Small businesses migrate from Solaris to MS Windows so they can derive more business advantage from equipment and software. The consequent MS Windows-based systems simplify management, improve the productivity of workers and IT staff, reduce data replication, increase data consistency, and allow for faster rebounds from disaster. A Windows environment lets businesses create solutions quickly and demands less effort to be expended on writing, integrating, and maintaining application software.

Progent can assist you to plan and carry out an efficient move from a Solaris-based network to a MS Windows network for supporting Microsoft's familiar Office software, commercial applications, and software development technology. Progent's skilled Sun Solaris, Windows MCSE, and Cisco CCIE engineers and application experts can help you to save your information and minimize productivity discontinuity by designing and implementing an effective transition strategy that preserves your existing investments in Sun Solaris applications and network equipment. Progent can also help to train your users and network support group so your company remains productive.

Sun Solaris-to-Windows transition support services offered by Progent include:

• Evaluation of Current Environment
  Progent will assist you evaluate the possible advantages and risks of transitioning an OS platform, software application, server, storage system, or database. The process provides a thorough evaluation of your information system, creates a baseline resource inventory, lowers engineering risks, and inevitably leads to a lower cost of migration by conserving time and dodging expensive pitfalls.

• Migration Planning and Testing
  Progent will develop a comprehensive transition deployment plan which may include pilot installations. Progent practices a staged methodology with specified waypoints to meet economic, scheduling, and technical objectives while avoiding business discontinuity. This approach is based on the best industry practices outlined in the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF).

• MS Exchange Migration Services
  Progent can create and execute a comprehensive plan for transitioning from Sun Solaris-powered email to MS Exchange Server 2007 and can assist you to port Lotus Notes or GroupWise applications to a Microsoft SQL application or a Microsoft SharePoint application. Progent's experienced Exchange Server consultants can assess the risks and benefits of transitioning to Exchange Server and create a detailed record of your current messaging infrastructure. Progent can also conduct a test deployment to help validate a Microsoft Exchange migration strategy. Progent will also evaluate your current email protection and propose procedures and products to guard against threats.

• Information and Application Software Porting
  Progent can develop and carry out an information and software application migration strategy that includes definitions of data and applications to be moved, description of technologies and procedures to be utilized for the move, risk assessment and risk mitigation plans, detailed project management support, schedule estimates of the transition and expected network downtime, proof-of-concept processes, and emergency back-out procedures. Progent's migration team can ensure the effectiveness of your information and application transition initiative by providing accredited MS SQL Server engineers and data migration consultants who are experienced with large engagements such as Great Plains migration.

• Processor and Media Transition and Consolidation
  Processor and storage migration and economization from Solaris to Microsoft Windows can simplify IT management, enhance information integrity and accelerate network performance. By removing unneeded equipment and applications and by configuring server and storage resources effectively, you can create an information architecture that is extensible, secure, easy to archive and restore, and inexpensive to manage and maintain. Progent's processor and mass storage migration and consolidation support includes a comprehensive strategy with an inventory of your current processor and storage infrastructure plus recommendations for equipment, applications, services, training, and support for validation piloting. Progent can assist you to develop and implement an efficient, fault-tolerant IT infrastructure informed by in-depth performance analysis and capacity assessment and can specify archiving and disaster recovery 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-based Networks
Progent's UNIX-family support experts provide small companies and product developers help with administering and servicing UNIX, Linux, or Solaris networks that can operate alongside Microsoft-based technology. Progent provides your company access to UNIX technical professionals, authorized Microsoft consultants, Cisco-certified CCIEs, and security experts certified by CISSP and CISM. This broad range of expertise gives your company a convenient one-stop source to assist your business to build and manage a secure and reliable multi-vendor connectivity and communications system that incorporates Microsoft technology with leading versions of UNIX including: Apple Mac OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX OS, HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UNIX), BSD, SCO and SGI/Irix or major Linux platforms such as RedHat Linux, SUSE, Debian GNU/Linux and Slackware.