Cisco Network Consultants CCIE Certified Specialists Expertise for Cisco-powered Data Centers
Data centers are the key to leveraging IT assets to optimize the competitive value of a computer network. For small organizations, data centers have often grown in a haphazard manner, resulting in a state where servers and storage devices are deployed inefficiently, usable communications capacity is wasted, teamwork and knowledge sharing is limited, maintenance demands are excessive, scaling or repurposing is expensive, security is poor, nominally minor changes become major challenges, and full recovery from disastrous breakdowns is almost undoable.
Cisco's latest networking products and tools support a new model of data center design that permits ongoing enhancements in server, storage, network infrastructure, and application technologies in a maintainable and economical way. Progent's consultants can assist you to select and deploy Cisco's network technology to create a solid foundation for your data center and to streamline your operations in critical areas including:
Processor and storage utilization
End-to-end security enforcement
Processor consolidation
Regulatory issues
Business continuance
The business benefits that can accrue as a result of using Progent's network experts to enhance your data center include:
Lower costs: permits IT management to significantly reduce capital costs through consolidation and higher use of formerly isolated network resources, lower maintenance expenses by streamlining and automating administrative jobs, and reduce cooling and power bills.
More Business Flexibility: permits IT to respond dynamically to evolving business demands by facilitating rapid deployment of application and infrastructure services from shared pools of consolidated processor, disk, and connectivity technologies. This helps streamline administrative procedures and enable policy-based management.
Enhanced Network Robustness: enables IT management to react to breakdowns or intrusions by protecting infrastructure, programs, and information through advanced levels of fault tolerance, pervasive security, and business continuance.
Optimized Service Levels: permits IT to optimize business service levels by providing secure, accelerated connectivity to data center-hosted applications and data from any location and at any time across the enterprise.
Examples of Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco-based Data Centers
Progent's network experts can provide a wide range of services that can help companies of any size build a Cisco-based environment that will give your data center a reliable and secure foundation for current applications and future growth. Support services feature:
Building effective firewall protection solutions based on PIX and ASA firewall products
Installing and troubleshooting protected Virtual Private Network access for linking data centers to other data centers, business sites, and mobile workers
Planning, and integrating resilient fault tolerant LAN and Internet access systems so that single point breakdowns do not disrupt productivity
Configuring backup Internet providers with seamless failover using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Progent can guide customers through the entire path of paperwork with Internet supervisors, having ASN numbers and IP addresses assigned, working with Internet Service Providers to set up their networks, and deploying and testing customer devices.
Building segmented and secure virtual LAN environments to compliment VMWare and Microsoft virtual server deployments
Designing, deploying and helping customers to administer 24x7 IPS systems so that assaults can be identified quickly and remediated so they don't disrupt productivity
Designing, setting up, and supporting load balancing solutions. Working with clients, Progent can match customer needs to the appropriate technology and deploy load balancing at the application level, server level, or network infrastructure layer. These solutions permit seamless and convenient growth, dependability, performance, and redundancy.
Progent knows how to design effective network management strategies 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 real-time view into the operation of their data center's network
Configuring and supporting advanced data center class infrastructure appliances such as the Cisco Catalyst 4500, 6500, and 4948 family switches and Cisco 7200 and 12000 family routers.
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Data centers are the key to leveraging IT assets to optimize the competitive value of a computer network. For small organizations, data centers have often grown in a haphazard manner, resulting in a state where servers and storage devices are deployed inefficiently, usable communications capacity is wasted, teamwork and knowledge sharing is limited, maintenance demands are excessive, scaling or repurposing is expensive, security is poor, nominally minor changes become major challenges, and full recovery from disastrous breakdowns is almost undoable.
