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Microsoft Network Load Balance Expertise
In situations where a single server or cluster can't provide the throughput required for a critical application, load balancing of multiple servers offers a solution that not only enhances performance but, as a natural byproduct, provides fault tolerance by working around failed servers in a load-balanced farm. Firewalls and routers can also be set up in a load-balanced and fault-tolerant configuration, so that failures of a single device have limited impact on overall system functionality. It is far easier for users and organizations to manage the impacts of reduced resources or bandwidth than to deal with complete outages.
Load balancing solutions area well suited for many web based applications where the front-end web servers can utilize the services of a back-end clustered SQL Server data repository. Applications such as web-based eCommerce are ideal candidates for a load-balanced configuration. Load balancing can provide greatly improved operational reliability because failed servers are transparently removed from the resource farm, thus making such failures nearly invisible to users.
Once you have established a base architecture for a load balancing environment, you have cleared the way for future growth and scalability because adding additional resources to the server farm is a seamless process.
Progent is experienced with a wide range of load balancing technologies covering server balancing, application balancing, and LAN/WAN infrastructure routing. Progent offers consulting expertise with products from the leading vendors of load balancing technology including Microsoft, Cisco, Citrix, and F-5 networks.
Windows Server 2016 Virtual Machine Load Balancing
VM Load Balancing is a new feature of Windows Server 2016 that can automatically and non-disruptively migrate virtual machines between nodes within a Failover Cluster. VM Load Balancing improves Failover Cluster availability and performance and can help you avoid the need to add physical servers to peak workloads. Virtual Machine M Load Balancing automatically determines whether a node has become over utilized and moves virtual machines from the over-committed node to an under-committed node, for example a server that has been freshly rebooted. This entails no cluster downtime, adheres to failure policies such as fault domains, and uses advanced heuristics for measuring VM memory pressure and CPU utilization of the node. Virtual Machine Load Balancing can be set up to run every 30 minutes or on demand. You can use PowerShell to pick one of three thresholds for establishing the aggressiveness of load balancing.
Cisco Content Services Switches and Cisco IOS-based Routers
Through content fast switching and forwarding, the Cisco CSS 11500 Series switches improve utilization, responsiveness, availability, scalability, and security of Web sites, server farms, cache clusters, and firewall systems. Load balancing is a standard functionality of the Cisco IOS router software, and is available across all router platforms. It is based on standard routing protocols, such as Routing Information Protocol (RIP), RIPv2, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP), or derived from statically configured routes and packet forwarding mechanisms. Progent's Cisco-certified network engineers can help you select and deploy a Cisco-based network infrastructure that makes good business sense for your environment and can configure Cisco's IOS Server Load Balancing (SLB) service. To find out more about Progent's Cisco consulting services, see Cisco Consulting Support.
Citrix Metaframe, Presentation Server, and Access Gateway
Citrix Presentation Server is an application delivery system offering client-side and server-side application virtualization for enhanced application performance and flexible delivery options. Citrix Presentation Server allows organizations to centralize applications and data in secure data centers, reducing costs of management and support, increasing data security, and ensuring consistently high performance. MetaFrame Secure Access Manager technology has been integrated into Citrix Access Gateway, an SSL VPN that securely delivers any application with policy-based SmartAccess control. Users have easy-to use secure access to the applications and data they need to be productive. Organizations can cost effectively extend access to datacenter resources from outside the office while maintaining control through comprehensive SmartAccess policies. Progent's Citrix-certified consultants can help you implement Citrix products to help optimize application performance and availability.
F5 Networks BIG-IP and BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
F5 Networks' BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery networking system featuring a set of unified application infrastructure services. BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager removes single points of failure and virtualizes the network and applications using L7 intelligence. LTM improves application performance, increases the capacity of existing infrastructure, and lowers infrastructure costs. BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager uses topology-based load balancing to inspect a user's IP and determine the most efficient data center. When users try to access a data center that is overloaded or unreachable, BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager automatically and seamlessly directs them to a secondary data center. This capability makes BIG-IP GTM especially important for enterprises that need to maintain operations in the event of a natural disaster, power failure, or any other large-scale service disruption. Learn more about Progent's disaster recovery consulting.
