Data centers are the focal point of utilizing information technology assets to optimize the business value of an information system. For small businesses, data centers have typically grown in a piecemeal manner, creating a situation where servers and storage devices are deployed inefficiently, available communications capacity is wasted, collaboration and knowledge sharing is limited, maintenance requirements are high, scaling or repurposing is expensive, security is patchy, seemingly minor changes turn into major hassles, and complete recovery from catastrophic failure is almost impossible.
Cisco's latest network appliances and technologies support a new generation of data center design that allows continual improvements in server, storage, connectivity infrastructure, and application technologies in a manageable and cost-effective way. Progent's consultants can help you to identify and deploy Cisco's connectivity products to create a robust basis for your data center and to improve your operations in critical areas including:
- Processor and disk utilization
- Comprehensive security enforcement
- Server proliferation
- Regulatory compliance
- Disaster recovery
The business benefits that can accrue as a result of using Progent's network experts to streamline your data center include:
- Reduced ownership cost: allows IT to substantially lower acquisition expenses via consolidation and more efficient use of previously separate equipment, lower maintenance costs through simplifying and automating management jobs, and reduce cooling and energy bills.
- More Business Agility: permits IT management to react dynamically to changing competitive demands by facilitating rapid provisioning of application and network services from shared pools of consolidated server, disk, and network resources. This helps streamline operational processes and enable policy-driven management.
- Better Business Resilience: allows IT management to respond to breakdowns or attacks by protecting infrastructure, programs, and information with the highest degrees of fault tolerance, pervasive security, and business continuance.
- Improved Service Levels: allows IT to improve network service levels by providing secure, accelerated connectivity to data center-hosted applications and information from any location and at any time across the organization.
Examples of Progent's Professional Services for Cisco-based Data Centers
Progent's network consultants offer a wide range of services that can help businesses of all sizes design a Cisco-powered architecture that will give your data center a reliable and secure foundation for existing applications and future expansion. Support services include:
- Building efficient firewall protection solutions powered by Cisco PIX and ASA firewall technology
- Installing and troubleshooting protected Virtual Private Network connections for connecting data centers to other data centers, corporate offices, and mobile workers
- Planning, and integrating complete fault tolerant LAN and Internet access architectures so that single component breakdowns do not disrupt productivity
- Setting up backup Internet providers with seamless transfer based on BGP protocols. Progent can assist clients through the entire path of paperwork with Internet supervisors, having ASN numbers and IP addresses allotted, working with ISP carriers to prepare their environments, and deploying and testing client devices.
- Implementing segmented and secure virtual LAN (VLAN architectures to compliment VMware virtual server systems
- Architecting, deploying and helping customers to manage 24x7 intrusion prevention systems (IPS) so that assaults can be detected quickly and defeated before they impact your business
- Designing, configuring, and supporting load balancing systems. Consulting with customers, Progent can align customer needs to the most cost-effective technology and deploy load balancing at the application level, server level, or connectivity infrastructure layer. These solutions permit seamless and convenient growth, dependability, security, and fault tolerance.
- Progent can design affordable network management strategies using Simple Network Management Protocol and Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and CiscoWorks and various 3rd party solutions that offer customers a powerful real-time view into the activity of their data center's network
- Setting up and supporting advanced data center capable routers and switches such as the Cisco Catalyst 4500 and 6500 family switches, Nexus 5000, 6000, and 7000 switches, and Cisco 7200 and 12000 routers.
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