Posts Tagged ‘cisco training’

New Cisco Support Partnerships

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Last week, I was invited to a Computer Weekly Roundtable event in Central London. The discussions were about IT Project Management & how to deal with failures. We had very interesting discussions. Amongst the attendees were IT Directors and Senior Project Managers from FTSI 100 companies, but also a few younger companies (incl. ourselves) have been invited. During the coffee breaks people had the opportunity to talk about their businesses. Such events are not only very helpful to listen and learn from other people in the industry, but they are great for networking. Again, mentioning our bespoke Cisco Training offerings to some of the audience sparked a lot of interest. We are already talking to 2 of the attendee’s companies now in order to formalize partnerships where ProNetExpert provides Cisco Expertise and Training.

The rest of the week myself and a new colleague of mine (Russell Barrett) were on the road to see new clients interested in Cisco Consultancy and Cisco Training. We can certainly tell that the economy is taking a serious turn for the better again, which we all been long waiting for. It hasn’t been a bad year for ProNet, but over the last couple of months, we see a sharp increase in requests and we are looking forward to a great 2010.

Martin Voelk
CTO & Founder
ProNetExpert

Bespoke / Tailored Cisco Training

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Hello community

WebEx is great. Let me start my today’s blog with those words. I haven’t been blogging for a while and that’s due to the fact that I have been doing a lot of bespoke / tailored training for a variety of customers in the UK and the US in November. Customers more and more demand tailored training solutions which focus on the technologies they really use in their network operations. We see that trend especially in the UK Gold and Silver Channel Partners. Right now we have delivered bespoke remote and onsite Cisco Training to around 50% of the Cisco Gold Partners in the UK and it seems that we will do a lot more in the months to come. Especially Data Center, Wireless and Security seems to be in great demand.

If you need bespoke / tailored Cisco Training Solutions, contact ProNetExpert today.

Best,
Martin Voelk

Free Cisco Wireless Workshop 13.11.2009 | Newsletter 2009

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

ProNetExpert will be delivering a free next generation Wireless Workshop online on November 13th. 2009.
Everyone is welcome to join free via WebEx.

Please also have a look at our October 2009 Newsletter for more information:
http://www.pronetexpert.com/pronetexpert-october2009-newsletter.pdf 

Free 802.11n Wireless Workshop:
Date: Friday, 13. November 2009
Time: 10:00 am UK time
Duration: 2 hours
Delivered Online

Content:
- Next Generation Wireless Networking
- MIMO Technology Overview
- Changes to the Physical Layer
- Changes to the Media Access Control Layer
- 1140 & 1250 Access Points Overview

 

 

PCI Compliance & the Cisco Security Network

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

I am sure you heard the term PCI compliance before. Also surely you will know that Security is quite hard to sell in Europe as it is not being seen as a business enablement tool. It is rather seen as a necessity or a “I must be compliant”. I understand that it is slightly different in the US.

However here in the UK we are seeing a lot of interest in PCI compliance. Not because the customers have additional funds to spare but because banks and other credit card processing organizations are increasing pressure to become compliant by the end of 2010.

Currently we are working with one of our Partners on 2 large retail accounts to become PCI compliant. We are tailoring an all inclusive package to meet the deadline. Hardware, Design, Consultancy & of course tailored high end Cisco Training.  It involves AAA (Cisco ACS), SSH on all boxes, IPS/IDS, NAC, Router & Switch Security as well as Cisco Security Manager and CS MARS.

Apparently the processing bank (a leading UK financial) organization has told the customer that if PCI compliance isn’t met by the end of 2010 there will be a fine of up to £50k per month for every non-compliant month. Ouch!

So it is better worth checking with the financial institutions now before it’s getting to close to the deadline. The beauty for me as the CTO and for our technical Cisco Consultants and Cisco Trainers is the fact that we get to spec, design, implement all the latest and greatest Cisco Security technologies and deliver Training on it.

The timelines are tight, but we have a great team and look forward to those 2 large projects.

Martin Voelk
CTO
ProNetExpert
http://www.pronetexpert.com/cisco-ccie-consulting-consultancy-support-services-security-ironport.html

New Cisco Support & Cisco Training Services Catalogue released

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

London, 29.09.2009

ProNetExpert today released its new product services catalogue for autumn 2009.  What does that mean for our customers? The same great service you know and trust us for.

We have established a lot of new and exciting relationships over the last couple of months and all our customers will benefit from it.

Our new Cisco Support Services offerings are available for download in PDF format at the following link:
http://www.pronetexpert.com/cisco-consulting-training-services-offerings.html 

A few highlights of our Cisco Consultancy & Cisco Training offerings include:

>> Confirmed CCDE written & CCDE lab bootcamps in November 2009 in London. Unlike some competitors, our instructor is a fully certified CCDE and has years of teaching and hands-on experience

>> Great package deals on Cisco Consulting Services (onsite and 24/7 remote support)

>> Really cheap and brand new Cisco Hardware at conditions which are second to none

>> Tailored and bespoke Cisco Training Solutions on all Cisco Technologies. Not only do we povide on-site Cisco Training, we offer all our customized Cisco Training courses to be delivered remotely via WebEx

>> Multilingual Cisco Consultants & Cisco Trainers. We understand that engineers and instuctors in countries like France, Germany or Russia need to speak the local language fluently in addition to their Cisco knowledge. A fact often neglected by English speaking businesses. We have CCIE’s fluent in all major languages. 

 We have some other fantastic deals at the moment.
Contact sales-enquiry@pronetexpert.com or call +44 (0) 20-3287-0044 to find out more

CCNA Training, CCNP Training & other CCxP Training Courses in the UK

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

We are proud to announce that we already see very good response for our Cisco Public schedule and soon we will be able to announce our first confirmed Cisco courses in the UK in autumn. Especially the CCNA Training Courses (R&S, CCNA Security, CCNA Voice & CCNA Wireless) are filling up quickly. But also CCNP Training Courses (BSCI, BCMSN, ISCW & ONT) are beginning to fill up already.
Please visit http://www.pronetexpert.com/cisco-training-courses.html for our full public schedule.

See you all soon!
Your ProNetExpert Team
Your friendly Cisco Learning Partner Associate & Cisco Premier Partner

Cisco Training & Cisco Consulting from ProNetExpert on twitter.com

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Today ProNetExpert finally launched it’s own twitter stream.
You can also follow us on http://twitter.com/pronetexpert
Subscribe to our twitter stream to stay tuned about Cisco Technology Updates, Job Offers, Cisco Training & Cisco Consulting Offers.

Best regards,
Martin Voelk
CTO
ProNetExpert