Fault Tolerant Solutions Offered by Progent
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco consultants can assist your business to create an efficient, zero-downtime information network that resolves key problems covering a broad array of infrastructure technologies and operations including:
Business Continuity Planning
Progent's business continuity engineers can help you create a disaster recovery plan that will allow you to restore network functionality in case of an information system disaster. Progent can assist you to develop a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that incorporates scheduled disaster recovery evaluations and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also help you build an affordable, zero-downtime network solution that addresses availability issues involving a broad range of infrastructure technologies and procedures. For details, go to Disaster Recovery Consulting.
CRISC-Premier IT Risk Mitigation
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. For details, see CRISC-Certified network risk control experts.
Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 incorporated important enhancements in scale, performance, management, cybersecurity, application compatibility, Linux support, Kubernetes networking, and hybrid integration of local and cloud assets. Top enhancements of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management and monitoring of hybrid on-premises/cloud deployments, System Insights for utilizing modern predictive intelligence to manage local environments, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container networking with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for deploying and managing massive non-stop scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for simplifying the upgrade process from legacy releases of Windows Server. For more information, go to Microsoft Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Support.
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity consultants can assist you to plan and deploy a disaster recovery system based on Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering tools including Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class network-attached storage using industry-standard hardware, VM Load Balancing for enhancing the speed and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while minimizing TCO and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for easy, affordable creation of a stretch cluster quorum witness. To read more, see Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Consulting.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you specify, automate and verify a consistent runbook for restoring services quickly following a breakdown. Site Recovery Manager supports centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, and non-disruptive site migration, failback and site re-protect. SRM also enables transparent testing for site recovery, updates and patches and can produce audit reports to confirm full service restoration, validate SLAs and demonstrate disaster recovery compliance. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to assist you to plan, configure, test and maintain a DR solution powered by VMware SRM.
NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery software suite that uses array-based storage clustering with synchronous replication to provide fast, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between sites located up to 300km apart from each other. Progent offers the skills of a certified NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can assist your business to plan, configure, manage, update, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery solution built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your functional requirements and budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to best practices for configuring your MetroCluster environment by delivering guidance with tasks such as assigning shelf IDs, determining aggregate layout, setting up volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, implementing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network, and verifying your MetroCluster DR solution to prove adherence with industry standards and government mandates.
Zero Downtime Internet Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to identify high availability data centers that match the particular needs of your business. High availability off-site data centers are especially appealing to small and mid-size businesses due to of their affordability and simplified logistics in comparison to taking a do-it-yourself strategy. Attempting to design an on-site data center that offers even a minimum degree of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for the majority of small businesses. Progent can help you get all the advantages of 24x7 colo sites by providing a complete array of engineering and maintenance services. To find out more, visit Non-stop Colocation Solutions.
Failsafe Branch Office Networking
Progent’s branch office connectivity professionals can help organizations achieve non-stop interoffice connectivity via fully redundant networks with automatic failover. Progent’s Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers can plan and deploy high-availability Inter-office networks based on non-stop EIGRP network routers or fault tolerant OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how redundant connections and automatic fail-over offers affordable 24x7 interoffice networking. For more information, go to Fault Tolerant Interoffice Connectivity.
24x7 Internet Connectivity
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT experts can show you how to create an economical, fault tolerant Internet connection architecture that can deliver 24x7 Internet connectivity via a broad range of fault tolerant Internet access technologies including non-stop BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent can provide Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert consultants to show you how to apply the most advanced technology for 24x7 Internet access to implement an economical, completely redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other features to deliver fault tolerant Internet access. For details, visit High Availability Internet Connectivity Solutions.
Backup and Restore Solutions Consulting Experts
Progent offers affordable online support from IT engineers skilled in a broad array of products and technologies that deliver solutions for protecting Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux/UNIX physical and virtual servers and workstations as well as laptops and smartphones. Progent offers expertise for all major backup products such as Acronis Backup and Recovery, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, HP Data Protector, Double-Take Software, Mozy, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery, and Solaris FLARs. Progent's consultants can help you to deploy, upgrade, or maintain backup systems for a range of architectures including on-premises, remote, cloud-based, or a mix. To learn more, see Backup and Recovery Solutions Expertise.
