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At the Tech•Ed 2009 show in Berlin, Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the worldwide availability of Exchange 2010. Equipped with a new architecture that improves uptime, bolsters security and compliance, reduces deployment costs, and streamlines administration, Microsoft Exchange 2010 teams with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as a member of a new generation of IT solutions created to enhance business efficiency and bottom-line profit.

Microsoft Exchange 2010’s enhancements in the area of fault tolerance include the introduction of database availability groups that continuously copy mailboxes and offer rapid, automatic recovery from disk or server failures without complex clustering configurations. Innovations like retention control policies, role-based access control, and allow/block or quarantine control for wireless devices improve security. To accelerate ROI, Exchange 2010 can conserve up to 20% on operational expenses, 50% on full server redundancy, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on hard disk storage. To view Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft Announces Release of Exchange Server 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Gold Certified Consultants Can Help Your Business with Microsoft Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified engineers offer a wide range of Microsoft Exchange 2010 integration skills and can assist you to evaluate the benefits and risks of implementing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, conduct realistic testing to verify the functionality and throughput of Exchange 2010 in your environment, design a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 implementation that enhances the availability, protection, and capability of your email system, create an efficient migration plan that minimizes business disruption and optimizes the use of current equipment, deliver affordable online and on-premises support to execute your migration to Exchange Server 2010, generate comprehensive documentation of your upgraded email environment, educate your network support team and users to get them up to speed rapidly on Exchange Server 2010, and provide ongoing management and engineering support.

Progent focuses in providing remote engineering and technical support services, which can save you both time and expense during your move to Exchange Server 2010. By offering fast remote contact with certified Exchange experts, Progent avoids the cost and delay attached to onsite service. For situations that require hands-on help, Progent can send a consulting expert to any state and the majority of zip codes in the United States.

Progent's network professionals can provide a selection of additional low-cost services to improve the efficiency, availability, security, speed, and ease of administration of messaging systems based on Microsoft Exchange 2010:

Network Infrastructure Design and Optimization from Cisco Certified CCIE Engineers
Progent can provide the knowledge of Cisco Certified CCIE network engineers to help your business to enhance your network architecture to exploit the high-availability, security and compliance, and wireless access technologies included with Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent can explain economical techniques to set up Cisco network appliances to attain the top degree of network uptime, protection, and capacity. Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers are experts in delivering online support so that your organization can get enterprise-class network infrastructure consulting at a price that small organizations can handle.

Security Inventory Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISSP and CISM certified network security consultants can oversee a variety of cost-effective security inventory evaluation service bundles that offer organization of any size an opportunity to have an objective, professional assessment about the strength of their network security environment for supporting Exchange 2010. These set-price security scanning service bundles vary from a low-cost external security evaluation offering for small organizations up to a high-level offering for businesses who have to comply with security criteria demanded by state mandates or by business partners. For every security assessment package, consultants with top security credentials analyze and report on scanned data and offer recommendations for efficient improvements.

Disaster Recovery and Archiving
Progent's backup and recovery consultants can help your company to design a business continuity plan so you can restore essential network operations in the event of an information network breakdown brought about by natural disaster, cyber attack, equipment failure, human error, or other causes. Progent's consultants can assist your organization to create a complete business continuity plan that includes periodic disaster recovery testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants can also assist your business to design and build an economical, high-uptime system infrastructure that takes into account reliability issues concerning a wide array of system technologies and processes such as server and storage clustering, system load balancing, and virtualization. Progent's engineers can also offer Data Protection Manager integration services to assist you configure DPM for ongoing online system backup and fast restoration.

Wireless Messaging Expertise for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Microsoft Windows Mobile Handsets
Progent's mobile email experts can minimize management stress and costs by assisting you to select, configure, manage, and troubleshoot mobile messaging solutions that align with your business goals. Progent can help you to execute an Exchange 2010 migration that significantly enhances the productivity of mobile workers by providing tight integration with major mobile handheld devices such as RIM BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's RIM BlackBerry experts can also assist you to integrate BlackBerry BES Server into your Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 solution.

Virtualization and Server Management Consulting
Progent's network management consultants offer in-depth expertise in major virtual server platforms and can provide Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server support, VMware virtualization help, and Citrix XenServer consulting. Progent's certified professionals can show your company ways to incorporate Exchange 2010 into a virtualized server environment that maximizes speed, increases uptime, simplifies administration, speeds up data recovery time, and lowers your investment in equipment and maintenance. For example, Progent can show you how to use Windows Hyper-V's integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize the management of your virtualized environment.

Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 consulting support to assist your company to configure, manage, and support Microsoft's latest server product and make sure that Exchange 2010 is tightly integrated into a state-of-the-art IT environment powered by Windows Server 2008. Progent's experts can help your company to set up and analyze pilot simulations, develop and execute a migration strategy that reduces business interruptions, strengthen your network architecture, bolster your protection, and set up clustering and machine virtualization options that enhance the business value of your information system.

Microsoft Windows 7 Migration and Desktop Support
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified consultants can help your business to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows 7 computers to make sure Microsoft’s latest client technology functions productively with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Microsoft Windows 7 migration services include cost and risk assessment, project management, test installations under realistic workloads, minimally intrusive rollout of Microsoft Windows 7 clients, extensive documentation, webinar training for desktop users and system managers, plus ongoing IT help from Progent's economical remote help desk support services.

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