Data centers are the focal point of utilizing IT assets to optimize the strategic value of an IT network. For small companies, data centers have often evolved in a haphazard fashion, resulting in a situation where servers and storage devices are deployed inefficiently, usable communications capacity is wasted, teamwork and information sharing is minimal, support demands are excessive, expansion or repurposing is expensive, security is poor, seemingly minor changes turn into giant hassles, and complete recovery from catastrophic failure becomes virtually undoable.
Cisco's most recent connectivity products and tools enable a new model of data center architecture that allows ongoing enhancements in processor, storage, network topology, and applications in a maintainable and affordable way. Progent's Cisco-certified professionals can assist you to identify and implement Cisco's network solutions to create a solid basis for your data center and to improve your data center processes in critical areas including:
- Processor and disk efficiency
- Comprehensive security enforcement
- Processor consolidation
- Regulatory issues
- Business continuance
The key benefits that can be realized from using Progent's Cisco-certified experts to enhance your data center include:
- Reduced ownership cost: enables IT management to significantly reduce capital costs via integration and higher use of formerly isolated equipment, slash operational costs through streamlining and automating management jobs, and cut HVAC and power bills.
- More Business Flexibility: permits IT to respond quickly to changing business conditions by facilitating rapid provisioning of application and network services from shared pools of consolidated processor, storage, and network technologies. This helps streamline operational procedures and enable policy-based management.
- Enhanced Business Robustness: allows IT management to react to breakdowns or intrusions by safeguarding connections, applications, and data through advanced levels of fault tolerance, comprehensive protection, and disaster recovery.
- Improved Service Levels: allows IT to improve business service levels by providing secure, accelerated connectivity to data center-resident applications and information from anywhere and at any moment throughout the organization.
Examples of Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco-based Data Centers
Progent's certified Cisco consultants can provide a wide range of services that can help organizations of all sizes create a Cisco-based architecture that will give your data center a dependable and protected foundation for current applications and future growth. Professional services feature:
- Designing effective firewall protection configurations powered by PIX and ASA firewall technology
- Deploying and supporting secure VPN connections for connecting data centers to other data centers, business sites, and mobile users
- Planning, and integrating resilient fault tolerant LAN and Internet connectivity architectures in which single point breakdowns do not interrupt productivity
- Setting up multiple Internet providers with seamless transfer using Border Gateway Protocol. Progent can help clients along the complete chain of paperwork with Internet authorities, getting ASN numbers and IP addresses allocated, working with ISP carriers to prepare their environments, and configuring and checking client equipment.
- Building segmented and secure VLAN architectures to support VMware and Microsoft virtual server deployments
- Planning, deploying and assisting customers to administer proactive intrusion prevention systems (IPS) so that assaults can be detected quickly and remediated so they don't disrupt productivity
- Planning, setting up, and troubleshooting load balancing systems. Working with customers, Progent can align expressed needs to the most cost-effective technology and implement load balancing at the application level, server level, or network infrastructure layer. Such designs permit seamless and scalable expansion, reliability, performance, and fault tolerance.
- Progent can design effective network management strategies based on Simple Network Management Protocol and Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and a variety of 3rd party products that allow network managers a useful real-time view into the operation of their data center's network
- Configuring and supporting high-end data center capable infrastructure appliances including the Catalyst 6500 and 6800 switches, Cisco Nexus 5000 and 7000 family switches, and Cisco 7200 and 12000 routers.
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In order to contact Progent about professional help for Cisco products, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.