BlueWater Communications Group Achieves Cisco Cloud Builder Designation

NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- To support the expanding role of the network in deploying cloud services, BlueWater Communications Group announced today it has achieved the Cisco Cloud Builder designation within the Cisco Cloud Partner Program.

"BlueWater's early achievement of the Cisco Cloud Builder designation is a true testament to their outstanding expertise and experience in the data center and their investments in a Cloud Practice. Their exceptional team has been leading the way in terms of understanding the lifecycle around cloud implementations, from infrastructure to management and orchestration and lifecycle services management consistent with Cisco's strategy," said Edison Peres, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Channels at Cisco.

This designation recognizes BlueWater's competencies to sell and implement Cisco end‑to-end cloud solutions. As a Cisco designated Cloud Builder Partner, BlueWater has met the required competencies across all cloud infrastructure components (security, networking, compute, storage and virtualization solutions), cloud management applications and a formal cloud professional services practice.

BlueWater's cloud strategy is focused on accelerating our customer's deployment of cloud, IT-as-a-Service in a secure, highly available model. "We differentiate ourselves by offering customer's solutions around private cloud deployments and also options for federating to public cloud infrastructures for elasticity, disaster recovery and business continuity," said Vinu Thomas, Director of the Cloud Practice, at BlueWater.

BlueWater has a focused practice that is a logical extension of our Data Center/Virtualization Practice, and actually designates Cloud Solutions Architects to help its customer's design private clouds. The Cisco Cloud Builder badge is a milestone for the BlueWater Cloud Practice, as its cloud offerings are built around Cisco technologies: primarily UCS, Nexus platforms, while leveraging their connected offers from the ecosystem partners like VCE, EMC, VMWARE, BMC and CA.

The Cisco Cloud Partner Program empowers channel partners to build end-to-end cloud solutions and professional services practices based on Cisco cloud solutions. This program offers training to help channel partners as they enhance their competencies in selling and implementing end-to-end cloud solutions that include Cisco and approved third-party technology partners' solutions in an integrated cloud solution.

About BlueWater
BlueWater is focused on providing high-performance, holistic, cohesive IT infrastructure solutions to growing companies. We specialize in providing organizations with Full Life Cycle services in Unified Communications, Collaboration & Video, Virtualization, Consolidation & Data Center, and Security solutions to increase productivity and improve business operations. Our BLUE Managed Service offering provides proactive support and remediation preventing costly downtime, under a flexible contract, utilizing custom technology and industry-standard tools to optimize your IT investment. To learn more about BlueWater, visit us at http://www.BlueH2OGroup.com.

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BlueWater Communications Group
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