Disaster Recovery Support for
Small Company Networks:
Non-stop Internet Network
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.
Additional Zero-Downtime Technologies Supported by Progent's Experts
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting experts can assist your company to build an efficient, fault-tolerant environment that resolves major challenges encompassing a broad array of infrastructure solutions and operations including:
Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's disaster recovery planning professionals can help you create a disaster recovery strategy so you can restore network operations in the event of an information network catastrophe. Progent can help you to define a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that includes periodic disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants can also show you how to create an affordable, zero-downtime network solution that takes into account reliability issues involving a wide range of infrastructure technologies and procedures. To learn more, see Business Continuity Expertise.
Fully Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates your backup processes and allow fast restoration of vital data, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO Managed Backup.
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2019 features important enhancements in scale, performance, management, security and compliance, application compatibility, Linux support, container networking, and hybrid integration of on-premises and cloud-hosted resources. Headline enhancements of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for unifying the management and monitoring of hybrid on-premises/cloud-hosted resources, System Insights for utilizing advance predictive intelligence to control on-premises environments, Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard for host-intrusion prevention, container networking with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for deploying and managing massive non-stop scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for streamlining the upgrade process from legacy editions of Windows Server. For more information, see Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Support.
Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity consultants can assist your organization to plan and deploy a DR system built around Microsoft's most advanced Failover Clustering tools such as Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance storage clusters using commodity hardware, VM Load Balancing for improving the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while minimizing capital investment and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for fast, economical deployment of a failover cluster quorum witness. To read more, visit Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Support.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you define, automate and verify a repeatable workflow for recovering applications and services quickly after an outage. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, plus non-disruptive site migration, failback and site re-protect. SRM also supports non-intrusive testing for site recovery, updates and patches and can produce audit reports to confirm full service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate disaster recovery compliance. Progent offers the skills of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to assist your organization to plan, configure, test and manage a DR solution powered by VMware SRM.
NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery platform that combines failover storage clustering with synchronous replication to deliver fast, zero data loss disaster recovery between sites located as far as 300km away from one another. Progent can provide the skills of a NetApp MetroCluster expert who can assist your business to plan, deploy, administer, upgrade, test and repair a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to choose an architecture for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your functional requirements and IT budget. Progent can make sure you follow leading practices for configuring your MetroCluster solution by providing guidance with tasks such as assigning shelf IDs, arranging aggregate layout, provisioning volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, installing Cisco and Brocade switches, implementing a tiebreaker, setting up a configuration replication network, and verifying your disaster recovery system to show adherence with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
High Availability Load Balancing
Progent offers fault tolerant load balancing support covering network load balancing, load balanced programs, network infrastructure routing, and content delivery products such as F5 Networks 3DNS. Non-stop load balancing products for which Progent can provide consulting services include Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Presentation Server, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Distributed Director and Cisco CDN Software, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. For more information, visit Non-stop Load Balancing.
Zero Downtime Internet Data Centers
Progent's Data Center consultants can show you how to identify zero-downtime data centers that match the particular requirements of your business. Fault tolerant Internet Data Centers are particularly appealing to small and mid-size companies because of their affordability and convenience in comparison to pursuing a do-it-yourself strategy. Trying to design an on-site data center with even a basic level of fault tolerance is too costly for the majority of small organizations. Progent is ready to show you how to get all the benefits of 24x7 colo sites by offering a full array of consulting and support services. To find out more, see High-Availability Data Centers Solutions.
Fault Tolerant Interoffice Connectivity
Progent’s branch office connectivity engineers can help organizations create non-stop interoffice connections via fully redundant system architectures with automatic failover. Progent’s Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers can design and implement high-availability Inter-office networks supported by zero-downtime EIGRP network routers or non-stop OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how multi-path connections and transparent fail-over offers affordable non-stop interoffice connectivity. To learn more, go to Fault Tolerant Inter-office Connectivity.
Backup and Restore Technology Consulting Services
Progent offers affordable remote access to engineers skilled in a broad range of utilities and technologies that deliver solutions for protecting Microsoft Windows, Mac, and Linux physical and virtual servers and workstations plus notebooks and smartphones. Progent offers consulting support for leading data protection products such as Acronis Backup and Recovery, Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, CrashPlan, Double-Take Software, Mozy, Retrospect, Time Machine, VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP), and FLARs. Progent's consultants can assist you to deploy, upgrade, or maintain backup solutions for a range of architectures such as on-premises, remote, cloud, or hybrid. To read more, go to Backup and Recovery Solutions Consulting.
System Center Data Protection Manager Backup and Recovery Consulting Experts
Progent's expert Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager consultants can assist your company to develop a practical business continuity plan, implement a cost-effective fault-tolerante IT infrastructure, configure a System Center Data Protection Manager-powered recovery system, thoroughly validate your system, train your administrative personnel or regular consultants how to maintain Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, or provide complete IT support outsourcing including off-site housing of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager servers in Progent's world-class data center. For details, visit Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting Services.
