Even if your company has a small computer support group and a modest technology budget, your information system can still have the same high availability and performance that once needed a large internal support organization. Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services for small businesses combine the experience of world-class Microsoft-certified and Cisco-certified IT professionals, the latest system management software for proactive monitoring and alerts, and cost-effective support packages such as a help desk call center to keep your mission-critical business applications and servers up and running.
Progent's Microsoft certified experts offer a range of support services for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Dynamics GP/Great Plains is a Microsoft financial package and business management solution built, like all Microsoft accounting tools, on the scalable and popular platform of Microsoft Windows technology. Dynamics GP 2010, the latest version of Microsoft financial products in the Dynamics GP family, provides a cost-effective solution for controlling and combining finances, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, on-site support, customer relationships, and HR. Dynamics GP is easy to install and configure, and with its modular design you can purchase only the capability you currently require, with the ability to expand users and enlarge functionality when necessary. Progent's Dynamics GP/Great Plains Software consulting engineers can show you how to deploy, customize and manage Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains 2010 as well as earlier editions of Dynamics GP/Great Plains.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers powerful, standardized tools to computer experts and network users, reducing the complexity of creating, deploying, managing, and using company data and database applications on platforms ranging from handheld devices to corporate data systems. The sophistication and integration requirements of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 require an IT consultant with real-world expertise and wide knowledge in planning and building data-driven, end-to-end business technology applications. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with an average of more than 10 years of background involving Microsoft technology, assures you success in planning, configuring and managing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 applications that are well integrated with the Microsoft .NET environment.
Microsoft Lync 2010 provides IM, Presence, audio and video conferencing, desktop sharing, and both VoIP and public switched telephone network voice communication. Lync 2010 can enhance the capability of Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint and Office or Microsoft 365 and simplify management via integration with Windows AD. Lync can also reduce expenses by eliminating Voice-over-IP equipment and subscription services, PBX gear, or legacy video conferencing solutions. Progent's Microsoft-certified unified communications experts can provide online and on-premises support services to help you to manage and repair your current Lync Server 2010 environment or evaluate the benefits of upgrading from Lync Server 2010 to Skype for Business, which is Microsoft's renamed and revamped release of the product family. Progent can also assist your organization to design and carry out an efficient Skype for Business migration.
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified network infrastructure consultants can provide high-level support for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (formerly CallManager). Progent can assist your organization to integrate VoIP phones, design dial plans, configure SIP trunking and PSTN support, deploy Cisco ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, and deploy UCS server high availability systems.
Progent's Microsoft consultants can provide cost-effective online technical support and development services to help your business to plan, implement, manage, and maintain Microsoft SharePoint 2010 environments that can feature web sites that can function as intranets, extranets, document management applications, blogs, data marts, business information systems, enterprise-wide search, workflows, and other tools to support and improve collaboration. Progent can show you how to integrate SharePoint 2010 with MS SQL Server and with third-party databases and with Microsoft's popular office productivity applications including Office Excel, Word, Outlook, and Visio. Progent can assist your business to migrate from previous releases of SharePoint or adapt a multi-vendor mix of web applications into a consolidated and easy-to-manage SharePoint 2010 solution.
Progent's Sun Solaris family consulting experts offer small and mid-size companies and software developers help with managing and maintaining Solaris environments that operate with Microsoft-based technology. Progent can give your business access to Solaris experts, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISM credentials. This wide range of expertise provides you with a convenient one-stop source to help you build and maintain a protected and reliable cross-platform network and communications environment that supports Sun Solaris and Microsoft coexistence by combining Windows with popular versions of UNIX including Apple Mac OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX Open UNIX, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO UNIX, and Silicon Graphics IRIX (SGI/IRIX or leading Linux variations such as RedHat, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux, PCLinuxOS, fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake, Debian-GNU, and Slackware.
Progent can help you plan, deploy, manage, monitor, and repair an efficient Wi-Fi LAN infrastructure, select appropriate products, and configure access points, wireless bridges, antennas, wireless controllers, and various wireless accessories. Progent can also show you how to build a complete wireless system security plan that is well aligned with the security plan for your overall corporate network.
Progent's Microsoft-certified failover clustering consultants can assist companies of all sizes to evaluate the benefits of utilizing Microsoft Windows Server 2012 failover clustering technology to create a powerful high-availability/disaster recovery strategy, help your organization to design and deploy a Windows Server 2012 environment, provide online and on-premises consulting expertise and technical support for failover clusters composed of physical servers or virtual ones, and help you to streamline the administration of clustered servers.
