Data centers are the focal point of leveraging information technology assets to optimize the strategic value of an information system. For small organizations, data centers have typically evolved in a haphazard manner, creating a situation where processors and storage devices are underutilized, usable communications bandwidth is wasted, collaboration and information sharing is minimal, maintenance demands are high, scaling or reconfiguring is costly, security is poor, nominally simple changes become major hassles, and complete recovery from catastrophic breakdowns becomes virtually undoable.
Cisco's latest networking appliances and tools enable a new model of data center architecture that allows ongoing enhancements in server, storage, connectivity topology, and applications in a maintainable and economical way. Progent's consultants can help you to identify and implement Cisco's connectivity products to create a solid foundation for your data center and to streamline your data center processes in critical areas such as:
- Processor and storage efficiency
- End-to-end security enforcement
- Processor proliferation
- Regulatory compliance
- Business continuance
The key advantages that can accrue from using Progent's Cisco-certified consultants to enhance your data center include:
- Reduced TCO: allows IT to significantly reduce capital costs via consolidation and higher use of formerly separate equipment, slash operational costs through simplifying and automating administrative tasks, and cut cooling and energy costs.
- Greater Business Agility: enables IT management to react dynamically to changing business conditions by allowing fast provisioning of application and network services from shared pools of consolidated server, storage, and connectivity resources. This helps improve operational procedures and support policy-based control.
- Enhanced Network Robustness: enables IT management to respond to disruptions or attacks by guarding infrastructure, programs, and information with advanced degrees of availability, comprehensive security, and disaster recovery.
- Improved Service Levels: allows IT management to optimize business service levels by providing secure, accelerated access to data center-resident applications and data from anywhere and at any time throughout the organization.
Examples of Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco-based Data Centers
Progent's network consultants offer a broad range of services that can enable organizations of any size create a Cisco-based infrastructure that will offer your data center a dependable and protected basis for existing applications and future expansion. Consulting services feature:
- Designing efficient firewall security solutions powered by Cisco PIX and ASA firewall technology
- Installing and troubleshooting secure Virtual Private Network access for connecting data centers to other data centers, corporate offices, and mobile workers
- Planning, and implementing complete fault tolerant switching, routing, and Internet access systems so that single point failures do not disrupt operation of the network
- Setting up backup ISPs with transparent transfer using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Progent can guide clients through the entire chain of interaction with Internet authorities, having Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses allocated, working with ISP carriers to prepare their networks, and configuring and testing customer devices.
- Building segmented and secure VLAN environments to compliment VMware virtual server deployments
- Planning, installing and helping clients to administer proactive IPS systems so that attacks can be detected quickly and remediated before they impact productivity
- Planning, configuring, and supporting load balancing solutions. Consulting with clients, Progent can map customer requirements to the most sensible solutions and deploy load balancing at the application and server levels, or connectivity infrastructure layer. Progent's load balancing designs permit transparent and convenient expansion, reliability, performance, and fault tolerance.
- Progent can design efficient network management strategies using Simple Network Management Protocol and Cisco's Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and various 3rd party products that offer customers a powerful real-time view into the operation of their data center's infrastructure
- Setting up and troubleshooting high-end data center capable routers and switches including the Catalyst 4500 and 6500 family switches, Cisco Nexus 6000 and 7000 switches, and Cisco 7200 and 7600 routers.
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