Cloud Integration Expertise
Amazon Web Services Hybrid Cloud Solutions:
Integration and Troubleshooting Support for Amazon AWS
Progent offers fast and affordable support from cloud connectivity consultants to assist your business to design, implement, manage, and debug hybrid information networks that combine Amazon AWS cloud-based products and services with on-premises resources as well as with other public clouds like Microsoft Azure.
Progent's experts can help you evaluate the advantages and weaknesses of Amazon AWS cloud services compared to other providers, move applications to Amazon AWS, develop disaster recovery strategies that utilize Amazon AWS cloud storage services, and troubleshoot firewall and VPN connectivity issues. Progent offers help from Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants to show you how to build a resilient network architecture so your clients have a consistent computing environment regardless of whether they are working from your main office, a remote site, at home, or in transit.
Amazon is a pioneer in the public cloud arena and is the world's leading provider of public cloud computing services. Amazon AWS offers a broad range of cloud-based services including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for as-needed compute power for virtual servers, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for dynamically scalable low-latency storage, and Amazon Glacier for economical extended backup. These Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions allow businesses of all sizes to move some or all of their IT infrastructure to the Amazon cloud, using a pay-for-use approach to minimize capital costs while simplifying management overhead and slashing the time required to roll out new apps.
Hybrid Cloud Solutions
For the majority of businesses, utilizing public cloud products and services is a given. The only question is how to find the proper trade-off between cloud and on-premises resources. Many organizations run legacy mission-critical apps which are tricky to adapt to a cloud environment. Performance-sensitive OLTP database applications may call for on-premises systems to provided the highest possible throughput. In addition, corporate culture or government regulations may require more control over key types of data than is possible with public clouds. Consequently, hybrid architectures, which combine on-premises and cloud-based resources, are often selected as the best solution.
To complicate things further, Amazon AWS competes with other providers of public cloud services including Microsoft, whose Azure offerings include Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) options and also a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model optimized for Windows-based applications. Essentially, careful evaluation is needed for any organization to select the appropriate cloud solution.
Progent's seasoned system architects can assist you to define and configure a hybrid cloud strategy that includes Amazon AWS in a way that maximizes business value. Progent can assist you with every phase of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including requirements analysis, preparedness assessment, architectural design and review, testing, configuration, administration, performance optimization, software license management, disaster recovery solutions, and security strategies. Progent can provide advanced expertise with firewalls and VPN connections and can show you how to deploy all-cloud or hybrid cloud networking models that efficiently integrate Amazon AWS resources. Progent can provide as-needed expertise or deliver comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing services to help you move smoothly to the Amazon AWS platform.
Popular Amazon AWS Cloud Services
The Amazon AWS line of cloud-based products includes more than 70 infrastructure options that address computing, storage, databases, networking, mobility, software development, management, IoT, and security, Amazon AWS services popular with organizations of all sizes and for which Progent provides comprehensive expertise include:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or Amazon EC2, is a virtual server hosting service that allows you to configure, expand, and manage cloud-based virtual machines, referred to as EC2 instances. You can deploy any quantity of instances and you are charged just for the capacity you actually use. You can control the server as well as cluster-level features of a range of OS platforms, deploy your hosted applications, and control network access rights. You also administer your company's own software licenses under Amazon's Bring Your Own License (BYOL) policy. You can utilize an Amazon Machine Image template and deploy a virtual server instantly or you can build your own AMI that incorporates your applications, libraries, data, and configurations. Amazon EC2 can expand or release compute resources on demand to accommodate up or down spikes in workloads, eliminating the need for sophisticated capacity management. You also can request multiple host sites for high availability and you can request fixed IP endpoints to work with your application environment.
Amazon Simple Storage Service, or Amazon S3, is a cloud storage product that offers high-performance storage for any amount of data. Amazon S3 scales dynamically and you are billed only for the capacity you consume. Amazon S3 is often implemented as remote storage for data protection but is also suited for high-use applications, most notably Amazon's giant commercial web site. Amazon S3's web service interface supports multiple storage types intended for various use cases. These include Amazon S3 Standard for storage of primary data, Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access for persistent but less frequently accessed data, and Amazon Glacier for long-term archives. You can also define custom lifecycle parameters so your S3 data automatically and seamlessly migrates to a different storage class without forcing you to make modifications to your applications. Amazon S3 cloud storage can be used with Amazon EC2 or as an independent cloud service.
Amazon Glacier is a cloud storage service intended to offer low-cost data archiving and long-term backup for data that is infrequently accessed. Glacier does not offer the performance of Amazon S3 storage and is not suitable for online applications. Although restore time is glacially slow and can take hours, storage costs are lower than one cent per gigabyte each month, which is less expensive than local storage. Also, you can cut overall storage expense by defining lifecycle rules to move groups of Amazon S3 objects automatically to Amazon Glacier. Amazon Glacier can also assist businesses to comply with regulatory requirements for data retention by offering ultra-reliable offsite archiving with features that include periodic, systematic data integrity audits and automatic self-healing functions.
