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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.

Non-stop Technologies Supported by Progent
Progent's certified consulting experts can assist you to implement an efficient, fault-tolerant environment that addresses key problems encompassing a broad array of networking technologies and operations such as:

Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's disaster recovery planning consultants can help you design a disaster recovery strategy so you can resume network operations in case of an information system catastrophe. Progent can help you to develop a complete disaster recovery strategy that incorporates periodic disaster recovery assessments and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also help you build an affordable, non-stop system architecture that addresses reliability issues involving a broad array of network technologies and procedures. To find out more, visit Workplace Recovery Consulting Services.

CRISC-Certified IT Risk Management
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. To learn more, see CRISC-Certified IT risk control experts.

Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 introduced important enhancements in scale, performance, manageability, cybersecurity, application compatibility, Linux support, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid integration of local and cloud-hosted assets. Headline enhancements of Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for unifying the management and monitoring of hybrid on-premises/cloud deployments, System Insights for taking advantage of modern predictive intelligence to manage on-premises networks, Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container networking using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for deploying and administering massive non-stop scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for streamlining the upgrade process from outdated versions of Windows Server. For more information, go to Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Consulting.

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery experts can assist your organization to plan and deploy a DR system based on Microsoft's most advanced Failover Clustering tools including Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive 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 commodity hardware, VM Load Balancing for enhancing the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while minimizing TCO and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, economical deployment of a failover cluster quorum witness. For more information, see Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity 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 define, automate and test a consistent workflow for restoring services quickly after an outage. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site relocation, failback and re-protect. SRM also supports non-disruptive testing for disaster recovery, updates and patches and can generate reports to confirm full service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and prove compliance. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to assist you to design, configure, test and administer a disaster recovery system powered by VMware SRM.

NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Platform
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery software suite that uses failover storage clustering with continual replication to deliver fast, zero data loss disaster recovery between sites located up to 300km apart. Progent can provide the skills of a NetApp MetroCluster expert who can assist you to plan, deploy, manage, update, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery system based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster deployment that meets your functional needs and budget. Progent can ensure you follow leading practices for installing your MetroCluster environment by providing guidance with procedures like assigning shelf IDs, arranging aggregate and plexes layout, setting up FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, installing switches, implementing a tiebreaker, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and testing your DR system to show compliance with industry standards and regulatory mandates.

High Availability Load Balancing
Progent offers high availability load balancing support covering network load balancing, load balanced applications, network backbone routing, and content dispatching products including F5 Networks 3DNS. Non-stop load balancing technologies for which Progent can provide consulting expertise include Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Presentation Server, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Content Engine and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. To find out more, go to High Availability Load Balancing.

24x7 Inter-office Networking
Progent's interoffice connection engineers can help organizations create zero-downtime branch office connections through redundant system architectures featuring automatic failover. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE engineers can design and deploy fault-tolerant Inter-office connections based on fault tolerant EIGRP routers or zero-downtime OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how redundant connections and automatic fail-over offers affordable 24x7 interoffice connectivity. For details, see 24x7 Interoffice Connectivity.

Non-stop Internet Connections
Progent's Cisco-certified network consultants can show you how to create an affordable, fault tolerant Internet connection architecture that can deliver non-stop Internet connectivity through a wide range of high availability Internet access technologies including high availability BGP, transparent fail-over, and multiple Internet Service Providers. Progent can provide Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert professionals to help you utilize the most up-to-date techniques for fault tolerant Internet connections to build a cost-effective, completely redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other capabilities to create non-stop Internet availability. For details, go to High Availability Internet Access Solutions.

Backup and Restore Technology Consulting Experts
Progent can provide affordable online access to IT engineers skilled in a wide array of utilities and services that deliver solutions for backing up Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX physical and virtual servers and desktops as well as notebooks and handhelds. Progent can provide help for all major data protection products including Acronis Backup and Recovery, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, CrashPlan PRO, Double-Take, Mozy, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, vSphere Data Protection, and Oracle Solaris FLARs. Progent can help your company to design, enhance, or maintain backup solutions for a range of architectures including on-premises, remote, cloud, or hybrid. To read more, go to Backup and Recovery Solutions Expertise.

