Disaster Recovery Consulting Support for
Small and Midsize Company Networks:
High Availability ISP Connectivity
Connectivity to the Internet has emerged as a mission-critical capability for many small businesses. The use of the Internet to distribute information has mushroomed to the point that many organizations are unable to perform day-to-day functions without Internet connectivity.
Traditional applications such as internal email clearly lose much of their value when they can't be used to communicate with customers or vendors, but as organizations increasingly adopt Internet-based information delivery for line-of-business applications, even core functions can grind to a halt when Internet access becomes unavailable.
Until recently, only large organizations could afford to build fully redundant and transparent Internet connections that could survive a failed Internet link or router. Such seamless fault tolerance requires T1-class Internet lines, an option that in the past overstretched the budgets of most small businesses. As T1 prices have dropped to as low as a few $100 per month, and as alternative connections have become available, the opportunity for small businesses to achieve enterprise-class fault tolerance has become economically feasible. But even though the cost for lines has become affordable, the complexity of implementing these solutions has not.
Few small businesses have the in-house expertise required to work effectively with multiple ISPs, coordinate the necessary configuration steps with Internet numbering authority organizations, and implement advanced routing protocols such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP). Progent offers Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) consulting to help you apply the latest connectivity technology to implement a cost-effective fault-tolerant solution.
Today multiple options exist for building automatic and semi-automatic failover solutions. These can involve a mix of T1, DSL and wireless Internet connections. The viability of high-speed fixed-wireless links has recently opened up new alternatives for achieving transparent fault tolerance. By establishing diverse physical paths to the Internet, small businesses gain insurance against costly outages caused by events out of their control, such as a construction crew accidentally digging up phone lines.
As companies rush to deploy VoIP solutions, the potential productivity loss that could result from an interruption in Internet access increases dramatically. This creates another strong incentive to configure a fault-tolerant architecture. Current technologies from Cisco and other networking companies make it possible to build high-availability voice and data solution that have even better uptime potential than conventional voice and data services.
For small business with extremely limited budgets, fault-tolerant failover solutions are possible by utilizing redundant, low-cost DSL services. While not providing all the transparency of more complex and expensive solutions, this alternative can provide significant functionality and avoid costly productivity loss in the event of line failure.
As companies have shifted away from dedicated leased T1 and frame relay lines to Internet-based VPN connections, the demand for fault-tolerant Internet connectivity has accelerated. Businesses can apply the cost savings from retiring legacy leased circuits to upgrading their Internet infrastructure so that they will not only protect their connectivity to remote offices but also the Internet connectivity of office users. Absent those cost savings, many small companies are reluctant to invest in fault-tolerant Internet configurations.
Zero-Downtime Technologies Supported by Progent's Experts
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco consultants can help your business to create an efficient, fault-tolerant information network that addresses critical issues encompassing a wide range of networking solutions and processes including:
Workplace Recovery Planning
Progent's disaster recovery engineers can help you create a business continuity strategy in order to resume IT functionality in the event of an IT network catastrophe. Progent can help you to develop a complete disaster recovery plan that incorporates periodic disaster recovery assessments and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants can also show you how to build an affordable, fault-tolerant network solution that takes into account availability issues covering a broad array of network technologies and processes. To read more, see Business Continuity Expertise.
CRISC-Premier Network Risk Control
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and support IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. For more information, see CRISC-Premier network risk management experts.
Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2019 incorporated important improvements in scale, throughput, manageability, cybersecurity, application compatibility, Linux support, Kubernetes networking, and hybrid integration of local and cloud-hosted assets. Top enhancements of Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for unifying the management and monitoring of hybrid on-premises/cloud deployments, System Insights for utilizing advance predictive analytics to control local environments, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container networking with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for creating and administering large non-stop scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for simplifying the upgrade process from legacy releases of Windows Server. For details, go to Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Consulting.
Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consultants can assist your organization to plan and deploy a DR system built around Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering tools such as 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 storage clusters using industry-standard equipment, VM Load Balancing for improving the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while minimizing TCO and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, economical deployment of a stretch cluster quorum witness. To read more, visit Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Expertise.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to define, automate and verify a consistent process for restoring applications and services rapidly following a breakdown. SRM supports centrally managed and automated recovery, application mobility, and transparent site migration, failback and site re-protect. SRM also supports non-disruptive testing for disaster recovery, updates and patches and can produce reports to confirm complete service restoration, validate SLAs and prove DR compliance. Progent offers the skills of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to assist your organization to design, deploy, test and maintain a DR system based on VMware Site Recovery Manager.
NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Platform
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that uses array-based storage clustering with replication to provide fast, zero RPO disaster recovery (DR) between sites located as far as 185 miles (300km) apart. Progent can provide the skills of a NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can help your business to design, configure, manage, upgrade, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery system based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to choose an architecture for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your technical needs and IT budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to leading practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by delivering guidance with tasks such as assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, determining aggregate and plexes layout, setting up NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, installing switches, designing a tiebreaker, setting up a configuration replication network between your storage clusters, and verifying your MetroCluster DR system to verify compliance with industry standards and government mandates.
Network Load Balancing
Progent provides fault tolerant load balancing consulting that addresses network load balancing, load balanced applications, LAN/WAN backbone routing, and content delivery technology including F5 Networks 3DNS. High availability load balancing technologies for which Progent can provide consulting services include Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Access Gateway, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Content Distribution Manager and ACNS, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. To read more, go to Non-stop Load Balancing.
Zero Downtime Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to select fault-tolerant data centers that match the specific requirements of your business. High availability colocation sites are especially attractive to small and mid-size companies due to of their affordability and simplified logistics compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Attempting to design an in-house data center that offers even a minimum degree of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for most small companies. Progent is ready to show you how to reap all the benefits of non-stop colo centers by offering a full range of consulting and support services. To learn more, go to Fault Tolerant Colocation Consulting.
Failsafe Interoffice Connectivity
Progent's branch office connection consultants can help organizations achieve fault tolerant inter-site connectivity by means of redundant networks featuring automatic failover. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE engineers can plan and deploy fault-tolerant Inter-office connections based on fault tolerant EIGRP network routers or fault tolerant OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how redundant connections and transparent fail-over offers economical non-stop interoffice networking. For more information, see Failsafe Inter-office Networking.
Backup and Restore Technology Consulting Services
Progent can provide economical online support from consultants with expertise in a wide array of products and services that provide solutions for protecting Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX physical and virtual servers and desktops plus notebooks and smartphones. Progent offers help for all major backup platforms such as Acronis, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist, HP Data Protector, Double-Take Backup, MozyPro, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery, and FLARs. Progent's consultants can assist you to deploy, upgrade, or maintain backup/restore solutions for a range of architectures such as on-premises, edge to datacenter, cloud, or a mix. To learn more, visit Backup and Restore Technology Consulting.
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Restore Consulting
Progent's certified System Center Data Protection Manager support professionals can assist your company to create an effective disaster recovery plan, implement an affordable high-availability network infrastructure, install a Microsoft SCDPM-powered recovery system, comprehensively test your DPM system, educate your IT personnel or local service providers how to manage Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, or provide complete IT outsourcing such as off-site hosting of SCDPM servers in Progent's secure data center. To learn more, see Microsoft 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/restore platform for small and mid-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup deployment can include a purpose-built physical storage device built by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar functionality but which utilizes your own storage hardware. Barracuda Backup protects vital company data produced on-premises, at one or more remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster protection, 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 can provide a wide range of consulting support services to assist you to plan, configure, manage and debug a backup and disaster recovery solution based on Barracuda Backup. For additional information, visit Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consultants.