Progent's Cisco-certified Catalyst 9100 Series 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 Wireless Access Point consultants can provide affordable online and on-premises help for Catalyst Wi-Fi 6 wireless APs.
The new Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially more bang for the buck than Cisco's legacy firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for all new installations. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can assist you to maintain your existing PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances and upgrade to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also help your business to design, deploy, optimize, administer and troubleshoot firewall solutions based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services.
Microsoft Windows SUS allows IT managers to install and track the latest Microsoft patches and security updates to Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Microsoft Windows XP operating systems. By using Microsoft WSUS, network support staff can completely and effortlessly manage the installation of updates that are released through Microsoft Update to servers and workstations in a company. Progent can help you with complex details of the initial configuration of Microsoft Software Update Services such as planning the Microsoft WSUS deployment, setting up user's workstations, establishing the Group Policy settings, and ensuring your Microsoft Windows Server Update Services GPO is associated with an Active Directory container appropriate for your network environment.
Progent's Microsoft-certified information technology consultants can provide Windows Server 2016 integration consulting to assist organizations of all sizes to plan and implement a smooth move to Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 based on a local, cloud, or hybrid architecture. Progent can assist you to assess the business value of Windows Server 2016 for your environment and can help you with any facet of designing, deploying, administering or debugging your Windows Server 2016 and Windows Hyper-V 2016 ecosystem. Progent can assist you to take advantage of the many new disaster recovery and security features of Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 like Windows Containers, Shielded Virtual Machines to protect against compromised administrators, Credential Guard, Just In Time (JIT) Privileged Access Management, VM software load, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss disaster recovery, plus multi-domain failover clusters.
Progent's Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi experts can help your business to plan, implement, enhance, manage and troubleshoot a Wi-Fi solution adapted to your facilities. Progent offers online or onsite expertise for Ekahau Pro for predictive Wi-Fi design and Ekahau Sidekick for onsite RF signal analysis.
If your company is producing Linux-based applications in an environment that has Windows-based servers, desktops, and office applications, Progent can provide full-service network support outsourcing that allows you to concentrate on your area of strategic expertise while avoiding the continual distraction of managing your business network. By using automated server monitoring and by delivering online and in-person assistance as your business needs it, Progent offers an economical alternative for managing an IT network that provides excellent availability, protection, and performance. Progent's Linux developer assistance services include comprehensive it outsourcing, virtual server infrastructure, online and on-premises support and repair, 24x7 monitoring, and Help Desk services.
By using virtual server technology, businesses are able to operate multiple virtual machines on a single actual server. Virtual server technology allows businesses to enjoy all the advantages of server segmentation, but without the expense that goes with buying extra server equipment. Virtual servers are the critical technology behind private clouds, which provide important advantages such as lowering the costs of hardware, facilities, and management while enhancing data protection, system reliability, and recoverability. Other key server management technologies include network monitoring software, Microsoft WSUS, and remote system management cards. Progent's certified server management consultants can help you in all aspects of server virtualization and administration to allow your company to contain costs and conserve time.
Progent's Citrix-certified consultants can assist you to assess the potential business benefits of the available versions of Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V, assist you to use Citrix administration tools in your Hyper-V environment, and show you how you can use Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V to enhance the performance, availability, flexibility, and fault tolerance of your virtualized network while reducing the cost of equipment and support and simplifying administrative processes.
Progent's Microsoft certified professionals can provide small and medium size businesses advanced Microsoft SQL Server support. Microsoft SQL Server is a complete, web-ready database and data analysis package that enables the speedy development of advanced business programs that can give your company a competitive edge. SQL Server provides core support for XML and the ability to query over the Internet and beyond the corporate firewall. In addition to offering consulting, maintenance and troubleshooting services, Progent's SQL experts can help you get the most out of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence to enhance the business value of your IT system. Progent can also help you migrate from earlier versions of Microsoft SQL Server to SQL Server 2005.
Progent's seasoned solution designers and software developers can help your business to create enhancements to Microsoft GP/Great Plains that support the special requirement of your business without losing the benefits of seamless Windows integration and connectivity. Progent can also provide help with a range of software development tools that can be utilized to build integrations with Microsoft GP/Great Plains. These tools include Dexterity, Modifier with VBA, Visual Studio Tools for Dynamics, Continuum, eConnect, Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP, and Integration Manager.
