Business Continuity Consulting Support for
Small and Midsize Company Computer Networks: DoubleTake/Carbonite Backup and Availability Solutions Consulting
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.
Restoration with DoubleTake/Carbonite Availability minimizes the disruption of your operations and maximizes the protection of your data. You are not required to take business applications offline while restoring data. Any changes that users make between the initiation of a restore and the start of failback are replicated to the source.
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.
Additional High Availability Technologies Provided by Progent's Consultants
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can help your business to create an efficient, non-stop system that resolves key issues covering a wide range of infrastructure technologies and processes including:
Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity professionals can show you how to design a business continuity strategy that will allow you to restore network operations in the event of an information system catastrophe. Progent can help you to define a complete disaster recovery plan that incorporates scheduled disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can also help you create an affordable, fault-tolerant system architecture that takes into account reliability issues covering a wide array of network technologies and processes. To find out more, visit Disaster Recovery Consulting Services.
Fully Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of vital data, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your critical data. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.
Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity consultants can help your organization to design a DR system based on Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies such as 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 equipment, VM Load Balancing for improving the speed and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while reducing capital investment and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable creation of a failover cluster quorum arbitration point. To learn more, go to Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Expertise.
Microsoft Server 2012 Failover Clusters
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 brought enterprise-class fault tolerance and recoverability to Microsoft's failover clustering solution. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 adds to this technology and provides important new and enhanced features that offer increased expandability, non-stop storage availability for server applications, streamlined administration, faster failover, and additional flexibility for architecting failover clusters. For details, visit Windows Server 2012 Clustering Migration and Support.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you define, automate and test a consistent process for restoring services rapidly after an outage. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, and non-disruptive site migration, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also supports transparent testing for disaster recovery, upgrades and fixes and can generate reports to confirm complete service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and prove disaster recovery compliance. Progent offers the skills of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to assist your organization to design, configure, test and administer a DR solution powered by VMware SRM.
NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery platform that uses array-based storage clustering with synchronous replication to deliver rapid, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between datacenters located as far as 185 miles away from one another. Progent offers the skills of a NetApp MetroCluster expert who can help your business to design, deploy, manage, upgrade, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to choose a topology for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your functional needs and budget. Progent can ensure you follow leading practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by providing guidance with tasks like assigning shelf IDs, determining aggregate layout, setting up NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, installing Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and testing your MetroCluster DR system to prove adherence with industry standards and government requirements.
Network Load Balancing
Progent provides high availability load balancing consulting that addresses system load balancing, load balanced applications, LAN/WAN backbone routing, and content dispatching products such as Cisco Content Engine. Non-stop load balancing products for which Progent can provide consulting expertise include Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Access Gateway, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Content Distribution Manager and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. To learn more, go to Fault Tolerant Load Balancing.
Zero Downtime Colocation
Progent's Data Center consultants can help you select fault-tolerant data centers that match the particular requirements of your business. Fault tolerant off-site data centers are particularly attractive to small and mid-size businesses because of their low cost and convenience in comparison to pursuing a do-it-yourself strategy. Attempting to create an in-house data center with even a minimum level of fault tolerance is too costly for the majority of small companies. Progent can show you how to reap all the advantages of non-stop colocation centers by providing a complete array of consulting and support services. For details, see Non-stop Data Centers Consulting.
Non-stop Branch Office Networking
Progent’s interoffice connectivity consultants can help organizations achieve zero-downtime multi-site connectivity via fully redundant system architectures featuring automatic failover. Progent’s Cisco-premier CCIE network engineers can design and implement high-availability Inter-office connections based on zero-downtime EIGRP routers or zero-downtime OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how redundant connections and automatic fail-over can provide affordable non-stop interoffice connectivity. For details, go to 24x7 Interoffice Connectivity.
Non-stop Internet Connections
Progent's Cisco-authorized network engineers can show you how to build an economical, fault tolerant Internet configuration architecture that can deliver 24x7 Internet access via a broad array of high availability Internet network technologies including non-stop BGP, automatic fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent can provide Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert consultants to help you apply the most advanced techniques for fault tolerant Internet access to implement an economical, completely redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other features to create non-stop Internet connections. To learn more, visit High Availability Internet Access Solutions.
Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting and Support Services
Progent can provide affordable remote access to consultants with expertise in a wide range of products and services that provide solutions for protecting Microsoft Windows, Mac, and Linux physical and virtual servers and desktops as well as notebooks and smartphones. Progent offers expertise for all major data protection products including Acronis Backup and Recovery, Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, CrashPlan PRO, Double-Take, Mozy, Retrospect, Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery, and FLARs. Progent's consultants can help your company to deploy, upgrade, or maintain backup/restore solutions for a range of environments such as local, remote, cloud-based, or a mix. To learn more, see Backup and Restore Technology Expertise.
System Center Data Protection Manager Data Recovery Consultants
Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager consultants can help you to create a practical business continuity strategy, implement an affordable fault-tolerante network infrastructure, configure a System Center Data Protection Manager-powered backup and recovery system, comprehensively validate your DPM system, educate your administrative staff or regular consultants how to manage System Center Data Protection Manager, or provide extensive information technology support outsourcing including off-site hosting of virtual or physical SCDPM servers in Progent's secure data center facility. To read more, see System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting and Support Services.
Barracuda Backup Local, Offsite and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription backup and disaster recovery platform for small and mid-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup deployment can incorporate a custom-designed hardware appliance manufactured by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar features but which uses your existing storage hardware. Barracuda Backup protects vital company data generated locally, at one or more remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), or to any location with a Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts can provide a wide range of consulting services to assist your business to design, configure, manage and troubleshoot a BDR system built on Barracuda Backup. For more information, see Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consultants.
Altaro VM Backup Software for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Altaro VM Backup software offers small and mid-size businesses a reliable and affordable solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-based VMs. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, offsite, distributed, and cloud-hosted architectures and also enables low-cost cloud backup to Microsoft Azure Block Blob storage. Top capabilities include industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to reduce backup storage needs, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup spacing as low as five minutes for minimizing your Recovery Point Objective (RPO), military-grade encryption, granular restore capability for individual files and emails, support for Windows CSV and vCenter for handling large-scale deployments, and support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to back up live VMs without downtime. Progent is an Altaro partner and can provide a wide array of consulting services to help you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot a backup and disaster recovery system powered by Altaro VM Backup. To learn more, see Altaro VM Backup Consulting Services.
CRISC-Certified IT Risk Control
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. For details, visit CRISC-Certified IT risk mitigation experts.
Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Because Progent is a Microsoft Partner and provides specialized application consulting for a wide variety of business applications, Progent is able to assist clients to arrive at efficient information technology solutions that maximize the productivity of your network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent offers the expertise of certified engineers and specialists with expertise in designing, installing and supporting infrastructure solutions built on Cisco technology. The broad scope of Progent's technical know-how and Progent's sensitivity to the requirements of small businesses make Progent the ideal partner for building and running an affordable, fault-tolerant information system.
How You Can Get in Touch with Progent's Consultants for Business Continuity Planning Support
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Outsourcing Small Business
If you have a small business IT system with 10 to 50 network clients, Progent's network outsourcing services free your company from over-reliance on an individual independent consultant while giving you affordable and dependable access to high-quality technical expertise. By providing IT consulting service when you require it, offering specialized expertise for key technologies, offering unique services such as 24x7 server monitoring, and billing only for support you use, Progent gives you an economical solution for maximizing the productivity and profitability of your small office network. Progent is the intelligent way for small organizations to create and maintain a reliable and secure information system and to benefit from fast access to the skilled help typically restricted to enterprises who are able to afford a sizeable in-house IT organization.
