The key benefits that can be realized from engaging Progent's Cisco-certified experts to enhance your data center include:

• Reduced ownership cost: permits IT management to substantially lower acquisition expenses through integration and more efficient utilization of formerly separate equipment, lower maintenance expenses through streamlining and automating management tasks, and cut air conditioning and power bills.
• Greater Business Agility: permits IT to react quickly to evolving business conditions by allowing rapid provisioning of application and infrastructure services from common aggregations of consolidated server, storage, and network resources. This can streamline operational processes and enable policy-based management.
• Enhanced Business Robustness: enables IT to react to disruptions or intrusions by guarding connections, applications, and information through the highest degrees of fault tolerance, pervasive security, and business continuance.
• Optimized Service Levels: enables IT management to optimize business service levels by providing secure, accelerated connectivity to data center-hosted applications and information from any place and at any time throughout the enterprise.

• Building efficient firewall protection configurations based on Cisco PIX and ASA firewall products
• Deploying and supporting protected VPN connections for linking data centers to other data centers, business sites, and mobile workers
• Planning, and integrating resilient non-stop switching, routing, and Internet access environments in which single component failures do not interrupt availability of services
• Configuring multiple ISPs with seamless transfer using Border Gateway Protocol. Progent can help clients along the complete chain of interaction with Internet supervisors, getting ASN numbers and IP addresses assigned, dealing with ISPs to prepare their systems, and configuring and checking customer devices.
• Implementing segmented and protected virtual LAN (VLAN environments to compliment VMware virtual server systems
• Planning, deploying and assisting clients to administer proactive IPS systems so that assaults can be detected rapidly and defeated before they disrupt your business
• Planning, configuring, and troubleshooting load balancing systems. Consulting with customers, Progent can map customer needs to the most sensible solutions and implement load balancing at the application level, server level, or connectivity infrastructure layer. Progent's load balancing solutions permit seamless and scalable growth, dependability, security, and redundancy.
• Progent knows how to plan affordable network management solutions using Simple Network Management Protocol and Cisco's Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and CiscoWorks and a variety of 3rd party products that present network managers a useful real-time view into the operation of their data center's network
• Configuring and supporting high-end data center capable infrastructure appliances including the Catalyst 6500 and 4948 Series switches and Cisco 7200, 7600, and 12000 Series routers.

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