Business Continuity Consulting Support for

Double-Take Software
Double-Take Software publishes a family of products designed to provide small companies a variety of affordable solutions for backing up and recovering business-critical applications such as Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Blackberry, and SharePoint. Double-Take products work with leading virtual environments including Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware and also support Windows Server clusters to maximize network availability and minimize recovery time in case of a catastrophic failure. Double-Take replication products have earned Microsoft certification for Windows 2000, 2003, and 2008 at every level from Standard through Datacenter editions. Progent’s disaster recovery planning consultants have extensive experience integrating Double-Take technology into small business information networks to achieve a high level of fault tolerance and disaster recovery capability at a budget-friendly price.

Double-Take Backup Software for Continuous Server Backup and On-demand Restoration
Double-Take Backup features continuous, real-time replication to disk, allowing network users to stay online during replication and restoration and eliminating the network downtime associated with scheduled backups. By copying all data changes as soon as they happen, Double-Take Backup prevents data loss that can occur with traditional solutions that rely on scheduled backups or periodic snapshots. Because Double-Take Backup utilizes fast, fault-tolerant disks rather than slow, unreliable tape for storage, replication is transparent to users, restoration is dependable, and recovery time is short.

Double-Take Backup also lets you perform on-demand recoveries to server hardware that is different from the original server, or between virtual and physical servers, giving you flexibility in designing and repurposing your network hardware. To help meet the requirements of your business continuity plan, Double-Take Backup allows you to back up to any remote disaster recovery site. This capability also saves the cost and administrative hassle of backing up branch offices in the field.

Double-Take Availability Software for Real-time Replication to a Remote Disaster Recovery Site
Double-Take Availability allows you to configure failover clusters without shared storage or geographic restrictions. This improves the fault-tolerance of your backup/restore solution by reducing the vulnerability of Windows-based clustering to single-point failure and also gives you the convenience of situating your cluster nodes anywhere.

Double-Take Availability offers a wide variety of data compression options that provide a high level of flexibility in deciding how to allocate your network resources for optimal performance. Double-Take Availability also improves system performance by implementing byte-level asynchronous replication. This reduces the workload on your servers and communications network and ensures that the continuous replication process does not bog down your business applications.

Restoration with Double-Take Availability minimizes the disruption of your operations and maximizes the protection of your data. You are not required to take business applications offline while restoring data. Any changes that users make between the initiation of a restore and the start of failback are replicated to the source.

How Progent Can Help You Benefit from Double-Take Software
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can help you select, install, and maintain a Double-Take Software solution that meets your business needs and stays within your IT budget. Progent's Business Continuity Planning consultants can show you how Double-Take Software can be incorporated in a sensible disaster recovery strategy. Progent can train your IT staff how to manage Double-Take or you can outsource your backup and recovery process to Progent's system administration specialists. Progent's engineers can provide Windows Server 2008 failover clustering help, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V expertise, and VMware Support Services to assist you in integrating Double-Take Software with robust IT environments that are affordable and easy to manage. Progent's CISM, GIAC, CISA and CISSP-certified security engineers can evaluate the security vulnerabilities of your replication and restore solution and can provide recommendations for enhancing all aspects of your network protection.

Other High Availability Solutions Offered by Progent's Experts
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can help you to create a cost-effective, fault-tolerant environment that resolves key problems covering a wide array of infrastructure technologies and processes including:

Workplace Recovery Planning
Progent's disaster recovery planning engineers can show you how to design a business continuity plan that will allow you to restore network functionality in case of an information network disaster. Progent can help you to develop a complete disaster recovery strategy that incorporates periodic disaster recovery evaluations and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also show you how to create an affordable, fault-tolerant network architecture that takes into account availability issues covering a broad range of network technologies and procedures. To learn more, go to Workplace Recovery Consulting and Support Services.

Fault Tolerant Internet Connections
Progent's Cisco-certified network professionals can help you build an affordable, fault tolerant Internet connection architecture that can achieve non-stop Internet access via a wide range of high availability Internet network solutions including fault tolerant BGP, automatic fail-over, and multiple ISPs. Progent can provide CCIE consultants to show you how to utilize the latest technology for fault tolerant Internet access to implement an economical, completely redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other features to deliver fault tolerant Internet availability. To read more, go to Fault Tolerant Internet Access Architecture.

Server Virtualization
Virtualization technology is central to any current disaster recovery solution. Virtual servers can be configured, updated, replicated, and recovered rapidly and simply, offering a level of versatility for ensuring high-availability almost impossible to meet with physical servers. Progent can help you to plan and implement a virtual server solution based on Microsoft Windows Hyper-V, which incorporates powerful business continuity capabilities that include online system backup and live migration. Windows Hyper-V can save much of the time needed for scheduled service, failing over to emergency backup sites, and restoring normal network functions. For additional details, visit Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Virtualization Consulting Services.

