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    Hybrid Cloud Computing

    Simplify computing for your customers

    Customers need your help to deploy, manage, and simplify their computing resources across hybrid environments. Achieve the Hybrid Cloud Computing Specialization to demonstrate your expertise and optimize your customers’ hybrid cloud experience, leveraging Cisco’s modern, adaptable computing infrastructure.

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    The hybrid cloud computing market opportunity

    • 82% of enterprise IT decision makers have adopted hybrid cloud.
    • 79% of organizations say more than half of their workloads will run on different hardware across all environments.
    • 92% of organizations use more than two public cloud providers.

    Source: 2022 Global Hybrid Cloud Trends Report, Cisco

    Why get the specialization?

    • Meet growing demand. A majority of enterprises have already adopted hybrid cloud and seek additional solutions.
    • Deliver powerful solutions. Package together Cisco hardware and as-a-service solutions to meet your customers’ needs.
    • Differentiate your company, showcasing the knowledge you have to help customers deploy compute resources in a hybrid environment.

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    Hybrid Cloud Networking

    Deliver industry-leading cloud networking

    Many enterprises are adopting hybrid cloud. Capture your share of the growing market with a Hybrid Cloud Networking Specialization. Get recognized for your ability to provide exceptional hybrid cloud networking solutions that help customers keep their data, workloads, and apps connected across environments.

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    The hybrid cloud networking market opportunity

    • 82% of enterprise IT decision makers have adopted hybrid cloud.
    • 42% of organizations state that a hybrid approach helps them achieve a more agile and scalable development environment.
    • 40% of organizations state that hybrid clouds help them accelerate business agility and innovation.

    Source: 2022 Global Hybrid Cloud Trends Report, Cisco

    Why get the specialization?

    • Solve bigger challenges, helping customers overcome hybrid cloud networking security and complexity hurdles.
    • Expand your customer base to reach the many enterprises that are now using multiple clouds.
    • Grow your revenue. Deliver an extensive range of networking solutions, from Cisco Nexus switches to Cisco vManage.

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    Hybrid Cloud Software

    Help customers streamline cloud operations

    Seize the opportunity to streamline and unify IT operations for your customers. Earn the Hybrid Cloud Software Specialization and showcase your company’s ability to help customers optimize any IT environment with hybrid cloud management software. Discover Cisco Intersight and other flexible software solutions. Begin your specialization journey today.

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    The hybrid cloud software market opportunity

    • 38% of organizations plan to modernize mission-critical and legacy applications in place, and 25% plan to refactor and shift.
    • 79% of organizations will run more than half of their workloads on different hardware across all environments.
    • 53% of organizations are moving workloads between on-premises and public cloud environments weekly.

    Source: 2022 Global Hybrid Cloud Trends Report, Cisco

    Why get the specialization?

    • Deliver impressive results. Help customers achieve faster delivery and greater ROI with Cisco IT operations software.
    • Differentiate from competitors. Show customers that your teams possess deeper knowledge and experience on cloud operations.
    • Win new business. Attract more leads and close more deals by marketing your company’s specialization.

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    Small and Medium Business (SMB)

    Enable SMB growth

    Whether focused on increasing operational efficiency, planning and hiring for their next stage of growth, or providing exceptional customer service, Cisco offers solutions for SMBs that save time and provide a simplified security approach. Get recognized for your expertise in the fast-growing SMB market.

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    The SMB market opportunity

    • 99% of SMBs consider cloud as a top technology priority.
    • 80% of global SMB IT spendis partner-delivered.
    • 44% of total IT spending can be attributed to SMBs.

    Source: Techaisle, Canalys

    Why get the specialization?

    • Expand your earning potential with SaaS recurring revenue, cross-selling, and upselling opportunities.
    • Differentiate yourself from the competition. Demonstrate the depth of your expertise in SMB solutions.
    • Seize the SMB market opportunity. Grow your Cisco practice by tapping into the SMB market and attracting new customers.

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    Industrial IoT

    Deliver efficiency, productivity, and resiliency

    Provide expertise on an ecosystem of ruggedized devices, sensors, applications, and networking equipment. From any outdoor or industrial space, collect, monitor, and analyze data. Demonstrate leadership in developing durable, secure solutions that enhance efficiency, boost productivity, and simplify processes in even the harshest settings.