24/7/365 Dynamics GP Accounting Remote Technical Support
Online Technical Support Microsoft Financial Software
Microsoft Dynamics GP allows you to expand and manage your company more efficiently by offering deep availability of strategic information and a fast ROI. Microsoft Dynamics GP confers important productivity benefits such as its ability to expand the reach of your company, handle your financials, automate financial operations, unify processes throughout your company, refine inventory control, increase order accuracy, expand sales and minimize turnaround time, and maximize cash flow. Progent can show you how to configure and maintain a reliable, secure server and network foundation to support Great Plains, and can offer experienced Microsoft Dynamics GP support professionals to make sure you reap the full advantages of your Dynamics GP business management system.
24-Hour Amazon AWS hybrid cloud integration Contract Development
Amazon EC2 migration Contract Development
Progent offers cost-effective remote support to help businesses to access Amazon AWS cloud services including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for virtual machine hosting, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Glacier. Progent can help you with every phase of Amazon AWS integration including needs analysis, readiness assessment, architectural design, testing, deployment, administration, performance tuning, software license management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security.
SCCM 2016 Mobile Device Management Network Consulting
SCCM 2016 Security IT Consultant
System Center Configuration Manager 2016 automates software provisioning at scale, centralizes compliance settings control, inventories network assets, guards against corporate data leakage, performs health monitoring, allows safe self service, and delivers a common point of control for managing multi-operating system networks based on on-prem, cloud-centric, or hybrid deployment architectures. Progent's Microsoft-certified SCCM 2016 consultants and Azure cloud specialists can assist you with any facet of designing, installing, operating and repairing a System Center 2016 Configuration Manager deployment for on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid environments.
Cisco VPN Network Consulting
VPN Integration
Cisco's network security and offsite access technology for small organizations represent a comprehensive line of manageable security products to help safeguard your local and remote information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes experienced specialists with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can help your organization to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, Cisco Aironet and Meraki wireless APs, and other Cisco security solutions that align best with your company objectives.
macOS and Exchange Computer Engineer
Mac and Outlook Web App Remote Technical Support
Exchange Servers and Apple Mac workstations can work together efficiently. Progent's Mac and Microsoft premier consultants can help you set up Microsoft Entourage and Microsoft Exchange Server so your Apple Macintosh users are able to collaborate with teammates who use Microsoft Outlook. With Exchange and Entourage for Mac, Exchange and Mac systems can collaborate, allowing Mac users to receive and transmit messages, search the Exchange global address list, copy addresses, synchronize calendars, and invite people to conferences via your Microsoft Exchange account. Progent will make sure that your Microsoft Server is appropriately set up and that WebDAV and Outlook Web Access are enabled. Progent also can provide specialized onsite Entourage training.
Solaris Consulting
Solaris Specialist
Progent's Solaris family consulting experts offer small companies and software developers help with managing and supporting Solaris systems that run with Microsoft-based networks. Progent can give your organization access to Sun Solaris experts, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISM certification. This wide range of experience provides you with a convenient single consulting firm to help you create and manage a protected and reliable mixed-platform network and communications environment that allows Sun Solaris and Microsoft coexistence by combining Windows with major versions of UNIX including Apple Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX UNIX from IBM, HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO UNIX, and SGI/Irix or leading Linux platforms including RedHat, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake/Mandriva, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Herakles/QTS Test Lab Consultancy
Herakles Colocation Center Test Lab Engineer
The Progent Test and Training Lab located at the QTS Data Center can be used for piloting mission-critical applications, developing efficient migration methodologies, assessing and tuning performance, planning or verifying business continuity strategies, resolving compatibility problems, and building training environments for the latest technologies. For Progent customers without adequate internal resources to configure effective test environments, the lab reduces capital costs and engineering risk while keeping vital network initiatives on schedule.
Computer Network Support Companies Linux Phone-based
Linux RedHat Remote Consult
Progent offers national remote help and troubleshooting services for businesses that run environments powered by versions of the Linux OS or whose information systems feature a mix of Linux platforms/Linux and Microsoft technology. Online technical support offers maximum return for your IT dollar by protecting user productivity and shortening the hours charged for computer repair services. Advanced remote access tools and experienced technicians and engineers combine to enable Progent to solve the majority of network issues without squandering time and money by going to your location. In most of situations your IT issues can be remediated by telephone or via a mix of phone help and online access. Progent can offer the services of Cisco certified CCIE network experts and CISA and CISM certified security professionals to assist you with the toughest system problems.
