Data centers are the focal point of utilizing IT resources to optimize the business value of an IT network. For small companies, data centers have typically grown in a haphazard fashion, resulting in a state where servers and storage devices are deployed inefficiently, available communications bandwidth is wasted, collaboration and knowledge sharing is minimal, support requirements are excessive, scaling or reconfiguring is costly, security is poor, seemingly simple changes become giant challenges, and full recovery from catastrophic breakdowns becomes virtually impossible.
Cisco's latest connectivity appliances and technologies enable a new model of data center architecture that permits continual enhancements in processor, storage, connectivity topology, and applications in a maintainable and economical way. Progent's Cisco-certified professionals can help you to select and implement Cisco's network technology to build a solid foundation for your data center and to streamline your data center processes in critical areas including:
- Processor and storage utilization
- Comprehensive security enforcement
- Processor consolidation
- Regulatory issues
- Disaster recovery
The important advantages that can accrue from engaging Progent's Cisco-certified consultants to optimize your data center include:
- Lower total cost of ownership: permits IT management to substantially lower capital costs via integration and more efficient use of previously separate equipment, slash operational expenses through simplifying and automating management tasks, and reduce air conditioning and energy costs.
- More Business Flexibility: permits IT management to react dynamically to evolving competitive conditions by facilitating fast deployment of application and infrastructure functions from shared pools of consolidated processor, storage, and connectivity resources. This can streamline administrative procedures and enable policy-driven control.
- Better Network Resilience: enables IT to defend against disruptions or intrusions by safeguarding infrastructure, applications, and information with advanced degrees of fault tolerance, pervasive protection, and disaster recovery.
- Optimized Service Levels: enables IT management to improve business service levels by implementing safe, fast access to data center-resident applications and data from any place and at any moment across the organization.
Examples of Progent's Consulting Services for Cisco-powered Data Centers
Progent's network consultants offer a broad array of services that can enable businesses of any size build a Cisco-powered architecture that will give your data center a dependable and secure foundation for existing applications and downstream growth. Progent's consulting services include:
- Building efficient firewall protection configurations based on PIX and ASA firewall products
- Installing and troubleshooting protected VPN connections for linking data centers to other data centers, business sites, and mobile workers
- Planning, and implementing resilient non-stop switching, routing, and Internet connectivity environments so that single point breakdowns do not interrupt delivery of services
- Configuring backup Internet providers with seamless failover based on Border Gateway Protocol. Progent can help clients along the entire process of paperwork with Internet supervisors, having ASN numbers and IP addresses allocated, working with ISP carriers to prepare their systems, and configuring and testing client devices.
- Implementing segmented and protected VLAN environments to support VMware virtual server systems
- Designing, installing and helping clients to manage proactive IPS systems so that attacks can be identified rapidly and defeated before they impact your business
- Planning, configuring, and troubleshooting load balancing solutions. Working with clients, Progent can align expressed requirements to the most cost-effective solutions and implement load balancing at the application level, server level, or connectivity infrastructure layer. These designs allow for transparent and scalable growth, dependability, performance, and redundancy.
- Progent knows how to create effective network management solutions based on SNMP and Cisco's open Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and CiscoWorks and various outside vendor products that allow customers a useful look into the activity of their data center's network
- Configuring and supporting high-end data center capable routers and switches such as the Catalyst 4500, 6500, and 6800 switches, Nexus 5000 and 7000 family switches, and Cisco 7200, 7600, and 12000 routers.
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