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At the Tech•Ed 2009 show in Germany, Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the worldwide availability of Exchange 2010. Built with a new structure that increases availability, strengthens security and compliance, reduces cost of ownership, and simplifies administration, Exchange Server 2010 joins Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 as part of the next wave of information technology solutions designed to increase business productivity and bottom-line profit.

Microsoft Exchange 2010’s improvements in the field of fault tolerance include the introduction of database availability groups that automatically copy mailboxes and offer fast, automatic recovery from hard disk or server breakdowns without complex hardware clustering configurations. Innovations such as retention management policies, role-based access control, and block or quarantine lists for wireless handsets improve protection. To accelerate ROI, Microsoft Exchange 2010 can conserve as much as 20% on operational expenses, 50% on full server redundancy, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on disk subsystems. To view Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Releases Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Consultants Can Help You with Exchange Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified engineers can provide a broad range of Exchange 2010 integration skills and can help you to assess the advantages and risks of implementing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, manage realistic simulations to determine the functionality and performance of Exchange 2010 in your network, design an Exchange Server 2010 solution that enhances the uptime, security, and capability of your messaging system, create an efficient upgrade plan that reduces business disruption and maximizes the use of current equipment, provide affordable remote and on-premises help to carry out your move to Exchange 2010, produce thorough documentation of your upgraded email system, train your IT staff and end users to get them up to speed rapidly on Microsoft Exchange 2010, and offer ongoing administrative and technical support.

Progent specializes in offering remote consulting and network support services, which can save your business both time and expense in the course of your move to Exchange 2010. By delivering rapid online access to certified Exchange 2010 professionals, Progent eliminates the cost and delay attached to onsite support. For environments that call for in-person help, Progent can dispatch a support professional to any state and the majority of zip codes in the United States.

Progent's network professionals offer a range of additional low-cost support services to improve the efficiency, fault tolerance, protection, speed, and manageability of email environments powered by Microsoft Exchange Server 2010:

Network Architecture and Optimization from Cisco CCIE Network Engineers
Progent offers the skills of Cisco CCIE experts to help you to optimize your network infrastructure to benefit from the fault-tolerance, protection, and mobile connectivity technologies incorporated in Exchange 2010. Progent can demonstrate economical techniques to deploy Cisco network appliances to achieve the highest degree of network uptime, protection, and performance. Progent's CCIE engineers specialize in delivering remote support so that your company can get enterprise-class network infrastructure expertise at a price that small companies can handle.

Security Vulnerability Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISSP certified security consultants can provide a variety of affordable security vulnerability scanning service bundles that give organization of any size a chance to receive an unbiased, professional assessment about the strength of their network security environment for integration with Exchange Server 2010. These fixed-price assessment packages range from a low-cost external security scan and assessment package for small organizations up to a high-level package for businesses who need to meet security standards required by government mandates or by business partners. For every security assessment package, engineers with high-level security credentials analyze and document scanned information and offer recommendations for efficient enhancements.

Business Continuity Planning and Backup
Progent's disaster recovery experts can help you to design a business continuity strategy so you can resume essential business operations in case of an information system collapse brought about by natural events, malicious attack, hardware problems, operator error, or other causes. Progent can help your company to create a complete disaster recovery strategy that includes periodic disaster recovery testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants can also help your business to design and build an affordable, high-uptime network infrastructure that addresses dependability issues concerning a broad range of system technologies and procedures including server and storage clustering, system load balancing, and virtual machines. Progent's engineers can also offer Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager integration expertise to help you configure DPM for continual remote system backup and rapid recovery.

Mobile Email Expertise for RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's wireless email consultants can minimize hassle and costs by assisting your company to identify, configure, administer, and troubleshoot wireless messaging technologies that make sense for your business. Progent can help you to execute a Microsoft Exchange 2010 migration that dramatically enhances the productivity of on-the-go employees by offering seamless integration with popular mobile handheld devices such as RIM BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and Microsoft Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's RIM BlackBerry consultants can also assist your company to incorporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Exchange Server 2010 environment.

Virtualization and Server Management Consulting
Progent's network management consultants have in-depth expertise in major virtualization technologies and offer Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual support, VMware virtual technologies engineering services, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's engineers can show your company ways to incorporate Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 into a virtual machine solution that maximizes performance, improves uptime, simplifies management, speeds up data recovery time, and significantly lowers your investment in hardware and maintenance. As an example, Progent can show you how to utilize Hyper-V's support for Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the management of your company's virtual environment.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers can provide Windows Server 2008 consulting support to help your company to configure, manage, and support Microsoft's latest server technology and ensure that Exchange Server 2010 is tightly incorporated into a state-of-the-art IT network powered by Windows Server 2008. Progent's experts can assist you to install and analyze test systems, develop and execute an upgrade strategy that reduces operations interruptions, solidify your network architecture, bolster your security, and set up clustering and virtualization configurations that enhance the strategic value of your IT environment.

Windows 7 Upgrade and Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your business to configure, manage, and support Windows 7 desktops to ensure that Microsoft’s most powerful client technology functions productively with Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Windows 7 migration services include cost and risk assessment, project management, test installations under authentic workloads, minimally disruptive deployment of Windows 7 clients, comprehensive documentation, interactive webinar training for desktop users and system managers, plus continuing technical help via Progent's economical online help desk support services.

To find out additional information about Progent's consulting and support services for Microsoft Exchange 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.