Data centers are the key to utilizing information technology resources to optimize the competitive value of an information system. For small organizations, data centers have typically grown in a haphazard fashion, creating a situation where servers and disks are underutilized, usable communications bandwidth is overlooked, collaboration and knowledge sharing is limited, maintenance demands are high, expansion or repurposing is expensive, protection is patchy, seemingly simple modifications become major hassles, and full recovery from disastrous breakdowns becomes virtually impossible.
Cisco's latest connectivity products and tools enable a new generation of data center design that permits continual enhancements in server, storage, network infrastructure, and applications in a manageable and cost-effective way. Progent's engineers can assist you to select and implement Cisco's network technology to create a robust basis for your data center and to improve your operations in vital areas including:
- Server and storage efficiency
- Comprehensive security enforcement
- Server proliferation
- Regulatory requirements
- Business continuance
The key advantages that can accrue as a result of using Progent's Cisco-certified experts to optimize your data center include:
- Reduced ownership cost: allows IT management to significantly reduce capital expenses via consolidation and higher utilization of previously separate network resources, slash operational expenses through streamlining and automating management jobs, and cut cooling and power costs.
- Greater Business Flexibility: permits IT management to respond quickly to changing business conditions by facilitating fast provisioning of application and infrastructure functions from common pools of consolidated processor, storage, and connectivity technologies. This can streamline administrative processes and support policy-based management.
- Enhanced Network Robustness: allows IT management to respond to disruptions or attacks by safeguarding infrastructure, programs, and information with advanced levels of availability, comprehensive protection, and business continuance.
- Optimized Service Levels: enables IT to improve business service levels by implementing safe, accelerated connectivity to data center-hosted applications and data from anywhere and at any moment across the organization.
Examples of Progent's Consulting Services for Cisco-powered Data Centers
Progent's certified Cisco experts offer a wide array of services that can enable companies of all sizes create a Cisco-based architecture that will offer your data center a stable and protected foundation for current applications and downstream growth. Support services include:
- Designing effective firewall protection solutions using PIX and ASA firewall technology
- Deploying and troubleshooting protected VPN access for linking data centers to other data centers, corporate sites, and mobile users
- Designing, and implementing resilient non-stop switching, routing, and Internet connectivity environments in which single component failures do not disrupt productivity
- Configuring multiple Internet providers with seamless failover using BGP protocols. Progent can help clients along the entire chain of paperwork with Internet supervisors, getting Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses assigned, working with ISPs to prepare their environments, and deploying and testing client devices.
- Building segmented and secure virtual LAN (VLAN environments to support VMware virtual server systems
- Designing, installing and helping clients to manage proactive intrusion prevention systems (IPS) so that assaults can be detected rapidly and remediated before they impact your business
- Designing, setting up, and supporting load balancing systems. Working with customers, Progent can align customer needs to the most sensible solutions and deploy load balancing at the application level, server level, or connectivity infrastructure layer. These designs permit seamless and convenient expansion, dependability, performance, and fault tolerance.
- Progent can design effective network management strategies using Simple Network Management Protocol and Cisco's Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and CiscoWorks and various outside vendor products that allow customers a useful real-time view into the operation of their data center's network
- Setting up and troubleshooting high-end data center class routers and switches including the Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 6800 switches, Nexus 5000 and 7000 Series switches, and Cisco 7200 and 7600 Series routers.
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