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Recovery Consulting
Progent's certified Microsoft SCDPM engineers can assist you to create a practical disaster recovery strategy, design a cost-effective high-availability IT architecture, install a System Center Data Protection Manager-based recovery system, thoroughly validate your DPM system, educate your administrative staff or regular consultants how to maintain SCDPM, or provide extensive IT outsourcing including remote hosting of Microsoft SCDPM servers in Progent's data center facility. To read more, see System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting Services.
Barracuda Backup Local, Offsite and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription backup/restore platform for small and mid-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup solution can include a purpose-built physical storage device manufactured by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar functionality but which utilizes your own storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup safeguards critical business data produced on-premises, at one or more remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster protection, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any location with a Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts offer a broad array of consulting services to assist you to design, configure, manage and repair a backup and disaster recovery solution based on Barracuda technology. For more information, go to Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting and management.
ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup Solutions for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Altaro VM Backup software provides small businesses a reliable and budget-friendly solution for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be used for on-premises, remote, distributed, and cloud architectures and also supports cost-effective cloud backup to Azure storage. Progent is an Altaro partner and offers a wide array of online or on-premises consulting services to assist you to plan, deploy, optimize and debug a comprehensive backup/restore solution based on Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a fully managed backup/recovery service powered by on Altaro VM Backup. For more information, see Altaro VM Backup certified consultants.
ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro O365 Total Backup Services
Microsoft 365 (previously named Office 365) offers simple archiving but does not have integrated support for vital data protection capabilities like Exchange backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint. Altaro O365 Backup provides a feature-rich platform for programmable backup and rapid recovery of all your company's O365 mailboxes, Microsoft Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, and OneDrive for Business data. Progent is an Altaro partner and offers ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) O365 Total Backup to provide comprehensive management services for Altaro's O365 back/restore product. ProSight Data Protection Services O365 delivers a budget-friendly backup-as-a-service (BaaS) alternative that guards O365 apps against data loss or corruption caused by human or system error, malevolent deletion, and cyber attacks such as ransomware. For details, visit ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro O365 Backup services.
Fully Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS ECHO automates and monitors your backup processes and enable rapid recovery of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed cloud backup.
ProSight DPS 360 Backup Solutions
Progent's data protection experts can assist you to design, implement and troubleshoot a backup/restore plan built around MSP360 software. MSP360 offers file/folder or image backup/recovery for virtual machines and physical computers, works with all popular public clouds, and allows businesses to build a backup solution with a minimum Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a defined Recovery Point Objective. With ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup, Progent can provide end-to-end monitoring and remote management of your backup system to prevent data loss resulting from user miscues, system glitches, ill-intentioned users, and malware attacks such as ransomware. To learn more, visit ProSight DPS 360 Backup solutions.
Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup
Double-Take Software offers a family of tools intended to deliver small businesses a variety of cost-effective solutions for backing up and recovering vital applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent’s business continuity planning consultants have in-depth experience integrating Double-Take products into small company IT networks to create a high state of availability and business continuity readiness at a budget-friendly price. To learn more, see Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup.
Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Because Progent is a Microsoft Partner and offers specialized application consulting for a broad range of business applications, Progent is able to help clients to find complete IT solutions that maximize the productivity of your network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent offers the services of certified consultants and specialists with experience in architecting, deploying and supporting networking solutions built on Cisco technology. The breadth of Progent's IT know-how and Progent's sensitivity to the needs of small businesses make Progent the perfect partner for building and maintaining an affordable, fault-tolerant information system.
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Fault Tolerant Internet Connection Online Help
Fault-tolerant system Remote Support Services
Progent’s high availability system consultants provide non-stop computing support, disaster recovery services, network load balancing, 24x7 interoffice access, non-stop Internet connection design, non-stop data center consulting, and other fault-tolerant operations services to show your small business design a 24x7 network for strategic applications. Progent possesses the background to design affordable, fault-tolerant systems by utilizing the evolving suite of Windows Cluster servers including Windows Cluster Server 2003, SQL Server Cluster, and Exchange Cluster Server. Progent’s Microsoft and Cisco certified consultants can show you how to you design a fault tolerant mutli-site network with a completely mirrored Internet interface and efficient network load balancing.