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced world-class availability and recoverability to Microsoft's failover clustering platform. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 builds on this foundation and delivers important new and enhanced features that offer more scalability, better storage availability for server applications, simpler management, quicker failover, and more options for designing failover clusters. To learn more, visit Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering Consulting Services.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Clustering
The clustering technology incorporated into the high-end versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 has been dramatically redesigned to streamline the deployment, setup, and maintenance of server clusters that offer greater levels of system availability, security, efficiency, and flexibility. New or improved features include automated cluster verification, easier configuration and installation, improved cluster management, redesigned cluster infrastructure for maximum availability, better security and quorum models, fewer failure points, more disk and memory capacity, and enhancements for multi-site clusters. To read more, see Windows ServerR2 2008 Clustering Expertise.

Fault Tolerant Load Balancing
Progent provides high availability load balancing consulting that addresses system load balancing, load balanced programs, network infrastructure routing, and content dispatching products including Cisco Content Engine. Non-stop load balancing products for which Progent offers consulting services include Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Access Gateway, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Content Engine and Cisco CDN Software, and F5 Networks BIG-IP. To read more, go to High Availability Load Balancing.

High-Availability Colocation
Progent's Data Center professionals can help you identify fault-tolerant data centers that match the particular requirements of your company. High availability co-location sites are particularly attractive to small and mid-size companies due to of their affordability and convenience in comparison to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Attempting to design an on-site data center that offers even a minimum degree of fault tolerance is too costly for most small businesses. Progent is ready to show you how to reap all the advantages of non-stop colocation centers by providing a full range of engineering and maintenance services. To find out more, go to Non-stop Internet Data Centers Expertise.

Failsafe Branch Office Networking
Progent’s branch office network infrastructure professionals can help businesses create fault tolerant inter-site connections via fully redundant system architectures with automatic failover. Progent’s Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers can plan and implement ultra-reliable Inter-office connections supported by zero-downtime EIGRP routers or non-stop OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how redundant connections and automatic fail-over offers economical 24x7 interoffice connectivity. To learn more, go to Failsafe Interoffice Connectivity.

Data Protection Manager Data Recovery Consulting Experts
Progent's certified Data Protection Manager consultants can help your company to create a practical workplace recovery strategy, implement an affordable fault-tolerant network infrastructure, deploy a Microsoft DPM-based backup and restore solution, comprehensively test your DPM system, educate your administrative staff or regular consultants how to manage Microsoft DPM, or provide complete information technology outsourcing such as remote hosting of Microsoft DPM servers in Progent's world-class data center. For more information, visit Data Protection Manager (DPM) Consulting.

Fully Managed Offsite DPM-based Backup Service Package
Progent’s affordable Offsite DPM-based Backup Service Package combines the power of Data Protection Manager with the state-of-the-art security facilities of the Herakles data center to deliver continual, non-disruptive backup for as much as 2.5TB of critical data from one or more of your Windows servers. Progent's service package includes all configuration, management, and monitoring needed for a comprehensive offsite backup solution. To learn more, visit Fully Managed Offsite Data Protection Manager Backup Service Package.

Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting Experts
Progent offers affordable remote support from engineers skilled in a broad array of products and technologies that deliver solutions for protecting Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX servers and workstations plus laptops and handhelds. Progent offers expertise for all major backup platforms such as Acronis, Backup Exec, BackupAssist, HP Data Protector, Double-Take, Mozy, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP), and Solaris FLARs. Progent can assist you to design, upgrade, or maintain backup/restore solutions for a range of architectures such as on-premise, edge to datacenter, cloud, or hybrid. To learn more, see Backup and Restore Solutions Consulting.

CRISC-qualified IT Risk Mitigation
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. For details, visit CRISC-certified IT risk mitigation experts.

Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and offers professional application support for a wide variety of small business software programs, Progent is able to assist clients to find comprehensive IT solutions that maximize the business value of your network. As a Registered Partner for Cisco Systems, Progent can provide the support of qualified engineers and specialists with experience in architecting, deploying and managing networking solutions based on Cisco technology. The broad scope of Progent's IT experience and Progent's appreciation for the requirements of small businesses make Progent the ideal resource for building and maintaining a cost-effective, fault-tolerant information system.

How to Access Progent's Consultants for Business Continuity Solutions Support
If you wish to contact Progent about professional support for disaster recovery planning, phone 1-800-993-9400 or email fault-tolerant-help@progent.com.