Cisco Datacenter Management SupportData centers are the focal point of leveraging IT resources to optimize the business value of a computer network. For small organizations, data centers have typically evolved in a piecemeal manner, resulting in a state where processors and disks are underutilized, available communications bandwidth is wasted, collaboration and information sharing is limited, support demands are excessive, expansion or repurposing is costly, security is poor, nominally simple modifications turn into major hassles, and complete recovery from catastrophic failure becomes virtually undoable.

Cisco's latest networking products and technologies support a new generation of data center architecture that permits ongoing improvements in server, storage, connectivity topology, and applications in a manageable and cost-effective way. Progent's Cisco-certified professionals can help you to select and implement Cisco's connectivity products to create a solid basis for your data center and to streamline your operations in vital areas such as:

  • Server and storage utilization
  • Comprehensive security policy enforcement
  • Server proliferation
  • Regulatory requirements
  • Disaster recovery

    The important advantages that can be realized from engaging Progent's Cisco-certified experts to streamline your data center include:

    • Lower total cost of ownership: enables IT to substantially lower capital costs through integration and higher utilization of previously isolated equipment, lower operational costs by streamlining and automating administrative jobs, and reduce HVAC and power costs.
    • Greater Business Flexibility: permits IT to react quickly to evolving business conditions by facilitating fast deployment of application and infrastructure functions from common pools of consolidated server, storage, and connectivity technologies. This helps improve administrative processes and enable policy-driven management.
    • Better Network Resilience: enables IT management to react to breakdowns or attacks by guarding connections, applications, and data through advanced levels of fault tolerance, pervasive protection, and disaster recovery.
    • Improved Service Levels: permits IT to improve network service levels by providing secure, fast connectivity to data center-resident applications and information from any location and at any time throughout the enterprise.
    Samples of Progent's Professional Expertise for Cisco-powered Data Centers
    Progent's network experts offer a wide array of services that can help organizations of all sizes build a Cisco-based environment that will give your data center a dependable and protected foundation for existing applications and future growth. Consulting services feature:
    • Designing efficient firewall security solutions using PIX and ASA firewall products
    • Installing and supporting protected VPN connections for connecting data centers to other data centers, business offices, and mobile users
    • Designing, and integrating complete fault tolerant switching, routing, and Internet connectivity systems in which single component failures do not interrupt availability of services
    • Setting up backup ISPs with seamless transfer using BGP protocols. Progent can assist customers along the entire chain of interaction with Internet authorities, having Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses allocated, dealing with ISPs to set up their environments, and deploying and checking customer devices.
    • Implementing segmented and protected VLAN environments to support VMware virtual server systems
    • Architecting, installing and helping customers to manage proactive intrusion prevention systems (IPS) so that assaults can be identified quickly and remediated so they don't disrupt productivity
    • Designing, configuring, and supporting load balancing systems. Consulting with customers, Progent can match customer requirements to the most sensible solutions and deploy load balancing at the application level, server level, or network infrastructure layer. These solutions allow for seamless and convenient growth, dependability, performance, and redundancy.
    • Progent knows how to create affordable network management solutions based on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Cisco's Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and CiscoWorks and various outside vendor solutions that offer network managers a useful real-time view into the health of their data center's network
    • Setting up and supporting high-end data center capable routers and switches including the Catalyst 6500 and 4948 switches and Cisco 7200 and 12000 family routers.

    To see more information concerning Progent's professional expertise for Cisco technology, pick a topic:

  • Overview of Cisco Consulting Services
  • Fast Online Help from a Consulting Professional
  • Cisco Firewall Professional Support
  • Cisco Routers Professional Support
  • Cisco Aironet Wireless Professional Support
  • Cisco IP Telephony Professional Expertise
  • Cisco Switches Consulting Services
  • Cisco VPN Consulting Expertise
  • Professional Expertise for Service Providers
  • Network Management Expertise for Cisco-powered Networks

    To ask Progent about engineering help for Cisco technology, call 1-800-993-9400 or e-mail cisco-help@progent.com.
















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