Cisco Systems Network Consultants Cisco CCIE Certified Specialists Support for Cisco-powered Data Centers
Data centers are the key to leveraging information technology resources to maximize the business value of an information system. For small companies, data centers have often grown in a piecemeal fashion, creating a situation where processors and storage devices are underutilized, usable communications bandwidth is wasted, teamwork and information sharing is minimal, maintenance requirements are high, scaling or reconfiguring is expensive, security is poor, nominally minor modifications turn into major challenges, and complete recovery from catastrophic breakdowns is almost undoable.
Cisco's latest networking devices and tools support a new model of data center architecture that permits continual enhancements in server, storage, network topology, and application technologies in a maintainable and economical way. Progent's consultants can assist you to select and deploy Cisco's network solutions to build a solid basis for your data center and to streamline your data center operations in vital areas such as:
Processor and storage efficiency
End-to-end security policy enforcement
Processor proliferation
Regulatory requirements
Business continuance
The key advantages that can be realized from using Progent's network experts to optimize your data center include:
Reduced TCO: allows IT management to substantially lower acquisition expenses through consolidation and higher utilization of formerly separate equipment, slash operational costs by simplifying and automating administrative jobs, and cut cooling and energy bills.
More Business Flexibility: permits IT management to respond dynamically to changing business demands by facilitating fast deployment of application and network services from shared pools of consolidated processor, disk, and connectivity technologies. This can improve operational procedures and support policy-based control.
Better Business Resilience: allows IT management to defend against breakdowns or intrusions by guarding connections, programs, and data with the highest levels of fault tolerance, comprehensive security, and business continuance.
Optimized Service Levels: permits IT management to optimize network service levels by implementing safe, accelerated connectivity to data center-resident applications and data from any location and at any time across the organization.
Samples of Progent's Professional Services for Cisco-powered Data Centers
Progent's certified Cisco experts can provide a broad array of consulting services that can enable businesses of all sizes implement a Cisco-powered environment that will offer your data center a stable and secure basis for current applications and downstream expansion. Professional services feature:
Designing efficient firewall protection configurations using Cisco PIX and ASA firewall products
Deploying and troubleshooting secure VPN connections for connecting data centers to other data centers, corporate sites, and mobile users
Designing, and implementing complete fault tolerant switching, routing, and Internet connectivity systems so that single component failures do not interrupt delivery of services
Configuring multiple Internet providers with transparent failover based on BGP protocols. Progent can guide clients along the complete path of interaction with Internet authorities, getting ASN numbers and IP addresses assigned, working with ISP carriers to set up their environments, and deploying and checking customer devices.
Implementing segmented and protected virtual LAN (VLAN architectures to compliment VMWare and Microsoft virtual server systems
Planning, deploying and helping clients to manage proactive intrusion prevention systems (IPS) so that assaults can be identified quickly and remediated before they disrupt your business
Planning, configuring, and troubleshooting load balancing systems. Working with customers, Progent can align customer needs to the most sensible solutions and implement load balancing at the application level, server level, or network infrastructure layer. These designs permit seamless and convenient growth, reliability, performance, and redundancy.
Progent can design effective network management strategies using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and CiscoWorks and a variety of 3rd party solutions that present network managers a powerful real-time view into the health of their data center's network
Setting up and supporting high-end data center capable infrastructure appliances including the Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 4948 Series switches and Cisco 7200 and 7600 routers.
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Data centers are the key to leveraging information technology resources to maximize the business value of an information system. For small companies, data centers have often grown in a piecemeal fashion, creating a situation where processors and storage devices are underutilized, usable communications bandwidth is wasted, teamwork and information sharing is minimal, maintenance requirements are high, scaling or reconfiguring is expensive, security is poor, nominally minor modifications turn into major challenges, and complete recovery from catastrophic breakdowns is almost undoable.
