Small businesses move from Solaris to Microsoft Windows in order to derive more competitive advantage from hardware and applications. The resulting Windows-powered systems simplify management, enhance the productivity of workers and network support staff, minimize information replication, increase information integrity, and allow for smoother rebounds from catastrophic failure. A Windows system helps businesses create solutions rapidly and demands less time to be expended on writing, deploying, and managing application software.
Progent can assist you to design and carry out a smooth move from a Sun Solaris-based network to a MS Windows environment capable of supporting Microsoft's popular office productivity suite, business software applications, and developer technology. Progent's skilled Solaris, Windows MCSE, and Cisco CCIE engineers and application specialists can help you to save your information and reduce business discontinuity by designing and executing an economical transition plan that protects your existing expenses for Sun Solaris software and infrastructure. Progent can also assist to educate your users and network support staff so your business stays productive.
Solaris-to-Windows migration consulting expertise available from Progent include:
- Evaluation of Existing Infrastructure
Progent will assist you understand the potential advantages and risks of transitioning an operating system, software application, server, storage subsystem, or information base. The exercise provides a thorough assessment of your information system, establishes a basic resource inventory, reduces technical uncertainties, and inevitably results in a lower cost of migration by conserving time and avoiding costly pitfalls.
- Migration Strategy and Testing
Progent will create a comprehensive transition deployment plan which may feature pilot tests. Progent practices a phased methodology with defined milestones to comply with economic, timing, and technical goals while avoiding productivity discontinuity. This approach is modeled after the best practices outlined in the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF).
- MS Exchange Migration Services
Progent can produce and execute a comprehensive strategy for transitioning from Solaris-based messaging to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and can assist you to port Notes or GroupWise software applications to a MS SQL application or a Microsoft SharePoint application. Progent's expert Microsoft Exchange Server consultants can evaluate the costs and benefits of transitioning to Exchange and generate a comprehensive inventory of your existing messaging system. Progent can also manage a proof-of-concept deployment to confirm an MS Exchange migration plan. Progent will also audit your existing email protection and recommend polices and tools to protect against attacks.
- Information and Application Transition
Progent can design and implement a data and software application transition plan that incorporates descriptions of data and software applications to be moved, identification of technologies and procedures to be utilized for the move, risk assessment and risk mitigation strategies, detailed project management services, schedule estimates of the transition and anticipated operational downtime, proof-of-concept processes, and critical back-out plans. Progent's consultants can promote the success of your data and software application migration initiative by providing certified Microsoft SQL Server experts and data migration professionals who are veterans of large engagements such as Great Plains migration.
- Server and Media Migration and Streamlining
Processor and storage transition and economization from Sun Solaris to Microsoft Windows can simplify IT management, improve data consistencyy and accelerate network performance. By eliminating unnecessary hardware and software and by deploying processor and storage resources effectively, you can create an IT infrastructure that is expandable, secure, simple to backup and restore, and affordable to administer and maintain. Progent's server and storage migration and consolidation support includes a detailed strategy with an assessment of your current server and mass storage infrastructure plus recommendations for hardware, software, services, training, and consulting for validation piloting. Progent can help you to develop and implement a consolidated, fault-tolerant network architecture informed by in-depth load analysis and capacity assessment and can specify backup and restore solutions.
If you are looking for technical assistance migrating from Sun Solaris system to Microsoft Windows, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or e-mail Progent at solaris-help@progent.com.
Progent's Help for UNIX-family Environments
Progent's UNIX-family support experts offer small companies and developers help with administering and maintaining UNIX-based networks that may operate alongside Microsoft-based environments. Progent offers your organization contact with UNIX support professionals, authorized Microsoft consultants, Cisco-certified CCIEs, and security specialists certified by CISM. This wide range of knowledge offers your company a convenient one-stop resource to help your business to build and maintain a protected and reliable cross-platform connectivity and communications infrastructure that combines Windows with leading derivatives of UNIX including:
Mac OS X,
Solaris,
IBM AIX,
HP-UX,
BSD,
SCO UNIX and
SGI/Irix or important Linux variants such as
RedHat,
SUSE Linux,
Debian GNU/Linux and
CentOS,
Ubuntu Linux,
Mandriva Linux,
PCLlinuxOS Linux,
fedora Linux, and
Gentoo Linux.