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    The industrial IoT market opportunity

    • 50% of all global networked devices will be IoT connected devices by 2023.
    • US$483 billion expected global spending on enterprise IoT technologies by 2027.
    • 14.7 billion machine-to-machine connections by 2023.

    Source: Cisco Annual Report; IoT Analytics Research, 2023

    Why get the specialization?

    • Secure new business. Promote your specialized status to help increase lead generation and close more deals.
    • Maximize growth and profitability. Achieve the Industrial IoT Specialization for an opportunity to earn rebates in VIP 43.
    • Showcase leadership in the most integrated, durable IoT solutions on the market.

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    Commercial IoT

    Provide real-time actionable insights

    Offer your expertise in connecting and protecting IoT sensors, video cameras, and other inputs that supply data to act on immediately. From entire smart cities to individually connected devices, become Cisco Commercial IoT specialized and help address critical customer challenges, such as real-time information sharing, data security, and trend prediction.

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    The commercial IoT market opportunity

    • 75% of CFOs say they are accelerating their digitization.
    • 55% of IoT-enabled middleware sales will include purpose-built IoT applications by 2026.
    • 72% of decision-makers are implementing, expanding, or planning to implement IoT solutions.

    Source: Gartner, 2021; Forrester, 2020

    Why get the specialization?

    • Serve as a trusted advisor. Demonstrate knowledge of IoT products in commercial applications and help customers overcome obstacles.
    • Create recurring revenue with licensing and subscription models, plus take advantage of potential discount and rebate opportunities.
    • Pathway to Select, Premier, and Gold status. Earning one specialization qualifies you for Select Integrator. The more specializations you achieve, the more opportunities you unlock.

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    Internet Infrastructure for Enterprises

    Provide scalable, high-bandwidth network infrastructure

    Cisco offers state-of-the-art solutions for routed optical networking architecture as well as high-capacity, power-efficient, and low-latency networks for AI workloads and other complex applications. Get specialized in Internet Infrastructure for Enterprises so that you can help customers enable new service paradigms, fully distributed content and application architectures, and seamless connectivity for AI models.

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    The internet infrastructure for enterprises market opportunity

    • US$16.2 billion growth.: The overall market for optical systems and optics is expected to grow to $16.2 billion by 2026
    • 46% TCO savings. Customers not yet leveraging routed optical networking from Cisco forego a TCO savings of 46%.
    • 75% of G2000 enterprises will completely digitize and transform their document processes by 2026, leveraging AI to support orchestration and decisioning in content-centric workflows.

    Source: Cignal AI Market Forecast; ACG Research; IDC

    Why get the specialization?

    • Enhance AI-centric workloads with robust network designs supporting deep learning, data insights, and automation.
    • Meet bandwidth demands on networks involving large-scale data transfers for content creation, training, and real-time decision-making.
    • Develop a comprehensive practice that provides solutions throughout the customer lifecycle.

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    Internet Infrastructure for Providers

    Lead with next-gen internet infrastructure solutions

    Cisco service provider solutions are innovations in converged transport, edge routing architectures, routed optical networking, automation, network controllers, and more can help you set your customers up for success. Showcase your deep expertise with an Internet Infrastructure for Providers solution specialization—help your customers converge wireline and wireless services onto a cloud-ready architecture with common network elements providing resource-efficient, software-defined network slicing with scalable traffic engineering, a simplified protocol stack, low-latency, and improved resiliency.

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    The internet infrastructure for providers market opportunity

    • US$2.7 billion growth. SDN control software and related professional services spending by service providers worldwide will grow to $2.7 billion in 2025.
    • 75% of service providers state that network automation is a top-five business initiative.
    • 80% CAPEX and OPEX savings. Customer savings with IP transport networks on their overall footprint (i.e., space and power consumption) amount to roughly 80%.

    Sources: Analysis Mason; ACG Research

    Why get the specialization?

    • Drive digital transformation by connecting everything together—from people and buildings to applications and clouds.
    • Beat the competition with Cisco solutions that power superior connectivity, storage, and processing power.
    • Boost customer satisfaction by offering better business outcomes with cutting-edge network infrastructure tailored to customer needs.

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    Get and keep a specialization

    Review the requirements to verify that you qualify. Apply and agree to the terms and conditions. After receiving approval, ensure that you maintain the requirements. Renew your specialization annually. (Partner admin must apply and renew).

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