Progent's Test and Training Lab located at the QTS (formerly Herakles) Colocation Center can be used for piloting line-of-business applications, creating cost-effective system upgrade procedures, evaluating and optimizing performance, planning or validating business continuity solutions, mitigating compatibility problems, and establishing training systems for new technologies. For Progent clients without adequate in-house resources to assemble proper test systems, Progent's Test and Training Lab cuts capital costs and technical risk while keeping critical IT projects on schedule.
Progent has put together two low-cost service bundles designed to allow small businesses to receive an impartial security assessment from a certified security consultant. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer administers a comprehensive test of your network from outside your firewall to determine possible weaknesses in the security profile you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer runs a network scan from a secure computer inside your company firewall to assess vulnerabilities to inside attacks. The two security inventory services are configured and executed from a protected remote location.
Progent provided a wireless integration environment that allowed a school to improve efficiency and eliminate the ongoing costs of a dedicated wireline connection. Progent proposed a Proxim Tsunami wireless 60Mbps bridge. The low-cost building-to-building Proxim bridge is designed for interfacing remote locations up to 2.5 miles apart and can reach even greater ranges. This wireless solution offered improved bandwidth and reliability than recourse to amplifying the 802.11b wireless network, and because it utilizes the 5.8Ghz spectrum it offered immunity to outside interference.
Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can help your business to configure, manage, upgrade and troubleshoot Cisco network products. Progent offers Cisco, Meraki and Nexus switch consulting, ASA firewall consulting, Meraki and Aironet Wi-Fi access point consulting, Cisco VoIP phone support, and CUCM/CallManager software support.
The server cluster technology built into the high-end versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 has been radically re-engineered to streamline the deployment, configuration, and administration of clusters that provide greater levels of system availability, security, efficiency, and versatility. New or enhanced capabilities include cluster Validation, easier setup and installation, improved cluster administration, redesigned cluster architecture for increased uptime, hardened protection and quorum models, elimination of failure points, more disk and memory capacity, and improvements for geographically dispersed clusters. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you assess the advantages of Windows clustering, plan and implement an installation, educate your IT staff to administer your failover clusters, provide continuing consulting and technical help services, and produce and test a disaster recovery procedure.
Progent is a reseller and consulting firm for SentinelOne's Singularity product line, a subscription-based, cloud-first cyberthreat management solution that incorporates AI software and advanced services to provide cutting-edge endpoint detection and response.
Progent's Private Cloud Hosting service offers complete hosting of a small organization's production servers in an environment that delivers the maximum degree of dependability and expandability and is also easy to transfer to another host. Progent's Private Cloud Hosting services are based on mature virtualization platforms that enable small businesses with multi- platform environments to economize dramatically on the costs of capital investments, system maintenance, and IT management while achieving world-class fault tolerance and an unmatched degree of vendor independence.
Progent offers fault tolerant load balancing support that addresses system load balancing, load balanced program, LAN/WAN infrastructure routing, and content delivery technology such as F5 Networks 3DNS. High availability load balancing technologies for which Progent offers consulting services include Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Presentation Server, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Content Engine and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks BIG-IP.
Progent's certified security consultants can run NodeZero-based PEN tests to make sure your security monitoring and protection tools and policies are correctly set up and effective.
If your business computer system combines UNIX, Linux or Solaris platforms with Windows, Progent can show you how to incorporate your IT resources into a cohesive environment that allows all your operating systems to coexist for easy administration, seamless information exchange, high dependability, enhanced throughput, and strong security. Progent's UNIX/Linux/Solaris and Microsoft Windows integration assistance services include network architecture configuration and support, consulting for Microsoft Windows services for UNIX (SFU), remote network monitoring and administration, online technical support and repair, in-person technical support, and Help Desk services.
Microsoft Windows 8.1 is engineered to power devices from smart phones and slates to power-user desktops. An abundance of innovative features, such as its touchscreen interface and iconic tile user interface, provide a wide range of advantages for companies who understand how to exploit them. Progent's Microsoft-certified experts can help bring your business up the learning curve with Microsoft Windows 8.1 and show you how to derive maximum competitive value from the product's many new and enhanced technologies.