Barracuda Backup Cloud and Offsite Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription-based backup/restore service for small and medium-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup deployment can include a purpose-built physical storage device manufactured by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with similar features but which utilizes your existing storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup safeguards vital company data generated locally, at one or multiple remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster protection, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), or to any site with a Barracuda appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts offer a wide range of consulting services to help your business to design, integrate, manage and repair a BDR system built on Barracuda technology. For details, go to Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting and management.
Altaro VM Backup Software for Backup and Disaster Recovery
Altaro VM Backup provides small businesses a reliable and affordable solution for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, offsite, distributed, and cloud environments and also supports low-cost backup to Microsoft Azure storage. Headline features include industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to reduce backup storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection with backup spacing as short as five minutes for minimizing your exposure to data loss, military-grade encryption, granular restore options for individual files and emails, support for Windows Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and vCenter for managing larger deployments, and the ability to leverage Microsoft VSS technology to back up live virtual machines with zero downtime. Progent is a certified Altaro partner and offers a broad range of services to help you to design, install, manage and troubleshoot a backup/restore system based on Altaro VM Backup. For details, see Altaro VM Backup Consulting Services.
Altaro Office 365 Total Backup Services
Microsoft Office 365 provides simple archiving but does not include integrated support for vital data protection capabilities such as Exchange Online backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint. Altaro O365 Backup delivers a full-featured platform for automatic backup and rapid restoration of all your company's Office 365 mailboxes, Microsoft Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, and OneDrive data. Progent is an Altaro partner and has designed ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) Office 365 Backup to deliver end-to-end managed services for Altaro's Office 365 back/restore product. ProSight DPS Office 365 provides a budget-friendly backup-as-a-service (BaaS) solution that protects O365 components against data loss caused by human or system error, malevolent deletion, and cyber attacks like ransomware. For more information, go to Altaro O365 Backup Solutions.
Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup
Double-Take Software publishes a family of tools designed to deliver small and midsize companies a range of cost-effective solutions for replicating and recovering business-critical applications including Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, RIM Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent’s business continuity planning experts have extensive backgrounds incorporating Double-Take Software technology into small business information systems to create a high level of availability and business continuity readiness at a budget-friendly cost. To learn more, go to Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Backup.
CRISC-Premier Network Risk Mitigation
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. To find out more, visit CRISC-Certified IT risk control specialists.
Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Partner and offers specialized application support for a wide variety of small business software programs, Progent is able to help clients to arrive at complete IT solutions that substantially enhance the business value of your network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent offers the support of premier engineers and specialists with experience in designing, installing and troubleshooting networking environments based on Cisco products. The depth and breadth of Progent's technical experience and Progent's familiarity with the needs of small and midsize businesses make Progent the ideal resource for building and maintaining an affordable, high-availability network.
How to Get Help from Progent's Engineers for High Availability Network Services
To ask Progent about technical help for high availability IT design, phone
An index of content::
Information Risk Evaluation Consultants
External Security Inventory Consultants
Progent offers small businesses two ultra-affordable security inventory packages that provide, at a preset price, remotely managed scans of your security profile which are evaluated by expert security engineers who interpret the results of the remote scan, deliver unbiased summaries of your existing security vulnerability, and offer suggestions for enhancements. Progent offers two complementary network security evaluation scanning packages for external and internal security scanning that are priced to fit the budgetary realities of small businesses while delivering enterprise-class assessments of your IT network's exposure to assault.
Software Support Progent's Management
Progent Management On-site Support
Progent's management team includes seasoned veterans with years of background delivering network consulting, troubleshooting, and long-term IT planning to businesses ranging in size from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Great support calls for great people, and Progent has assembled a management staff that can provide customers with the best service value in the industry.
Support and Help Co-Location
24/7 Internet Data Center Network Engineer
Progent’s colocation center support services are intended for businesses with equipment housed at Internet Data Centers or data center co-location hosting facilities and in need of on-demand in-person service at the colocation site as well as off-site help from Microsoft and Cisco Premier experts. Progent provides a complete array of IDC and data center and collocation support services such as network topology evaluation, Windows and Linux server integration and maintenance, tech support for server and communications infrastructure, design and installation of non-stop configurations, architecting and implementing layered security structures, firewall integration and troubleshooting, designing load balancing environments, and planning fault tolerant server clustering systems.
ProSight password management system Professional
ProSight IP address management Engineers
ProSight IT Asset Management is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need when you need it.
Office 365 AD Connect Technical Support Services
Consultant Office 365 and iOS
Microsoft supports transparent hybrid environments that integrate Office 365 and local Exchange deployments. This permits you to have some Exchange mailboxes located at your corporate datacenter and other mailboxes hosted by Office 365. Progent's certified Exchange consultants can assist your organization with any facet of designing, implementing and debugging your hybrid Office 365 solution. Progent's Exchange consultants can deliver as-needed expertise to help you resolve stubborn technical issues and also can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to make sure your hybrid Office 365 initiative is carried out on time and on budget.
