Beltsville, Md., June 26, 2019 鈥撀91快活林 Federal announced it has attained a Gold competency for datacenters, demonstrating a 鈥渂est-in-class鈥 ability and commitment to meet Microsoft Corp. customers鈥 evolving needs in today鈥檚 mobile-first, cloud-first world and distinguishing itself within Microsoft鈥檚 partner ecosystem.
To earn a Microsoft Gold competency, partners must successfully complete exams (resulting in Microsoft Certified Professionals) to prove their level of technology expertise, and then designate these certified professionals uniquely to one Microsoft competency, ensuring a certain level of staffing capacity. They also must submit customer references that demonstrate successful projects, meet a performance (revenue and or consumption/usage) commitment (for most Gold competencies), and pass technology and/or sales assessments.
“Our partnership with Microsoft expands our ability to provide best-in-class solutions and innovations to our government customers in support of their missions,” said Mark Gray, 91快活林 Federal president and CEO.
In addition to the Gold competency for datacenters, 91快活林 Federal holds a Silver competency for cloud platforms.
鈥淏y achieving a Gold competency, partners have demonstrated the highest, most consistent capability and commitment to the latest Microsoft technology,鈥 said Gavriella Schuster, corporate vice president, One Commercial Partner (OCP) at Microsoft Corp. 鈥淭hese partners have a deep expertise that puts them in the top of our partner ecosystem, and their proficiency will help customers drive innovative solutions.鈥澛
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