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Internet Data Centers offer an attractive option for companies with the need to host applications that are delivered to a geographically dispersed user base.

For costs that are well within the IT budget of virtually any small business (often starting as low as $100 per month), companies can immediately enjoy the advantages of housing their equipment in a professional-grade Data Center whose benefits include Internet availability that usually exceeds 99.999% uptime, dramatic savings in management expenses due to the elimination of common infrastructure failures, lighting-fast Internet connections that are usually at least 60 times faster than the fastest Internet connections available to most small businesses, the highest levels of physical security, and electrical power that is immune to blackouts, brownouts, and internal breakdown.

Colocation Data Centers offer useful features including remote hands capability, a service in which Data Center staff can provide rudimentary but valuable assistance such as pushing a reset button or power cycling a server. This value-added service avoids the cost of having your in-house support personnel travel to the office to perform simple troubleshooting steps. Better yet, such Data Center services are available on a 24x7 basis, 365 days a year, relieving stress and cutting expenses by dramatically simplifying the logistics required to maintain high network availability.

There are over almost 2,000 enterprise-class Internet Data Centers in the U.S. and Progent's Data Center consulting experts can help you select one that meets the particular requirements of your business, including geographic proximity, space, connectivity, affordability, and value-added features and services.

For companies concerned about the risks associated with potentially catastrophic impacts caused by major earthquakes in the Bay Area, world-class Data Centers in the Sacramento area offer close proximity to your business while significantly reducing your network's exposure to damage from seismic events.

Internet Data Centers are especially appealing to small businesses because of their affordability and feasibility in comparison to taking a do-it-yourself approach. Trying to build an in-house data center with even a minimum level of fault tolerance by installing features such as a local computer room generator for power protection, redundant air conditioning systems, multiple Internet T1 lines, and a physically secure infrastructure, is for most small businesses either impossible due to facility limitations or financially prohibitive.

By using multiple data centers, businesses can enhance not only fault-tolerance but also performance. For example, by deploying F5 Networks' BIG-IP controller in each data center to load balance a farm of web servers, and then F5's BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (formally 3-DNS) product at each data center, Internet traffic will be spread automatically between multiple, geographically dispersed sites. The BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager routes web requests to different data centers based on their proximity to the requester, availability and current utilization/response times. This approach can accelerate application performance by up to three times, ensure that priority applications are served first, and offload expensive server cycles. For more information about Progent's support for fault tolerant technology from F5 Networks, visit Load Balancing Consulting.

High Availability Technologies Offered by Progent
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco consultants can assist you to implement a sensible, non-stop environment that resolves critical challenges encompassing a broad array of networking technologies and processes such as:

Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's disaster recovery planning professionals can show you how to design a business continuity plan in order to restore IT functionality in the event of an IT network catastrophe. Progent can assist you to develop a complete disaster recovery plan that includes periodic disaster recovery evaluations and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized professionals can also show you how to create an affordable, high-availability network solution that takes into account reliability issues involving a broad array of infrastructure technologies and procedures. To learn more, visit Business Continuity Consulting and Support Services.

CRISC-Premier Network Risk Control
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. For details, go to CRISC-Premier IT risk management specialists.

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2019 introduced significant improvements in capacity, performance, manageability, security and compliance, application compatibility, Linux support, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid combinations of on-premises and cloud assets. Headline enhancements of Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for unifying the management of hybrid on-premises/cloud-hosted deployments, System Insights for taking advantage of modern predictive analytics to control local environments, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container orchestration with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for deploying and managing large high-availability scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for simplifying the migration from outdated editions of Windows Server. For more information, go to Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Expertise.

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consultants can help your organization to design a DR system based on Microsoft's most advanced Failover Clustering tools including Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class network-attached storage using industry-standard equipment, Virtual Machine Load Balancing for enhancing the performance and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while minimizing capital investment and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for easy, economical deployment of a stretch cluster quorum witness. For details, go to Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Support.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you specify, automate and test a consistent process for recovering services rapidly after an outage. SRM supports centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site relocation, failback and site re-protect. SRM also supports transparent testing for site recovery, upgrades and fixes and can generate reports to confirm complete service restoration, validate SLAs and demonstrate disaster recovery compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to assist your organization to plan, configure, test and administer a DR system based on VMware SRM.

NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Technology
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery platform that uses failover storage clustering with replication to provide fast, zero data loss disaster recovery between sites that are up to 185 miles apart from each other. Progent can provide the skills of a NetApp MetroCluster expert who can assist your business to plan, configure, manage, update, test and repair a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to select a topology for your MetroCluster deployment that meets your technical requirements and IT budget. Progent can make sure you adhere to best practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by providing guidance with tasks such as assigning shelf IDs, determining aggregate layout, provisioning volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker, designing a configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your DR solution to verify compliance with industry standards and government requirements.

High Availability Load Balancing
Progent provides fault tolerant load balancing support that addresses network load balancing, load balanced programs, network infrastructure routing, and content delivery products such as Cisco Content Engine. Fault tolerant load balancing solutions for which Progent offers consulting expertise include Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Presentation Server, Cisco CSS, Cisco Content Distribution Manager and ACNS, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. For more information, see High Availability Load Balancing.

