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February, 2010: BlueWater Achieves Cisco Managed Services Master Certification New York, NY - BlueWater Communications Group announced today "The Masters certification of our BLUE managed service solution provides our customers with independent assurance that our offering is delivered from a premium network operations center that has established ITIL® processes, practices and tools to support Cisco advanced technologies," says Adrian Liddiard, COO of BlueWater. February, 2010: BlueWater Achieves Cisco Master Unified Communications and Cisco Master Security Specializations New York, NY - BlueWater Communications Group announced that it has achieved both the Master Unified Communications Specialization "As the network becomes the platform for driving communications and innovation, our customers are demanding an enhanced set of skills and capabilities from channel partners," said Edison Peres, vice president and chief go-to-market officer for worldwide channels at Cisco. "BlueWater’s investment in Master Unified Communications and Master Security Specializations ranks them among the industry’s elite.” December, 2009: BlueWater CEO Bob Cagnazzi named one of the Top 25 Most Innovative Executives of 2009 by CRN Magazine New York, NY - "Being innovative often manifests huge sales growth. In the solution provider market, no one grew faster than BlueWater Communications Group, a New York-based VAR that grew a whopping 3,605 percent over the last two years from $1.9 million to more than $70 million. That is due in large part to Bob Cagnazzi's leadership and drive..." November, 2009: BlueWater Named Charter Member of the Cisco, EMC & VMware VCE Coalition New York, NY - BlueWater Communications Group, a top tier partner with Cisco, EMC and VMware, has been named as a charter member in the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition. The VCE coalition, formed jointly by Cisco and EMC with VMware, represents an unprecedented level of collaboration in development, services, and partner enablement to facilitate an organization's infrastructure virtualization transformation to maximize the benefits of a private cloud environment. This shared vision for cloud computing will help establish critical standards and metrics resulting in quicker, more seamless, and more productive private cloud implementations. The objective is to combine the reliability, security and control of traditional data centers with the flexibility, scalability and on-demand computing of a cloud environment. In order to recognize all the benefits of true virtualization high levels of integration in the network, storage, compute and application virtualization environments are required. Having the three industry leaders team up in this fashion enables, BlueWater to provide industry leading, standardized solutions for Data Centers that feature tight integration between all infrastructure environments providing greater scalability, availability and performance. August, 2009: BlueWater Communications' Three Keys To Outrageous Growth New York, NY - BlueWater Communications ranks No. 1 on CRN's 2009 fastest-growing solution provider list, posting astronomical growth of 3,605 percent between 2006 and 2008. BlueWater's revenue grew from $1.9 million to more than $70 million, in two years. (The Fast Growth event is Oct. 21 in San Francisco. August, 2009: BlueWater Communications Group Named #1 on the 2009 CRN Fast Growth 100 List New York, NY - BlueWater Communications Group has been recognized by CRN Magazine as the fastest growing company in the industry in their 2009 CRN Fast Growth List. BlueWater "saw revenue rise an astronomical 3,605 percent, from $1.9 million to more than $70 million, in two years," earning it the #1 spot on the Fast Growth List. In an effort to continue providing innovative customer solutions, BlueWater this January launched Blue, a managed services offering. With a fully staffed network operations center, BlueWater will manage and monitor IT events to ensure customers have full knowledge and understanding of their infrastructure. March, 2009: BlueWater Communications Group Receives the Cisco US & Canada Enterprise Partner of the Year Award at the US-Canada General Session at the Partner Summit New York, NY - BlueWater Communications Group, a leading IT professional services firm, received the Cisco US & Canada Enterprise Partner of the Year Award at the US-Canada General Session at the Partner Summit. Watch the video as BlueWater Communications Group is recognized for its outstanding achievement as CEO Bob Cagnazzi accepts the award. January 26, 2009: BlueWater Communications Group Announces BLUE: A Managed Services Offering New York, NY - BlueWater Communications Group, a leading IT professional services firm, is pleased to announce it has officially launched BLUE, a support and management solution that helps customers optimize their IT investments. With a fully staffed Network Operations Center (NOC), BlueWater will proactively manage and monitor events in the life-cycle to ensure customers have full knowledge and understanding