Most companies with more than one office have some type of IP-based interoffice communications method. Common connectivity solutions include legacy frame relay lines, private T1 circuits, managed VPN, private IP, and unmanaged Internet VPNs. Communications failures for these interoffice links can significantly downgrade business productivity.
Loss of interoffice connectivity means that users in remote offices are cut-off from key central systems and can be left without the ability to perform even the most basic day-to-day functions required to carry out critical business transactions. As a result, customers are disappointed, orders are delayed, and the afflicted business pays for workers to wait for the network to come back online.
The vast majority of small business interoffice communications infrastructures have virtually no fault tolerance. A single downed communications line or a single router failure can bring vital business processes to a halt. All too often, single-point failures can take hours, and occasionally days, to repair. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE engineers have the knowledge and experience to design and implement sophisticated fault-tolerant architectures for interoffice connectivity. Progent's consultants are expert at fault-tolerant Cisco router configuration based on Interior Gateway Protocols including OSPF, or Open Shortest Path First, and EIGRP, or Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol.
The explosion of low-cost Internet connectivity options provides new opportunities to create affordable, truly fault-tolerant, fully redundant interoffice connections that seamlessly failover in the event of a single-point breakdown. In the past, the high cost of private T1 lines often exceeded reasonable cost/risk assessments for small businesses. But with the diverse selection of low-cost DSL, cable modem, and wireless ISP connections now available, companies can craft cost-effective solutions that offer protection from single points of failure. By utilizing the advanced fault-tolerant features available in Cisco's IOS operating system, critical failures can be made invisible to users. With proper alert mechanisms, in-house IT resources or outside consultants can work efficiently to restore primary communications links without working under the intense pressure associated with crippling outages.
The business case for implementing fault-tolerant interoffice connectivity has never been more compelling. Low-cost DSL links can be configured as a backup to expensive T1 private lines for as little as 1/20th of the monthly operating cost of the primary link. The availability of business-class wireless links makes it possible to create a fault-tolerant communications architecture that completely eliminates the risk of rare but debilitating wired network failures, such as fiber cuts caused by construction work, or traffic accidents that take down utility poles or telephone wiring junction boxes. These solutions are affordably priced and offer acceptable performance in failover situations.
Fault Tolerant Technologies Provided by Progent's Experts
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting experts can assist you to create a sensible, zero-downtime information network that addresses key issues encompassing a broad array of networking solutions and operations such as:
Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's disaster recovery professionals can show you how to create a business continuity plan in order to restore IT operations in the event of an information system catastrophe. Progent can assist you to create a complete disaster recovery plan that includes periodic disaster recovery evaluations and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized professionals can also help you build an affordable, fault-tolerant network solution that addresses reliability issues involving a broad array of network technologies and procedures. To read more, go to Disaster Recovery Consulting Services.
CRISC-Certified IT Risk Management
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. For more information, visit CRISC-Premier IT risk mitigation specialists.
Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 introduced significant enhancements in capacity, throughput, management, cybersecurity, application compatibility, Linux support, container technology, and hybrid combinations of local and cloud assets. Top new features of Microsoft 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 advance predictive analytics to manage local networks, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container orchestration using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for building and administering massive high-availability scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for streamlining the upgrade process from legacy editions of Windows Server. For more information, see Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Help.
Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity experts can help your organization to plan and deploy a disaster recovery system based on Microsoft's latest Failover Clustering technologies including Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance storage clusters using low-cost hardware, VM Load Balancing for enhancing the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while minimizing capital investment and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for easy, affordable creation of a stretch cluster quorum arbitration point. For details, go to 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 define, automate and test a consistent runbook for recovering applications and services quickly after an outage. SRM supports centrally managed and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site relocation, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also supports non-intrusive testing for disaster recovery, upgrades and patches and can generate reports to verify complete service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate disaster recovery compliance. Progent can provide the support 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 Site Recovery Manager.
NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Platform
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that combines array-based storage clustering with synchronous replication to provide fast, zero data loss disaster recovery between sites that are as far as 185 miles apart from each other. Progent offers the skills of a NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can assist you to design, deploy, manage, upgrade, test and repair a disaster recovery solution built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your technical needs and budget. Progent can make sure you follow leading practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by delivering guidance with procedures such as assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, determining aggregate and plexes layout, setting up FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning switches, implementing a tiebreaker, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your storage clusters, and testing your disaster recovery solution to verify adherence with industry standards and regulatory mandates.
High Availability Load Balancing
Progent provides high availability load balancing consulting covering network load balancing, load balanced applications, network backbone routing, and content dispatching technology including Cisco Content Engine. Fault tolerant load balancing solutions for which Progent offers consulting services include Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Presentation Server, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Content Engine and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks BIG-IP. To find out more, see Fault Tolerant Load Balancing.
