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At the Tech•Ed 2009 conference in Berlin, Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Exchange 2010. With a new architecture that increases availability, strengthens security, lowers deployment costs, and simplifies administration, Exchange Server 2010 teams with Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 as a member of the next wave of IT solutions created to enhance business productivity and profits.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010’s enhancements in the area of system uptime include the introduction of database availability groups that automatically replicate mailboxes and offer fast, automatic recovery from hard disk or processor failures without complex clustering configurations. Features such as retention management policies, role-based access management, and block or quarantine lists for wireless devices improve protection. To accelerate ROI, Exchange 2010 can conserve as much as 20% on operational expenses, 50% on full server fault tolerance, 40% on voice mail, and 70% on hard disk storage. To read Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Announces Release of Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Gold Certified Engineers Can Help Your Business with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants offer a wide range of Exchange Server 2010 support skills and can assist your business to assess the benefits and costs of deploying Microsoft Exchange 2010, manage realistic testing to verify the operation and performance of Exchange Server 2010 in your environment, design an Exchange Server 2010 implementation that improves the uptime, protection, and productivity of your email system, create a practical rollout strategy that avoids operational interruption and optimizes the use of current hardware, deliver low-cost online and onsite support to execute your move to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, generate comprehensive documentation of your upgraded messaging environment, train your network support team and end users to get them up to speed rapidly on Exchange 2010, and provide ongoing administrative and engineering support.

Progent focuses in providing remote engineering and network support services, which can save your business significant time and money during your upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. By delivering rapid remote contact with certified Exchange 2010 professionals, Progent avoids the expense and delay associated with on-premises service. For situations that require on-premises assistance, Progent can send a support professional to every state and most zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's IT professionals can deliver a selection of other affordable services to improve the efficiency, fault tolerance, protection, performance, and ease of administration of email environments powered by Microsoft Exchange Server 2010:

Network Infrastructure Design and Optimization from Cisco CCIE Experts
Progent offers the skills of Cisco CCIE network experts to assist your business to enhance your connectivity architecture to support the fault-tolerance, security and compliance, and mobile access technologies included with Exchange 2010. Progent can show you cost-effective ways to deploy Cisco network appliances to achieve the top degree of system uptime, security, and performance. Progent's CCIE engineers are experts in providing remote consulting so that your organization can benefit from enterprise-class network infrastructure consulting at a cost that small companies can afford.

Security Vulnerability Scanning Packages
Progent's CISSP and CISM certified network security consultants can provide a variety of cost-effective security vulnerability evaluation service packages that give organization of any size an opportunity to have an unbiased, expert assessment about the suitability of their network security scheme for supporting Exchange Server 2010. These set-price security scanning packages range from a low-cost external security scan and assessment offering for small organizations up to a high-level package for businesses who need to meet security standards demanded by state or industry regulations or by clients. For each security assessment package, engineers with top security credentials analyze and document scanned data and offer recommendations for efficient enhancements.

Disaster Recovery and Backup
Progent's disaster recovery engineers can assist your company to design a workplace recovery strategy so you can restore essential network operations in the event of an IT system breakdown due to natural events, malicious attack, hardware failure, operator error, or other causes. Progent can assist you to develop a comprehensive business continuity plan that incorporates periodic disaster recovery drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized IT experts can also assist you to establish an affordable, high-uptime system architecture that addresses reliability issues concerning a broad range of system technologies and processes including server and storage clustering, network load balancing, and virtual machines. Progent can also offer Data Protection Manager support expertise to assist you configure DPM for continual remote network backup and fast recovery.

Mobile Email Consulting for RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's wireless messaging engineers can reduce management stress and expenses by helping you to identify, set up, administer, and support wireless messaging solutions that make sense for your business goals. Progent can help you with a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 upgrade that significantly improves the productivity of mobile workers by offering tight connectivity with major mobile handsets such as BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's BlackBerry consultants can also help you to integrate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment.

Virtualization and Server Management Consulting
Progent's system management professionals have certified experience with key virtual server technologies and offer Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual support, VMware virtual technologies help, and Citrix XenServer consulting. Progent's certified professionals can show you ways to incorporate Microsoft Exchange 2010 into a virtualized server environment that optimizes speed, increases availability, simplifies management, reduces data recovery time, and significantly lowers your costs for hardware and maintenance. For example, Progent's engineers can assist you to utilize Windows Hyper-V's integration with Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the management of your company's virtualized network.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 consulting services to assist your company to configure, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft's most advanced server platform and ensure that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is tightly integrated into a powerful information environment based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Progent can help you to set up and evaluate pilot systems, create and carry out a migration plan that minimizes operations interruptions, strengthen your network architecture, fortify your security, and set up server and storage clustering and virtualization options that enhance the business value of your information environment.

Microsoft Windows 7 Migration and Client Support
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers can help you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows 7 computers to ensure that Microsoft’s most advanced client platform operates productively with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Microsoft Windows 7 upgrade services include cost and risk assessment, project management, pilot installations under authentic workloads, minimally intrusive rollout of Windows 7 clients, extensive project documentation, webinar classes for desktop users and network administrators, plus ongoing technical help via Progent's economical online help desk support services.

For additional details concerning Progent's consulting and support for Exchange 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.