Consultants TeslaCrypt ransomware recovery
Consultancy MegaCortex ransomware recovery
Progent's seasoned ransomware recovery experts can assist you to reconstruct a network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock.
SCCM 2007 Mobile Device Management Setup and Support
24-Hour Technology Consulting SCCM 2007 Asset Management
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to maintain Microsoft System Center 2007 Configuration Manager (SCCM 2007) to streamline administration, enhance compliance, and increase worker output by making sure that operating systems and applications stay current, managing licensing, and reporting resource usage patterns so you can make smart buying choices. When you are ready to upgrade your SCCM 2007 configuration management ecosystem, Progent can help you to plan and implement a smooth migration to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.
Microsoft LCS Server Instant Messaging Network Engineer
Computer Consultant Microsoft LCS Server Instant Messaging
MS Office Communications Server delivers IM and presence in a scalable, enterprise-grade package offering advanced protection, transparent compatibility with popular Microsoft software, an extendable, industry-standard development environment, and support for regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, SOX, and GLB. Your enterprise can benefit from lower costs and elevated operational efficiencies, increased worker productivity, and better intellectual property protection with this simple-to-administer, highly available solution. Successful deployments of Office Communications Server require extensive planning and consideration before installation. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can deliver the expertise necessary to realize all the benefits of Office Communications Server throughout your entire corporation.
MOM 2007 Network Consulting
Comprehensive Event Management Remote Troubleshooting
Medium-size businesses can enjoy all the advantages of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and have fast access to Progent’s Microsoft and Cisco Premier network support experts. With Progent's economically priced IT support programs, mid-size organizations can choose a simple co-sourcing package based on Operations Manager 2007 with server monitoring, automated warnings, in-depth system analysis, Help Desk Call Center, and remote service. For companies with mission-critical applications who need non-stop networking, Progent offers a complete round-the-clock outsourcing package. Progent supports Microsoft System Center Operations Manager to provide mid-size company information systems enterprise-class availability, security and performance.
Top Unified Messaging Computer Engineer
Cisco Certified Expert Contact Center Engineer
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), originally named CallManager, is the core of Cisco's communications and collaboration portfolio. Cisco Unified CM and Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) provide an advanced IP-PBX by integrating closely with unified messaging applications such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Express for voicemail, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach (SNR, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for creating an advanced customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified network consultants can deliver effective and affordable remote and onsite expertise to assist businesses of all sizes to create and administer CUCM ecosystems by providing Cisco Unified Communications Manager configuration and troubleshooting consulting services that deliver optimum business value. Progent's consultants can help with any facet of Unified Communications Manager setup and debugging in areas such as integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop Video phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN support, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, designing UCS server failover solutions for survivability, capacity planning, and integration with Exchange Server.
Windows One-On-One Training
Windows Training
Progent practices knowledge transfer from Progent's consultants to customers. By educating customers to resolve problems that are within their comfort zone, Progent is able to concentrate on providing hard-to-find services where Progent faces few competitors. Medium-size companies who utilize trusted freelance consultants or who maintain in-house IT personnel benefit when Progent passes on information about new technology and tested processes to make their networks more robust, secure, and efficient.
24-7 Microsoft Solutions Framework Project Methodology Setup Service
Project Methodology Consulting Service Firm
When performing consulting tasks for enterprise clients, Progent uses a phased methodology driven by defined milestones so as to meet budgetary, scheduling and engineering goals while minimizing business disruption. Progent's Enterprise Services Project Methodology follows accepted project management procedures based on the leading practices defined by the Microsoft Solutions Framework Project methodology which includes requirements definition, design recommendations, test models, design tuning, and professional deployment. All phases are recorded to make available a comprehensive summary of technical services performed and to assist in downstream network maintenance.
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