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Microsoft and Cisco Load Balancing Solutions
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.
Zero-Downtime Solutions Provided by Progent
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting experts can help your business to design a cost-effective, fault-tolerant information network that resolves major problems encompassing a wide array of infrastructure solutions and operations including:
Business Continuity Planning
Progent's business continuity professionals can show you how to design a workplace recovery strategy in order to resume IT functionality in case of an IT network disaster. Progent can help you to create a complete disaster recovery strategy that includes periodic disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized professionals can also help you build an affordable, fault-tolerant system solution that addresses reliability issues involving a wide array of network technologies and procedures. For details, see Business Continuity Consulting.
CRISC-Premier Network Risk Management
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and execute a workplace continuity plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. For details, visit CRISC-Premier network risk mitigation specialists.
Microsoft Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 incorporated significant improvements in capacity, performance, manageability, cybersecurity, app compatibility, Linux co-existence, Kubernetes networking, and hybrid integration of local and cloud-hosted resources. Headline enhancements of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management and monitoring of hybrid on-premises/cloud-hosted resources, System Insights for taking advantage of advance predictive analytics to manage local environments, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion prevention, container networking with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for creating and administering massive non-stop scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for streamlining the migration from outdated versions of Windows Server. To learn more, visit Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Expertise.
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consultants can help your organization to design a disaster recovery system based on Microsoft's latest Failover Clustering technologies such as Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class network-attached storage using commodity hardware, VM Load Balancing for improving the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while reducing TCO and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable creation of a stretch cluster quorum arbitration point. For more information, visit Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Consulting.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to define, automate and verify a repeatable runbook for recovering applications and services quickly following an outage. SRM provides centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, plus transparent site migration, failback and re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also supports transparent testing for disaster recovery, upgrades and fixes and can produce audit reports to confirm complete service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate disaster recovery compliance. Progent can provide the support of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to assist you to design, deploy, test and maintain a disaster recovery solution based on VMware SRM.
NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Platform
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery software suite that uses array-based storage clustering with continual replication to deliver fast, zero RPO disaster recovery (DR) between datacenters that are up to 185 miles apart. Progent can provide online or on-premises access to a NetApp MetroCluster expert who can assist your business to design, configure, administer, upgrade, test and repair 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 budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to leading practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by delivering help with tasks like assigning shelf IDs, arranging aggregate and plexes layout, setting up NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, implementing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your storage clusters, and verifying your MetroCluster disaster recovery solution to show adherence with information assurance standards and regulatory mandates.
Zero Downtime Internet Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can help you find zero-downtime data centers that meet the particular needs of your business. High availability Internet Data Centers are especially appealing to small and mid-size businesses due to of their affordability and convenience in comparison to taking a do-it-yourself strategy. Trying to create an on-site data center that offers even a minimum level of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for typical small organizations. Progent can show you how to reap all the advantages of high-availability colo centers by offering a full range of engineering and support services. For details, go to High-Availability Colocation Expertise.
Fault Tolerant Interoffice Connectivity
Progent's multi-site connectivity consultants can help companies create non-stop branch office connectivity solutions by means of redundant networks with transparent failover. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network engineers can design and deploy ultra-reliable Inter-office networks based on fault tolerant EIGRP network routers or fault tolerant OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connections and transparent fail-over can provide economical 24x7 interoffice connectivity. For more information, visit High-Availability Interoffice Networking.
24x7 Internet Connectivity
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT engineers can help you design an affordable, high availability Internet configuration architecture that can deliver non-stop Internet access through a broad array of fault tolerant Internet access solutions including non-stop BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant ISPs. Progent offers CCIE consultants to show you how to apply the latest techniques for fault tolerant Internet connections to implement an economical, completely redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other capabilities to deliver zero-downtime Internet access. To read more, go to Non-stop Internet Access Architecture.
Backup and Recovery Technology Consultants
Progent offers economical online access to consultants skilled in a broad array of utilities and technologies that deliver solutions for backing up Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux servers and workstations as well as laptops and handhelds. Progent can provide expertise for all major backup products including Acronis, Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, CrashPlan PRO, Double-Take Software, MozyPro, Retrospect for Macintosh, Apple Time Machine, VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP), and Oracle Solaris FLARs. Progent can assist your company to install, upgrade, or maintain backup/restore systems for a variety of architectures such as local, remote, cloud, or hybrid. To read more, go to Backup and Recovery Solutions Expertise.