Progent's Linux consulting services offer small and mid-size businesses and software developers assistance with administering and maintaining Linux systems that operate with Microsoft-powered networks. Progent can give your organization access to Linux experts, support professionals premier by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM credentials. This broad range of expertise offers you a convenient one-stop source to help you create and manage a secure and reliable mixed-platform network and communications environment that supports Linux and Microsoft coexistence by integrating MS Windows with leading Linux derivatives such as RedHat Linux, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake/Mandriva, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Progent is a dealer and integrator for SentinelOne's Singularity product line, a subscription-based, cloud-first cyberthreat management platform that incorporates machine learning technology and advanced services to provide comprehensive endpoint detection and response.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to update your desktops from 32 bits to 64 bits. Progent can assist your company to understand the risks and advantages of upgrading to 64-bit PC desktop processing, plan an affordable upgrade process that reduces operational disruptions, and provide economical, expert remote help to aid your company to install 64-bit desktop software and application programs on your existing hardware.
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of critical files, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's disaster recovery specialists can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your critical information.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 includes significant improvements to the functionality of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and delivers powerful innovations plus a revamped architecture. These improvements affect vital facets of IT such as ease of administration, high availability (HA), security and compliance, operational costs, collaboration, expandability, performance, cross-version interoperability, and productivity. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange Server 2013 consultants can help you evaluate the potential advantages of upgrading to Exchange Server 2013, create a cost-effective test and deployment plan, and train your IT team to manage your Exchange Server 2013 solution. Progent also offers ongoing remote consulting and management services for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013.
Progent's experts can provide Apple macOS and Mac OS X users a variety of services including workstation support, Apple macOS and OS X consulting, Mac co-existence with Windows networks, Microsoft Entourage and email help, network protection services, and custom education. Progent can assist businesses to upgrade to macOS from OS X or earlier versions of OS X and Progent can offer help with macOS and Mac OS X application software. Progent can also assist your business with Apple iPhone support and Apple iPad management, or migrating to Apple's iCloud. For computer networks based exclusively on Mac OS X or for networks with a combination of Mac, Linux and Windows based servers and desktops, Progent's Apple, Cisco, and Microsoft professionals have the experience and depth to handle the complexity of designing, configuring and maintaining a network infrastructure that is available, secure, efficient and able to achieve your organization's objectives.
Progent's experienced ransomware recovery experts can assist your business to reconstruct an IT network victimized by a ransomware crypto-worm such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, LockBit or Nephilim.
Progent's software experts have worked for two decades with .NET tools and the Visual Studio development system and can build or update .NET applications quickly and at low cost.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide online and onsite expertise for companies of all sizes to evaluate the benefits of migrating to Microsoft Skype for Business or Skype for Business Online from any version of Lync Server or Office Communications Server. Progent can help your business to design a local, cloud or mixed deployment; interface Skype for Business with Microsoft SQL Server,Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Office or Microsoft 365; set up high-availability solutions; connect Skype for Business with your PBX system and PSTN gateway; and integrate third-party collaboration systems such as Cisco UC and Cisco Video Interop Server (VIS). Progent's certified information security experts can assist you design and verify a security strategy for your Skype for Business deployment that is compliant with regulatory requirements.
Progent's application experts have worked for two decades with .NET tools and the Visual Studio development environment and can create or update .NET apps quickly and affordably.
Progent is among the most qualified network consulting companies for designing email and messaging solutions powered by Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Progent is skilled in helping small and mid-size companies receive the full advantages of Microsoft Exchange 2000 under common situations such as updating from Exchange 5.5, migration from an ISP-managed or POP3 e-mail system, and outsourcing your Microsoft Exchange 2000 management.
Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) is an affordable suite of essential servers that provides the basis for a powerful but manageable IT network. The technical demands of the Microsoft .NET components bundled with Small Business Server calls for a computer support expert with real-world background planning and building cohesive, comprehensive business network solutions. Progent's Small Business Server professionals have an average of over a decade of experience supporting business networks powered by Microsoft products. This experience ensures you results in deploying, managing, and troubleshooting IT environments that include the Small Business Server suite of servers and applications.
Microsoft allows you to create seamless hybrid ecosystems that combine Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and on-premises Exchange deployments. This permits you to have certain mailboxes located at your physical datacenter and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's certified Exchange consulting team can help you with any phase of designing, implementing and troubleshooting your hybrid Exchange Online solution. Progent's Exchange consultants can deliver as-needed expertise to help you resolve stubborn technical issues and also can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to make sure your hybrid Exchange solution is successfully completed on time and on budget.
