CHICAGO, IL -- (Marketwire) -- 04/27/12 -- LaSalle Solutions announced today that it has achieved the Advanced Unified Computing Technology Specialization from Cisco. This specialization recognizes LaSalle Solutions as having fulfilled the role-based training requirements to sell, design, and deploy Cisco® Unified Computing System B-series technology solutions within the Cisco Data Center solution portfolio.

"We are proud to be recognized by Cisco and to earn the Advanced Unified Communications Specialization certification," says Steven Robb, vice president and general manager of LaSalle Solutions. "This achievement reinforces our commitment provide innovative solutions that optimize IT infrastructure and business performance to our customers."

As part of the foundation for the Cisco Data Center Business Advantage architectural framework, Cisco Unified Computing systems complement Cisco Unified Network Services and Cisco Unified Fabric solutions to help enable IT to run their data centers with more agility and efficiency to drive business innovation. The Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that unites computing, network, storage access and virtualization into a cohesive system.

As a Cisco Advanced Unified Computing Technology Specialized Partner, LaSalle Solutions has invested in the technology training that provides the ability to showcase its rack-mount and blade server expertise to deliver a scalable and flexible unified computing infrastructure for virtualized and cloud computing data center needs.

The Cisco Advanced Unified Computing Technology Specialization is designed to help Cisco resale channel partners support customers as they evolve and adapt their data centers to their changing business needs. The specialization provides role-based training for sales personnel, presales engineers and postsales deployment engineers.

The Cisco Resale Channel Program provides partners with the training required to build sales, design and technical talent and then validates their skills through a third-party audit.

About LaSalle Solutions:

LaSalle Solutions is a leading provider of life-cycle management services of technology and capital assets from acquisition and financing through IT asset management, maintenance and disposition. LaSalle's processes, outstanding customer service, and powerful online toolset LAMP(SM), enable to more economically and effectively manage time, maintenance credits and equipment deployment, tracking and decommissioning.

Founded in 1980, LaSalle Solutions is an independently operated company and a subsidiary of MB Financial, a publicly traded Chicago-based bank holding company. MB Financial is traded on the NASDAQ as "MBFI."

Learn more by visiting www.elasalle.com.

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