segments at the network level is complementary with server and service virtualization trend and development of Disaster Recovery system and procedures, whereas the efforts taken in that direction result in business cost and risk reduction.

“In addition to good quality solution for traffic routing, Cisco Systems Data Center equipment also offers advanced level applications and functions, e.g. the system that provides virtualization at the network level, the system that enables load-balancing application, the module that integrates Firewall functionality into the switch providing gigabyte performances, and the system for Internet attack detection and elimination,” said Goran Fuderer, Deputy Head of the Network Service Department at RECRO-NET.