How Progent's Experts Can Help You with Amazon AWS Services
If you intend to integrate Amazon's AWS cloud services into your business using either a fully cloud-based or a hybrid cloud/on-premises model, Progent can help you assess the business benefits of the Amazon AWS cloud platform vs. competing cloud products. Progent can provide expertise for every facet of your cloud integration migration including preparedness assessment, solution design, validation testing, configuration, administration, performance tuning, software license management, and disaster recovery planning. Progent also offers access to certified cybersecurity experts to ensure. make sure your system is safe and compliant with applicable regulations.
Progent can assist you to identify which of your critical applications are appropriate for Amazon AWS and help you upgrade legacy or custom applications so they can be moved to the Amazon AWS cloud. Progent can provide economical online and onsite consulting to help you resolve stubborn technical bottlenecks, or Progent can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to make sure you execute your cloud integration project on time and within budget.
A typical technical issue encountered while integrating your network with Amazon AWS, or with any public cloud platform, is configuring secure access for different devices located either within or outside your corporate firewall. Progent offers the skills of Cisco-certified CCIE network consultant or firewall configuration consultants certified by Symantec, Barracuda, SonicWall, Check Point and others to show you how to deploy and manage firewalls for accessing Amazon AWS services. Progent also offers the support of iPhone and iPad technology consultants and Android configuration consultants to assist you to connect mobile endpoints for your Amazon AWS solution.
Some examples of online integration support offered by Progent to help companies interface with the Amazon AWS cloud include:
- Plan or review the solution design for hybrid environments that incorporate Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service
- Set up and troubleshoot VPN connections to AWS
- Install Cisco AnyConnect and Symantec AWS Gateway Service
- Deploy and debug firewalls from Barracuda, Cisco, WatchGuard, Check Point and others
- Plan, implement, and validate disaster recovery solutions based on Amazon S3 storage
- Create and verify Amazon Machine Images for Windows or Linux VMs and applications
- Set up Java tools for Amazon Machine Images
- Specify, configure and test security policies
- Resolve dynamic and static IP problems
- Troubleshoot DNS and load balancing problems
- Set up NATs for datacenters and remote sites
- Generate PHP routines for signing AWS requests
- Build Active Directory service instances for Amazon EC2
- Help with Amazon SQS service
If you need advanced help with any aspect of integrating your information system with Amazon AWS cloud services, call Progent at
Other Cloud Integration Services Available from Progent
Progent offers expertise in all major public clouds and can provide quick remote access to a public cloud integration specialist. Popular public cloud platforms and products supported by Progent include:
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is a library of APIs that enables Amazon sellers to improve the efficiency of their business processes by automating key sales activities such as listings, orders, payments, inbound and outbound fulfillment, and reports. By leveraging Amazon's vast online ecosystem and automating their sales processes, merchants can broaden their reach, lower their operating costs, improve reaction time to customers, and increase their profits. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service consultants can work with your development team and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and mentoring so you can shorten development time and costs and expedite your ROI.
Progent's Microsoft Azure cloud planning and integration consultants can assist you with every phase of Azure cloud migration such as requirements analysis, readiness assessment, system architecture, pilot testing, implementation, automated management, performance tuning, software license controls, disaster recovery preparedness, security policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance assessment. Progent can assist you to set up and debug firewall appliances and VPN connections so that your users can securely access to Azure-based services, and Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can assist you integrate key Microsoft platforms to work in the cloud including Microsoft Windows Server, Exchange, SQL and Skype for Business. Progent can also assist your organization to set up a hybrid ecosystem that transparently integrates physical datacenters with Azure-based services.
Microsoft has made a strong effort to enable seamless hybrid ecosystems that integrate Microsoft 365 and on-premises installations of Exchange. This allows you to have specific mailboxes located on your corporate datacenter or private cloud and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's certified Exchange consultants can help your organization with any phase of designing, implementing and debugging your hybrid Microsoft 365/Exchange solution. Progent's Exchange specialists can deliver as-needed expertise to help you through stubborn technical issues and also can provide extensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to make sure your hybrid Exchange solution is completed on time and within budget. To learn more about Progent's online consulting expertise for hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange and on-premises Exchange environments, go to Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange.
Progent's certified Office and Microsoft 365 experts can help companies of any size to integrate Microsoft Office desktop and Microsoft 365 applications such as Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Access, Project and Publisher into a seamless productivity solution that offers quick return on investment and promotes improved business outcomes. Progent can help your company to interface Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365 apps with each other and with additional core Microsoft technologies including SharePoint Server, Exchange Server and SQL Server running locally or hosted in the cloud. Progent can also assist you to fix compatibility problems between various versions of Microsoft Office desktop and offers live online Office and Microsoft 365 instruction to individual users or groups.
Progent's Google Cloud Platform integration experts can provide affordable remote and on-premises consulting to assist organizations to migrate any part of their core network infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This can save time and equipment costs and enable access to Google's state-of-the-art machine learning tools. Progent can assist your IT team with every aspect of Google Cloud Platform migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, readiness evaluation, architectural design, pilot testing, deployment, administration, performance optimization, licensing management, backup/restore solutions, and security and compliance.
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Firepower Management Center Specialists
The current Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services provide substantially more performance than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for new installations. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can assist you to manage your legacy PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances or migrate to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also assist you to plan, deploy, tune, manage and troubleshoot firewall solutions based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services.
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