Progent can provide fast and economical support from cloud integration consultants to help you to design, implement, maintain, and debug hybrid networking models that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud services with on-premises resources and with other public clouds like Azure.
Progent can help you assess the advantages and drawbacks of Amazon AWS services compared to competing cloud platforms, move applications to Amazon AWS, develop disaster recovery strategies that leverage Amazon AWS cloud storage services, and troubleshoot firewall and VPN configuration problems. Progent can provide help from Cisco-certified CCIE networking consultants to assist you create a high-availability network architecture so your clients have a consistent experience regardless of whether they are working from your corporate headquarters, a branch office, from home, or on the road.
Amazon is an innovator in the public cloud arena and is the world's leading vendor of public cloud computing services. Amazon Web Services offers a broad selection of cloud services such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for as-needed compute capacity for VMs, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for dynamically expandable primary storage, and Amazon Glacier for value-priced long-term backup. These Infrastructure-as-a-Service products enable businesses of all sizes to move some or all of their network infrastructure to the cloud, taking advantage of a pay-for-use approach to minimize capital costs while reducing administrative hassle and shortening the time needed to roll out new applications.
Hybrid Cloud Integration
For most businesses, using public cloud products and services is assumed. The question is how to achieve the appropriate trade-off between cloud and local resources. Many companies run custom line-of-business applications which are not easy to migrate to the cloud. Performance-sensitive OLTP database applications may require on-premises systems to provided the highest possible throughput. In addition, corporate culture or government and industry regulations could require more direct control over certain IT resources than is possible with public clouds. In these and other cases, hybrid networks, which integrate on-premises and cloud resources, are frequently selected as the right network model.
To complicate things further, Amazon AWS is in competition with other providers of cloud services including Microsoft, whose Azure offerings include Infrastructure-as-a-Service options as well as a Platform-as-a-Service model optimized for Windows applications. Basically, serious evaluation is needed for any organization to select the best cloud environment.
Progent's seasoned system designers can help your company to define and deploy a hybrid cloud ecosystem that incorporates Amazon AWS in a way that optimizes business value. Progent can assist your IT team with every aspect of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, readiness assessment, system design and review, pilot testing, configuration, centralized administration, performance tuning, licensing management, backup/restore solutions, and security strategies. Progent offers advanced expertise with firewall configuration and VPN access and can help you deploy all-cloud or hybrid cloud networking models that efficiently integrate Amazon AWS resources. Progent can provide occasional support or deliver end-to-end project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to help you move efficiently to the Amazon AWS platform.
Popular Amazon AWS Services
The Amazon AWS line of cloud-based services includes more than 70 infrastructure services that cover processing, primary and archival storage, databases, analytics, mobility, application development, management, Internet of Things, and cybersecurity, Amazon AWS services popular with businesses of all sizes and for which Progent offers advanced support include:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, called Amazon EC2, is a virtual machine hosting product that lets you provision, scale, and administer cloud-hosted virtual servers, referred to as EC2 instances. Subscribers can commission any quantity of instances and you pay only for the resources you actually use. You can manage the individual virtual server and the cluster-level functions of a range of operating systems, add your cloud-hosted apps, and control network access rights. You also administer your company's own software licenses under Amazon's Bring-Your-Own-License model. You can use a standard Amazon Machine Image template and go online instantly or you can create a custom AMI that incorporates your applications, software libraries, data, and setup information. Amazon EC2 can scale processing capacity on demand to accommodate up or down spikes in workloads, avoiding the need for sophisticated capacity management. You have the option of separate geographic locations for high availability and you can request fixed IP endpoints to work with your application requirements.
Amazon Simple Storage Service, called Amazon S3, is a cloud storage service that provides low-latency storage for any volume of data. Amazon S3 scales easily and you pay only for the capacity you actually utilize. Amazon S3 is commonly deployed as remote storage for disaster recovery but is also appropriate for high-use applications, most notably Amazon's vast commercial web site. Amazon S3's web service interface can handle a range of storage classes meant for various use cases. These include S3 Standard for storage of frequently accessed data, Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access for persistent but infrequently accessed data, and Amazon Glacier for archives. You can also define your own lifecycle policies so your Amazon S3 data automatically and seamlessly moves to another storage category without requiring modifications to your apps. Amazon S3 can be integrated with Amazon EC2 VM hosting or as a standalone service.
