Cisco Systems Network Consultants Cisco Qualified Engineers Help for Cisco-based Data Centers
Data centers are the key to leveraging information technology resources to optimize the competitive value of a computer network. For small businesses, data centers have typically grown in a haphazard fashion, resulting in a state where servers and storage devices are deployed inefficiently, available communications bandwidth is wasted, collaboration and information sharing is limited, maintenance demands are high, expansion or repurposing is expensive, protection is poor, nominally minor changes turn into major challenges, and full recovery from catastrophic failure becomes almost impossible.
Cisco's most recent network devices and tools enable a new generation of data center architecture that allows continual enhancements in processor, storage, connectivity infrastructure, and application technologies in a manageable and affordable way. Progent's engineers can assist you to identify and implement Cisco's connectivity solutions to create a robust foundation for your data center and to streamline your data center processes in vital areas including:
Server and storage efficiency
End-to-end security enforcement
Processor proliferation
Regulatory issues
Business continuance
The business advantages that can accrue from engaging Progent's Cisco-certified experts to streamline your data center include:
Reduced ownership cost: enables IT to significantly lower capital expenses via integration and higher utilization of previously isolated equipment, lower maintenance costs by simplifying and automating management jobs, and cut cooling and energy costs.
Greater Business Agility: enables IT management to respond quickly to evolving competitive demands by facilitating rapid deployment of application and infrastructure services from shared aggregations of integrated server, disk, and network technologies. This helps streamline operational procedures and support policy-driven control.
Enhanced Network Robustness: allows IT management to react to breakdowns or attacks by guarding connections, programs, and data through the highest levels of fault tolerance, comprehensive security, and business continuance.
Optimized Service Levels: allows IT to improve network service levels by implementing secure, fast access to data center-hosted applications and data from any place and at any time across the enterprise.
Samples of Progent's Professional Services for Cisco-based Data Centers
Progent's network consultants offer a broad array of consulting services that can help organizations of any size design a Cisco-powered infrastructure that will offer your data center a dependable and protected basis for current applications and future growth. Professional services include:
Designing efficient firewall protection configurations using PIX and ASA firewall devices
Installing and supporting secure VPN connections for connecting data centers to other data centers, corporate sites, and mobile users
Designing, and integrating complete non-stop switching, routing, and Internet connectivity environments so that single point breakdowns do not interrupt operation of the network
Setting up multiple Internet providers with transparent failover based on BGP protocols. Progent can help customers through the complete path of paperwork with Internet authorities, getting Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses assigned, working with ISPs to prepare their networks, and deploying and checking customer devices.
Building segmented and protected virtual LAN (VLAN architectures to support VMWare and Microsoft virtual server deployments
Designing, deploying and assisting customers to manage proactive intrusion prevention systems (IPS) so that attacks can be detected quickly and defeated before they impact your business
Planning, setting up, and troubleshooting load balancing systems. Working with clients, Progent can align expressed requirements to the best solutions and implement load balancing at the application and server levels, or connectivity infrastructure layer. Such solutions permit seamless and scalable growth, reliability, performance, and fault tolerance.
Progent can create effective network management strategies based on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Cisco's Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and various outside vendor products that offer network managers a useful look into the health of their data center's infrastructure
Setting up and troubleshooting high-end data center class routers and switches such as the Catalyst 4500 and 4948 Series switches and Cisco 7200 and 12000 Series routers.
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Data centers are the key to leveraging information technology resources to optimize the competitive value of a computer network. For small businesses, data centers have typically grown in a haphazard fashion, resulting in a state where servers and storage devices are deployed inefficiently, available communications bandwidth is wasted, collaboration and information sharing is limited, maintenance demands are high, expansion or repurposing is expensive, protection is poor, nominally minor changes turn into major challenges, and full recovery from catastrophic failure becomes almost impossible.
