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Paul Reed who works as a consultant in a pre-sales technical role at ISN Solutions, has just passed his Xendesktop CCA. The exam is new, as is virtual desktop technology so this puts ISN ahead of our competitors in London’s IT support and consultancy market.

Here’s Paul’s take on the how studying for the CCA helped him:

“I recently studied for and passed the Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA) exam for Citrix XenDesktop 4.0.

“I have been testing various scenarios with XenDesktop in ISN’s internal Proof of Concept environment, however my studies for the CCA qualification taught me a lot more about the capabilities of the software. I read the “Citrix XenDesktop Administrators Guide” literally from cover to cover and used all the other online and printed material I could find to learn about all of the deployment methods and configuration scenarios that XenDesktop supports.

“Indeed, during my studies I tuned the configuration of our test environment to make it better suited to our own requirements. As our clients’ requirements vary greatly depending on number of users, bandwidth, applications and performance benchmarks, this sort of thorough study combined with practical experience of the product in production will be extremely beneficial when proposing a tailored implementation.

“The main benefit I found from taking the exam was understanding the emphasis Citrix place on each component of the product and how each integrate with each other. The exam also included a substantial number of questions about troubleshooting XenDesktop, which will be invaluable when supporting our XenDesktop implementations.”

If you need to know about whether virtual desktop is right for your business please call us on 020 7313 8300 for a chat about what’s possible

ISN systems engineer Ben Gould today completed the last of the tests required to become a Microsoft Certified IT Professional.

The MCITP is the leading Microsoft Certification which provides widely recognised, objective validation of Ben’s ability to plan and execute modern projects involving cutting-edge technology such as Hyper-V and iSCSI using Microsoft Server Technologies.

Most organisations can’t get by without professional IT consultancy to get value out of their IT systems. London IT support and IT consultancy specialists, ISN Solutions, have a policy of keeping all our systems engineers up to date with the main hardware and software that our clients use, so that we can offer them the best advice and support.

If your business needs a Microsoft Gold Partner to assist with any infrastructure, ISN have the people with the right skills to help. Call us on 020 7313 9900 to find out more.

Congratulations to Tom Clowes, ISN’s senior support consultant, for passing NetApp’s Accredited Storage Architect Professional exam with a score of 90%!

This followed an intensive course at #NetApp UK HQ in Stockley Park where Tom was able to brush up on his knowledge of storage technology in general as well as learn all there is to know about the range of SAN and NAS storage solutions offered by NetApp.

This covered training on FAS2020, FAS2050, FAS3000 series and all the way up to FAS6080 filers as well as the core Snapshot technology which translates to easy data backup, file and volume restore (in seconds, not hours)and storage replication technology that is unmatched by any other vendor.

If you would like to explore how NetApp storage solutions can help your business, please contact us on 020 7313 9900 to arrange a demonstration, or come along to one of our short Demo Cafe briefings.