Vendor lineage
Fast Lane - the independent that teaches the manufacturers’ courses
Global IT training company delivering authorised curricula for Cisco, Microsoft, Aruba, NetApp and others.
Fast Lane delivers manufacturers’ own training under authorisation - Cisco, Microsoft, Red Hat, Aruba, NetApp - across most of the world, and has been ranked among the twenty largest IT training companies every year since 2008.
The business it is in is the one this site is written from, and the shape is worth stating because it is invisible from outside. A manufacturer writes a course and certifies who may teach it; an independent training company holds those authorisations across several manufacturers at once and employs the instructors who hold them. The customer buys a vendor course; the person in the room works for neither the vendor nor the customer.
The awards list is a useful artefact for that reason: Cisco Learning Partner of the Year in Latin America, Chile, Japan, Benelux, France, Italy, the Middle East and globally, across more than a decade. Vendor training is delivered regionally and judged regionally, because a course is only as good as the person standing in front of it, and that person is local.
The partnerships with Tech Data and Ingram Micro to deliver IBM curricula are the other half of the picture, and connect to the distribution entries here: the same distributors that move product also carry training, because a channel that cannot deploy what it sells does not sell it twice.
- Fast Lane - awards: ranked among the top 20 IT training companies worldwide every year since 2008, with more than 80 awards; Cisco Learning Partner of the Year in numerous regions and years including LATAM 2016, Chile 2018 and Global 2013 and 2016; named a Leader in the 2021 IDC MarketScape for IT Training in the United States
- Fast Lane - partnerships: authorised Cisco Learning Specialized Partner and Cisco Business Learning Partner covering routing and switching, wireless, security, service provider, collaboration and data centre; Microsoft Gold Learning Partner; Red Hat Alliance Training Partner; delivers authorised IBM training in partnership with Tech Data and with Ingram Micro
- Fast Lane - partners: authorised Aruba Training Center since 2013, and the only global NetApp Learning Partner