Data centers are the focal point of utilizing IT assets to maximize the business value of a computer network. For small organizations, data centers have typically evolved in a haphazard manner, creating a situation where servers and storage devices are underutilized, available communications capacity is overlooked, teamwork and information sharing is limited, maintenance demands are excessive, scaling or reconfiguring is expensive, security is patchy, seemingly simple changes turn into giant hassles, and full recovery from disastrous breakdowns becomes virtually undoable.
Cisco's most recent network appliances and technologies enable a new model of data center design that permits ongoing improvements in processor, storage, connectivity infrastructure, and application technologies in a manageable and cost-effective way. Progent's Cisco-certified professionals can help you to select and implement Cisco's connectivity technology to create a solid basis for your data center and to streamline your data center processes in vital areas including:
- Server and storage efficiency
- Comprehensive security enforcement
- Processor proliferation
- Regulatory compliance
- Disaster recovery
The key benefits that can be realized from engaging Progent's Cisco-certified experts to optimize your data center include:
- Reduced costs: allows IT management to significantly reduce acquisition expenses via integration and more efficient utilization of formerly separate equipment, lower maintenance expenses by streamlining and automating administrative jobs, and cut HVAC and energy bills.
- Greater Business Flexibility: permits IT management to respond quickly to evolving competitive conditions by allowing rapid provisioning of application and network functions from common pools of consolidated processor, storage, and connectivity resources. This helps improve administrative processes and support policy-driven control.
- Better Business Resilience: allows IT to defend against breakdowns or intrusions by safeguarding infrastructure, applications, and information through advanced degrees of fault tolerance, pervasive protection, and business continuance.
- Improved Service Levels: allows 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 across the organization.
Examples of Progent's Consulting Assistance for Cisco-based Data Centers
Progent's network consultants can provide a wide array of consulting services that can enable companies of all sizes design a Cisco-powered architecture that will give your data center a reliable and protected foundation for current applications and downstream expansion. Consulting services include:
- Designing effective firewall protection configurations using Cisco PIX and ASA firewall devices
- Installing and troubleshooting secure Virtual Private Network access for connecting data centers to other data centers, corporate sites, and mobile users
- Designing, and implementing resilient non-stop switching, routing, and Internet connectivity architectures so that single component breakdowns do not interrupt productivity
- Setting up multiple ISPs with seamless transfer based on BGP protocols. Progent can help customers through the entire path of interaction with Internet supervisors, getting Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses allocated, working with ISP carriers to prepare their systems, and deploying and testing client equipment.
- Implementing segmented and secure virtual LAN (VLAN architectures to support VMware and Microsoft virtual server systems
- Architecting, deploying and assisting clients to administer proactive IPS systems so that attacks can be identified quickly and remediated before they disrupt your business
- Designing, setting up, and troubleshooting load balancing solutions. Working with customers, Progent can match expressed needs to the best solutions and implement load balancing at the application and server levels, or network infrastructure layer. Progent's load balancing designs permit seamless and convenient expansion, reliability, performance, and redundancy.
- Progent can create affordable network management solutions using SNMP and Cisco's Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and various outside vendor solutions that allow network managers a useful look into the activity of their data center's network
- Configuring and troubleshooting advanced data center class routers and switches including the Cisco Catalyst 4500 and 6500 family switches, Nexus 5000, 6000, and 7000 switches, and Cisco 7200 and 7600 routers.
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