SVA picked up two awards at the online Cisco Partner Summit when it was named “Cisco Data Center and Cloud Partner of the Year” for both Germany and the EMEA region. With these awards, Cisco is acknowledging SVA as one of its most outstanding partners – particularly for its visionary approach, future-oriented innovative strength, customer focus, remarkable growth and its extraordinary commitment in maintaining the cooperation and harmony between both companies.

SVA has been collaborating with Cisco for many years, and a significant partnership has grown thanks to constant development, training courses, expansion of the various product ranges and specialization with subsequent certification. Focus areas here include data centers, enterprise networks and security. Together with Cisco, SVA also runs the Cisco Innovation Lab at the e-shelter in Frankfurt. “This technological partnership means we are always involved in the latest innovations, which enabled us to be the first partner in Germany to install and run a hyperconverged solution from Cisco, and subsequently report our experiences,” explains Dirk Eisenbletter, Cisco Partner & Alliance Manager at SVA. Another lab is located at DARZ in Darmstadt, where one of Cisco’s most innovative ACI platforms was built and is used to prepare the PoV (proof of value) and PoC (proof of concept), as well as the validated design.

“We are proud of the excellent turnover growth in the Cisco environment over the past year and that we can use our huge innovative strength to combine our portfolio with Cisco elements, therefore providing our customers with essential added value,” adds Henning Heimann, Business Development Manager for Cisco at SVA.

SVA colleagues applaud during the virtual award ceremony (from left to right): Chuck Robbins (Chair and CEO, Cisco), Oliver Tuszik (SVP of Global Partner Sales, Cisco) and Gerri Elliott (EVP and Chief Customer and Partner Officer, Cisco).