Address your toughest data center networking challenges with data center services that span your entire data center infrastructure.

• Assessment Services
• Consolidation Services
• Efficiency Services
• Virtualization Services
• Technical Services
• Optimization Services

Accelerate your success with Cisco Data Center technologies

• Application Networking Services
• Data Center Switching (Nexus)
• Server Networking and Virtualization
• Storage Networking

Assessment Services

Cisco Data Center Assessment Services use an end-to-end architectural framework and best practices to help you identify the gaps in your data center infrastructure and determine what changes are needed.

Cisco Data Center Architecture Assessment Service

Prepare for a variety of data center initiatives by getting help to develop a data center architecture that delivers the performance you need while helping to lower total cost of ownership. The assessment analyzes your data center infrastructure and applications and provides recommendations and a long-term architecture blueprint.

• Service Overview (PDF - 1.25 MB)
• Data Sheet (PDF - 1.33 MB)

Cisco Application Networking Assessment Service

Prepare to optimize the performance and availability of your applications network infrastructure. This assessment evaluates your data center infrastructure and the scalability and availability of your critical applications and network services.

• Data Sheet (PDF - 162 KB)

Cisco Application Profiling Service

Build a holistic understanding of your application dependencies and communication flows to address application issues and deliver better service to your users. The Cisco Application Profiling Service uses automated tools to:

• Discover infrastructure domains
• Map application traffic flow
• Show interdependencies among servers, storage, network devices, and applications

Using this data, the service models your application infrastructures in detail from process to device level, logically and physically.

• Data Sheet (PDF - 223 KB)

Cisco Business Continuance Assessment Service

Understand what you need to do to increase the resiliency of your data centers to be able to quickly recover from disasters. The assessment identifies risks and dependencies, provides remediation recommendations, and outlines a long-term disaster recovery blueprint.

• Data Sheet (PDF - 176 KB)

Cisco Data Center Facilities Assessment Service

Get help to increase the availability, capacity, and life of your data center facilities. Cisco and its certified partners evaluate the physical data center infrastructure, including the overall site, power, cooling, physical security, and operational practices, and make recommendations.

• Data Sheet (PDF - 229 KB)
• Cisco Data Center Facilities Assessment Service (podcast)
  Hear from the experts about the Cisco Data Center Facilities Assessment Service

Cisco SAN Assessment Service

Get help to ensure that your network is ready to support a storage area network solution by assessing the security, resiliency, operation, and readiness of your network infrastructure.

• Data Sheet (PDF - 163 KB)