ProSight Altaro VM Backup Software for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Altaro VM Backup offers small organizations a reliable and affordable platform for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, remote, multi-site, and cloud environments and also enables cost-effective cloud backup to Microsoft Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup supports advanced capabilities like Immutable Cloud Storage for an extra layer of protection from ransomware. Progent is an Altaro partner and can provide a broad array of online or on-premises services to help you to plan, install, optimize and troubleshoot a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution based on Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a fully managed backup/recovery service based on Altaro VM Backup software. To learn more, visit Altaro VM Backup certified consultants.
ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Services for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 offers simple archiving but does not have integrated support for vital data protection services like Exchange backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup delivers a full-featured platform for programmable backup and rapid restoration of all your organization's M365 mailboxes, Microsoft Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, OneDrive for Business data, 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 comprehensive management services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup suite. ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup provides a budget-friendly backup-as-a-service (BaaS) solution that guards M365 components against data loss or corruption caused by human or software error, malevolent corruption, and malware attacks such as ransomware. For more information, visit ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup solutions for Microsoft 365.
Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS ECHO automates your backup activities and allow fast recovery of critical data, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed backup.
ProSight MSP360 Backup Services
Progent can assist you to design, deploy and troubleshoot a backup/restore plan based on MSP360 software. MSP360 enables file or image-based backup/restore for VMs and physical machines, works with all popular public clouds, and permits businesses to create a backup ecosystem with a minimum Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a granular Recovery Point Objective. With ProSight MSP360 Backup, Progent offers end-to-end monitoring and remote management of your backup environment to prevent data loss resulting from human miscues, system glitches, ill-intentioned insiders, and malware attacks like ransomware. For details, visit ProSight MSP360 Backup solutions.
Consulting Services Double-Take Software for Backup/Restore
Double-Take Software offers a family of tools intended to deliver small businesses a variety of cost-effective solutions for backing up and restoring business-critical workloads including Exchange, SQL Server, RIM Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning experts have extensive experience integrating Double-Take products into small business IT systems to achieve a high state of fault tolerance and business continuity capability at an affordable price. For more information, see Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup.
Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Since Progent is a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner and provides specialized application consulting for a wide range of business software programs, Progent is able to assist clients to find comprehensive information technology solutions that optimize the business value of your information system. As a Registered Partner for Cisco, Progent can provide the services of premier engineers and specialists with expertise in designing, deploying and troubleshooting networking environments based on Cisco products. The depth of Progent's IT experience and Progent's appreciation for the requirements of small businesses make Progent the perfect resource for building and maintaining a cost-effective, high-availability network.
How You Can Get in Touch with Progent's Consultants for Help with High Availability Networks
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XenDesktop Remote Support
Professionals virtual application delivery
For Windows desktop virtualization, Progent offers the expertise of a Citrix XenDesktop expert who can help you to plan a XenDesktop solution that improves the business value of your information system; configure XenDesktop technology with your servers, end-user computers, and printers; migrate your existing desktop virtualization software to current releases of XenDesktop; and deliver comprehensive online technical support. Progent can also train your network managers to adhere to best practices to manage your XenDesktop solution effectively.
Programming Firm .NET Visual Basic
.NET C# Programming
Progent's software experts have worked for two decades with .NET technologies and the Visual Studio development environment and are able to create or enhance .NET applications rapidly and at low cost.
Help and Support ASA 5500
Cisco Firewall and IPS Support and Help
Progent's CCIE-certified network infrastructure consultants can help you to maintain legacy PIX 500 or ASA 5500 firewalls or transition to Cisco ASA 5500-X security appliances. Progent can also assist you to configure, administer, upgrade and debug Cisco ASA 5500-X security appliances with Firepower Services.
