Cisco Datacenter Management ConsultantsData centers are the focal point of leveraging information technology resources to maximize the competitive value of an information system. For small organizations, data centers have often grown in a piecemeal fashion, creating a situation where processors and storage devices are deployed inefficiently, usable communications bandwidth is wasted, collaboration and information sharing is limited, support requirements are high, scaling or reconfiguring is expensive, security is patchy, nominally minor changes turn into giant challenges, and full recovery from disastrous breakdowns is almost impossible. Cisco's latest networking devices and technologies enable a new generation of data center design that allows continual improvements in processor, storage, network infrastructure, and application technologies in a manageable and economical way. Progent's consultants can help you to select and deploy Cisco's network products to build a solid foundation for your data center and to improve your operations in critical areas such as:

  • Server and storage efficiency
  • End-to-end security enforcement
  • Processor consolidation
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Disaster recovery
The important benefits that can be realized as a result of using Progent's Cisco-certified experts to optimize your data center include:
  • Reduced ownership cost: permits IT management to significantly cut capital costs via integration and higher utilization of previously separate equipment, slash maintenance costs by simplifying and automating administrative jobs, and cut HVAC and energy costs.
  • Greater Business Flexibility: enables IT management to react dynamically to changing business demands by allowing rapid provisioning of application and network functions from common pools of consolidated server, disk, and connectivity technologies. This helps improve operational processes and enable policy-driven control.
  • Enhanced Business Robustness: allows IT management to defend against breakdowns or intrusions by safeguarding infrastructure, programs, and data through advanced levels of fault tolerance, pervasive protection, and business continuance.
  • Optimized Service Levels: enables IT management to improve network service levels by implementing secure, fast access to data center-hosted applications and information from any place and at any moment across the organization.
Samples of Progent's Consulting Assistance for Cisco-based Data Centers
Progent's network experts can provide a broad array of services that can help businesses of all sizes build a Cisco-powered infrastructure that will give your data center a reliable and secure basis for current applications and future growth. Progent's consulting services feature:
  • Designing efficient firewall protection solutions based on Cisco PIX and ASA firewall technology
  • Installing and supporting secure VPN connections for linking data centers to other data centers, business sites, and mobile users
  • Planning, and integrating resilient fault tolerant switching, routing, and Internet access systems in which single point failures do not disrupt operation of the network
  • Setting up multiple Internet providers with transparent failover using Border Gateway Protocol. Progent can guide customers through the complete path of interaction with Internet supervisors, having ASN numbers and IP addresses assigned, working with ISPs to prepare their systems, and configuring and testing client devices.
  • Implementing segmented and protected virtual LAN environments to support VMware and Microsoft virtual server systems
  • Designing, deploying and assisting customers to administer 24x7 intrusion prevention systems (IPS) so that attacks can be detected quickly and defeated before they disrupt productivity
  • Designing, configuring, and troubleshooting load balancing systems. Consulting with clients, Progent can align expressed needs to the most sensible technology and implement load balancing at the application and server levels, or connectivity infrastructure layer. Such solutions allow for seamless and scalable expansion, reliability, performance, and redundancy.
  • Progent can design affordable network management strategies using SNMP and Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and CiscoWorks and a variety of outside vendor products that offer network managers a useful real-time view into the operation of their data center's infrastructure
  • Configuring and troubleshooting high-end data center class infrastructure appliances including the Catalyst 6500 and 6800 Series switches, Nexus 5000, 6000, and 7000 family switches, and Cisco 7200, 7600, and 12000 routers.
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