Data centers are the key to utilizing information technology resources to optimize the business value of a computer network. For small organizations, data centers have often evolved in a haphazard fashion, resulting in a situation where servers and disks are underutilized, usable communications capacity is wasted, teamwork and information sharing is minimal, maintenance requirements are excessive, expansion or repurposing is costly, protection is poor, seemingly minor changes become giant challenges, and full recovery from catastrophic breakdowns is almost impossible.
Cisco's latest connectivity devices and tools enable a new generation of data center architecture that allows ongoing enhancements in processor, storage, connectivity infrastructure, and applications in a manageable and affordable way. Progent's consultants can help you to select and deploy Cisco's connectivity products to build a solid foundation for your data center and to improve your operations in critical areas such as:
- Server and disk utilization
- Comprehensive security enforcement
- Processor proliferation
- Regulatory compliance
- Disaster recovery
The key benefits that can be realized as a result of engaging Progent's network consultants to optimize your data center include:
- Lower total cost of ownership: allows IT management to substantially cut capital expenses through consolidation and higher utilization of formerly isolated network resources, slash operational expenses by streamlining and automating administrative tasks, and reduce air conditioning and energy costs.
- More Business Agility: enables IT management to respond dynamically to changing business conditions by allowing rapid provisioning of application and infrastructure services from common aggregations of consolidated processor, storage, and connectivity resources. This helps streamline administrative procedures and enable policy-driven control.
- Better Network Resilience: enables IT management to defend against breakdowns or intrusions by safeguarding infrastructure, programs, and information through the highest degrees of fault tolerance, pervasive protection, and business continuance.
- Improved Service Levels: enables IT management to improve business service levels by providing secure, fast connectivity to data center-resident applications and data from any location and at any moment across the organization.
Examples of Progent's Consulting Help for Cisco-powered Data Centers
Progent's network consultants can provide a wide array of services that can help businesses of all sizes create a Cisco-based infrastructure that will give your data center a dependable and secure foundation for existing applications and downstream expansion. Consulting services feature:
- Designing effective firewall protection solutions powered by Cisco PIX and ASA firewall appliances
- Deploying and troubleshooting secure Virtual Private Network access for connecting data centers to other data centers, corporate offices, and mobile workers
- Planning, and implementing resilient non-stop LAN and Internet access architectures so that single component failures do not interrupt operation of the network
- Configuring backup ISPs with transparent transfer using BGP protocols. Progent can assist customers through the complete path of paperwork with Internet supervisors, getting ASN numbers and IP addresses allocated, working with Internet Service Providers to set up their environments, and deploying and testing customer devices.
- Implementing segmented and secure virtual LAN environments to support VMware and Microsoft virtual server deployments
- Architecting, deploying and helping clients to manage 24x7 intrusion prevention systems (IPS) so that assaults can be detected rapidly and defeated before they disrupt your business
- Planning, setting up, and supporting load balancing solutions. Working with customers, Progent can map expressed requirements to the most sensible technology and deploy load balancing at the application and server levels, or network infrastructure layer. These designs allow for transparent and convenient expansion, reliability, security, and fault tolerance.
- Progent can plan affordable network management solutions using Simple Network Management Protocol and Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and CiscoWorks and various outside vendor products that allow customers a powerful look into the operation of their data center's network
- Configuring and troubleshooting high-end data center capable routers and switches such as the Cisco Catalyst 4500, 6500, and 6800 switches, Nexus 6000 and 7000 switches, and Cisco 7200, 7600, and 12000 family routers.
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