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Small and Midsize Business Networks: Microsoft and Cisco 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.
Other High Availability Technologies Offered by Progent
Progent's certified consulting experts can assist your company to build a sensible, fault-tolerant environment that addresses major issues encompassing a wide array of networking technologies and operations including:
Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity consultants can show you how to create a business continuity plan that will allow you to resume IT functionality in the event of an information system disaster. Progent can help you to define a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that incorporates periodic disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can also show you how to build an affordable, non-stop system architecture that addresses reliability issues involving a broad array of network technologies and processes. To learn more, see Disaster Recovery Consulting.
Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast recovery of vital 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 can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.
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 solution built around Microsoft's most advanced Failover Clustering technologies including Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class network-attached storage using low-cost hardware, VM Load Balancing for improving the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while reducing capital investment and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable creation of a failover cluster quorum witness. To learn more, go to Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Expertise.
Microsoft Server 2012 Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 brought world-class availability and system recovery to Microsoft's failover clustering solution. Windows Server 2012 R2 adds to this foundation and delivers important new and enhanced features offering increased expandability, better storage uptime for server applications, easier administration, faster automatic failover, and additional flexibility for designing clusters. To learn more, go to Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Clustering Migration and Support.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to specify, automate and verify a consistent workflow for restoring applications and services rapidly after an outage. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, plus non-intrusive site migration, failback and re-protect. SRM also allows non-disruptive testing for disaster recovery, updates and fixes and can produce reports to verify complete service restoration, validate SLAs and demonstrate compliance. Progent can provide the support of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to assist you to plan, deploy, test and manage a DR system powered by VMware Site Recovery Manager.
NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Platform
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery software suite that uses failover storage clustering with replication to deliver rapid, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between datacenters located up to 185 miles (300km) apart. Progent offers the skills of a certified NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can assist you to plan, configure, administer, upgrade, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery solution built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select a topology for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your technical requirements and IT budget. Progent can make sure you follow leading practices for configuring your MetroCluster solution by delivering guidance with tasks like assigning shelf IDs, arranging aggregate layout, setting up NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, provisioning switches, designing a tiebreaker, setting up a TCP/IP configuration replication network, and verifying your DR solution to show compliance with information assurance standards and government requirements.
High-Availability Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to select zero-downtime data centers that meet the particular needs of your company. Fault tolerant Internet Data Centers are particularly attractive to small and mid-size companies because of their low cost and convenience in comparison to taking a do-it-yourself strategy. Trying to design an in-house data center with even a minimum level of fault tolerance is too costly for typical small organizations. Progent can show you how to get all the benefits of non-stop colo centers by offering a full range of engineering and support services. To learn more, see High-Availability Data Centers Solutions.
Failsafe Branch Office Connectivity
Progent’s interoffice connection consultants can help companies create zero-downtime inter-site connectivity solutions by means of fully redundant networks featuring transparent failover. Progent’s Cisco-certified CCIE engineers can design and implement ultra-reliable Inter-office networks based on zero-downtime EIGRP network routers or fault tolerant OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how redundant connections and automatic fail-over offers economical non-stop interoffice connectivity. For details, see Non-stop Inter-office Connectivity.
Non-stop Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-certified network professionals can show you how to design an affordable, fault tolerant Internet configuration solution that can achieve 24x7 Internet access through a wide array of high availability Internet access solutions including high availability BGP, automatic fail-over, and redundant ISPs. Progent can provide Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert engineers to help you apply the latest techniques for fault tolerant Internet connectivity to build an economical, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other capabilities to deliver non-stop Internet access. For more information, go to Fault Tolerant Internet Access Architecture.
Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting Services
Progent can provide affordable online support from engineers with expertise in a wide array of utilities and services that provide solutions for backing up Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux/UNIX servers and desktops as well as notebooks and smartphones. Progent can provide expertise for leading data protection products including Acronis Backup and Recovery, Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, CrashPlan, Double-Take Backup, MozyPro, Retrospect for Macintosh, Apple Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery (VDR), and Solaris FLARs. Progent can help you to install, enhance, or troubleshoot backup solutions for a variety of environments including on-premises, edge to datacenter, cloud, or a mix. For more information, visit Backup and Restore Technology Consulting.
System Center Data Protection Manager Backup and Recovery Consultants
Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) support professionals can help your company to create an effective disaster recovery plan, implement a cost-effective fault-tolerante IT infrastructure, install a Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager-based recovery system, thoroughly test your DPM system, train your IT staff or local service providers how to maintain System Center Data Protection Manager, or provide complete information technology outsourcing including off-site housing of System Center Data Protection Manager servers in Progent's world-class data center. To read more, visit Microsoft SCDPM Consulting and Support Services.
Barracuda Backup Local, Offsite and Cloud Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription-based backup and disaster recovery platform for small and medium-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup deployment can include a purpose-built physical storage device built by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar functionality but which uses your existing storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup safeguards critical company data generated on-premises, at one or more remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, 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 consulting experts can provide a broad array of consulting support services to assist you to plan, integrate, manage and troubleshoot a BDR system built on Barracuda technology. For details, see Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consultants.
