Data centers are the focal point of utilizing IT resources to maximize the business value of a computer network. For small businesses, data centers have typically grown in a piecemeal manner, resulting in a situation where processors and disks are deployed inefficiently, usable communications capacity is overlooked, collaboration and knowledge sharing is minimal, support demands are high, expansion or repurposing is expensive, protection is patchy, nominally minor modifications turn into giant challenges, and full recovery from catastrophic failure is almost undoable.
Cisco's most recent networking appliances and technologies enable a new generation of data center design that allows ongoing improvements in server, storage, connectivity infrastructure, and application technologies in a manageable and affordable way. Progent's consultants can help you to select and implement Cisco's connectivity products to create a robust foundation for your data center and to streamline your data center operations in vital areas such as:
- Server and storage efficiency
- End-to-end security enforcement
- Processor consolidation
- Regulatory requirements
- Disaster recovery
The key advantages that can accrue from using Progent's Cisco-certified consultants to optimize your data center include:
- Lower total cost of ownership: permits IT management to significantly lower acquisition expenses via integration and higher utilization of formerly separate network resources, slash operational costs by streamlining and automating management tasks, and cut HVAC and power costs.
- More Business Agility: permits IT to respond dynamically to changing competitive demands by allowing fast provisioning of application and network services from common pools of consolidated server, storage, and connectivity resources. This helps streamline operational processes and enable policy-driven management.
- Better Business Resilience: allows IT management to respond to disruptions or intrusions by guarding connections, programs, and information with the highest levels of availability, pervasive protection, and business continuance.
- Improved Service Levels: enables IT management to improve business service levels by implementing safe, fast access to data center-hosted applications and data from anywhere and at any moment throughout the organization.
Samples of Progent's Professional Assistance for Cisco-based Data Centers
Progent's network consultants offer a broad range of services that can help businesses of any size build a Cisco-powered environment that will give your data center a reliable and protected basis for existing applications and downstream expansion. Professional services feature:
- Designing efficient firewall protection configurations powered by Cisco PIX and ASA firewall technology
- Deploying and troubleshooting secure Virtual Private Network access for linking data centers to other data centers, corporate offices, and mobile workers
- Designing, and implementing resilient non-stop switching, routing, and Internet connectivity environments so that single component breakdowns do not disrupt delivery of services
- Configuring backup ISPs with seamless transfer based on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Progent can help clients through the entire process of interaction with Internet supervisors, having ASN numbers and IP addresses assigned, working with Internet Service Providers to set up their systems, and configuring and checking customer devices.
- Implementing segmented and secure virtual LAN architectures to compliment VMware virtual server systems
- Designing, deploying and helping clients to manage 24x7 intrusion prevention systems (IPS) so that attacks can be detected rapidly and remediated so they don't disrupt productivity
- Designing, setting up, and troubleshooting load balancing solutions. Consulting with customers, 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 solutions permit seamless and convenient expansion, reliability, security, and fault tolerance.
- Progent knows how to create efficient network management strategies based on Simple Network Management Protocol and Cisco's open Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and a variety of 3rd party products that allow customers a useful look into the operation of their data center's network
- Configuring and supporting high-end data center class infrastructure appliances including the Catalyst 4500, 6500, and 6800 switches, Cisco Nexus 6000 and 7000 switches, and Cisco 7600 and 12000 family routers.
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