The business benefits that can accrue as a result of using Progent's Cisco-certified experts to streamline your data center include:

• Reduced costs: enables IT to substantially cut capital costs via integration and higher utilization of formerly separate network resources, slash operational expenses through simplifying and automating administrative jobs, and cut HVAC and power costs.
• More Business Flexibility: enables IT to react dynamically to evolving business demands by facilitating fast provisioning of application and network services from shared aggregations of consolidated server, storage, and connectivity resources. This helps improve administrative processes and support policy-based management.
• Enhanced Network Robustness: enables IT management to react to breakdowns or intrusions by protecting connections, programs, and information through the highest degrees of fault tolerance, comprehensive security, and business continuance.
• Improved Service Levels: permits IT management to optimize network service levels by providing secure, accelerated connectivity to data center-resident applications and information from any place and at any moment throughout the enterprise.

• Designing efficient firewall protection configurations based on Cisco PIX and ASA firewall technology
• Deploying and troubleshooting secure Virtual Private Network connections for connecting data centers to other data centers, business offices, and mobile workers
• Designing, and integrating resilient fault tolerant switching, routing, and Internet connectivity architectures in which single component breakdowns do not disrupt delivery of services
• Configuring multiple ISPs with seamless failover based on BGP protocols. Progent can assist clients through the complete path of interaction with Internet supervisors, getting ASN numbers and IP addresses assigned, working with Internet Service Providers to prepare their systems, and configuring and testing customer devices.
• Implementing segmented and secure virtual LAN environments to support VMWare and Microsoft virtual server systems
• Architecting, installing and assisting clients to manage 24x7 intrusion prevention systems (IPS) so that assaults can be identified quickly and defeated before they disrupt productivity
• Designing, setting up, and troubleshooting load balancing solutions. Consulting with clients, Progent can map expressed requirements to the best technology and implement load balancing at the application level, server level, or network infrastructure layer. Progent's load balancing designs allow for transparent and convenient expansion, dependability, performance, and redundancy.
• Progent can create practical network management solutions based on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Cisco's Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and CiscoWorks and various 3rd party products that allow customers a powerful look into the operation of their data center's network
• Setting up and supporting high-end data center capable routers and switches including the Catalyst 4500 and 4948 switches and Cisco 7200, 7600, and 12000 Series routers.

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