Data centers are the key to leveraging information technology resources to maximize the business value of an IT network. For small businesses, data centers have typically evolved in a haphazard fashion, creating a state where servers and disks are underutilized, available communications bandwidth is overlooked, teamwork and knowledge sharing is limited, support requirements are excessive, expansion or repurposing is expensive, protection is patchy, seemingly minor changes turn into giant hassles, and complete recovery from disastrous breakdowns is almost undoable.
Cisco's latest networking products and technologies enable a new generation of data center design that permits continual enhancements in processor, storage, connectivity infrastructure, and applications in a maintainable and cost-effective way. Progent's consultants can help you to identify and implement Cisco's network solutions to create a robust foundation for your data center and to improve your data center processes in vital areas such as:
- Processor and storage utilization
- Comprehensive security enforcement
- Processor proliferation
- Regulatory requirements
- Disaster recovery
The key advantages that can be realized as a result of engaging Progent's network experts to enhance your data center include:
- Reduced TCO: allows IT to significantly lower acquisition expenses via consolidation and more efficient utilization of previously separate network resources, slash maintenance costs by simplifying and automating management tasks, and reduce HVAC and power costs.
- More Business Flexibility: permits IT to react quickly to changing competitive conditions by facilitating fast deployment of application and network functions from shared pools of integrated server, storage, and connectivity technologies. This can streamline administrative processes and enable policy-driven management.
- Better Business Robustness: enables IT management to react to disruptions or intrusions by guarding infrastructure, applications, and information through the highest degrees of fault tolerance, pervasive protection, and business continuance.
- Optimized Service Levels: allows IT to improve network service levels by providing secure, accelerated access to data center-resident applications and data from any place and at any time throughout the organization.
Samples of Progent's Consulting Assistance for Cisco-based Data Centers
Progent's certified Cisco consultants can provide a wide array of consulting services that can enable businesses of any size create a Cisco-based architecture that will give your data center a dependable and protected foundation for current applications and downstream expansion. Progent's consulting services feature:
- Designing efficient firewall security solutions based on Cisco PIX and ASA firewall products
- Deploying and supporting protected VPN connections for linking data centers to other data centers, corporate sites, and mobile users
- Designing, and integrating complete non-stop LAN and Internet access environments in which single component failures do not disrupt productivity
- Setting up multiple Internet providers with seamless failover using BGP protocols. Progent can guide clients along the complete path of paperwork with Internet supervisors, having Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses allotted, dealing with ISPs to set up their networks, and deploying and testing client equipment.
- Building segmented and secure virtual LAN environments to compliment VMware virtual server deployments
- Architecting, deploying and assisting clients to manage 24x7 IPS systems so that attacks can be identified rapidly and remediated before they disrupt your business
- Designing, configuring, and troubleshooting load balancing solutions. Consulting with clients, Progent can match expressed requirements to the most cost-effective technology and deploy load balancing at the application and server levels, or network infrastructure layer. These designs allow for seamless and scalable growth, dependability, security, and redundancy.
- Progent can plan effective network management solutions using SNMP and Cisco's Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and CiscoWorks and a variety of 3rd party products that present network managers a useful look into the activity of their data center's network
- Setting up and supporting high-end data center class infrastructure appliances such as the Catalyst 4500, 6500, and 6800 switches, Nexus 5000, 6000, and 7000 switches, and Cisco 7600 and 12000 family routers.
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