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At the Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2009 conference in Germany, Business Division President Stephen Elop introduced the production release of Exchange Server 2010. Built with a new structure that increases availability, strengthens protection, reduces deployment costs, and streamlines administration, Microsoft Exchange 2010 joins Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 as part of the next wave of IT platforms designed to increase business efficiency and profits.

Exchange Server 2010’s improvements in the area of fault tolerance include the introduction of database availability groups that automatically replicate mailboxes and offer rapid, unassisted restoration from hard disk or server failures without complicated clustering schemes. Innovations such as retention management policies, role-based access control, and block or quarantine control for wireless handsets improve security. To improve return on investment, Exchange 2010 can save up to 20% on operational expenses, 50% on server fault tolerance, 40% on voice mail costs, and 70% on disk storage. To see Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft Releases Exchange 2010.

How Progent's Microsoft Gold Certified Consultants Can Help You with Microsoft Exchange 2010
Progent's Microsoft Gold certified engineers offer a wide selection of Exchange Server 2010 integration services and can assist you to assess the benefits and risks of implementing Microsoft Exchange 2010, manage pilot testing to verify the functionality and throughput of Exchange Server 2010 in your network, plan an Exchange 2010 implementation that improves the availability, protection, and productivity of your email system, create an efficient rollout strategy that avoids operational disruption and optimizes the utilization of current hardware, deliver affordable remote and on-premises support to carry out your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, generate thorough 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 ongoing administrative and engineering help.

Progent focuses in offering remote consulting and network support, which can save you significant time and money during your upgrade to Exchange 2010. By offering rapid remote access to Microsoft-certified Exchange 2010 professionals, Progent eliminates the expense and delay attached to onsite support. For situations that call for hands-on assistance, Progent can send a consulting expert to any state and the majority of zip codes in the U.S.

Progent's network consultants offer a range of additional low-cost support services to improve the productivity, fault tolerance, protection, performance, and ease of administration of messaging environments based on Exchange Server 2010:

Network Infrastructure Architecture and Optimization from Cisco CCIE Experts
Progent can provide the skills of Cisco CCIE engineers to help you to enhance your network infrastructure to exploit the high-availability, security and compliance, and wireless connectivity technologies incorporated in Exchange Server 2010. Progent can explain economical techniques to configure Cisco network appliances to attain the top level of network uptime, security, and capacity. Progent's CCIE professionals are experts in delivering online assistance so that your organization can get enterprise-class network expertise at a cost that small businesses can handle.

Security Vulnerability Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISSP and CISM certified security engineers can provide a variety of cost-effective security vulnerability evaluation service packages that give organization of any size a chance to get an objective, professional opinion about the suitability of their security scheme for integration with Exchange Server 2010. These fixed-price assessment service bundles vary from an inexpensive external security evaluation package for small companies up to a high-level offering for businesses who have to comply with security standards demanded by government mandates or by customers. For every security assessment bundle, consultants with top security certifications examine and document automatically collected information and offer suggestions for sensible enhancements.

Disaster Recovery and Archiving
Progent's business continuity planning experts can help your company to design a workplace recovery strategy so your business can resume critical business functions in case of an information system collapse due to natural events, cyber attack, equipment problems, human error, or other sources. Progent can help your company to create a comprehensive workplace recovery strategy that incorporates periodic disaster response testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also assist you to build an economical, high-uptime system infrastructure that takes into account dependability issues concerning a wide array of system technologies and procedures including server and storage clustering, system load balancing, and virtual machines. Progent can also provide Data Protection Manager support expertise to help you deploy DPM for ongoing remote network backup and rapid restoration.

Wireless Email Expertise for RIM BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile Devices
Progent's wireless email consultants can reduce management stress and costs by helping your company to select, set up, administer, and support mobile messaging technologies that align with your business goals. Progent's consultants can assist you to carry out a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 upgrade that significantly enhances support for on-the-go workers by providing seamless connectivity with popular wireless handheld devices such as BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones, and Windows Mobile PDAs. Progent's BlackBerry consultants can in addition assist your company to integrate BlackBerry Enterprise Server into your Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment.

Virtualization Consulting
Progent's seasoned network management consultants have in-depth experience with key virtualization technologies and can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual support, VMware virtual server help, and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent's engineers can show your company ways to integrate Microsoft Exchange 2010 into a virtual machine environment that maximizes speed, improves availability, simplifies administration, reduces data recovery time, and lowers your investment in equipment and support. As an example, Progent can show you how to use 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 R2 Support
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified consultants offer Microsoft Windows Server 2008 engineering services to help your company to install, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft's most advanced server platform and make sure that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is tightly incorporated into a state-of-the-art IT environment based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Progent's experts can help you to install and evaluate pilot simulations, develop and carry out an upgrade strategy that minimizes operations disruption, solidify your network infrastructure, fortify your protection, and implement clustering and virtualization configurations that enhance the strategic value of your IT network.

Windows 7 Upgrade and Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified consultants can help your organization to install, manage, and support Microsoft Windows 7 computers to make sure Microsoft’s latest client technology operates productively with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Progent’s Windows 7 upgrade services include cost and risk analysis, project management, test evaluations under realistic workloads, minimally disruptive rollout of Microsoft Windows 7 clients, extensive documentation, interactive webinar classes for desktop workers and network administrators, plus continuing IT assistance via Progent's economical remote help desk services.

To find out additional details about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.