Failsafe Branch Office Connectivity
Progent's interoffice network infrastructure consultants can help companies create non-stop branch office connectivity solutions by means of redundant networks featuring transparent failover. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers can design and deploy fault-tolerant Inter-office networks supported by zero-downtime EIGRP routers or non-stop OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how redundant connectivity and transparent fail-over offers affordable non-stop interoffice networking. To find out more, visit High-Availability Interoffice Networking.

Fault Tolerant Internet Connections
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT experts can help you build an affordable, high availability Internet configuration solution that can achieve 24x7 Internet access through a broad range of high availability Internet network solutions including high availability BGP, automatic fail-over, and multiple Internet Service Providers. Progent can provide Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert professionals to help you apply the most up-to-date techniques for 24x7 Internet connections to implement an affordable, completely redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other features to deliver fault tolerant Internet connections. To learn more, see High Availability Internet Access Architecture.

Backup and Restore Technology Consulting
Progent can provide affordable remote access to engineers with expertise in a wide range of products and technologies that deliver solutions for backing up Microsoft Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX physical and virtual servers and desktops as well as notebooks and handhelds. Progent offers expertise for leading backup platforms including Acronis Backup and Recovery, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist, HP Data Protector, Double-Take, MozyPro, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP), and FLARs. Progent can assist your company to design, enhance, or maintain data backup systems for a variety of environments such as local, edge to datacenter, cloud, or hybrid. To learn more, visit Backup and Recovery Solutions Expertise.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Backup and Recovery Consulting
Progent's certified Microsoft SCDPM consultants can assist your company to develop an effective business continuity strategy, implement a cost-effective fault-tolerante IT architecture, install a SCDPM-powered backup and restore system, thoroughly validate your system, educate your IT personnel or local consultants how to manage Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, or provide extensive IT support outsourcing including remote hosting of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager servers in Progent's data center facility. To find out more, go to Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting Services.

Barracuda Backup Multi-site and Cloud Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription backup and disaster recovery service for small and mid-size organizations. A Barracuda Backup deployment can include a custom-designed physical storage device built by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with similar features but which uses your own storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup safeguards vital business data generated locally, at one or multiple remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any site with a physical or virtual Barracuda appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts offer a broad range of consulting support services to help you to plan, configure, operate and troubleshoot a BDR system built on Barracuda Backup. For details, visit Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting and management.

ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup Software for Backup and Disaster Recovery
Hornetsecurity's Altaro VM Backup software provides small businesses a dependable and affordable platform for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be used for on-premises, remote, distributed, and cloud environments and also supports cost-effective cloud backup to Azure storage. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and can provide a broad range of online or on-premises services to assist you to design, deploy, optimize and debug a modern backup/restore system based on Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a managed backup/restore service based on Altaro VM Backup software. To find out more, visit Altaro VM Backup consulting services.

ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 offers rudimentary archiving but does not have native support for key data protection capabilities like Exchange Online backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup (previously named Altaro O365 Backup) provides a full-featured platform for programmable backup and quick recovery of all your organization's M365 mailboxes, Teams Chats, SharePoint documents, OneDrive for Business files, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. Progent is an authorized Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup to provide comprehensive management services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup product. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup delivers an affordable backup-as-a-service (BaaS) solution that protects M365 apps against data loss or corruption caused by user or software error, malevolent sabotage, and malware assaults like ransomware. To read more, go to ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup solutions for Microsoft 365.

Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS ECHO automates and monitors your backup processes and enable rapid restoration of vital data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed backup and recovery.

ProSight DPS 360 Backup Services
Progent can assist you to design, implement and troubleshoot a backup/restore plan based on MSP360 software. MSP360 enables file/folder or image backup/recovery for virtual machines and physical machines, supports all popular public clouds, and allows businesses to create a backup ecosystem with a low Recovery Time Objective and a granular Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight DPS 360 Backup, Progent can provide end-to-end monitoring and management of your backup environment to protect against data loss caused by user mistakes, computer errors, malicious users, and malware assaults such as ransomware. For more information, visit ProSight DPS 360 Backup solutions.

Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup/Restore
Double-Take offers a selection of products intended to deliver small businesses a variety of cost-effective solutions for backing up and recovering business-critical applications such as Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Blackberry, and Microsoft SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning experts have in-depth backgrounds incorporating Double-Take technology into small business IT systems to achieve a high level of availability and business continuity capability at a budget-friendly cost. To learn more, see Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup.

Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and offers specialized application support for a broad range of small business software programs, Progent can help clients to arrive at efficient IT solutions that maximize the business value of your information system. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent offers the support of certified engineers and specialists with experience in architecting, implementing and troubleshooting networking environments based on Cisco products. The extent of Progent's technical experience and Progent's appreciation for the needs of small and midsize businesses make Progent the ideal resource for creating and running a cost-effective, fault-tolerant network.

How You Can Contact Progent's Experts for Help with High Availability Networks
To get in touch with Progent about professional help for fault tolerant computing, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.