Cisco Systems Expert Network Consultants Cisco Qualified Experts Help for Cisco-based Data Centers
Data centers are the key to utilizing IT assets to optimize the strategic value of an information system. For small businesses, data centers have typically evolved in a piecemeal manner, creating a state where servers and disks are deployed inefficiently, usable communications bandwidth is wasted, collaboration and knowledge sharing is limited, support demands are excessive, scaling or reconfiguring is costly, protection is patchy, seemingly minor modifications become giant hassles, and full recovery from disastrous breakdowns becomes almost undoable.
Cisco's most recent connectivity appliances and tools support a new model of data center architecture that permits continual enhancements in server, storage, network infrastructure, and application technologies in a manageable and affordable way. Progent's Cisco-certified professionals can help you to identify and implement Cisco's network products to build a solid foundation for your data center and to streamline your data center operations in vital areas including:
Server and storage efficiency
End-to-end security policy enforcement
Processor proliferation
Regulatory compliance
Business continuance
The key advantages that can accrue from using Progent's Cisco-certified consultants to enhance your data center include:
Lower costs: permits IT management to substantially reduce capital costs through consolidation and higher utilization of previously isolated equipment, slash maintenance costs by streamlining and automating management tasks, and cut air conditioning and energy costs.
Greater Business Flexibility: permits IT management to respond quickly to changing competitive conditions by facilitating fast deployment of application and infrastructure functions from common aggregations of consolidated processor, storage, and network technologies. This can streamline operational processes and enable policy-driven management.
Better Business Resilience: allows IT management to respond to breakdowns or attacks by guarding connections, applications, and information with the highest levels of fault tolerance, pervasive protection, and disaster recovery.
Optimized Service Levels: enables IT management to optimize business service levels by providing safe, fast connectivity to data center-resident applications and data from any place and at any moment across the enterprise.
Samples of Progent's Professional Help for Cisco-based Data Centers
Progent's certified Cisco experts offer a broad range of consulting services that can help organizations of all sizes create a Cisco-based environment that will give your data center a reliable and secure foundation for current applications and future expansion. Consulting services feature:
Building efficient firewall protection configurations based on PIX and ASA firewall technology
Deploying and supporting protected Virtual Private Network connections for connecting data centers to other data centers, corporate offices, and mobile workers
Designing, and integrating complete non-stop LAN and Internet access systems in which single point breakdowns do not disrupt productivity
Configuring backup Internet providers with transparent failover based on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Progent can guide clients through the complete path of paperwork with Internet supervisors, getting Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses allocated, dealing with ISPs to set up their networks, and configuring and checking client equipment.
Implementing segmented and secure VLAN architectures to compliment VMWare and Microsoft virtual server deployments
Architecting, installing and assisting customers to manage proactive IPS systems so that attacks can be identified rapidly and remediated before they impact productivity
Planning, configuring, and supporting load balancing systems. Working with clients, Progent can align expressed requirements to the appropriate solutions and implement load balancing at the application and server levels, or connectivity infrastructure layer. Progent's load balancing solutions permit seamless and convenient expansion, dependability, performance, and redundancy.
Progent can create effective network management solutions based on SNMP and Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and CiscoWorks and a variety of 3rd party solutions that allow customers a powerful look into the activity of their data center's network
Setting up and supporting advanced data center class infrastructure appliances such as the Catalyst 4500, 6500, and 4948 Series switches and Cisco 7200 and 7600 routers.
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Data centers are the key to utilizing IT assets to optimize the strategic value of an information system. For small businesses, data centers have typically evolved in a piecemeal manner, creating a state where servers and disks are deployed inefficiently, usable communications bandwidth is wasted, collaboration and knowledge sharing is limited, support demands are excessive, scaling or reconfiguring is costly, protection is patchy, seemingly minor modifications become giant hassles, and full recovery from disastrous breakdowns becomes almost undoable.