Support and Integration Exchange 2007 Edge Server
Consultant Services Microsoft Exchange 2007
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can show you how to design and deploy an efficient in-place Exchange Server 2007 upgrade plan that avoids network downtime, simplifies ongoing support demands, and makes your Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server easy to administer. For complicated multi-server or multi-location upgrades, Progent offers the knowledge and experience to complete your project quickly and affordably. Progent's Exchange 2007 support, repair, and consulting offerings include expertise with the integration of third-party enhancements of Exchange 2007 Server and the creation of unified messaging solutions powered by Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server.
Apple Mac and Windows coexistence Remote Support Services
Apple Mac and Windows coexistence IT Consulting
Progent's service experts in Apple OS X and Microsoft Windows technology can show you how to integrate Mac and Windows systems into seamless environments with resource sharing and collaboration support. Enabling efficient co-existence among a mix of servers and workstations powered by Mac OS and Windows calls for broad knowledge of and experience with Apple Macintosh and Windows products. Progent's background in Windows and Apple consulting makes it possible to provide world class support to businesses that depend on these platforms to keep their strategic edge. Progent's consultants can also help you to integrate Apple's iPhones and iPads with your Windows network.
Microsoft Certified Expert Setup and Support SharePoint Portal Server
SharePoint Server 2019 IT Consulting
Progent’s Microsoft-certified consultants offer organizations of any size consulting, troubleshooting, and development services for Microsoft SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online. Microsoft SharePoint is an advanced platform that uses web technology for intelligently connecting people, groups and data. Microsoft SharePoint Server offers a central location for your workers or clients to connect to, manage, distribute and interact with relevant data, files, and applications and to interact with one another. Microsoft SharePoint enables faster and better decisions, more effective sharing across groups and more economical business processes. Windows SharePoint Services connect employees, customers, workgroups and projects with the information they’ve created in a manner that makes data convenient to find, download and re-use. Progent's certified SharePoint consultants can help you to manage your existing SharePoint ecosystem or migrate to the current version of SharePoint Server or to SharePoint Online.
Cisco AnyConnect Network Consultant
Cisco ASA Configuration Online Support
Progent’s Cisco-Certified technology consultants offer experienced PIX Firewall support services encompassing design, implementation and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security products. The Cisco PIX 500 Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector threat protection, and safe access services. Extending from small, easy-to-install desktop devices for small offices and home offices to modular gigabit products, Cisco PIX firewalls provide a healthy combination of protection, speed and reliability for business environments of all sizes. PIX firewalls are build around a hardened, specially designed platform, PIX OS, minimizing potential OS-specific security holes. The Cisco PIX Firewall has received ICSA Firewall and IPsec certification as well as Common Criteria EAL4 evaluation status. PIX firewalls deliver multiple integrated security and networking services, including advanced application-aware firewall services, Voice over IP and digital media security, site-to-site and remote-access IPsec VPN networking, intelligent networking services, and flexible management solutions. Progent’s Cisco experts can show you how to select and integrate any Cisco PIX 500 Series firewalls such as the Cisco PIX 501 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506E, PIX 515 Firewalls, the PIX 515E Firewall, the Cisco PIX 520 Firewall, Cisco PIX 525 Firewalls and the Cisco PIX 535.
ProSight Remote Managed IT Services Professional
Professional Network Management Outsourcing for Small Businesses
Progent's ProSight family of managed IT services are geared to offer organizations who maintain small internal network administration and support teams with low-cost help from enterprise-class management platforms and technical expertise. Benefits of the ProSight line of managed services include flat-rate IT management costs, smart automation of common management processes, ongoing adoption of the latest information technology, smooth transition from older systems to up-to-date solutions, close fit between information technology with strategic objectives, access to seasoned network consultants, and allowing management to concentrate on business instead of ever-changing information technology.
Microsoft Access Coder
Microsoft Access desktop Expert Development
Progent can provide economical online support for all editions of Microsoft Office Access including desktop and browser-based versions and offers advanced support for application programming, database migration, performance tuning, report design, and troubleshooting. Progent also can provide custom webinar training for Office Access development and database management.
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