Whether you need services that cover the entire data center or specific data center technologies, Cisco offers a broad array of services to meet your needs.

Lifecycle services that cover:

• Application Networking Services
• Storage Networking
• Server Networking and Virtualization
• Cisco Nexus Services

Prepare, Plan, Design and Implement Services

Cisco offers customized services that provide a holistic, architecture-led approach to help you consolidate, virtualize and automate your data center. Delivered by Cisco Advanced Services and our partners, these services provide the end-to-end expertise and resources needed to help you successfully prepare, plan, design and implement a new data center or increase the efficiency of an existing one.

Cisco Application Profiling Service

The Cisco Application Profiling service gives you the information you need to more effectively host and manage applications while preserving performance, security and availability. This service can help create a services-oriented network architecture (SONA) that helps simplify application management. To accomplish this, Cisco identifies application interdependencies, maps business processes to applications, and recommends ways to enhance the application environment architecture.

• Data Sheet (PDF - 330 KB)

Cisco Data Center Consolidation Service

This consolidation service helps you respond quickly to complex business challenges and opportunities with a more efficient and agile data center. Cisco takes a holistic view that considers business requirements, technology, people and IT service management processes and delivers.

• Data Sheet (PDF - 360 KB)

Cisco Data Center Facilities Assessment Service

This facilities assessment service helps you increase the availability, capacity, and life of your data center facility. Cisco and our certified partners evaluate your physical data center infrastructure, including the overall site, power, cooling, physical security, and operational practices and make recommendations.

• Data Sheet (PDF - 229 KB)

Cisco VFrame Data Center Service

With Cisco VFrame Data Center (DC) Service, you can simplify and maximize the potential of your Cisco VFrame Data Center Solution. This solution can help you rapidly commission infrastructure to support new applications, modify your environment to support changing requirements, and respond quickly to disruptions. VFrame DC can also help reduce data center total cost of ownership by creating a shared pool of resources that can be provisioned on demand. Cisco VFrame Data Center Service helps you to successfully adopt VFrame technology and achieve the potential of virtualization to reduce management costs and speed application deployment.

• Data Sheet (PDF - 198 KB)