Amazon Glacier is a cloud-based storage service intended to provide affordable data archiving and long-term storage for data that is rarely accessed. Glacier does not deliver the throughput of Amazon S3 cloud storage and is not appropriate for real-time apps. But recovery time is glacially slow and can take hours, storage costs are less than a penny per gigabyte each month, which is less expensive than local storage. In addition, you can reduce overall storage expense by defining lifecycle rules to migrate sets of Amazon S3 objects automatically to Glacier. Amazon Glacier can also help companies to comply with regulatory standards for archival data by providing highly-dependable offsite backup with features like regular, automatic integrity checks and self-healing capability.
How Progent's Experts Can Help You with Amazon AWS Solutions
If you are planning to incorporate Amazon's AWS cloud services into your business using either a fully cloud-based or a hybrid cloud/on-premises architecture, Progent can help you evaluate the advantages of Amazon AWS compared to alternative public cloud solutions. Progent can provide expertise for every phase of your cloud integration project including needs analysis, system design, feasibility testing, deployment, administration, performance tuning, software license management, and disaster recovery planning. Progent also offers the help of certified cybersecurity experts to ensure. make sure your environment is protected and compliant with applicable standards.
Progent can help your business to determine which of your critical applications are suitable for Amazon AWS and show you how to you upgrade legacy or custom software so they can be moved to the Amazon AWS cloud. Progent offers economical online and on-premises consulting to help you resolve occasional technical bottlenecks, or Progent can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to make sure you complete your cloud integration initiative on time and within budget.
A typical issue encountered while integrating your network with Amazon AWS, or with any other cloud platform, is configuring secure links for different devices situated either inside or outside your security perimeter. Progent can provide the expertise of Cisco-certified CCIE network consultant as well as firewall configuration consultants certified by Symantec, Barracuda, WatchGuard, and others to show you how to deploy and manage firewalls for accessing Amazon AWS services. Progent also offers the support of iOS technology specialists and Android integration experts to help you to connect mobile endpoints for your Amazon AWS solution.
Examples of remote integration services offered by Progent to assist businesses interface with the Amazon AWS cloud include:
Other Cloud Integration Support Services Available from Progent
Progent offers expertise in all leading public cloud platforms and can provide fast remote access to a hybrid cloud integration consultant. Key cloud platforms and services supported by Proegnt's experts include:
Amazon Marketplace Web Service is a library of APIs that allows Amazon sellers to streamline their operations by automating key sales activities such as listings, orders, payments, fulfillment, and finances. By leveraging Amazon's extensive online selling environment and automating their sales processes, merchants can broaden their market, reduce their operating costs, accelerate response time to customers, and increase their bottom line. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service consultants can collaborate with your development staff and provide programming, workflow integration, project management support, and mentoring to help you cut development time and get to market quickly.
Progent's Azure integration consultants can help you with any stage of Microsoft Azure integration such as requirements definition, prerequisites evaluation, system design, pre-production testing, deployment, automated management, performance tuning, license controls, disaster recovery strategies, security policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance validation. Progent can assist your IT staff to set up and debug firewalls and VPN tunnels so your clients can safely access to Azure resources, and Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can help you integrate key Microsoft platforms to run in Azure including Windows Server, Exchange, SQL Server and Skype for Business. Progent can also assist your organization to create a hybrid environment that transparently combines on-premises datacenters with Azure-based services.
Microsoft has made a strong effort to enable transparent hybrid environments that combine Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and on-premises installations of Exchange. This permits you to have some Exchange mailboxes hosted on your on-premises datacenter and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can assist your organization with any facet of planning, implementing and troubleshooting your hybrid Exchange network. Progent's Exchange consultants can deliver occasional expertise to help you through challenging technical problems and also offer comprehensive project management outsourcing to ensure your hybrid Microsoft 365/Exchange solution is carried out on schedule and within budget. For more information about Progent's consulting expertise for integrating Microsoft 365 Exchange and on-premises Exchange systems, see Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange.
Progent's Office and Microsoft 365 consultants can help companies of any size to incorporate Microsoft Office desktop and Microsoft 365 apps such as Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Visio and OneNote into a cohesive solution that provides fast return on investment and promotes better business results. Progent can assist your company to integrate Office or Microsoft 365 applications with each other and with additional core Microsoft platforms such as SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server running on-premises or in the cloud. Progent's consultants can also help you to resolve compatibility problems with different releases of Office desktop and can provide customized online Office and Microsoft 365 training to individual users and groups.
Progent's Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consultants can provide affordable online and onsite support to assist companies to migrate all or part of their core network resources to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This can save management hassle and hardware costs and enable access to Google's cutting edge AI and machine learning technology. Progent can assist your IT team with every phase of Google Cloud Platform migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, preparedness assessment, system design, pilot testing, configuration, administration, performance tuning, software license management, backup/restore mechanisms, and security.