GRA has been a successful Cisco Academy Support Centre and Instructor Training Centre (formally Regional Academy) since December 1998, being the first regional academy to be located within the school sector. At the present time the area covered by our Cisco Academy consortia fills all corners of England and Wales. GRA has been used as a reference point for over ten years as an example of good practice by Cisco, who refer other potential academies to GRA for initial contact and guidance. The growth of GRA has been fully supported by Cisco as we are known to give the highest level of support and training required by the Cisco Academies. Further to this members of the GRA team have acted as consultants for other ASC's to help enhance their performance. GRA has also been highly involved in the deployment of the VMware Certified Professional - Data Centre Virtualisation (VCP-DCV) Install, Configure, Manage 5.1 course within the education sector and is proud to provide this course to both educational institutes for instructor training (including courses hosted by us in England, Hungary and The Netherlands) as well as to the community. GRA is also proud to represent VMware as its Pan European Regional IT Academy in conjunction with our partner, HTTP Foundation in Hungary. With this we are now able to provide support and training on a large scale covering Europe of other parts of the world. Information regarding all of our courses is available on the schedule on our main website.