Disaster Recovery Support and Service for

DoubleTake/Carbonite Software
DoubleTake Software, acquired and rebranded by Carbonite, publishes a family of products designed to provide small companies a variety of affordable solutions for backing up and recovering business-critical applications such as Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Blackberry, and SharePoint. DoubleTake/Carbonite products work with leading virtual environments including Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware and also support Windows Server clusters to maximize network availability and minimize recovery time in case of a catastrophic failure. DoubleTake/Carbonite replication products have earned Microsoft certification for Windows Server at every level from Standard through Datacenter editions. Progent's disaster recovery planning consultants have extensive experience integrating DoubleTake/Carbonite technology into small business information networks to achieve a high level of fault tolerance and disaster recovery capability at a budget-friendly price.

DoubleTake/Carbonite Backup Software for Continuous Server Backup and On-demand Restoration
DoubleTake/Carbonite Backup features continuous, real-time replication to disk, allowing network users to stay online during replication and restoration and eliminating the network downtime associated with scheduled backups. By copying all data changes as soon as they happen, DoubleTake/Carbonite Backup prevents data loss that can occur with traditional solutions that rely on scheduled backups or periodic snapshots. Because DoubleTake/Carbonite Backup utilizes fast, fault-tolerant disks rather than slow, unreliable tape for storage, replication is transparent to users, restoration is dependable, and recovery time is short.

DoubleTake/Carbonite Backup also lets you perform on-demand recoveries to server hardware that is different from the original server, or between virtual and physical servers, giving you flexibility in designing and repurposing your network hardware. To help meet the requirements of your business continuity plan, DoubleTake/Carbonite Backup allows you to back up to any remote disaster recovery site. This capability also saves the cost and administrative hassle of backing up branch offices in the field.

DoubleTake/Carbonite Availability Software for Real-time Replication to a Remote Disaster Recovery Site
DoubleTake/Carbonite Availability allows you to configure failover clusters without shared storage or geographic restrictions. This improves the fault-tolerance of your backup/restore solution by reducing the vulnerability of Windows-based clustering to single-point failure and also gives you the convenience of situating your cluster nodes anywhere.

DoubleTake/Carbonite Availability offers a wide variety of data compression options that provide a high level of flexibility in deciding how to allocate your network resources for optimal performance. DoubleTake/Carbonite Availability also improves system performance by implementing byte-level asynchronous replication. This reduces the workload on your servers and communications network and ensures that the continuous replication process does not bog down your business applications.

How Progent Can Help You Benefit from DoubleTake/Carbonite Software
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can help you select, install, and maintain a DoubleTake/Carbonite Software solution that meets your business needs and stays within your IT budget. Progent's Business Continuity Planning consultants can show you how DoubleTake/Carbonite Software can be incorporated in a sensible disaster recovery strategy. Progent can train your IT staff how to manage DoubleTake/Carbonite or you can outsource your backup and recovery process to Progent's system administration specialists. Progent's engineers can provide Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V consulting, Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V planning and deployment and VMware vSphere support to assist you in integrating DoubleTake/Carbonite Software with robust IT environments that are affordable and easy to manage. Progent's CISM-certified security management consultants, CISSP-certified cybersecurity experts, CISSP-ISSAP-certified security architecture professionals, and GIAC-certified information assurance consultants can evaluate the security vulnerabilities of your replication and restore solution and can provide recommendations for enhancing all aspects of your network protection.

Zero-Downtime Solutions Offered by Progent
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can help your business to design a cost-effective, zero-downtime system that addresses major issues encompassing a wide range of infrastructure technologies and operations such as:

Workplace Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity planning professionals can show you how to design a disaster recovery strategy so you can resume IT operations in case of an IT network catastrophe. Progent can assist you to define a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that includes periodic disaster recovery assessments and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also show you how to build an affordable, high-availability network architecture that addresses availability issues covering a broad array of infrastructure technologies and processes. To learn more, visit Workplace Recovery Expertise.

CRISC-Certified IT Risk Mitigation
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and support information system controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. For more information, see CRISC-Premier IT risk control specialists.

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 features significant improvements in scale, throughput, manageability, security and compliance, application compatibility, Linux co-existence, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid integration of on-premises and cloud-hosted resources. Headline new features of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for unifying the management of hybrid local/cloud-hosted resources, System Insights for taking advantage of advance predictive intelligence to manage local environments, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container orchestration using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for building and administering large non-stop scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for streamlining the upgrade process from legacy releases of Windows Server. For more information, visit Microsoft Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Support.

Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consultants can help you to design a DR solution built around Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies including Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class network-attached storage using industry-standard hardware, Virtual Machine Load Balancing for improving the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while minimizing capital investment and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for easy, affordable creation of a stretch cluster quorum arbitration point. For more information, visit Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Consulting.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to specify, automate and verify a repeatable runbook for restoring services quickly following a breakdown. SRM provides centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, and non-disruptive site relocation, failback and site re-protect. SRM also allows non-disruptive testing for disaster recovery, updates and patches and can produce audit reports to confirm full service recovery, validate SLAs and prove compliance. Progent offers the skills of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consultant to help you to design, configure, test and administer a DR solution based on VMware SRM.

NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery software suite that combines failover storage clustering along with replication to provide fast, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between datacenters located up to 185 miles apart. Progent offers online or on-premises access to a NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can help you to plan, deploy, administer, update, test and repair a disaster recovery solution built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to choose a topology for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your functional requirements and budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to leading practices for configuring your MetroCluster solution by delivering help with procedures like assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, determining aggregate and plexes layout, provisioning volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, provisioning switches, implementing a tiebreaker mechanism, setting up a configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and testing your disaster recovery solution to prove compliance with information assurance standards and government requirements.

