In Comstor, a division of Westcon Group, and a global distributor of Cisco products has inaugurated a full-fledged Cisco datacentre solutions experience centre in Mumbai. The experience centre, also known as the LEAP Center (Learn, Experience, Architect and Plan) showcases various interoperable solutions from best-in-class vendors. The centre, which is located at Santa Cruz (W), Mumbai was inaugurated by Naresh Wadhwa, President & Country Manager, Cisco India and SAARC and Russell Blackburn, Cloud & Datacentre Director, EMEA, Comstor. Pramodh Menon, President, Partner Business Group, Cisco India & SAARC was also present at the inaugural ceremony.
LEAP Centres are designed to allow resellers to work with equipment from a number of different vendors server, storage, virtualization, infrastructure management, security - in an environment that replicates the real world. Resellers can use the centre to showcase to their customers a wide-array of complementary solutions, including Ciscos Unified Computing System, core switching & routing, application delivery and datacentre security products as well as storage offerings & virtualized applications and other datacentre solutions.
Speaking at the inauguration, Pramodh Menon, President of the Partner Business Group, Cisco India & South Asia said, The launch of LEAP Centre by Comstor is a significant step forward for our reseller partners and is a key milestone in achieving Ciscos objective to scale partner capability in high growth areas such as cloud and datacentre. The center enables resellers to expand the breadth of technologies and services provided and the depth to which they offer them. We congratulate Comstor on the opening of the LEAP Centre and hope to work jointly to scale this further across other key markets.
Byju Pillai, President & CEO, Westcon Group, India/South Asia said Westcon Group through Comstor has created a unique set of infrastructure capabilities called the LEAP Center - a 'center of excellence' that go well beyond demonstrations offering resellers and their customers the ability to experience and work hands-on with integrated, next-generation datacentre infrastructures.
The LEAP centre can be used to design high level network architectures, specific to the customers requirements and also include a full classroom, on-ground support and remote dial-in capability. Resellers have a unique opportunity to experience these technologies hands-on, a major competitive advantage as they pursue datacentre opportunities.
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