Cisco Datacenter Solutions ConsultingData centers are the focal point of leveraging IT resources to optimize the business value of an IT network. For small companies, data centers have often evolved in a piecemeal fashion, resulting in a state where servers and disks are deployed inefficiently, available communications capacity is wasted, collaboration and information sharing is minimal, support demands are high, expansion or repurposing is expensive, security is poor, seemingly minor changes turn into giant challenges, and full recovery from disastrous failure is almost undoable. Cisco's most recent connectivity appliances and tools support a new model of data center design that allows continual enhancements in server, storage, connectivity topology, and application technologies in a maintainable and cost-effective way. Progent's engineers can help you to identify and deploy Cisco's connectivity products to create a robust foundation for your data center and to streamline your data center processes in critical areas including:

  • Processor and storage efficiency
  • End-to-end security enforcement
  • Server consolidation
  • Regulatory issues
  • Disaster recovery
The business benefits that can be realized as a result of engaging Progent's network experts to optimize your data center include:
  • Reduced costs: allows IT to significantly reduce acquisition expenses via consolidation and higher use of formerly isolated equipment, lower maintenance costs by streamlining and automating management jobs, and reduce air conditioning and power bills.
  • More Business Flexibility: enables IT management to respond quickly to changing business demands by facilitating rapid provisioning of application and infrastructure services from common aggregations of consolidated server, disk, and network resources. This can streamline operational procedures and support policy-driven control.
  • Better Business Resilience: enables IT management to react to disruptions or attacks by protecting infrastructure, programs, and information with advanced levels of availability, comprehensive security, and business continuance.
  • Improved Service Levels: allows IT to optimize network service levels by providing secure, accelerated access to data center-resident applications and information from any place and at any moment throughout the organization.
Examples of Progent's Consulting Assistance for Cisco-based Data Centers
Progent's certified Cisco experts can provide a broad array of consulting services that can enable businesses of all sizes design a Cisco-powered environment that will give your data center a stable and secure foundation for existing applications and downstream expansion. Professional services include:
  • Designing effective firewall security solutions powered by PIX and ASA firewall products
  • Deploying and troubleshooting secure Virtual Private Network connections for linking data centers to other data centers, business sites, and mobile workers
  • Planning, and integrating resilient fault tolerant switching, routing, and Internet connectivity environments in which single point failures do not disrupt delivery of services
  • Setting up multiple ISPs with transparent transfer using Border Gateway Protocol. Progent can help clients through the entire chain of paperwork with Internet supervisors, having ASN numbers and IP addresses assigned, working with Internet Service Providers to prepare their networks, and configuring and testing customer equipment.
  • Building segmented and protected VLAN architectures to compliment VMware and Microsoft virtual server deployments
  • Planning, deploying and helping clients to manage proactive intrusion prevention systems (IPS) so that assaults can be identified quickly and remediated before they impact productivity
  • Designing, configuring, and troubleshooting load balancing systems. Consulting with clients, Progent can align expressed needs to the best solutions and implement load balancing at the application and server levels, or network infrastructure layer. These designs permit seamless and scalable growth, reliability, security, and fault tolerance.
  • Progent knows how to create effective network management strategies based on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Cisco's Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and a variety of outside vendor products that present network managers a useful look into the operation of their data center's infrastructure
  • Setting up and supporting high-end data center class infrastructure appliances such as the Catalyst 4500 and 6500 Series switches, Nexus 5000, 6000, and 7000 switches, and Cisco 7200 and 12000 family routers.
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