Solaris Migration Consultants
Solaris-Windows Migration Consultant
Progent can help your business to design and implement a smooth migration from a Sun Solaris-based information system to a network based on MS Windows and suited for supporting Microsoft's powerful office productivity software, commercial applications, and developer tools. Progent's Solaris, Windows and Cisco engineers and application specialists can help you preserve your information and reduce business discontinuity by designing an effective migration strategy that preserves your current investments in Solaris application and infrastructure. UNIX-to-Windows migration support services available from Progent include evaluation of existing environment, transition strategy and testing, Microsoft Exchange migration services, data and application migration, and processor and storage migration and economization.
Windows Hyper-V 2016 Containers Remote Technical Support
Microsoft Certified Partner Windows Server Hyper-V 2016 Security and Compliance Technology Consulting
Windows Hyper-V 2016 utilizes core features initially designed for and refined on Azure, one of the world's largest public clouds. This dramatically enhances the suitability of the Windows Server platform to run private cloud and hybrid cloud/on-premises environments by enhancing data security, availability, expandability, manageability, reliability and recoverability. Progent’s Microsoft-certified consulting team can help you to assess the advantages of Hyper-V 2016 for your organization, set up pilot environments to confirm the ability of Hyper-V 2016 to support your critical workloads, plan a cost-effective network topology for a cloud-centric or hybrid deployment, create and carry out a smooth migration strategy, educate your IT administration and technical support staff, and provide ongoing consulting and troubleshooting support to ensure that your Hyper-V 2016 solution gives you the highest possible business benefit.
Open Now Microsoft Skype for Business 2015 Consult
Skype for Business and SharePoint Consultants
Microsoft Lync 2010 provides IM, Presence, voice/video conferencing, desktop sharing, as well as VoIP and public switched telephone network calling. Microsoft Lync 2010 can enhance the functionality of Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint and Office desktop or Office 365 and streamlines administration through integration with Active Directory. Lync can also cut expenses by doing away with VoIP hardware and subscription fees, PBX gear, or conventional video conferencing solutions. Progent's certified IM and Presence experts can provide online and on-premises support to assist you to manage and repair your existing Lync Server 2010 deployment or assess the benefits of migrating from Lync Server 2010 to Skype for Business, which is Microsoft's new release of the product. Progent can also help your organization to plan and execute an efficient Skype for Business upgrade.
Wireless Support
Wi-Fi 6 Network Consultants
Progent’s Wireless Consulting Services provide a fast, economical option for companies of any size to configure, manage and troubleshoot cutting edge wireless connectivity solutions. For 802.11n and the latest 802.11ac wireless environments, Progent can help you plan and deploy appliances such as Cisco's Aironet and Meraki wireless access points and wireless network controllers. For mobile email and web-based applications, Progent supports Apple IOS iPhones, Apple iPads, Google Android smartphones, and Windows phones and tablets.
Email Image Spam Protection Consultant Services
24-7 Email Outbound Content Filtering Professional
Progent's ProSight Email Guard solution uses the services and infrastructure of top data security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's ProSight Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter.
Telecommuter Endpoint Management Support and Integration
Integration Support Remote Workers Endpoint Management
Progent can help small and medium-size organizations to configure centralized remote endpoint management systems for maintaining endpoints used by an offsite workforce.
Computer Setup Network Management
Network Management Tech Expert
Progent's Cisco-Certified network management engineers can help you to use Cisco's network management utilities alongside a variety of powerful third-party applications to build a complete network management solution in order to keep your environment operating smoothly, fully utilize limited resources, guard your data, recover quickly from hardware breakdown or malicious attacks, and enable you to expand or reassign network resources intelligently and affordably as your business evolves.
VMware NSX Migration Consultant
VMware vRealize Orchestrator vRO Consultancy
VMware's NSX network virtualization platform enables you to build entire networks in software. NSX permits virtual networks to be provisioned instantly and managed with a high level of automation regardless of the hardware used by the basic network infrastructure. VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) supports automated recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site relocation, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also enables non-intrusive testing for disaster recovery, updates and fixes and can generate reports to verify full service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate compliance. When integrated with VMware's NSX virtual network platform, VMware SRM can rapidly restore the complete virtualized network topology at the recovery datacenter. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware NSX consulting expert and VMware Site Recovery Manager integration specialist to assist your organization to design, deploy, test and administer a disaster recovery solution powered by VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware NSX.
Security Consultants Juniper Junos BGT
Juniper Junos BGT Cybersecurity Firms
Progent's Juniper-certified network engineers can help you utilize Junos OS and the Junos platform of network management applications to configure, administer, and monitor Junos-powered devices; migrate to the Junos OS operating system from other Juniper software platforms such as ScreenOS; and upgrade your Juniper routers, switches, and gateways to the latest version of Junos OS.
Select Topic: