It has recently and successfully concluded one such event where its customers got together to understand what is best for them and their systems.
The cocktail was organized at the Marasi meeting room, Jumeriah Beach Hotel on the 10th of November. It started off with an introduction to Cisco UCS technology by Mr. Sharif Kotb of Cisco. He explained how Cisco UCS can help businesses from fluctuating. Cisco UCS Director can help keep up with this rapidly changing phase. Effectively replacing manual data center provisioning with automated workflows to increase IT consistency and speed. Furthering businesses to respond quickly to new business opportunities. Thus, helping increase the business agility and its operational ability.

He went to explain how with the UCS Director one can find improved consistency, efficiency, and speed within the organization by replacing time-consuming, manual provisioning and de-provisioning of data center resources with automated workflows, eventually reducing delivery time from weeks to minutes.
He detailed that with Cisco UCS, you can innovate and accelerate all at once with applications that thrive. Tuning the environment to support the unique needs of each application while powering all the server workloads on a centrally managed, highly scalable systems with the help of Cisco from Prologix.
Superior IaaS Management is also possible with the UCS. It calls for Unified infrastructure provisioning and management that delivers superior infrastructure as a service (IaaS) management capabilities with unseen benefits. It provides out-of-box task library that spans hardware solutions to build your infrastructure in minutes. Including the reduction of complexity with workflows that span computing, network, storage, and virtualization functions.

This was followed by a shorter introduction to Cisco Meraki and its amazing uses. Mr. Ali Javed elaborated on the Meraki features including latest cloud managing capabilities. He provided insights into only end-to-end cloud managed service in market that resulted in the biggest product acquisition for the company.
The Meraki architecture provides simple management of network for the customers by providing a simple access point. It has moved the controller on to the cloud, making it a part of the enterprise portfolio. Meraki is a completely cloud managed solution. It includes wireless, switching, security, WAN optimization & MDM centrally managed over the web.
He explained how this provides integrated mobile device management solutions to over 1 billion iOS & android devices worldwide. It enables layer 7 application shaping of HD video and rich media. Providing new business opportunity for analytics and user engagement. Relatively simple to implement with no extra hardware or software complexity. BYOD (bring your own device) is another major feature supported by Meraki as it provides complete safety and security features. During excessive bandwidth consumption, it also makes network engineers understand which applications using more bandwidth than specified. Thus, bringing down the applications with unnecessary bandwidth consumption.
Mr. Shaheen Niloufer followed this up with a brief explanation of the Cisco Services. About the advantages of the integration of the UCS and Meraki solutions to speed up IT operations and create the modern technological foundations one needs for upgrading to features of private cloud, big data, and desktop virtualization. Emphasizing on how it enables centralized automation of your physical and virtual resources, helping you take full advantage of your open ecosystem approach. This was followed by an effective and impactful closure by Mr. D.K Roy from the Prologix team, briefing specialized initiatives by the organization to implement the same.
About Prologix:
Prologix LLC is a trusted ISO 9001:2008 Certified IT System Integrator in the Middle East & Africa. Founded in 1998 by a team of keen individuals with an extraordinarily flawless vision of the future, Prologix is a master provider of a wide range of IT Business Solutions, Management Solutions and Managed Services to cater to the ever-changing IT and business needs of the region. With the most complete portfolio in the industry, under a single hallmark.
Prologix offers Data storage management, Infrastructure, Security, Storage, Test and Measurement, Telecom, Wireless, Software and Web Solutions among others maintains strong emphasis on technologies and solutions which are tailored to key verticals like finance & banking, government, oil & gas, healthcare, hospitality, education, aviation among others. The company regularly identifies and introduces to the market, technology solutions which help meet the specific IT needs of the region.
Over the years, the company has emerged as a strong and certified channel partner for global giants like Avaya, HP, Microsoft, Sonic Wall, IBM and many others. The company’s operation has successfully extended beyond Middle East into the African countries and the Asian subcontinent.