Data centers are the focal point of utilizing IT assets to optimize the business value of a computer network. For small companies, data centers have often grown in a piecemeal manner, resulting in a situation where servers and storage devices are underutilized, usable communications bandwidth is overlooked, teamwork and knowledge sharing is minimal, support demands are high, scaling or repurposing is expensive, security is poor, nominally minor changes turn into giant hassles, and full recovery from catastrophic breakdowns is almost undoable.
Cisco's most recent connectivity appliances and tools enable a new model of data center architecture that permits ongoing improvements in server, storage, network infrastructure, and applications in a maintainable and affordable way. Progent's Cisco-certified professionals can help you to select and deploy Cisco's network solutions to build a solid basis for your data center and to improve your data center operations in vital areas such as:
- Server and disk utilization
- Comprehensive security policy enforcement
- Processor proliferation
- Regulatory compliance
- Business continuance
The key advantages that can be realized as a result of engaging Progent's network consultants to streamline your data center include:
- Reduced costs: allows IT to significantly lower acquisition costs through integration and higher utilization of previously isolated network resources, slash maintenance expenses through simplifying and automating management jobs, and cut air conditioning and power costs.
- Greater Business Agility: enables IT to react dynamically to evolving competitive conditions by allowing rapid deployment of application and network services from shared pools of integrated processor, storage, and connectivity resources. This helps streamline operational processes and support policy-driven management.
- Enhanced Network Resilience: allows IT to defend against disruptions or attacks by guarding connections, programs, and information through advanced degrees of fault tolerance, comprehensive security, and disaster recovery.
- Optimized Service Levels: permits IT management to optimize network service levels by providing secure, fast access to data center-resident applications and data from any location and at any moment throughout the enterprise.
Samples of Progent's Professional Expertise for Cisco-based Data Centers
Progent's certified Cisco consultants offer a wide array of consulting services that can help companies of all sizes build a Cisco-based environment that will offer your data center a resilient and protected basis for current applications and downstream expansion. Progent's consulting services include:
- Building efficient firewall protection configurations powered by Cisco PIX and ASA firewall devices
- Deploying and supporting secure Virtual Private Network access for connecting data centers to other data centers, business sites, and mobile workers
- Designing, and integrating resilient fault tolerant LAN and Internet connectivity systems so that single component breakdowns do not disrupt operation of the network
- Configuring multiple ISPs with seamless failover using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Progent can assist clients along the complete process of paperwork with Internet supervisors, having Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses allotted, dealing with ISPs to set up their systems, and configuring and testing client equipment.
- Implementing segmented and secure virtual LAN architectures to support VMware virtual server deployments
- Planning, deploying and assisting customers to administer proactive IPS systems so that assaults can be detected rapidly and defeated so they don't disrupt your business
- Designing, configuring, and supporting load balancing solutions. Consulting with customers, Progent can match expressed needs to the most cost-effective solutions and deploy load balancing at the application and server levels, or network infrastructure layer. These designs permit transparent and scalable growth, dependability, security, and fault tolerance.
- Progent can design effective network management strategies using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and a variety of 3rd party products that present customers a powerful real-time view into the operation of their data center's infrastructure
- Setting up and troubleshooting high-end data center class routers and switches including the Cisco Catalyst 4500, 6500, and 6800 family switches, Nexus 5000, 6000, and 7000 family switches, and Cisco 7200, 7600, and 12000 Series routers.
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