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At the Tech•Ed 2009 show in Germany, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the production release of Exchange 2010. Built with an innovative design that increases uptime, strengthens security and compliance, lowers deployment costs, and streamlines management, Exchange 2010 teams with Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 as a member of a new wave of information technology solutions designed to enhance business productivity and profitability.

Exchange Server 2010’s improvements in the field of fault tolerance include the introduction of database availability groups that continuously copy mailboxes and provide fast, automatic recovery from hard disk or processor breakdowns without complex hardware clustering schemes. Features such as retention control policies, role-based access control, and block or quarantine lists for wireless devices improve security and compliance. To improve ROI, Microsoft Exchange 2010 can conserve up to 20% on operational costs, 50% on server redundancy, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on hard disk subsystems. To see Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Delivers Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Consultants Can Help You with Exchange Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can provide a broad range of Microsoft Exchange 2010 integration skills and can help you to evaluate the advantages and costs of deploying Microsoft Exchange 2010, conduct pilot simulations to verify the operation and performance of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in your environment, design an Exchange 2010 configuration that improves the uptime, protection, and productivity of your messaging system, produce a practical rollout strategy that avoids business disruption and maximizes the utilization of current equipment, deliver low-cost remote and on-premises support to carry out your migration to Microsoft Exchange 2010, produce extensive documentation of your upgraded messaging system, train your IT team and users to get them up to speed quickly on Exchange Server 2010, and offer ongoing management and technical help.

Progent focuses in offering online consulting and technical support services, which can save you both time and money during your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. By delivering rapid online contact with Microsoft-certified Exchange professionals, Progent eliminates the expense and business interruption associated with on-premises service. For situations that call for hands-on help, Progent can send a consulting professional to any state and the majority of zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's IT consultants can deliver a range of additional low-cost support services to enhance the productivity, uptime, protection, performance, and ease of administration of email systems powered by Exchange Server 2010:

Network Design and Optimization from Cisco Certified CCIE Experts
Progent offers the skills of Cisco CCIE engineers to help your business to optimize your connectivity architecture to benefit from the high-availability, protection, and mobile connectivity technologies included with Exchange 2010. Progent can demonstrate cost-effective techniques to set up Cisco switches and routers to achieve the top degree of network uptime, protection, and performance. Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers are experts in providing online support so that your company can get enterprise-class network infrastructure expertise at a price that small businesses can afford.

Security Inventory Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISSP certified network security consultants can provide a selection of cost-effective security vulnerability scanning service packages that offer organization of any size a chance to get an objective, professional assessment about the strength of their security environment for supporting Microsoft Exchange 2010. These fixed-price security scanning service bundles range from an inexpensive external security evaluation package for small companies up to a high-level offering for businesses who need to comply with security standards demanded by government mandates or by business partners. For every security evaluation package, consultants with top security certifications examine and document scanned data and make recommendations for efficient improvements.

Disaster Recovery and Archiving
Progent's disaster recovery consultants can help your company to create a business continuity strategy so your business can resume critical business functions in case of an information system collapse brought about by natural events, malicious assault, equipment problems, operator error, or other causes. Progent's consultants can help your company to create a comprehensive business continuity strategy that incorporates periodic disaster response testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants can also help your business to establish an economical, fault-tolerant network architecture that takes into account resilience issues covering a wide range of network technologies and processes including clustering, load balancing, and virtualization. Progent's engineers can also provide System Center Data Protection Manager support services to help you deploy DPM for continual remote system backup and fast recovery.

Mobile Messaging Expertise for RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's wireless messaging engineers can reduce hassle and expenses by assisting your company to select, set up, manage, and support wireless productivity technologies that make sense for your business goals. Progent can help you to execute an Exchange Server 2010 migration that dramatically improves the productivity of on-the-go employees by providing tight connectivity with major wireless handheld devices such as BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's BlackBerry consultants can in addition help your company to incorporate BlackBerry BES Server into your Microsoft Exchange 2010 solution.

Virtualization and Server Management Support
Progent's network management professionals offer in-depth experience with key virtual server platforms and offer Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server support, VMware virtualization engineering services, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's certified professionals can show your company how to integrate Exchange 2010 into a virtual machine solution that maximizes speed, increases availability, simplifies administration, speeds up data recovery time, and significantly lowers your investment in equipment and support. For example, Progent's engineers can help you to use Hyper-V's support for Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager to unify the management of your virtualized network.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 engineering support services to help your company to configure, manage, and support Microsoft's most advanced server technology and make sure that Exchange 2010 is tightly integrated into a powerful information network based on Windows Server 2008. Progent's consultants can assist you to set up and analyze pilot systems, develop and carry out a migration strategy that reduces business disruption, strengthen your network architecture, bolster your security, and implement clustering and virtualization options that enhance the business value of your IT investment.

Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade and Client Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist your business to install, manage, and troubleshoot Windows 7 desktops to make sure Microsoft’s most advanced client technology functions efficiently with Exchange 2010. Progent’s Windows 7 migration and support services include cost/benefit analysis, project management, pilot installations under authentic workloads, minimally intrusive rollout of Microsoft Windows 7 desktops, comprehensive documentation, interactive webinar classes for desktop users and system managers, plus ongoing technical help from Progent's low-cost remote help desk support services.

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