Exchange 2010 ExpertiseAt the Tech•Ed Europe 2009 conference in Berlin, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced the release of Exchange 2010. Equipped with a new design that improves availability, bolsters security and compliance, reduces costs, and streamlines management, Exchange 2010 joins Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 as a member of a new generation of IT solutions designed to increase business efficiency and profits.

Exchange Server 2010’s enhancements in the area of fault tolerance include the use of database availability groups that automatically copy mailboxes and provide fast, unassisted recovery from disk or server breakdowns without complicated hardware clustering configurations. Features like retention control policies, role-based access management, and block or quarantine control for wireless devices improve security and compliance. To improve ROI, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 can save up to 20% on support expenses, 50% on server redundancy, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on hard disk subsystems. To view Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Ships Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Gold Certified Engineers Can Assist You with Microsoft Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants offer a broad range of Exchange Server 2010 support services and can help you to evaluate the advantages and costs of implementing Exchange 2010, manage pilot simulations to verify the functionality and throughput of Microsoft Exchange 2010 in your network, design a Microsoft Exchange 2010 solution that enhances the availability, security, and capability of your messaging system, create a practical migration plan that minimizes operational interruption and maximizes the utilization of current equipment, deliver low-cost online and onsite support to carry out your migration to Exchange 2010, produce comprehensive documentation of your upgraded email system, train your network support staff and end users to get them ramped up rapidly on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and offer ongoing administrative and engineering support.

Progent focuses in offering remote engineering and network support services, which can save your company significant time and money during your move to Microsoft Exchange 2010. By offering fast online access to Microsoft-certified Exchange professionals, Progent eliminates the cost and delay attached to onsite service. For environments that require in-person assistance, Progent can send a consulting professional to every state and most zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's network professionals offer a range of additional low-cost services to enhance the efficiency, fault tolerance, protection, speed, and manageability of messaging systems powered by Exchange Server 2010:

Infrastructure Design and Optimization from Cisco CCIE Experts
Progent offers the skills of Cisco CCIE network engineers to help your business to enhance your connectivity architecture to exploit the fault-tolerance, security, and wireless connectivity technologies built into Microsoft Exchange 2010. Progent can demonstrate economical ways to configure Cisco network appliances to attain the top degree of system uptime, security, and capacity. Progent's CCIE professionals are experts in providing remote consulting so that your company can get world-class network expertise at a cost that small organizations can handle.

Security Inventory Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISSP certified network security consultants can provide a selection of affordable security inventory evaluation service bundles that offer organization of any size a chance to have an objective, professional assessment about the strength of their security scheme for integration with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. These set-price assessment service bundles vary from a low-cost external security scan and assessment offering for small companies up to an advanced offering for businesses who have to comply with security criteria demanded by government mandates or by business partners. For each security assessment bundle, consultants with top security credentials analyze and report on automatically collected information and make suggestions for sensible improvements.

Disaster Recovery and Backup
Progent's disaster recovery consultants can help your company to create a business continuity strategy so your business can resume essential business functions in case of an IT system collapse brought about by natural events, cyber attack, equipment problems, operator error, or other causes. Progent can assist you to develop a comprehensive workplace recovery strategy that includes periodic disaster response drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can also help your business to build an economical, high-availability network infrastructure that takes into account reliability issues covering a wide array of system technologies and processes such as clustering, network load balancing, and virtualization. Progent can also offer Data Protection Manager integration services to assist you configure DPM for continual remote system backup and fast recovery.

Mobile Email Expertise for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's wireless email experts can minimize management stress and expenses by assisting your company to identify, configure, manage, and support mobile messaging solutions that align with your business goals. Progent can assist you to execute an Exchange Server 2010 migration that significantly enhances the productivity of on-the-go workers by offering seamless connectivity with major mobile handsets including RIM BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Microsoft Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's RIM BlackBerry specialists can also help you to integrate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment.

Virtualization Help
Progent's seasoned network management consultants have in-depth expertise in key virtual server technologies and can provide Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server consulting, VMware virtual server engineering services, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's certified professionals can show your company ways to integrate Microsoft Exchange 2010 into a virtualized server environment that maximizes speed, improves availability, streamlines administration, reduces restoration time, and significantly lowers your costs for equipment and maintenance. As an example, Progent can show you how to use Hyper-V's support for Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager to unify the administration of your virtualized environment.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Integration Help
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can provide Windows Server 2008 R2 consulting support to assist you to configure, manage, and support Microsoft's most advanced server product and make sure that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is seamlessly integrated into a state-of-the-art information environment based on Windows Server 2008 R2. Progent's consultants can help your company to set up and evaluate pilot systems, create and execute a migration strategy that reduces business interruptions, solidify your network infrastructure, bolster your security, and set up server and storage clustering and machine virtualization options that improve the strategic value of your IT investment.

Windows 7 Migration and Client Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your business to configure, manage, and support Windows 7 computers to make sure Microsoft’s latest client technology functions productively with Exchange 2010. Progent’s Microsoft Windows 7 migration services include cost/benefit analysis, project management, test installations under authentic conditions, minimally disruptive rollout of Microsoft Windows 7 desktops, thorough project documentation, webinar training for desktop users and network managers, plus ongoing IT help from Progent's low-cost online help desk support services.

For more information about Progent's consulting for Exchange 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.