If you are producing UNIX or Linux software in an environment that has Microsoft Windows-based servers, desktops, and office applications, Progent offers comprehensive information technology outsourcing that frees you to focus on your area of high-value expertise without the continual hassle of maintaining your company information system. Through the use of smart server monitoring and by providing online and in-person support when your company needs it, Progent represents an affordable way for supporting an information network that provides excellent dependability, protection, and efficiency. Progent's Linux developer assistance offerings feature full-service it outsourcing, virtual infrastructure, remote and on-site support and repair, proactive network monitoring services, and Helpdesk outsourcing.
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Progent's CISSP-certified cybersecurity experts can help businesses of all sizes with any facet of information system security. Progent can implement efficient cybersecurity solutions that protect a small office from modern malware attacks or Progent can plan, deploy, and manage an end-to-end security environment for hybrid networks that accommodate onsite, remote, and mobile clients sharing network resources spread across a mix of physical datacenters and various clouds.
Progent is committed to knowledge transfer from Progent's consultants to customers. By teaching clients to resolve technical issues that are within their scope, Progent can focus on delivering high-value services where Progent faces little competition. Medium-size businesses who utilize familiar freelance service providers or who employ internal support staffs benefit when Progent passes on information about critical technology and tested methodologies to make their networks more reliable, secure, and productive.
Progent's data protection experts can help you to design, deploy and administer a backupup/restore plan built around MSP360 Backup software to protect your IT resources hosted on any leading public cloud. Progent can provide monitoring and management to prevent data loss resulting from user miscues, system glitches, malicious insiders, and malware assaults such as ransomware.
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can provide small and medium size companies advanced Microsoft SQL Server support. Microsoft SQL Server is a comprehensive, web-ready database and data analysis package that opens the door to the rapid creation of advanced business applications that offer your company a competitive advantage. SQL Server provides built-in support for XML and the ability to query across the Internet and beyond the firewall. In addition to providing expertise, maintenance and problem solving services, Progent's SQL experts can help you use Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence to enhance the productivity of your information system. Progent can also help you migrate from earlier versions of SQL Server to SQL Server 2005.
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Lync Server 2013, renamed Skype for Business, allows organizations of any size to create a centrally managed and secure communications ecosystem that supports the modern BYOD computing model with instant messaging (IM), presence, web meetings with app sharing and whiteboard, and both IP and PSTN telephony across a wide range of desktop and mobile clients. Progent's Microsoft-certified Lync 2013 experts and system integrators can help you to evaluate the business benefits of Lync 2013, create an in-house, cloud-based (with Lync Online) or mixed model appropriate for your present and future goals, implement Lync 2013 in a way that expedites your return on investment, and deliver live webinar and onsite training to your IT team and end users. Progent has expertise in key pieces of a Lync Server 2013 deployment including Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server Express and Exchange, and Progent can assist you to integrate Lync Server 2013 with key Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 apps including Outlook and PowerPoint.
Small to middle size companies can now get all the benefits of System Center Operations Manager 2007 and in addition have fast access to Progent's Microsoft Certified network consulting experts. With Progent's economically priced network support programs, small organizations can select a simple Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007-based co-sourcing service program with server monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and online service or a complete round-the-clock outsourcing package. Progent offers expertise in Operations Manager 2007 to provide small company networks world-class availability, protection, and performance.
Exchange Server 2013 includes significant improvements to the capabilities of Microsoft Exchange 2010 and introduces powerful innovations plus a redesigned structure. These enhancements affect vital areas such as ease of administration, availability, compliance, cost of ownership, collaboration, expandability, throughput, cross-version interoperability, and the user experience. Progent's certified Exchange Server 2013 consulting professionals can help you evaluate the possible advantages of migrating to Exchange Server 2013, create an efficient validation and deployment plan, and educate your IT team to maintain your Exchange 2013 solution. Progent also offers affordable online support and management for Exchange Server 2013.
Progent's certified Windows Server 2022 consultants can assist your organization to design and carry out an efficient migration to Windows Server 2022 that features high availability and that uses a self-hosted system architecture or a hybrid model that combines cloud-based Windows Server on Azure with an on-site implementation of Windows Server 2022.
Progent's Citrix consultants can assist you to design, deploy, administer, and support a virtual Windows application delivery solution built on Citrix XenApp. Progent's Cisco CCIE network engineers can show you how to optimize your network infrastructure for distributing server-side and client-side applications, and Progent's datacenter support experts can assist you to administer and maintain an off-site datacenter that offers high availability, enhanced security, and fast recovery.