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At the Tech•Ed Europe 2009 conference in Berlin, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the production release of Exchange 2010. With a new architecture that increases availability, bolsters security and compliance, lowers costs, and streamlines management, Microsoft Exchange 2010 teams with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 as part of a new generation of information technology platforms created to enhance business efficiency and profits.

Exchange 2010's improvements in the area of fault tolerance include the introduction of database availability groups that automatically copy mailboxes and provide rapid, unassisted recovery from hard disk or processor breakdowns without complicated hardware clustering configurations. Innovations such as retention control policies, role-based access control, and block or quarantine lists for mobile devices strengthen security. To accelerate return on investment, Microsoft Exchange 2010 can save as much as 20% on support expenses, 50% on full server redundancy, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on disk subsystems. To see Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft Releases Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Engineers Can Help Your Business with Microsoft Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified engineers can provide a broad range of Microsoft Exchange 2010 consulting support services and can help your business to evaluate the advantages and risks of implementing Exchange 2010, conduct realistic simulations to determine the functionality and throughput of Exchange Server 2010 in your network, plan an Exchange Server 2010 configuration that improves the availability, security, and productivity of your messaging system, create an efficient migration plan that reduces operational disruption and optimizes the utilization of current hardware, deliver affordable online and onsite help to carry out your move to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, produce comprehensive documentation of your new messaging environment, educate your IT staff and users to get them up to speed quickly on Exchange 2010, and provide continuing administrative and engineering help.

Progent focuses in providing remote engineering and technical support, which can save your company significant time and expense in the course of your move to Exchange 2010. By offering rapid remote access to Microsoft-certified Exchange experts, Progent eliminates the cost and business interruption attached to onsite support. For situations that require in-person assistance, Progent can send a consulting expert to any state and most zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's IT consultants offer a range of other low-cost support services to improve the efficiency, availability, protection, speed, and ease of administration of messaging environments based on Microsoft Exchange 2010:

Network Architecture and Optimization from Cisco Certified CCIE Network Experts
Progent can provide the skills of Cisco CCIE experts to help you to enhance your network architecture to exploit the high-availability, protection, and mobile access features included with Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent can explain economical techniques to deploy Cisco switches and routers to attain the top level of network uptime, protection, and capacity. Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers are experts in delivering remote support so that your company can get world-class network expertise at a cost that small organizations can handle.

Security Inventory Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISSP certified security engineers can oversee a selection of affordable security vulnerability evaluation service bundles that give organization of any size a chance to receive an objective, professional opinion about the strength of their network security environment for supporting Exchange Server 2010. These set-price assessment packages vary from an inexpensive external security evaluation offering for small companies up to an advanced package for businesses who have to meet security standards demanded by state regulations or by business partners. For each security evaluation bundle, engineers with high-level security certifications analyze and report on automatically collected data and make recommendations for sensible enhancements.

Disaster Recovery and Backup
Progent's disaster recovery experts can help your company to design a disaster recovery plan so you can restore critical business operations in case of an IT system breakdown due to natural disaster, malicious assault, hardware failure, human mistakes, or other causes. Progent's consultants can assist your company to create a comprehensive business continuity strategy that includes scheduled disaster response drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants can also assist your business to establish an economical, high-availability system infrastructure that addresses dependability issues covering a broad array of network technologies and procedures such as server clustering, load balancing, and virtualization. Progent can also provide System Center Data Protection Manager integration services to assist you configure DPM for continual online system backup and fast restoration.

Mobile Email Expertise for RIM BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's mobile messaging experts can minimize hassle and expenses by assisting your company to identify, set up, administer, and troubleshoot mobile messaging technologies that make sense for your business goals. Progent can help you with an Exchange 2010 migration that dramatically improves support for on-the-go employees by providing seamless connectivity with major wireless handheld devices such as BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and Microsoft Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's RIM BlackBerry experts can in addition help you to incorporate BlackBerry BES Server into your Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment.

Virtualization and Server Management Consulting
Progent's system management consultants have in-depth experience with key virtualization platforms and offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual support, VMware virtual technologies help, and Citrix XenServer consulting. Progent's engineers can show you how to integrate Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 into a virtual server solution that maximizes performance, improves uptime, simplifies management, reduces data recovery time, and significantly lowers your investment in hardware and maintenance. For example, Progent's engineers can show you how to utilize Windows Hyper-V's integration with Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager to unify the management of your company's virtualized network.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting services to help your company to install, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft's most advanced server platform and make sure that Exchange 2010 is seamlessly incorporated into a state-of-the-art IT environment based on Windows Server 2008 R2. Progent's experts can assist you to install and analyze pilot systems, create and carry out an upgrade plan that reduces business disruption, solidify your network architecture, fortify your protection, and set up clustering and virtualization options that improve the strategic value of your information system.

Microsoft Windows 7 Migration and Client Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Windows 7 computers to make sure Microsoft's most powerful client technology operates productively with Exchange 2010. Progent's Windows 7 upgrade services include cost and risk assessment, project management, test evaluations under authentic conditions, minimally intrusive rollout of Windows 7 desktops, extensive project documentation, interactive webinar classes for desktop users and system administrators, plus continuing technical assistance from Progent's low-cost online help desk support services.

To find out more information concerning Progent's consulting for Microsoft Exchange 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.