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Data Recovery Consulting
Progent's certified Microsoft SCDPM support professionals can assist your company to create a practical workplace recovery strategy, design a cost-effective high-availability IT architecture, install a System Center Data Protection Manager-based backup and recovery solution, comprehensively test your system, train your administrative personnel or local consultants how to maintain Microsoft SCDPM, or provide complete IT support outsourcing including remote hosting of virtual or physical SCDPM machines in Progent's world-class data center. To find out more, visit System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Consulting Services.
Barracuda Backup Local, Offsite and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription-based backup/restore platform for small and medium-size organizations. A Barracuda Backup solution can incorporate a purpose-built physical storage device manufactured by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar features but which uses your own storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup protects vital business data produced locally, at one or more 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 location with a physical or virtual Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants offer a broad array of consulting support services to help you to plan, configure, manage and repair a BDR solution built on Barracuda technology. For details, visit Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting.
ProSight Altaro VM Backup Solutions for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Hornetsecurity's Altaro VM Backup software provides small and mid-size organizations a dependable and affordable solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-based VMs. Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, offsite, distributed, and cloud architectures and also supports low-cost backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup supports high-end capabilities such as Immutable Cloud Storage for enhanced recoverability from ransomware. Progent is an Altaro partner and offers a broad array of remote or onsite consulting services to assist you to design, install, manage and troubleshoot a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery system powered by Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a managed backup/recovery service based on Altaro VM Backup software. To learn more, visit Altaro VM Backup certified consultants.
ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 offers simple archiving but does not include integrated support for key data protection capabilities like Exchange backups or long-term point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup delivers a full-featured BDR solution for programmable backup and rapid restoration of all your organization's M365 mailboxes, Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, OneDrive for Business data, and content on Windows endpoints. Progent is an authorized Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and has designed ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) 365 Total Backup to deliver end-to-end management services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup product. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup provides an affordable backup-as-a-service alternative that guards M365 apps against data loss or corruption resulting from human or system error, malicious sabotage, and malware assaults like ransomware. To find out more, see ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup services for Microsoft 365.
Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS ECHO automates and monitors your backup processes and allow rapid recovery of vital data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide world-class support to set up ProSight DPS ECHO to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can help you to recover your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed backup and recovery.
ProSight MSP360 Backup Services
Progent can help your company to create, deploy and troubleshoot a backup/restore plan built around MSP360 software. MSP360 offers file/folder or image-based backup/restore for VMs and physical computers, supports all popular public clouds, and allows you to build a data protection ecosystem with a low Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a granular RPO. With ProSight MSP360 Backup, Progent can provide comprehensive monitoring and remote management of your backup environment to protect against data loss caused by human mistakes, system glitches, ill-intentioned users, and malware assaults like ransomware. For details, see ProSight MSP360 Backup solutions.
Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup
Double-Take Software publishes a selection of tools designed to provide small and midsize companies a range of cost-effective alternatives for replicating and recovering vital workloads including Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL, Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent's disaster recovery planning experts have extensive backgrounds integrating Double-Take products into small business information networks to create an advanced level of availability and disaster recovery readiness at a budget-friendly cost. For more information, see Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup.
Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner and offers professional application consulting for a wide range of small business software programs, Progent can assist clients to find efficient IT solutions that optimize the productivity of your IT network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent can provide the services of certified engineers and specialists with experience in architecting, implementing and maintaining networking solutions built on Cisco products. The extent of Progent's IT experience and Progent's appreciation for the requirements of small companies make Progent a great resource for creating and maintaining a cost-effective, high-availability network.
How You Can Get Help from Progent's Consultants for Help with Non-stop Computing
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Solaris with Windows Professional
Consult UNIX, Windows
Progent's UNIX platform consulting services provide small companies and developers help with managing and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris environments that coexist with Microsoft-based networks. Progent can give your business access to UNIX consultants, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISSP certification. This broad array of expertise offers you a convenient single source to help you create and maintain a protected and reliable mixed-platform network and communications infrastructure that supports UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by combining Windows with major variants of UNIX such as macOS and OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, BSD, SCO and SGI/Irix or major Linux platforms including RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian-GNU and Slackware.
