Cisco Datacenter Solutions HelpData centers are the focal point of utilizing information technology resources to optimize the competitive value of an IT network. For small companies, data centers have typically grown in a haphazard manner, creating a situation where processors and storage devices are underutilized, usable communications capacity is wasted, teamwork and knowledge sharing is limited, maintenance demands are excessive, expansion or reconfiguring is costly, protection is patchy, nominally minor modifications turn into major challenges, and complete recovery from disastrous breakdowns is almost impossible. Cisco's latest network products and tools support a new generation of data center architecture that allows continual improvements in processor, storage, network topology, and applications in a manageable and cost-effective way. Progent's Cisco-certified professionals can help you to identify and implement Cisco's network products to build a robust foundation for your data center and to improve your data center operations in critical areas including:

  • Processor and storage efficiency
  • Comprehensive security enforcement
  • Processor proliferation
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Disaster recovery
The important benefits that can be realized from using Progent's Cisco-certified consultants to enhance your data center include:
  • Reduced ownership cost: permits IT to substantially lower acquisition costs via integration and higher utilization of formerly separate network resources, slash maintenance costs by simplifying and automating management tasks, and cut air conditioning and power costs.
  • Greater Business Flexibility: permits IT to respond dynamically to changing business conditions by facilitating rapid provisioning of application and infrastructure services from shared pools of integrated server, storage, and connectivity resources. This helps improve operational procedures and enable policy-based control.
  • Better Business Robustness: enables IT to defend against breakdowns or intrusions by safeguarding infrastructure, programs, and information with the highest degrees of availability, comprehensive protection, and disaster recovery.
  • Optimized Service Levels: enables IT to improve business service levels by providing secure, fast access to data center-resident applications and information from any location and at any moment throughout the organization.
Samples of Progent's Professional Assistance for Cisco-powered Data Centers
Progent's certified Cisco consultants offer a broad array of services that can help organizations of any size build a Cisco-based architecture that will offer your data center a stable and secure foundation for existing applications and future expansion. Consulting services include:
  • Building efficient firewall security configurations based on Cisco PIX and ASA firewall devices
  • Installing and troubleshooting secure Virtual Private Network access for linking data centers to other data centers, business sites, and mobile workers
  • Designing, and implementing resilient fault tolerant LAN and Internet connectivity systems in which single component failures do not disrupt delivery of services
  • Setting up multiple Internet providers with seamless transfer based on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Progent can help clients along the entire path of interaction with Internet authorities, having ASN numbers and IP addresses assigned, dealing with ISP carriers to set up their systems, and configuring and checking client devices.
  • Implementing segmented and secure virtual LAN (VLAN architectures to compliment VMware and Microsoft virtual server systems
  • Planning, installing and helping clients to manage proactive IPS systems so that attacks can be detected quickly and remediated before they impact your business
  • Designing, configuring, and supporting load balancing solutions. Working with customers, Progent can map expressed needs to the most sensible solutions and deploy load balancing at the application and server levels, or connectivity infrastructure layer. These designs allow for transparent and convenient growth, dependability, security, and redundancy.
  • Progent knows how to design efficient network management solutions based on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Cisco's open Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and CiscoWorks and a variety of outside vendor products that present network managers a useful real-time view into the activity of their data center's infrastructure
  • Setting up and supporting advanced data center capable infrastructure appliances such as the Catalyst 4500, 6500, and 6800 switches, Nexus 6000 and 7000 family switches, and Cisco 7200, 7600, and 12000 routers.
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