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Assess the resiliency, operation, and readiness of your data center infrastructure with a three-day Cisco® Data Center Quick HealthCheck Assessment.

Determine how to improve utilization, availability, and security while reducing cost and complexity with a quick high-level assessment of one of the following:

• MDS storage (SAN and fiber environment)

• Data center switching

• Server computing

• Virtualization or cloud computing

Organizations are increasingly looking for ways to reduce the cost of storing, processing, and managing data, while the volume of data is growing exponentially. Inflexible and inefficient data center system designs have resulted in very low utilization of resources. Through migration of older environments and consolidation of dispersed storage, servers, and switching islands, a significant improvement in utilization, availability and reduction in complexity can be achieved. The use of infrastructure and data center management best practices can enhance the security, resiliency, and manageability of the data infrastructure.

Cisco Data Center Quick HealthCheck Assessment Service

A high-level review of your existing data center infrastructure can identify gaps, provide actionable steps to help increase reliability and performance, and help provide guidance and strategy to align with the customer’s mission. Whether or not you are adhering to data center best practices, experiencing configuration issues, or predisposed to architectural bottlenecks, the Cisco Data Center Quick HealthCheck Assessment can provide direction and identify high-level approaches to addressing corrective steps.

Interactive discussions about architectural design and environment setup, such as storage, switching, virtualization, infrastructure layout, technologies, environment, and topology, are reviewed to provide help and insight into customer challenges and top data center issues. Cisco will discuss infrastructure topology, feature requirements, operational procedures and challenges, naming standards, and best practices with customers and provide recommendations for improvements. Deliverables of the Cisco Quick HealthCheck Assessment Service include documentation of gaps found, recommended actions that include best practices and options to gain efficiencies and reduce costs, as well as a briefing on the findings. Recommendations will help customers in their future planning efforts, identify immediate gaps and needs with actionable steps, and provide guidance on customer challenges to better enable necessary performance gains, scalability, migration and consolidation plans, and simplified processes.

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Americas HeadquartersCisco Systems, Inc.San Jose, CA

Asia Pacific HeadquartersCisco Systems (USA) Pte. Ltd.Singapore

Europe HeadquartersCisco Systems International BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Cisco has more than 200 offices worldwide. Addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers are listed on the Cisco Website at www.cisco.com/go/offices.

Cisco and Partner ExpertiseCisco will provide a data center expert in one of the specific areas of storage, switching, virtualization and cloud computing, or server computing. Our data center experts use Cisco’s deep experience in data center planning, design, implementation, operation, and optimization for cost and performance. In addition, Cisco uses its intellectual knowledge sets to enable the best solutions, capabilities, and services to its partners and customers. Cisco technology expertise is continually enhanced by hands-on experience with real-life networks and broad exposure to the latest technology and implementations.

Follow-On Services

Cisco has several in-depth follow-on assessment services that address and remediate specific challenges in architecture, storage, server, switching, or operations. Whether you are planning a data center move or consolidation or simply want to reduce costs and improve performance of your existing data center, Cisco can help guide you through the complexities of planning and rollout. Cisco recommends you take advantage of our expertise in SAN planning and design and SAN optimization.

Why Cisco Data Center Services? Today, the data center is a strategic asset in a world that demands better integration among people, information, and ideas. Your business and your data center work better when technology products and services are aligned with your business needs and opportunities. Cisco and our industry-leading partners deliver intelligent, personalized services that accelerate the transformation of your data center. Using a unique, network-based perspective and a unified view of data center assets, Cisco takes an architectural approach to help you efficiently consolidate, virtualize, and manage data center resources. Cisco Data Center Services help transform, optimize, and protect your data center to reduce costs, deliver high availability, and improve application performance.

AvailabilityThe Cisco Data Center Quick HealthCheck Assesment Service is widely available. Contact your local Cisco account manager about availability in your area.

Service Overview