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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.

Other Fault Tolerant Technologies Offered by Progent's Consultants
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can help your business to build an affordable, zero-downtime environment that addresses critical problems covering a wide array of networking technologies and processes such as:

Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity consultants can show you how to create a workplace recovery plan in order to resume IT operations in the event of an IT system catastrophe. Progent can assist you to create a complete disaster recovery plan that incorporates periodic disaster recovery evaluations and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also help you build an affordable, non-stop network architecture that takes into account availability issues involving a broad range of infrastructure technologies and processes. For details, go to Workplace Recovery Consulting.

Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables fast recovery of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS 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 backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery experts can help your organization to plan and deploy a disaster recovery solution based on Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering tools such as Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance storage clusters using low-cost equipment, Virtual Machine Load Balancing for improving the performance and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while reducing TCO and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for easy, economical creation of a failover cluster quorum witness. To read more, see Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Support.

Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced enterprise-class availability and system recovery to Microsoft's clustering platform. Windows Server 2012 R2 builds on this foundation and delivers important new and enhanced features that offer increased scalability, better disk storage uptime for server applications, simpler management, faster automatic failover, and additional options for architecting failover clusters. To find out more, go to Windows Server 2012 Clustering Consulting and Support.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is a component of VMware vCenter that lets you specify, automate and test a repeatable workflow for recovering applications and services rapidly after an outage. SRM supports centrally managed and automated recovery, application mobility, plus non-disruptive site relocation, failback and site re-protect. SRM also supports non-disruptive testing for site recovery, upgrades and patches and can generate audit reports to confirm full service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and prove compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consulting expert to assist your organization to plan, deploy, test and administer a DR solution based on VMware Site Recovery Manager.

NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Platform
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery platform that uses failover storage clustering along with synchronous replication to provide rapid, zero RPO disaster recovery (DR) between sites that are up to 300km apart from each other. Progent offers access to a certified NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can assist your business to plan, deploy, manage, upgrade, test and repair a disaster recovery solution built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to choose an architecture for your MetroCluster environment that meets your functional requirements and IT budget. Progent can ensure you follow leading practices for configuring your MetroCluster environment by providing guidance with procedures like assigning disk pools, arranging aggregate and plexes layout, setting up NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, provisioning switches, designing a tiebreaker, designing a configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your MetroCluster DR system to verify compliance with industry standards and government mandates.

Zero Downtime Internet Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can help you identify fault-tolerant data centers that match the particular needs of your business. High availability co-location sites are particularly appealing to small and mid-size organizations because of their affordability and simplified logistics compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself strategy. Attempting to build an on-site data center with even a minimum level of fault tolerance is too expensive for the majority of small companies. Progent can show you how to get all the advantages of non-stop colo sites by offering a complete array of consulting and maintenance services. To read more, visit Non-stop Colocation Expertise.

24x7 Inter-office Connectivity
Progent’s multi-site network infrastructure engineers can help businesses achieve fault tolerant inter-site connections by means of fully redundant system architectures featuring transparent failover. Progent’s Cisco-premier CCIE network engineers can design and deploy fault-tolerant Inter-office connections supported by non-stop EIGRP routers or non-stop OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how redundant connections and transparent fail-over can provide economical 24x7 interoffice networking. To learn more, see Failsafe Interoffice Connectivity.

24x7 Internet Connections
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT experts can help you design an affordable, high availability Internet configuration architecture that can deliver 24x7 Internet access via a wide array of fault tolerant Internet network solutions including non-stop BGP, automatic fail-over, and multiple ISPs. Progent offers Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert consultants to help you apply the most up-to-date techniques for high availability Internet access to implement a cost-effective, completely redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other capabilities to create zero-downtime Internet availability. For details, go to Fault Tolerant Internet Connectivity Solutions.

Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting
Progent can provide affordable online support from consultants with expertise in a wide range of products and services that provide solutions for backing up Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux/UNIX servers and desktops plus notebooks and handhelds. Progent offers expertise for all major backup products such as Acronis, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, CrashPlan PRO, Double-Take Backup, Mozy, Retrospect, Time Machine, vSphere Data Protection, and Solaris FLARs. Progent's consultants can assist you to implement, upgrade, or troubleshoot backup/restore systems for a variety of environments such as on-premises, remote, cloud, or a mix. To learn more, see Backup and Restore Technology Consulting Services.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Backup and Recovery Consulting Experts
Progent's expert Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager support professionals can help you to develop an effective workplace recovery plan, implement a cost-effective fault-tolerante IT infrastructure, configure a SCDPM-powered backup and restore system, comprehensively test your system, train your administrative personnel or local consultants how to maintain Microsoft SCDPM, or provide extensive information technology outsourcing services including remote hosting of System Center Data Protection Manager machines in Progent's secure data center. For details, visit System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Consulting and Support Services.

Barracuda Backup Local, Offsite and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription-based backup/restore platform for small and mid-size organizations. A Barracuda Backup deployment can incorporate a purpose-built hardware appliance built by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with comparable functionality but which uses your existing storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup safeguards critical business data produced on-premises, at one or more remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any location with a Barracuda appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants offer a wide array of consulting support services to help your business to plan, configure, operate and repair a backup and disaster recovery solution based on Barracuda technology. For additional information, go to Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consultants.

Altaro VM Backup Solutions for Backup and Disaster Recovery
Altaro VM Backup software provides small organizations a reliable and affordable platform for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered VMs. Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, remote, distributed, and cloud architectures and also supports cost-effective cloud backup to Microsoft Azure Block Blob storage. Headline features include industry-leading inline deduplication to reduce backup storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection with backup spacing as short as five minutes for reducing your Recovery Point Objective, military-grade encryption, item-level recovery capability for individual files and emails, support for Windows CSV and for vCenter for managing larger environments, and the ability to leverage Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to back up live VMs without downtime. Progent is an Altaro partner and offers a broad range of services to help you to plan, install, optimize and troubleshoot a backup and disaster recovery system powered by Altaro VM Backup software. To find out more, visit Altaro VM Backup Consulting.

Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup and Recovery
Double-Take Software publishes a selection of tools designed to provide small companies a variety of affordable solutions for backing up and recovering business-critical applications including Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent’s disaster recovery planning consultants have in-depth experience integrating Double-Take products into small business IT systems to create a high level of fault tolerance and business continuity readiness at an affordable price. To find out more, see Consulting for Double-Take Software for Backup.

CRISC-Premier Network Risk Mitigation
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to design, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. To learn more, visit CRISC-Premier network risk management specialists.

Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and offers high-level application expertise for a broad range of small business applications, Progent can help clients to find comprehensive IT solutions that maximize the productivity of your IT network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent can provide the expertise of premier consultants and specialists with experience in architecting, configuring and supporting networking environments built on Cisco technology. The broad scope of Progent's technical know-how and Progent's sensitivity to the needs of small and midsize companies make Progent the perfect partner for creating and running an affordable, high-availability information system.

How to Contact Progent's Experts for Fault Tolerant System Support
To contact Progent about professional assistance for high availability IT design, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.