Top Professional Ransomware Recovery Preparedness Audit
Engineer Ransomware Recovery Preparedness Analysis
Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a quick and low-cost way for small and mid-size organizations to get an unbiased evaluation of the overall health of their information system. Based on some of the leading remote monitoring and management platforms in the industry, and supervised by Progent's certified team of information technology professionals, ProSight Network Audits show you how closely the configuration of your core infrastructure devices conform to industry best practices. The Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are offered at a low, one-time cost and deliver instant benefits like a cleaner and more secure Active Directory implementation. Both options also provide the ongoing advantages of state-of-the-art remote network monitoring and management (RMM) technology. These benefits can include lower-cost management, improved compliance with data security regulations, more efficient utilization of network assets, quicker troubleshooting, more dependable backup and recovery, and higher availability.
IT Consultant Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Cluster
Windows Server 2012 R2 Cluster Management IT Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified failover clustering consultants can help companies of all sizes to assess the benefits of utilizing Microsoft Windows Server 2012 clustering technology to build a powerful high-availability/disaster recovery solution, help you to design and install a Windows Server 2012 environment, deliver online and on-premises consulting services and engineering support for failover clusters that include physical servers or virtual ones, and show you how to streamline the administration of clustered servers.
Computer Consultants Microsoft 365 hybrid solutions for Exchange
Microsoft 365 Exchange migration On-site Support
Microsoft allows you to create transparent hybrid networks that integrate Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and local Exchange deployments. This permits you to have some mailboxes located at your corporate datacenter or private cloud and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your organization with any phase of planning, integrating and debugging your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online deployment. Progent's Exchange specialists can deliver as-needed support to help you resolve challenging technical issues and also offer extensive project management outsourcing to make sure your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange solution is successfully completed on schedule and within budget.
Online Consulting Colo
Data Center Colo Support and Setup
Colocation data centers make it possible for companies to share enterprise-class data centers for hosting computer equipment that supports mission-critical applications. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco premier consultants can assist your small business with all facets of your colocation program including selecting and migrating to a colo site, designing network topology, specifying hardware, on-premises and on-line troubleshooting, establishing online system administration, and education your IT personnel.
Support Outsourcing Dynamics GP Accounting
Dynamics GP/Great Plains IT Consulting
Dynamics GP can help you expand and manage your company more efficiently by delivering easy availability of strategic data and a fast ROI. Dynamics GP/Great Plains offers important productivity benefits including its ability to expand the presence of your company, manage your financials, automate financial operations, standardize processes across your company, improve inventory control, enhance order accuracy, grow revenue and shorten lead-time, and increase cash flow. Progent can help you set up and manage a robust, safe server and communications foundation to support Great Plains, and can offer expert Dynamics GP/Great Plains support professionals to make sure you reap all the benefits of your Microsoft Dynamics GP business management system.
Emergency Professional ISA 2006 Firewall
Consulting Services ISA 2006 Firewall
Secure Application Publishing with ISA Server 2006 allows greater protection of intranet resources while enabling increased productivity by making these resources accessible to legitimate remote users. Internet Security and Acceleration Server helps guard corporate applications, services, and information throughout all network components with application-layer filtering and powerful publishing wizards. Progent's Microsoft-expert ISA Server 2006 consultants can show you how to design, deploy, set up, and maintain Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 on your network so your company achieves a highly functional and affordable balance of protection, productivity, and speed.
SCVMM 2012 Security and Compliance On-site Technical Support
Top Quality Virtual Machine Manager Consulting
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help businesses of any size to follow best practices to configure SCVMM 2012 hosts and host groups, networking, storage systems, and library resources; plan, implement, and manage private clouds, virtual machines, and VMM services in SCVMM 2012; and integrate SCVMM with System Center 2012 Operations Manager for enterprise-class reporting. Progent can assist your business to move from an older version of SCVMM or from a third-party management platform, and Progent can help you to optimize and troubleshoot your current SCVMM environment so you get the highest possible return on investment.