Altaro VM Backup Solutions for Backup and Disaster Recovery
Altaro VM Backup provides small organizations a reliable and budget-friendly solution for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in on-premises, offsite, distributed, and cloud environments and also supports low-cost backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Top capabilities include industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to cut backup storage needs, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup spacing as low as five minutes for minimizing your Recovery Point Objective, military-grade encryption, granular recovery capability for specific files and emails, support for Windows Server Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and for vCenter for handling larger deployments, and support for Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to back up online virtual machines with zero downtime. Progent is an Altaro partner and can provide a wide array of services to assist you to plan, deploy, optimize and troubleshoot a backup and disaster recovery system powered by Altaro VM Backup. For more information, see Altaro VM Backup Consulting Services.
Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup
Double-Take publishes a selection of tools designed to provide small and midsize companies a variety of affordable alternatives for backing up and restoring business-critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, RIM Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent’s disaster recovery planning experts have extensive experience integrating Double-Take Software products into small business IT systems to achieve an advanced level of availability and disaster recovery readiness at a budget-friendly price. For more information, go to Consulting for Double-Take Software for Backup.
CRISC-Premier IT Risk Management
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a business continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. For details, go to CRISC-Premier IT risk mitigation specialists.
Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Partner and provides high-level application support for a wide range of business software programs, Progent is able to assist clients to arrive at efficient IT solutions that substantially enhance the business value of your network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent offers the expertise of certified engineers and specialists with experience in designing, implementing and troubleshooting infrastructure environments built on Cisco products. The depth of Progent's IT experience and Progent's sensitivity to the needs of small companies make Progent a great partner for creating and maintaining an affordable, dependable network.
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After Hours Microsoft Word for Mac Trainer
Class Macintosh
Progent can provide onsite education customized for people who want to expand their understanding of the Apple macOS and OS X platform, Apple Mac hardware, or Mac office productivity software including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook for Mac. Progent also can provide customized group or one-on-one online classes for macOS and Mac OS X application software.
WatchGuard Firebox T35 Firewall Information systems Security Outsourcing
Security Services WatchGuard Firebox T70 Firewall
Progent provides consulting expertise for WatchGuard Firewall security gateways such as the WatchGuard Firebox and XTM families of Firewalls and the Firebox SSL Core VPN Gateway. Progent's WatchGuard consultants can show you how to select, deploy, and maintain a WatchGuard Firewall appliance that aligns with your security requirements and budget. Progent can assist you to maintain legacy WatchGuard firewall appliances or upgrade efficiently to modern WatchGuard firewalls.
IOS XR Software Consulting Services
ISR G2 Routers Support and Setup
Cisco offers a full product line of routers that includes appliances built to deliver the protection, performance, and availability required by organizations ranging from branch offices to global enterprises. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, transparent failover, and redundant power for improved reliability and system availability. Progent can show you how to select and integrate Cisco routers to build a reliable foundation for your IT system and to make it economical to expand as you support new users, open new offices, install new services, extend your network to customers and partners, and support a more mobile workforce. Progent offers help with a variety of routers powered by Cisco's IOS platform, such as Cisco's 800 family of small office VPN routers, Cisco 1800 and 3800 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco 1900 and 4000 G2 ISR routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 Aggregation Services Routers for WAN edge applications, CRS Carrier Routing System for the network core, plus legacy 2500 and 2700 Routers.
Services ProSight Spam Filtering Services
Engineers ProSight Email Content Filtering
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the technology of leading data security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter.
macOS Architecture Online Consulting
Mac Lion Networking Support and Help
Progent's Apple Mac networking consultants can assist you with a wide array of system foundation areas such as network architecture, remote and mobile connectivity, internetwork communication, security, and new technologies including VoIP and high-speed wireless connectivity. For business networks based solely on Mac OS X or for systems incorporating a combination of Mac, Linux and Windows based servers and desktops, Progent has the knowledge and depth to deal with the challenge of designing, configuring, and supporting a network infrastructure that is reliable, secure, productive and aligned with your business objectives. Progent can help you configure Apple’s Xserve enterprise servers, Xserve RAID zero-downtime storage products, and Apple's Xsan storage area network solution. Progent can also give you access to certified professionals to help you with Cisco routers and switches.
Consulting Microsoft Lync Server 2013
Lync Server 2013 and Cisco Unified Communications Consultant Services
Microsoft Lync 2013, rebranded Skype for Business, allows businesses of any size to create a centrally managed and protected communications ecosystem that supports the modern Bring-Your-Own-Device computing model with instant messaging, real-time presence, web meetings with application sharing and whiteboard, and both IP-based and PSTN calling across a wide assortment of stationary PCs and handheld devices. Progent's certified Lync 2013 experts and network architects can assist you to assess the advantages of Lync Server 2013, create an on-premises, cloud-resident (via Microsoft Lync Online) or hybrid topology appropriate for your present and future plans, implement Lync 2013 so as to speed up your return on investment, and provide live webinar and onsite training to your management team and end users. Progent offers in-depth expertise in key pieces of a Lync 2013 solution that include Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server and Exchange, and Progent can help your organization to combine Lync Server 2013 with popular Office and Office 365 applications such as Outlook and PowerPoint.
