Budget pressures, increasing emphasis on lowering TCO, and heat, energy, cooling, and space challenges (HECS) are driving many IT organizations to consolidate their applications, servers, storage, and data centers, drawing on a toolbox of emerging technologies like virtualization, application-aware networking, and WAN optimization. At the same time, regulatory requirements and an increasing focus on enterprise-wide risk management have sparked a renewed focus on effective security management and business continuity.

The integrated nature of these solutions creates new challenges. Convergence of the traditional silos of applications, networks, servers, and storage, requires new ways of thinking about traditional data center architectures. New skills are required, and forward-thinking solutions often cross traditional IT domains.

At Firefly, we understand that integrated solutions require an integrative methodology:

• Our solutions are built on best-in-class technologies from Cisco^®, the market leader in integrated, application-aware networking solutions.
• Our Consulting Systems Engineers are cross-domain experts in multiple technologies, including networking, security, applications, and storage.
• They can help you assess your requirements, select the products that will add value to your infrastructure, and design and implement the solution.
• And as a Cisco Learning Solutions Partner, we provide site-specific, lifecycle-based training to ensure that your team is ready for Day 1 and beyond.