Disaster Recovery Consulting for
Small Company Networks:
Internet Data Center and Colocation Services
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 Solutions Supported by Progent's Consultants
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting experts can help your business to implement an efficient, non-stop network that addresses critical challenges covering a broad array of networking technologies and processes such as:
Business Continuity Planning
Progent's disaster recovery engineers can show you how to design a business continuity strategy in order to restore IT functionality in the event of an information system catastrophe. Progent can help you to define a complete disaster recovery plan that incorporates periodic disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized professionals can also help you create an affordable, zero-downtime network solution that takes into account availability issues involving a wide range of network technologies and procedures. To learn more, see Workplace Recovery Consulting Services.
CRISC-Premier Network Risk Mitigation
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and carry out a business continuity plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. For more information, see CRISC-Certified network risk control experts.
Microsoft Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 incorporated important enhancements in capacity, performance, manageability, cybersecurity, app compatibility, Linux co-existence, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid combinations of local and cloud resources. Headline new features of Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management and monitoring of hybrid local/cloud deployments, System Insights for taking advantage of modern predictive analytics to control on-premises environments, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container orchestration using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for creating and managing massive non-stop scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for streamlining the upgrade process from legacy versions of Windows Server. For details, see Microsoft Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Help.
Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity consultants can assist you to design a DR solution built around Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies including Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class storage clusters using industry-standard equipment, VM Load Balancing for improving the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while reducing TCO and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable creation of a stretch cluster quorum arbitration point. To learn more, see Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Consulting.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is an extension to VMware vCenter that allows you to orchestrate, automate and verify a consistent workflow for recovering applications and services quickly following a breakdown. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, plus non-intrusive site migration, failback and re-protect. SRM also supports transparent testing for site recovery, upgrades and fixes and can generate reports to confirm full service restoration, validate SLAs and prove DR compliance. Progent offers the skills of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to assist you to plan, deploy, test and maintain a DR solution powered by VMware Site Recovery Manager.
NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery platform that combines failover storage clustering along with synchronous replication to deliver fast, zero data loss disaster recovery between datacenters located up to 300km apart from each other. Progent offers access to a NetApp MetroCluster expert who can help you to plan, configure, manage, upgrade, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery system built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your technical requirements and budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to leading practices for configuring your MetroCluster solution by providing guidance with tasks such as assigning shelf IDs, determining aggregate and plexes layout, provisioning volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a configuration replication network, and verifying your DR solution to prove adherence with industry standards and government mandates.
High Availability Load Balancing
Progent offers fault tolerant load balancing consulting that addresses network load balancing, load balanced programs, network backbone routing, and content dispatching technology including F5 Networks 3DNS. High availability load balancing solutions for which Progent offers consulting expertise include Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Presentation Server, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Content Distribution Manager and ACNS, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. For details, see High Availability Load Balancing.
High-Availability Branch Office Connectivity
Progent's interoffice connection consultants can help organizations achieve non-stop interoffice connections via fully redundant networks with automatic failover. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers can design and implement ultra-reliable Inter-office networks supported by zero-downtime EIGRP network routers or non-stop OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how redundant connectivity and transparent fail-over can provide affordable non-stop interoffice connectivity. For details, visit Non-stop Interoffice Networking.
Fault Tolerant Internet Connections
Progent's Cisco-authorized network professionals can help you build an economical, high availability Internet configuration architecture that can achieve non-stop Internet access through a wide range of high availability Internet network solutions including high availability BGP, automatic fail-over, and redundant ISPs. Progent can provide Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert professionals to help you apply the most advanced technology for high availability Internet connectivity to build a cost-effective, completely redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other capabilities to create fault tolerant Internet access. To read more, go to 24x7 Internet Connectivity Solutions.
Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting
Progent can provide economical remote support from engineers with expertise in a wide range of products and services that deliver solutions for protecting Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux/UNIX physical and virtual servers and desktops plus laptops and handhelds. Progent offers help for all major data protection products including Acronis, Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, CrashPlan, Double-Take Backup, MozyPro, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery, and Solaris FLARs. Progent can assist you to install, enhance, or troubleshoot data backup systems for a range of architectures including on-premises, remote, cloud-based, or hybrid. For more information, see Backup and Restore Technology Expertise.
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Restore Consulting Experts
Progent's expert Microsoft SCDPM support professionals can help you to create an effective disaster recovery strategy, implement a cost-effective high-availability network infrastructure, install a System Center Data Protection Manager-based backup and restore solution, thoroughly test your system, educate your IT staff or local consultants how to maintain Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, or provide complete information technology outsourcing services such as remote housing of virtual or physical SCDPM servers in Progent's data center facility. To learn more, visit System Center Data Protection Manager Expertise.
Barracuda Backup Cloud and Offsite Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription backup/restore service for small and medium-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup deployment can include a purpose-built hardware storage device built by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar features but which uses your own storage hardware. Barracuda Backup safeguards critical company data produced on-premises, at one or multiple remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster recovery, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any location with a physical or virtual Barracuda appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants offer a broad range of consulting support services to help your business to plan, configure, manage and repair a BDR system built on Barracuda technology. For additional information, visit Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consultants.
ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup Software for Backup and Disaster Recovery
Hornetsecurity's Altaro VM Backup software provides small organizations a dependable and affordable solution for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, offsite, distributed, and cloud architectures and also supports cost-effective backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup supports advanced features such as Immutable Cloud Storage for enhanced protection from ransomware. Progent is a Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and can provide a wide range of online or on-premises consulting services to assist you to plan, deploy, optimize and debug a modern backup and disaster recovery solution powered by Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a fully managed backup/recovery service powered by on Altaro VM Backup. For more information, visit Altaro VM Backup certified consultants.
ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 offers rudimentary archiving but does not have native support for vital data protection services such as Exchange backups or long-term point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive for Business or SharePoint. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a full-featured BDR solution for automatic backup and quick recovery of all your organization's M365 mailboxes, Microsoft Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, OneDrive files, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and has designed ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) 365 Total Backup to deliver end-to-end managed services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup suite. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup provides a budget-friendly backup-as-a-service (BaaS) alternative that protects M365 components against data loss caused by user or system error, malicious sabotage, and cyber attacks such as ransomware. To read more, see ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup solutions for Microsoft 365.
Fully Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates your backup activities and enable rapid recovery of vital data, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to component breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS ECHO to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed backup and recovery.
ProSight DPS 360 Backup Solutions
Progent's data protection experts can assist you to create, implement and debug a backup/restore solution based on MSP360 software. MSP360 offers file/folder or image-based backup/recovery for VMs and physical computers, works with all leading public clouds, and allows businesses to build a backup ecosystem with a minimum RTO and a granular Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup, Progent offers end-to-end monitoring and management of your backup system to prevent data loss caused by human mistakes, computer glitches, ill-intentioned users, and external attacks such as ransomware. To find out more, go to ProSight DPS 360 Backup services.
Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup and Recovery
Double-Take offers a family of products designed to provide small businesses a variety of cost-effective solutions for replicating and recovering vital workloads such as Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning consultants have in-depth experience incorporating Double-Take products into small company information networks to achieve a high level of availability and disaster recovery readiness at a budget-friendly price. To learn more, see Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Backup.
Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Because Progent is a Microsoft Partner and offers professional application consulting for a wide variety of small business applications, Progent is able to help customers to find comprehensive information technology solutions that substantially enhance the productivity of your network. As a Registered Partner for Cisco, Progent offers the support of premier consultants and specialists with expertise in architecting, deploying and supporting infrastructure environments built on Cisco products. The depth and breadth of Progent's technical know-how and Progent's familiarity with the needs of small businesses make Progent a great resource for creating and maintaining a cost-effective, dependable information system.
How to Access Progent's Experts for Help with Fault Tolerant Networks
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Consultant Microsoft Exchange 2010 Migration
Progent's Microsoft-certified network experts can assist your organization to determine the benefits of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 for your business and can help your IT staff to plan and carry out an efficient migration to Microsoft Exchange 2010 from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2007 Server that will provide quick return on investment by improving your productivity, cutting the cost of equipment and service, simplifying management, and consolidating your key communications platforms.
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CISM Security Consultancy
Progent can provide the services of CISM Premier security consultants. The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee describes the core capabilities and worldwide standards of skill that IT security managers are required to master. CISM provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their CISM certification have the experience and knowledge to deliver efficient security management and support services.
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Remote Support Services Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and VMware
Altaro VM Backup from Hornetsecurity offers small businesses a reliable and budget-friendly solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, offsite, multi-site, and cloud environments and also supports cost-effective backup to Azure storage. Altaro VM Backup defends against ransomware via Immutable Cloud Storage. This produces tamper-proof backup data that cannot be erased or modified by anyone including administrators or root users. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers a broad array of online or on-premises consulting services to help you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot a modern backup and disaster recovery solution powered by Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a managed backup/restore service based on Altaro VM Backup technology.
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Progent uses an enterprise-class support reporting system that stores and organizes complete documentation for all delivered services. Unlike many independent consultants or local service organizations who provide scant documentation or specifics of services performed, each service provided by Progent is accompanied by full documentation. Each Progent consultant has access to the support documentation sent by each staff member to every customer. The discipline of detailing and archiving support records results in more efficient support and eliminates a variety of typical misfortunes such as when a service customer is effectively held captive to a consultant who refuses to release the keys to the kingdom.
High Availability Data Center IT Services
Non-stop Data Centers Remote Troubleshooting
Progent's Data Center engineers can help you find high availability data centers that meet the particular needs of your business. High availability Internet Data Centers are particularly attractive to small organizations due to of their low cost and convenience compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Attempting to design an on-site data center with even a minimum degree of fault tolerance is too costly for the majority of small companies. Progent can show you how to get all the benefits of non-stop data centers and 24x7 colo sites by providing a full array of engineering and support services.
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ProSight IT Asset Management is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, find and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of the time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need the instant you need it.
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Barracuda's value-priced CloudGen Firewall appliances offer web filtering, safe remote connectivity, SSL tunnel VPN, secure SD-WAN, and modern Zero-Trust support along with centrally managed and monitored services encompassing your complete enterprise including on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid network architectures. Public clouds supported include Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform. Progent can deliver the skill to serve as your one-stop resource for technical help, administration, education, and security expertise.
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