Egregor ransomware recovery Specialist
Conti ransomware recovery Consultant Services
Progent's ransomware experts can help your business to evaluate your ransomware vulnerability, monitor and guard your network, assist with settlement negotiations with a threat actor, and restore a network damaged by a ransomware variant such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, LockBit or Nephilim.
Support SharePoint Server 2007
Support and Help SharePoint Server
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you evaluate the business case for deploying Microsoft SharePoint 2007, advise you on the most sensible version of Microsoft SharePoint for your application, provide setup and integration services, help you to set up MS SQL Server as a back-end DBM, improve your network integrity, integrate your standard and customized application software to work with SharePoint Server 2007, develop a company-wide security plan that includes portal solutions, and deliver maintenance and Help Desk services.
IT Services Services Documentation
24/7/365 Consultant Services Documentation
Progent uses an enterprise-class service reporting system that stores and formats complete documentation for all billed support activities. Unlike some independent consultants or local service organizations who offer scant documentation or details of services performed, every service delivered by Progent is tracked by comprehensive documentation. Each Progent staff member has use of the support documentation transmitted by every staff member to every client. The discipline of documenting and organizing support records results in more effective support and avoids a slew of common problems such as when a service client is effectively held captive to a consultant who won't release the keys to the kingdom.
Technology Professional ProSight Outbound Email Filtering
24-7 Engineer ProSight Email Security
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of leading information security vendors to deliver centralized control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall.
ransomware data recovery Consult
Specialists DopplePaymer ransomware hot line
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a experienced ransomware recovery consultant who can help you to halt the progress of an active ransomware breach. Call 800-462-8800
Certified Cybersecurity Management Consultancy
Certified Cybersecurity Management Engineers
Progent can provide the support of CISM Certified security professionals. The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) organization defines the basic competencies and global standards of performance that information security managers are required to learn. It gives executive management the confidence that those who have qualified for their CISM certification possess the experience and capability to provide efficient security management and consulting consulting.
Microsoft LCS Server Consultant Services
Biggest Online Troubleshooting Live Communications Server
Microsoft Office Communications Server provides Instant Messaging and presence as part of a scalable, enterprise-grade package featuring enhanced protection, transparent compatibility with additional Microsoft software, an extendable, industry-standard development environment, and support for regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, SOX, and GLB. The product offers lower costs and elevated business efficiencies, increased worker productivity, and better IP security. MS Communications Server has been replaced by Lync, which in turn has been replaced by Skype for Business. Progent's certified unified communications experts can provide remote and on-premises configuration support and mediation services for your Office Communications Server 2007 deployment and can help your organization to evaluate the advantages of upgrading to Skype for Business. Progent can also assist you to design and execute a smooth migration that will add business value to your IT system
Small Company On-site Support
MS Certified Small Office Network Consultant Services
If you have a company IT system with 10 to 50 desktop clients, Progent's IT outsourcing services free your business from over-reliance on an individual independent service provider while giving you affordable and reliable access to high-quality network support. By delivering network consulting help when you need it, offering specialized knowledge for key applications, offering value-added services such as automated network monitoring, and charging only for services you receive, Progent gives you an economical solution for maximizing the profitability of your small office information system. Progent is the intelligent way for small businesses to create and support a reliable and safe IT system and to benefit from fast access to the skilled support ordinarily restricted to enterprises who can afford a sizeable in-house IT group.
UNIX with Windows Support Outsourcing
UNIX with Windows Integration
Progent can assist you to plan and implement a smooth migration from a UNIX-powered information environment to a network powered by Microsoft Windows and capable of supporting Microsoft's popular office productivity suites, commercial applications, and developer tools. Progent's UNIX, Windows and Cisco consultants and software development specialists can show you how to guard your data and minimize productivity discontinuity by developing an efficient transition strategy that preserves your current assets in UNIX software and technology. UNIX-to-Windows migration support expertise available from Progent include evaluation of existing environment, transition strategy and validation, MS Exchange migration services, data and application migration, and processor and storage system migration and consolidation.
Remote Employees Network Infrastructure Technology Consulting Services
Remote Workers Network Infrastructure Technology Consulting
Progent can assist small and medium-size businesses to plan, implement and troubleshoot the infrastructure to support remote workers.
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