Network Load Balancing
Progent provides high availability load balancing support covering system load balancing, load balanced applications, LAN/WAN infrastructure routing, and content dispatching products including F5 Networks 3DNS. Fault tolerant load balancing technologies for which Progent offers consulting expertise include Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Access Gateway, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Distributed Director and Cisco CDN Software, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. To find out more, see Non-stop Load Balancing.

Fault Tolerant Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to select fault-tolerant data centers that match the specific needs of your business. High availability Internet Data Centers are especially appealing to small and mid-size companies due to of their low cost and convenience compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Attempting to design an in-house data center that offers even a basic degree of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for most small businesses. Progent can show you how to reap all the advantages of 24x7 Internet data centers by offering a complete array of consulting and maintenance services. To learn more, go to High-Availability Colocation Expertise.

High-Availability Branch Office Connectivity
Progent’s interoffice network infrastructure engineers can help companies create zero-downtime multi-site connectivity through fully redundant networks with transparent failover. Progent’s Cisco-premier CCIE engineers can plan and deploy ultra-reliable Inter-office connections based on non-stop EIGRP network routers or non-stop OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how redundant connectivity and automatic fail-over can provide affordable 24x7 interoffice connectivity. For details, visit Non-stop Inter-office Networking.

Non-stop Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT professionals can help you build an economical, fault tolerant Internet configuration architecture that can deliver 24x7 Internet connectivity through a broad array of fault tolerant Internet access solutions including non-stop BGP, transparent fail-over, and multiple ISPs. Progent offers Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert engineers to show you how to utilize the most up-to-date technology for 24x7 Internet access to implement a cost-effective, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other features to deliver fault tolerant Internet availability. For more information, see Non-stop Internet Connectivity Architecture.

Backup and Restore Solutions Consulting Experts
Progent offers economical remote access to engineers skilled in a wide array of utilities and technologies that provide solutions for backing up Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux/UNIX physical and virtual servers and desktops as well as notebooks and handhelds. Progent can provide expertise for all major backup platforms such as Acronis, Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, HP Data Protector, Double-Take Software, MozyPro, Retrospect for Macintosh, Time Machine, vSphere Data Protection, and Oracle Solaris FLARs. Progent's consultants can help you to design, upgrade, or troubleshoot backup/restore systems for a variety of architectures including on-premises, remote, cloud-based, or hybrid. To learn more, go to Backup and Restore Technology Consulting Services.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Backup and Recovery Consulting
Progent's expert Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager consultants can help your company to create an effective business continuity strategy, design a cost-effective high-availability IT architecture, configure a Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager-powered backup and restore solution, thoroughly validate your DPM system, educate your IT personnel or regular consultants how to manage Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, or provide extensive information technology support outsourcing such as off-site hosting of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager machines in Progent's secure data center. For more information, go to System Center Data Protection Manager Expertise.

Barracuda Backup Multi-site and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription backup/restore service for small and mid-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup deployment can include a purpose-built hardware appliance built by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with comparable functionality but which utilizes your own storage hardware. Barracuda Backup safeguards vital business data generated locally, at one or multiple remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any location with a Barracuda appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts offer a broad array of consulting services to help your business to plan, configure, manage and troubleshoot a backup and disaster recovery solution based on Barracuda technology. For details, see Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consultants.

ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup Solutions for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Altaro VM Backup software provides small businesses a dependable and affordable solution for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-powered VMs. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in on-premises, offsite, multi-site, and cloud architectures and also enables cost-effective cloud backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Progent is an Altaro partner and offers a broad range of online or onsite consulting services to assist you to plan, install, manage and troubleshoot a modern backup/restore solution powered by Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a fully managed backup/recovery service powered by on Altaro VM Backup. To read more, see Altaro VM Backup certified consultants.

ProSight DPS Altaro O365 Backup Solutions
Office 365 offers simple archiving but does not include integrated support for crucial data protection services like Exchange backups or long-term point-in-time recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint Online. Altaro Office 365 Backup provides a feature-rich platform for automatic backup and quick recovery of all your organization's O365 mail, Microsoft Teams Chats, SharePoint documents, and OneDrive files. Progent is an Altaro partner and has designed ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) O365 Backup to provide end-to-end managed services for Altaro's Office 365 back/restore product. ProSight DPS Office 365 delivers a low-cost backup-as-a-service (BaaS) alternative that defends O365 apps against data loss resulting from human or system mistakes, malevolent sabotage, and cyber assaults like ransomware. To find out more, visit ProSight DPS Altaro Office 365 Backup services.

Fully Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates your backup processes and enable fast recovery of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO to to comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed cloud backup.

ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup Services
Progent can help you to create, deploy and debug a backup solution built around MSP360 software. MSP360 offers file or image-based backup/restore for VMs and physical machines, supports all popular public clouds, and permits businesses to create a data protection solution with a minimum RTO and a granular Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight DPS 360 Backup, Progent offers comprehensive monitoring and remote management of your backup environment to prevent data loss caused by human miscues, system errors, malicious insiders, and external assaults like ransomware. To find out more, go to ProSight DPS 360 Backup solutions.

Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and offers specialized application consulting for a wide variety of small business applications, Progent is able to assist clients to arrive at complete information technology solutions that maximize the business value of your network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent can provide the services of certified engineers and specialists with expertise in designing, configuring and maintaining networking environments based on Cisco products. The broad scope of Progent's technical experience and Progent's appreciation for the requirements of small and midsize companies make Progent the perfect resource for creating and maintaining an affordable, high-availability network.

How to Access Progent's Experts for Business Continuity Solutions Support
In order to get in touch with Progent about engineering help for business continuity planning, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.