System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Recovery Consulting Experts
Progent's expert Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager consultants can assist your company to develop an effective workplace recovery plan, design a cost-effective fault-tolerante IT architecture, deploy a System Center Data Protection Manager-powered backup and restore solution, thoroughly validate your DPM system, educate your IT personnel or local consultants how to maintain Microsoft SCDPM, or provide extensive IT outsourcing services including off-site hosting of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager machines in Progent's world-class data center facility. For more information, visit System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting and Support Services.

Barracuda Backup On-premises and Cloud Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription backup and disaster recovery platform for small and mid-size organizations. A Barracuda Backup solution can incorporate a purpose-built physical storage device manufactured by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with comparable features but which utilizes your own storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup safeguards critical business data produced locally, at one or more remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), or to any site with a Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts can provide a wide range of consulting services to assist you to plan, configure, operate and troubleshoot a BDR solution built on Barracuda Backup. For additional information, visit Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting.

ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup Software for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Hornetsecurity's Altaro VM Backup offers small businesses a dependable and affordable solution for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-powered VMs. Altaro VM Backup can be used for on-premises, offsite, multi-site, and cloud environments and also supports cost-effective cloud backup to Microsoft Azure storage. Altaro VM Backup supports high-end features such as Immutable Cloud Storage for enhanced recoverability from ransomware. Progent is a Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and offers a wide array of remote or onsite consulting services to assist you to plan, install, manage and debug a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution based on Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a managed backup/restore service powered by on Altaro VM Backup software. For details, see Altaro VM Backup consulting.

ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup Services for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 offers rudimentary archiving but does not have native support for crucial data protection capabilities like Exchange backups or long-term point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a feature-rich platform for automatic backup and rapid restoration of all your company's M365 mailboxes, Microsoft Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, OneDrive for Business files, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup to deliver comprehensive managed services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup suite. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup provides an affordable backup-as-a-service (BaaS) solution that protects M365 components against data loss caused by human or system error, malicious deletion, and malware attacks such as ransomware. For details, see ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup services for Microsoft 365.

Fully Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS ECHO automates and monitors your backup activities and enable fast recovery of vital files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed cloud backup and recovery.

ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup Solutions
Progent's data protection experts can help your company to create, implement and debug a backup solution built around MSP360 software. MSP360 enables file or image backup/restore for virtual machines and physical computers, supports all leading public clouds, and permits you to build a data protection ecosystem with a minimum Recovery Time Objective and a defined Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight DPS 360 Backup, Progent offers end-to-end monitoring and management of your backup system to prevent data loss caused by user mistakes, computer errors, malicious users, and external attacks such as ransomware. To learn more, visit ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup services.

Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Backup
Double-Take Software publishes a selection of tools intended to provide small businesses a variety of affordable alternatives for replicating and recovering business-critical workloads such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent's disaster recovery planning experts have in-depth backgrounds integrating Double-Take Software technology into small company IT networks to create a high level of fault tolerance and business continuity readiness at a budget-friendly cost. For more information, see Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup.

Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Because Progent is a Microsoft Partner and provides high-level application consulting for a broad variety of small business applications, Progent can assist clients to find complete information technology solutions that maximize the business value of your network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent can provide the support of certified consultants and specialists with experience in designing, implementing and supporting networking solutions built on Cisco technology. The extent of Progent's technical experience and Progent's appreciation for the requirements of small and midsize companies make Progent the perfect resource for creating and running a cost-effective, dependable network.

How to Get Help from Progent's Consultants for Support for Fault Tolerant IT Systems
To get in touch with Progent about engineering support for non-stop infrastructure, call 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.