Cisco Datacenter Solutions HelpData centers are the key to utilizing IT resources to optimize the business value of an IT network. For small companies, data centers have typically evolved in a haphazard fashion, creating a state where servers and disks are underutilized, available communications bandwidth is wasted, teamwork and information sharing is limited, maintenance requirements are excessive, scaling or reconfiguring is expensive, security is poor, seemingly simple modifications become major hassles, and complete recovery from disastrous failure becomes almost undoable. Cisco's most recent networking appliances and tools support a new generation of data center design that permits ongoing enhancements in server, storage, network infrastructure, and application technologies in a maintainable and cost-effective way. Progent's Cisco-certified professionals can assist you to identify and implement Cisco's network products to create a robust basis for your data center and to improve your operations in vital areas such as:

  • Server and disk efficiency
  • Comprehensive security enforcement
  • Processor consolidation
  • Regulatory requirements
  • Disaster recovery
The key benefits that can be realized from using Progent's Cisco-certified consultants to optimize your data center include:
  • Lower ownership cost: permits IT management to significantly cut capital costs through integration and more efficient utilization of previously isolated network resources, lower operational costs by simplifying and automating management jobs, and reduce cooling and power bills.
  • Greater Business Flexibility: enables IT to react dynamically to changing business conditions by allowing fast deployment of application and infrastructure functions from shared aggregations of consolidated server, disk, and connectivity resources. This helps streamline administrative processes and support policy-based management.
  • Enhanced Network Resilience: allows IT management to react to disruptions or intrusions by safeguarding connections, applications, and information with the highest degrees of availability, pervasive protection, and business continuance.
  • Improved Service Levels: enables IT to optimize network service levels by providing safe, fast connectivity to data center-hosted applications and data from any place and at any time throughout the organization.
Examples of Progent's Professional Help for Cisco-based Data Centers
Progent's network experts can provide a wide array of services that can help companies of any size design a Cisco-based environment that will offer your data center a stable and protected foundation for existing applications and future growth. Progent's consulting services include:
  • Building effective firewall protection configurations based on Cisco PIX and ASA firewall appliances
  • Deploying and supporting secure Virtual Private Network access for connecting data centers to other data centers, business offices, and mobile users
  • Designing, and implementing complete zero-downtime switching, routing, and Internet access environments in which single point breakdowns do not disrupt delivery of services
  • Configuring multiple Internet providers with transparent failover based on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Progent can help customers through the entire path of interaction with Internet supervisors, having Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses allotted, dealing with ISP carriers to set up their networks, and configuring and checking customer devices.
  • Implementing segmented and protected virtual LAN architectures to support VMware virtual server systems
  • Designing, installing and helping customers to manage proactive IPS systems so that assaults can be identified quickly and defeated before they disrupt productivity
  • Planning, setting up, and troubleshooting load balancing systems. Consulting with clients, Progent can map expressed needs to the best technology and implement load balancing at the application and server levels, or connectivity infrastructure layer. Progent's load balancing solutions allow for seamless and convenient growth, reliability, performance, and redundancy.
  • Progent knows how to create effective network management strategies using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Cisco's Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and various outside vendor solutions that allow customers a useful look into the health of their data center's network
  • Configuring and supporting high-end data center class infrastructure appliances including the Cisco Catalyst 4500, 6500, and 6800 Series switches, Nexus 5000 and 7000 switches, and Cisco 7600 and 12000 Series routers.
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