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Upcoming events
Select Bootcamp - Account Manager
See below for available dates
Who should attend: Partners who want to move to select or renew their select status. Day 1 AM and Day 2 SE (partners will need to send 2 different people to compete the sales and technical day)
Day 1 - Introduction to Cisco Sales
Course Objectives - AM
This class will help you understand Cisco's vision, what Cisco sells, it's channel routes to market and Cisco ONE, a new way to sell. It covers in some detail the general concepts of business outcome led selling and Cisco's approach to it, how to sell in the technology cycle, customer value proposition and the value chain and stakeholder management.
On the architecture and solutions side you will learn about Cisco's Enterprise and Digital Network Architecture (DNA) which includes but is not limited to Routing, Switching, Wireless and Mobility and Digitization. We will also discuss Cisco's Security architecture covering Cisco's approach to Security, The threat centric security model, network security, visibility, enforcement, management and more. We talk about Cisco Data Center and Cloud architectures including Cisco's Unified Data Center, Unified Fabric, Converged Infrastructures, Cloud and Multi-Cloud.
You will also learn about Cisco's Collaboration solutions around its Architecture, platform, end points, webex solutions, Conferencing and On-prem, Cloud and Hybrid Cloud.
You will become Introduction to Cisco Sales certified if you pass the required exam.
Dates available:
16th September – Ingram Micro Milton Keynes
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28th & 29th October – Cisco Bedfont Lakes, Express Security AM role
Day 1 – Introduction to Cisco Sales (ICS) and exam 700-150 – This is a full day and David facilitates the exam at the end of the day.
Day 2 – Security Express AM module and exam 700-551. Timings for the content would be 9.30 am – 2.30 pm with David facilitating the exam just after.
Exam practice questions included in both the above days.
Registration Password: CISCO
Select Bootcamp - System Engineer
See below for available dates
Who should attend: Partners who want to move to select or renew their select status. Day 1 AM and Day 2 SE (partners will need to send 2 different people to compete the sales and technical day)
Day 2 - SMB Solutions SE training
Course Objectives - SE
This intensive classroom-based course will help attendees understand Cisco's vision, what Cisco sells, the Cisco Architectures and how best to plan, design and deploy Cisco solution portfolio.
Attendees will learn about Cisco’s on-premises and cloud-managed products and solutions, including Connect (Switching, Routing and Wireless); Cisco Meraki portfolio; Secure (Cisco Security including a focus on Threat Defense with Cisco Umbrella); Collaborate (Cisco Collaboration including Webex, Webex Teams and Cisco Business Edition); and Compute (Cisco Data-Center and Cloud).
Finally, attendees will review the requirements of the SMBSE exam, including exam practice and the final exam.
Dates available:
17th September – Ingram Micro Milton Keynes - SMB Specialisation
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30th October – Cisco Bedfont Lakes, Express Security SE role
Day 3 – Security Architecture for SEs and exam 500-651. This is a full day, with mobile testing at the end of the day.
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The Cisco Data Centre Goes Anywhere Your Data Is: Understanding the Partner Opportunity
19th September 2019, Ingram Micro Milton Keynes, 9am – 3pm
Target Audience: Sales/presales
Agenda Topics:
Catalyst 9000 Architecture introduction
Product overview and new additions to the family
DNA Center as a platform
What is SD-Access and lets talk about scalable solutions
Core terminology overview of an SD-Access deployment
Why is ISE so important and its role with DNAC
What's new in version 1.3!
Assurance with DNA Center
Unlocking the licensing Myths
How to be competitive with Cat9k vs Cat3k and 2k with examples
Key takeaways and Q&A followed by drinks
Meraki 360
24th September, Ingram Micro Milton Keynes, 9am – 5pm
Technical audience, 12 labs will be available, agenda below:
Welcome and Introductions
Meraki Dashboard Demo and Introductory to Cloud Networking
Security MX Device Demo and Lab
Switching MD Device Demo and Lab
Wireless MR Device Demo and Lab
Systems Manager SM Demo and Lab
Meraki MR & Umbrella Demo and Lab
New Product Announcements and Q&A
Moving forward
Technical Introduction of Cisco’s Hyperconverged Solution, HyperFlex System
3rd October, Cisco Experience Centre, Ingram Micro Milton Keynes, 10am – 3pm
Target Audience: Sales/presales
This session is aimed at Partner SE/Pre-Sales that would like a technical introduction to Cisco’s HyperFlex solution.
The following topics will be covered:
• Provide an understanding of Cisco HyperFlex and how it fits with existing solutions such as UCS, ACI, Converged Infrastructures and alternative hyperconverged solutions.
• First generation to Next Generation HCI:
o Scaling and performance
o Integration & Management
• Next Generation Data Platform benefits:
o Software defined compute, storage and networking
• A comparison between Cisco’s HyperFlex and HPE’s simpliVity – key use cases explored and discussed
• HyperFlex as part of a complete DC strategy:
o One Architecture for operational simplicity
o UCS Director with HX
o HX Data protection with Veeam
• Intersight introduction, benefits and demo
• HX Sizing tool – demo
• Cluster deployment – demo
Lunch provided
The Cisco Data Centre Goes Anywhere Your Data Is: Understanding the Partner Opportunity
8th October 2019, The Gherkin, London, EC3A 8BF, 12 - 4:30pm
Target Audience: DC Sales Leaders, Practices Leaders and Alliances
We invite our valued partners to come and join us at the UK Data Centre Partner update and learn about the latest announcements and updates from Cisco in one of the most exciting and dynamic times in our industry.
Applications are evolving; workloads are more distributed, multi-cloud is a reality and security is paramount. Cisco is connecting the clouds and protecting the workloads through our architectural approach and intent-based networking. Come and learn how we are enabling our partners to leverage this technology for their success and meet the UK DC team.