Suse Linux Technical Consultant
Colbolt Linux Remote Support Services
Progent's Linux support services provide small businesses and software developers help with managing and maintaining Linux systems that run with Microsoft-based networks. Progent can give your business contact with Linux experts, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISSP credentials. This wide range of experience provides you with an easy one-stop source to show you how to build and maintain a secure and reliable mixed-platform network and communications environment that allows Linux and Microsoft interoperability by combining Windows with leading Linux platforms including RedHat, SUSE Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu Linux, PCLOS, fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux, Mandriva Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware.
Classes Macintosh
24/7 Microsoft Entourage for Mac Learning
Progent can provide onsite education designed for individuals who want to broaden their knowledge of the macOS and OS X platform, Apple Mac computers, or Mac office productivity software including Word, Excel, and Outlook for Mac. Progent also offers customized group or individual online classes for macOS and Mac OS X applications.
Office 365 and Android Remote Technical Support
IT Services Office 365 authentication
Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online lets you utilize cloud-resident virtual machines, mailboxes and other Exchange infrastructure to lower hardware costs and administrative overhead. You can configure Exchange Online to host all your mailboxes, or you can set up a hybrid solution that incorporates on-premises and cloud-hosted mailboxes. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide affordable online technical support to assist your organizations to evaluate the potential advantages of Exchange Online, plan a network topology that makes sense for your business needs and budget, implement a non-disruptive migration from your existing Exchange system to one that includes Exchange Online, train your management team and users, and provide ongoing consulting and technical support.
Information Technology Outsourcing Firms Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft Office XP Small Business Outsourcing IT
Progent’s IT outsourcing services offer affordable computer consulting for small businesses. Whether it involves designing network infrastructure, setting up an internal Help Desk or outsourcing a one, rolling out an updated e-mail system, monitoring your network, or building an on-line business solution, outsourcing your IT engineering services can reduce costs and minimize risks, allowing network service expenses to grow in a more moderate and controlled fashion than is possible by building up a large, knowledgeable internal network support staff. Progent’s Outsourcing White Paper and flyers show how Progent can help you create a protected and robust network architecture for your vital business software based on Microsoft Windows such as Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2003, and Office 2000.
ProSight Ransomware Recovery Consultant
ProSight Behavior-based Antivirus Consulting
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to address the entire malware attack progression including filtering, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats.
Consultant Remote Workers Data Protection
At Home Workers Data Protection Support and Setup
Progent can assist small and medium-size businesses to design, install, test and manage backup/restore systems needed to support at-home workers.
Amazon MWS development Design
Integration Firm Amazon MWS integration training
Amazon Marketplace Web Service is an integrated library of APIs that enables Amazon sellers to improve the efficiency of their operations by automating crucial sales activities including listings, orders, shipments, inbound and outbound fulfillment, and finances. By leveraging Amazon's vast online ecosystem and automating their sales processes, vendors can broaden their market, lower their cost of sales, accelerate reaction time to customers, and add to their bottom line. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) consultants can work with your development team and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training so you can cut development time and expedite your ROI.
Redundant Branch office Connectivity Consulting Services
High Availability Interoffice Connectivity Services
Progent’s non-stop interoffice connectivity and fault tolerant network connection professionals can help small organizations create non-stop Interoffice connectivity via fully redundant system architectures featuring transparent failover. Progent’s Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts can plan and implement fault tolerant Inter-office networks based on fault tolerant EIGRP network routers or non-stop OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connectivity and automatic fail-over can provide affordable 24x7 interoffice networking.
Juniper Junos Configuration Cybersecurity Team
Biggest Cybersecurity Group Juniper Junos Network and Security Manager
Progent's Juniper-certified network engineers can help you utilize Junos OS and the Junos platform of network management applications to configure, administer, and monitor Junos-powered devices; migrate to the Junos OS operating system from other Juniper software platforms such as ScreenOS; and upgrade your Juniper routers, switches, and gateways to the latest version of Junos OS.
Exchange 2016 Mailbox migration IT Consultants
Exchange Server 2016 Upgrade Integration Support
Progent can assist you in all phases of your migration to Exchange 2016 such as designing high availability (HA) infrastructure for a local, Microsoft cloud connected or hybrid deployment; server and CAL licensing requirements for Exchange and Windows Server 2012 R2; migrating mailboxes; Hyper-V design; specifying mass storage capacity required for your virtual machines, mailbox databases and log files; setting up hardware load balancing (HLB) for fault-tolerant client access services; designing, configuring and testing Exchange Servers and Windows Servers and Database Availability Groups (DAGs); integration with SharePoint; preparing your firewall; resolving SSL issues; performing client remediation with Office desktop or Office 365; and configuring Outlook on the web.
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