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At the Tech•Ed 2009 conference in Berlin, Business Division President Stephen Elop introduced the release of Microsoft Exchange 2010. Equipped with a new architecture that increases availability, strengthens protection, reduces cost of ownership, and streamlines administration, Microsoft Exchange 2010 joins Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as a member of the next generation of IT solutions created to enhance business efficiency and profitability.

Microsoft Exchange 2010's enhancements in the area of system uptime include the use of database availability groups that automatically copy mailboxes and provide fast, automatic restoration from hard disk or processor failures without complicated hardware clustering schemes. Innovations like retention management policies, role-based connection control, and block or quarantine lists for mobile devices improve security. To accelerate ROI, 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 storage. To read Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft Releases Exchange Server 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Certified Engineers Can Help You with Microsoft Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can provide a broad selection of Exchange Server 2010 support skills and can help you to evaluate the advantages and risks of implementing Microsoft Exchange 2010, manage pilot testing to verify the functionality and throughput of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in your environment, plan a Microsoft Exchange 2010 implementation that improves the uptime, security, and productivity of your email system, produce a practical upgrade plan that minimizes business interruption and optimizes the use of existing hardware, provide affordable remote and on-premises support to execute your move to Exchange 2010, generate comprehensive documentation of your upgraded messaging environment, educate your IT team and end users to get them ramped up quickly on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and offer continuing administrative and engineering help.

Progent focuses in providing remote consulting and technical support, which can save you both time and money in the course of your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. By offering rapid remote contact with certified Exchange professionals, Progent eliminates the cost and delay attached to onsite support. For environments that call for hands-on assistance, Progent can dispatch a consulting professional to any state and most zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's network consultants offer a variety of additional affordable support services to enhance the efficiency, fault tolerance, security, performance, and ease of administration of email systems based on Exchange 2010:

Network Infrastructure Architecture and Troubleshooting Help from Cisco CCIE Network Experts
Progent offers the knowledge of Cisco CCIE engineers to help you to enhance your network infrastructure to support the fault-tolerance, security, and wireless access features incorporated in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent can demonstrate cost-effective techniques to set up Cisco network appliances to attain the top level of network uptime, protection, and performance. Progent's Cisco CCIE professionals are experts in delivering remote assistance so that your organization can benefit from world-class network infrastructure consulting at a cost that small businesses can handle.

Security Inventory Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISM and CISA certified network security engineers can oversee a variety of cost-effective security vulnerability evaluation service packages that offer companies of any size a chance to receive an objective, expert opinion about the strength of their security scheme for supporting Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. These fixed-price security scanning service bundles range from a low-cost external security evaluation package for small organizations up to an advanced offering for institutions who have to meet security criteria demanded by government mandates or by clients. For each security assessment bundle, consultants with high-level security certifications examine and report on scanned data and make recommendations for efficient improvements.

Disaster Recovery and Backup
Progent's business continuity planning consultants can help your company to design a business continuity plan so your business can restore critical business operations in the event of an information system breakdown brought about by natural disaster, cyber attack, hardware problems, human error, or other causes. Progent's consultants can assist you to develop a complete business continuity strategy that includes scheduled disaster response drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified IT experts can also help your business to build an economical, fault-tolerant network infrastructure that addresses reliability issues covering a wide range of network technologies and processes such as clustering, system load balancing, and virtualization. Progent's engineers can also offer Data Protection Manager support services to help you deploy DPM for ongoing remote data backup and fast recovery.

Wireless Messaging Consulting for RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's mobile messaging engineers can minimize management stress and costs by assisting you to identify, configure, administer, and support mobile productivity technologies that make sense for your business goals. Progent's consultants can help your organization to execute an Exchange Server 2010 migration that dramatically enhances support for on-the-go employees by providing seamless integration with major mobile handheld devices such as BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Windows Mobile handsets. Progent's RIM BlackBerry experts can in addition help your company to incorporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Microsoft Exchange 2010 solution.

Virtualization Support
Progent's system management professionals have certified experience with major virtualization platforms and can provide Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server consulting, VMware virtual server engineering services, and Citrix XenServer consulting. Progent's engineers can show your company ways to integrate Exchange Server 2010 into a virtual server solution that maximizes performance, increases availability, simplifies administration, speeds up data recovery time, and lowers your costs for hardware and support. As an example, Progent can assist you to use Hyper-V's support for System Center Virtual Machine Manager to unify the administration of your company's virtual environment.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting services to help you to install, manage, and support Microsoft's latest server product and ensure that Exchange Server 2010 is seamlessly integrated into a powerful IT network based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's consultants can assist you to install and analyze pilot systems, create and execute a migration plan that minimizes business interruptions, solidify your network infrastructure, fortify your protection, and implement server and storage clustering and machine virtualization options that enhance the business value of your information investment.

Windows 7 Upgrade and Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to install, manage, and support Windows 7 computers to ensure that Microsoft's most advanced client platform functions efficiently with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent's Windows 7 upgrade services include cost and risk analysis, project management, pilot installations under realistic conditions, minimally intrusive deployment of Windows 7 clients, comprehensive documentation, webinar classes for desktop users and system administrators, plus ongoing technical assistance via Progent's low-cost remote help desk services.

To find out additional details about Progent's support for Exchange 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.