RackForce announced that it has achieved the Cisco®Cloud and Managed Services Advanced Certification. This certification recognizes RackForce as having the capabilities to sell and deliver cloud and managed services to help accelerate time to market and time to revenue. Additionally, the certification rewards partners for their expertise and investments for creating, selling and delivering cloud and managed services with financial incentives and go-to-market benefits in all countries of legal presence.

RackForce, the ultimate in Canadian enterprise cloud remains a market leader by adding Cisco prowess to their repertoire. "Having Cisco by our side really gives clients the confidence that their compute and applications are being managed by a best in class service," said Tim Dufour, co-founder and CEO of RackForce. "Since we deal with hundreds of enterprises, we need to be continually adding, changing and adapting for what matters most – great service." 

The Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Advanced Certification is part of the Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Program, focused on helping partners such as RackForce to envision, build, market, and sell cloud and managed services with business acceleration tools and services, sales training and the Cisco Cloud Marketplace to address the varied needs of its customers. As a Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Advanced Certified Partner, RackForce will offer at least one Cisco Powered service (either a managed or a cloud service with the Cisco Powered services designation), built on the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework, and provide basic management capabilities that support Cisco technologies. In addition, RackForce has achieved Cisco Powered services designations in (Cloud Services): Cisco Powered Cloud (IaaS).