Mandriva Linux Consultants
Urgent Redhat Linux Technical Support Services
Progent's Linux support services offer small companies and developers help with managing and maintaining Linux systems that operate with Microsoft-powered networks. Progent can give your organization access to Linux consultants, support professionals premier by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISA and CISSP credentials. This broad range of expertise offers you an easy one-stop source to show you how to create and maintain a protected and reliable cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that allows Linux and Microsoft interoperability by combining Windows with leading Linux derivatives such as RedHat, SUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Consultants Anti-Spam
24 Hour Antispam Installation support
E-Mail Guard by Postini provides constantly updated spam and virus blocking, content filtering, and protection from e-mail-borne directory harvesting and denial of service attacks. Progent is a Postini partner and service firm. If your company is too small to purchase for a regular Postini license, you can still get the use of Postini's Perimeter Manager services via Progent's E-Mail Guard antispam and anti-virus service program. Progent's certified email protection professionals can show you how to create an email protection strategy that features antispam and anti-virus services and policies.
Power View Computer Consultants
Power View Integration Support
Progent offers the support of certified consultants as well as seasoned database application developers, DBAs, project managers, network infrastructure architects, disaster recovery/business continuity planning specialists, and data security professionals to assist you to assess the potential advantages of SQL Server 2012 for your business, install test systems at your datacenter or at Progent's lab, design and carry out an efficient transition to SQL Server 2012 from previous releases of SQL Server or from legacy RDBMS platforms, and configure an efficient and safe IT infrastructure that lets you realize the full business benefit of SQL Server 2012.
ISA 2000 Server Help and Support
ISA 2004 Enterprise Edition Server Consulting Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified ISA Server consulting experts have extensive experience configuring ISA Server-based security installations for IT networks with many sites, mobile workers, and line-of-business eCommerce applications. Progent's Microsoft Firewall experts can help your small business in designing and implementing a configuration of ISA Server 2000 or ISA Server 2004 that meets your network protection requirements without adversely limiting your network productivity. Progent's consultants can help you upgrade from Microsoft Proxy Server from Microsoft ISA 2000 to ISA 2006 Enterprise Edition Server or ISA 2006 Standard Edition Server.
Information Technology Consulting Nexus Switch Upgrade
Nexus 5000 Switch IT Consulting
Nexus switches are engineered to deliver the speed, expandability, availability, cloud readiness, capacity, data protection and manageability needed to act as the heart of an enterprise data center. Progent's Cisco-certified Nexus switch consultants can provide online and onsite consulting expertise to assist you to plan an optimal switch architecture, set up pilot environments to confirm your network design, install and configure Nexus switches, define and implement effective policies, perform security and compliance evaluations, set up advanced monitoring and alert systems, consolidate resources through virtualization technologies, troubleshoot switching and routing problems, maximize system performance, plan for expected growth, and set up the powerful fault-tolerant capabilities available for Cisco's Nexus products. Progent's consultants can also help your business to upgrade efficiently from outdated Nexus switches or Cisco Catalyst switches to current Nexus switches.
Application Consulting Dynamics Business Central
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Consulting
Progent can provide remote and on-premises configuration, migration, application development, reporting for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly Dynamivs NAV).
ProSight Small Business Private Clouds Engineers
ProSight VM Hosting Engineer
Progent's ProSight Virtual hosting services offer small companies a variety of advantages such as lower capital costs, reductions in operational expense, better management focus, enterprise-class security, enhanced fault tolerance, and business continuity.
Exchange 2003 Upgrade Remote Technical Support
Exchange 2003 Server Upgrade Specialists
Progent's expert consultants can show you how to define and implement an efficient in-place Exchange Server 2003 upgrade strategy that avoids productivity disruption, simplifies long-term support requirements, and makes your Exchange Server 2003 easy to manage. For complicated multi-server or multi-site upgrades, Progent offers the knowledge and experience to complete your move quickly and affordably. Progent's Exchange 2003 support, troubleshooting, and design services include assistance with the integration of third-party enhancements of Exchange 2003 Server that are best aligned to your business goals.
ransomware removal and recovery Specialist
ransomware protection Engineer
Progent's seasoned ransomware recovery consultants can help you to restore an IT network breached by a ransomware crypto-worm like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, LockBit or Nephilim.
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