UXC Getronics Australia has become the fifth Australian company to achieve Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) Authorised Technology Provider (ATP) status.
According to UXC Getronics's managing director Paul Timmins, the company's investment in Cisco certification is "critical" to its strategy of delivering positive business outcomes through IT.
"Our customers are looking to us for ways to continue to innovate while further driving down costs of IT operation as well as reducing their carbon footprint," he said in a statement.
"We see the new architecture from Cisco as another way to deliver on these demands."
Launched last year, Cisco's UCS combines separate networks for carrying data, storage and server cluster traffic into a unified network fabric.
The range was specifically built with virtualised environments in mind and is capable of handling up to 320 physical servers and more than 1,000 virtual machines.
Besides UXC Getronics, Cisco has certified Alphawest, Dimension Data, Netstar and Data Craft Asia as UCS ATPs in Australia and New Zealand. The invitation-only ATP Program grants partners access to restricted products and resources.
To sell UCS products, partners are required to qualify for both Cisco's Advanced Data Center Storage Networking (DCSN) and Data Center Networking Infrastructure (DCNI) specialisations.
UXC Getronics also claimed to be investing in the development of a new Virtual Desktop Infrastructure offering that provides remote access through any client device to programs, processes and data that are housed in a data centre.
Correction - the original headline of this story said that Cisco had certified three partners to sell UCS, based on advice from Cisco Systems. The company has since contacted CRN to amend this - there is now a total of five.
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