Zero Downtime Data Centers
Progent's Data Center consultants can help you find fault-tolerant data centers that meet the specific needs of your business. High availability off-site data centers are particularly attractive to small and mid-size companies due to of their low cost and convenience compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Attempting to create an in-house data center with even a minimum degree of fault tolerance is too costly for most small businesses. Progent is ready to help you reap all the advantages of high-availability data centers by providing a complete array of engineering and support services. For more information, see High-Availability Internet Data Centers Expertise.
24x7 Internet Connectivity
Progent's Cisco-certified network experts can help you create an economical, fault tolerant Internet connection architecture that can deliver non-stop Internet connectivity through a wide array of high availability Internet network solutions including non-stop BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant ISPs. Progent offers Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert consultants to help you utilize the most up-to-date technology for 24x7 Internet connections to implement an economical, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other capabilities to create fault tolerant Internet access. For details, go to High Availability Internet Connectivity Architecture.
Backup and Restore Technology Consulting Experts
Progent can provide economical online support from engineers skilled in a broad array of utilities and services that provide solutions for backing up Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux servers and workstations plus notebooks and handhelds. Progent offers consulting support for leading data protection products such as Acronis Backup and Recovery, Backup Exec, BackupAssist, CrashPlan, Double-Take Software, Mozy, Retrospect, Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery, and Solaris FLARs. Progent can assist your company to implement, enhance, or troubleshoot backup systems for a range of topologies such as local, remote, cloud-based, or hybrid. To learn more, see Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting and Support Services.
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Backup and Recovery Consulting Experts
Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager engineers can assist your company to develop an effective business continuity strategy, design a cost-effective high-availability IT infrastructure, deploy a System Center Data Protection Manager-powered recovery solution, thoroughly validate your system, train your administrative staff or local consultants how to manage Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, or provide extensive information technology outsourcing services including remote hosting of Microsoft SCDPM servers in Progent's secure data center. To read more, visit Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting Services.
Barracuda Backup Cloud and Offsite Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription-based backup/restore service for small and mid-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup deployment can incorporate a custom-designed hardware storage device manufactured by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with similar features but which uses your existing storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup safeguards critical company data generated locally, at one or more remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster recovery, 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 consultants can provide a wide array of consulting services to assist you to plan, integrate, operate and troubleshoot a BDR solution based on Barracuda Backup. For more information, see Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consultants.
ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup Software for Backup and Disaster Recovery
Hornetsecurity's Altaro VM Backup provides small organizations a dependable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, offsite, multi-site, and cloud environments and also enables low-cost cloud backup to Azure storage. Altaro VM Backup includes high-end capabilities like Immutable Cloud Storage for enhanced protection from ransomware. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and offers a wide range of remote or on-premises consulting services to assist you to plan, install, optimize and debug a modern backup and disaster recovery solution based on Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a managed backup/recovery service based on Altaro VM Backup technology. For details, visit Altaro VM Backup certified consultants.
ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Services for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 offers rudimentary archiving but does not have integrated support for crucial data protection capabilities such as Exchange Online backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time recovery for OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a feature-rich BDR solution for automatic backup and rapid restoration of all your organization's M365 mail, Microsoft Teams Chats, SharePoint documents, OneDrive data, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup to provide comprehensive managed services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup product. ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup provides an affordable backup-as-a-service (BaaS) alternative that guards M365 apps against data loss caused by user or software error, malicious corruption, and cyber attacks like ransomware. For details, go to ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup solutions for Microsoft 365.
Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS ECHO automates your backup processes and enable rapid recovery of vital files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware 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 deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed cloud backup.
ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup Services
Progent's data protection experts can help your company to create, deploy and debug a backup/restore solution built around MSP360 technology. MSP360 offers file or image-based backup/recovery for virtual machines and physical computers, works with all popular public clouds, and permits you to build a backup solution with a minimum Recovery Time Objective and a granular Recovery Point Objective. With ProSight DPS 360 Backup, Progent offers end-to-end monitoring and remote management of your backup system to protect against data loss resulting from user miscues, system errors, ill-intentioned users, and external attacks such as ransomware. For more information, go to ProSight DPS 360 Backup solutions.
Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Backup/Restore
Double-Take Software offers a family of products intended to deliver small companies a range of affordable solutions for replicating and recovering business-critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, RIM Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning experts have extensive experience incorporating Double-Take products into small business IT systems to achieve an advanced level of availability and disaster recovery capability at a budget-friendly price. To find out more, go to Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup.
Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and provides professional application consulting for a wide range of small business applications, Progent can assist clients to arrive at complete information technology solutions that maximize the productivity of your IT network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent can provide the services of certified consultants and specialists with experience in designing, installing and supporting networking environments based on Cisco products. The breadth of Progent's technical know-how and Progent's familiarity with the requirements of small companies make Progent a great resource for creating and maintaining an affordable, dependable network.
How to Get Help from Progent's Consultants for Support for High Availability Computing
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