About US

Founded in 2010, Barkat Consulting is an essential Cisco Partner for Data Center design consolidation and advanced networking solutions. Barkat Consulting has 50 years of experience in enterprise Data Center, Security, Wireless, Unified Communications, Collaboration, SDWAN, SDN and other IT solutions specializing in seamless migrations. Our client’s range from Fortune 100 companies, small and medium businesses, local and state government. Barkat Consulting’s respect, dedicated work ethic, and communication with our clients are essential elements of our success.

Barkat Consulting’s ability to understanding client’s needs and goals coupled with understanding complex networks allows us to provide perfected solutions that generate results. Whether your business is moving towards BPO or ITO solutions or simply migrating and consolidating multiple data centers, Barkat Consulting has the expertise to put your mind at ease. We work within the scheduled domains of your business needs enabling business continuity. Barkat Consulting is a goal-oriented company with the skill set to meet those critical deadlines others simple cannot meet.

The company founders have an extensive background in networking and are leading solution architects from fortune 100 companies such as Cisco Systems. Our highly certified network consultants and engineers not only stay current with the latest technologies and systems, but also help the evolution and development of these technologies.

Our ultimate goal is to create satisfied customers. Barkat Consulting accomplishes this by providing the highest quality of services. We focus on the holistic view of our customers, and recommend solutions that meet short term and long-term goals. We position our customers for future consolidated and virtualized technologies. Barkat Consulting has worked with several of the largest enterprise companies in the Chicago land area. The work we have completed allows us to position ourselves as experts in technology.

Barkat Consulting’s professional team of experts combine skill, knowledge, experience, and industry certifications (Microsoft, VMware, Cisco, etc.) to give our customers the best quality services possible. Some of the industry certifications that we possess are: Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching, Cisco CCIE Service Provider Operations, Cisco CCIE Security, Cisco CCIE Voice, ISC2 – CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), CCDP (Cisco Certified Design Professional), CCVP (Cisco Certified Voice Professional), VMware Certifications – VCP4, VTSP, and MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional). Our experience includes network-based IT solutions to large corporations, government, and education infrastructures. Our exposure and experience ensure our high-quality standard. Our team is efficient reliable, resourceful, creative, and extremely quick.

Barkat Consulting is a Cisco Premier Certified Partner. This level of partnership was reached after our consultants passed certification exams and gained Express Foundation specialization. We have certified specialization in Data Center Network Infrastructure, Data Center Storage Networking, and Advanced Routing and Switching. This validates our high-level technical knowledge base. Having this status allows our customers to benefit from an increased level of support from Cisco, including access to best-in-class products, services, technical support, productivity tools, and online training.