of their IT infrastructure. "We wanted to create a solution that would assist our customers in preventing unplanned outages, and give them peace of mind when there is a threat to their infrastructure and data. We understand that downtime can affect revenue, productivity and even corporate image, and BLUE will help combat these ill-effects of downtime" says BlueWater Chief Executive Officer, Bob Cagnazzi. About BlueWater Communications Group November 17, 2008: BlueWater Communications Group Expands into New Jersey New York, NY - BlueWater Communications Group, a leading IT professional services firm, is pleased to announce it has opened a new office in Iselin, New Jersey. Located on the first floor of 111 Wood Avenue South in Iselin, New Jersey, BlueWater will utilize this new location to serve its customers and business partners throughout New Jersey and the neighboring states of Pennsylvania & Delaware. About BlueWater Communications Group July 2007: Clarus Systems Announces Strategic Alliance with BlueWater Communications Group BlueWater Communications Group Leverages ClarusIPC® to Manage Cisco Unified Communications Deployments
Through this partnership, BlueWater Communications Group will resell ClarusIPC® to their enterprise customers for use in managing in-service IP telephony systems. Network engineers will be trained to utilize ClarusIPC - the leading automated management and testing application that maximizes system availability while optimizing system performance - to remotely test, document and certify all aspects of the telephony environment. ClarusIPC is scaleable and offers remote certification, configuration, analysis and troubleshooting - further validating operational integrity while building the foundation for a Unified Communications network. "We look forward to leveraging our new partnership with Clarus Systems and the capability to implement a turnkey solution that will enable 100% deployment validation," explained Bob Cagnazzi Chief Executive Officer, BlueWater Communications Group. "We strive to deliver a truly integrated, Unified collaborative IP environment that will enable enterprises and SMB's to collaborate quickly and easily with colleagues, partners, suppliers and customers - and Clarus Systems will help us deliver that solution." The ClarusIPC application enables organizations to reduce the amount of risk typically associated with IP conversions. Also, the solution provides customers with the ability to validate 100% of their deployment without the time and expense usually associated with comprehensive feature, functionality and performance testing. "Our partnership with BlueWater Communications Group strengthens our alliance program as we continue to provide organizations with time savings through industry-leading testing and reporting capabilities," said Brendan F. Reidy, President and CEO of Clarus Systems. "BlueWater is the latest to join our highly successful program, and we are confident that we will meet and exceed their expectations." About Clarus Systems, Inc. About BlueWater Communications Group ©2007 Clarus Systems, Inc. ClarusIPC® and the Clarus Systems logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Clarus Systems, Inc. Other product or company names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. Return to top.June 2007: BlueWater NHRA Advanced Solutions Day  BlueWater, Cisco, and the Cagnazzi Racing Team worked together to bring clients an exciting day at Englishtown Raceway for one of the premier events of the NHRA season. Clients were able to hang out in the pits with the Cagnazzi Racing team, meet the drivers, and learn all about what makes a top race team perform. They also got to visit the Cisco NOW Van and learn all about advanced solutions, brought to you by BlueWater and Cisco, that can help businesses speed past the competition. All in all, it was an exciting, fun and productive event! Check out some photos: |
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that it has achieved the Managed Services Master Certification from Cisco. BlueWater's managed service offering, BLUE, was brought to market to meet an ever increasing demand from its customer base for a 24x7 monitoring and managed service of the technologies that BlueWater deploys.
and the Master Security Specialization from Cisco®. These designations recognize BlueWater as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support highly sophisticated Cisco unified communications and security solutions.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) Clarus Systems, Inc., a leading provider of integrated management and testing solutions for IP Communication deployments, upgrades and transformations, today announced at the Networkers at Cisco Live annual user conference a strategic alliance with BlueWater Communications Group, a high-performance organization focused on providing holistic, cohesive Unified Communications and infrastructure services to growing companies. The alliance allows BlueWater to provide certification solutions that test and verify proper functionality of Cisco IP Communications deployments direct to clients.
