High-Availability Computer Support for Small Company Computer Networks: Microsoft Windows Cluster Server Solutions
Progent offers Microsoft Windows Cluster Server assistance to help your business utilize non-stop clustered servers that can provide 100% operation. Windows cluster servers for non-stop systems include Windows Cluster Server, Microsoft SQL Cluster Server, and Microsoft Exchange Server Cluster. By showing you how too build non-stop server clustering solutions powered by Microsoft Windows Clustered Server 2003, Progent’s qualified Windows experts ensure that your fault-tolerant clustered servers are configured to maximize the strategic advantage of your computer system.
Server proliferation puts pressure on IT budgets and management resources. Server consolidation via a virtual architecture promises lower total cost of ownership of servers and faster ROI, more efficient use of servers, simplified operations, enhanced network uptime, and easier management. Typical uses for virtual machines are hardware consolidation, low-cost hosts for mission-critical legacy applications running on obsolete operating systems, and affordable isolation of software development or evaluation systems from on-line systems.
Progent's Experts Group offers support in key areas including Macintosh integration and applications; Expertise for Linux, UNIX-based, and Sun Solaris environments; Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM consulting; Line-of-business and vertical program help; Chief Information Officer, management information analyst, and project management outsourcing; Special applications development and integration; Web site, eCommerce, EDI, and customer portal design and integration; SQL support and efficiency consulting; Management information consulting; and Telecom architecture support.
Progent provides nationwide remote phone support and consulting services for companies who operate Apple Mac OS X environments or whose IT systems feature a mix of Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows products. Remote technical support provides maximum leverage for your information technology dollar by extending client productivity and limiting the time billed for network repair services. Sophisticated remote access utilities and experienced service specialists and engineers combine to enable Progent to handle the majority of IT problems without wasting time and money by traveling to your location. In most of situations your network issues can be dealt with by telephone or via a combination of telephone support and remote connectivity. Progent can make available Cisco certified CCIE network engineers and CISA and CISM certified security professionals to assist you with the most challenging system issues.
Progent's high availability consulting services for small company IT systems offer Microsoft and Cisco-certified network experts who can help you deploy clustered servers to create a fault-tolerant network that incorporates key technologies and activities for line-of-business applications. Progent’s high-availability network experts can help you create non-stop IT systems by planning and integrating the expanding suite of Microsoft Windows Cluster servers. Clustered Windows servers for high-availability systems include Microsoft Windows 2003 Cluster Server, SQL Server Cluster, and Microsoft Exchange Cluster. By helping you create your fault-tolerant network around Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Cluster, Progent’s consulting experts can help configure a network infrastructure with features such as fault tolerant Internet access, network load balancing, non-stop data center planning, high-availability interoffice connections, high-reliability multi-location systems, and fault-tolerant disaster recovery.
Progent offers a variety of network service bundles for small organizations. These IT outsourcing and network monitoring services are based on the anticipatory problem handling capabilities of Microsoft Operations Manager, a next-generation network and IT management product that monitors the availability, throughput, and safety of your information system and isolates potential problems before they can disrupt your system. With Progent's economically priced IT support packages, small companies can choose a basic MOM-based co-sourcing service program with network monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and remote service or a comprehensive round-the-clock outsourcing package.
Progent delivered a wireless networking environment that enabled a school to improve productivity and eliminate the ongoing costs of a dedicated wireline connection. Progent proposed a Proxim Tsunami wireless 60Mbps bridge. The low-cost building-to-building Proxim bridge is intended for connecting separate locations up to 2.5 miles apart and can extend to even greater ranges. This wireless alternative offered improved performance and dependability than recourse to amplifying the 802.11b wireless connection, and because it uses the 5.8Ghz band it offered immunity to local interference.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide network help and IT consulting services for Microsoft .NET Servers and programs and for Windows Server 2003. Progent’s consulting team can help you design, deploy, maintain and administer the entire suite of Windows .NET Servers including Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft ISA Server 20066, Biztalk Server, Microsoft Commerce Server, Microsoft Content Management Server, Small Business Server, Exchange Server, Application Center, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, SharePoint Services, Virtual Server, Microsoft Project Server, and System Center Operations Manager 2007 and MOM 2005.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have 18 years of background providing e-mail, electronic messaging and telecommunications/email integration solutions for Bay Area businesses. Progent offers economical Microsoft Exchange Server consulting services to strengthen email security and virus protection, provide fault tolerant email, and facilitate remote and wireless email access. Progent’s Microsoft Exchange consulting and support services can assist you in designing and implementing a Microsoft Exchange upgrade or a migration from a legacy SMPT server or older Microsoft Email product such as Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange Server 2000. Progent also offers Windows XP and Vista desktop email consulting for Exchange and Outlook and can help you configure Outlook 2003, Outlook 2000, Microsoft Outlook XP, and Outlook Web Access. For email virus defense and spam filtering, Progent offers expertise with Postini managed services and Trend Micro software. Progent is also an authorized Postini Managed Service Provider (Postini MSP). As a Postini reseller, Progent can help small organizations benefit from Postini’s advanced spam blocking solutions.
Progent's disaster recovery planning and business continuity consultants can help you design a disaster recovery strategy to prepare for an IT system disaster. Progent can help you create a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that incorporates periodic disaster recovery evaluations and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also help you create an affordable, non-stop network solution that addresses reliability issues involving a broad array of infrastructure technologies and procedures.
When performing IT projects for enterprise customers, Progent follows a phased approach driven by defined milestones so as to achieve budgetary, timing and engineering goals while minimizing business disruption. Progent's Enterprise Services Methodology follows industry project management procedures derived from the best practices described by the Microsoft Solutions Framework Project methodology which specifies requirements definition, architecture proposals, test models, design tuning, and expert deployment. All facets are documented to make available a detailed summary of IT services delivered and to assist in downstream system maintenance.
Network monitoring commonly involves tracking a network’s resource utilization in order to identify throughput backups or fix hardware or program problems. Nagios and Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) are useful, free monitoring tools that work under Linux or UNIX and can be used to observe multi-OS networks where Linux and Windows coexist. Progent's network integration engineers can show you how to take advantage of both these programs to optimize and troubleshoot your network. Progent's UNIX support professionals offer small businesses and programmers help with managing and supporting UNIX/Linux and Solaris systems that work with Microsoft-based technology.
Progent's Linux support services offer small companies and software developers help with managing and maintaining Linux computers that run with Microsoft-powered technology. Progent can give your business contact with Linux experts, support professionals qualified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISA and CISSP credentials. This broad array of experience provides you with a convenient one-stop source to help you build and manage a protected and reliable mixed-platform connectivity and communications infrastructure that supports Linux and Microsoft coexistence by combining Microsoft Windows with major Linux variations including RedHat Linux, SUSE Linux, Mandrake, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Progent believes that a well architected and implemented network can be a vital piece for enabling a firm's growth, and Progent follows this belief in our corporate network infrastructure. We have built a non-stop virtual office infrastructure that enables our in-house consultants and certified contractors to offer rapid and efficient service, collaborate closely on complex projects, and gain from career and private growth from being a member of a dynamic business ethos of personal drive and freedom.
Progent provides the services of Microsoft and Cisco-certified IT consulting experts to offer customers economical alternatives to help businesses maximize the benefits of Microsoft and Cisco products. For networks that range from remote offices to nationwide corporations, Progent's expert consultants can help you enhance your network's e-mail infrastructure, protection, reliability, throughput, and system administration.
