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Small Business Computer Networks: Microsoft Network Load Balancing 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.
Additional High Availability Technologies Supported by Progent's Experts
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting experts can help you to design a sensible, zero-downtime system that addresses critical problems covering a wide array of networking technologies and operations including:
Workplace Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity planning professionals can help you create a business continuity strategy in order to restore IT operations in the event of an IT network catastrophe. Progent can assist you to define a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that incorporates periodic disaster recovery assessments and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants can also help you build an affordable, fault-tolerant network solution that addresses availability issues covering a wide range of network technologies and procedures. To find out more, go to Disaster Recovery Consulting.
Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity consultants can assist your organization to plan and deploy a DR system based on Microsoft's latest Failover Clustering tools such as Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance storage clusters using commodity hardware, Virtual Machine Load Balancing for enhancing the speed and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while reducing capital investment and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable deployment of a stretch cluster quorum witness. For more information, see Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Help.
Microsoft Server 2012 Failover Clusters
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced world-class fault tolerance and system recovery to Microsoft's failover clustering platform. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 adds to this foundation and delivers significant new and enhanced features offering more expandability, non-stop storage uptime for server applications, streamlined management, faster failover, and additional options for architecting clusters. To learn more, see Windows Server 2012 Clustering Migration and Support.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is an extension to VMware vCenter that allows you to orchestrate, automate and verify a consistent workflow for recovering services rapidly after an outage. SRM supports centrally managed and automated recovery, application mobility, and transparent site relocation, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also supports non-intrusive testing for site recovery, upgrades and patches and can generate reports to verify complete service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and prove disaster recovery compliance. Progent can provide the support of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to help your organization to design, configure, test and manage a disaster recovery system based on VMware Site Recovery Manager.
NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery software suite that combines failover storage clustering with replication to deliver fast, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between datacenters that are as far as 300km apart from each other. Progent offers access to a 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 assist you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your functional needs and IT budget. Progent can make sure you adhere to leading practices for configuring your MetroCluster environment by providing help with tasks such as assigning shelf IDs, determining plexes layout, setting up FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, implementing a tiebreaker mechanism, setting up a TCP/IP configuration replication network, and verifying your MetroCluster DR system to verify adherence with industry standards and regulatory mandates.
Zero Downtime Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to find zero-downtime data centers that match the specific needs of your company. Fault tolerant collocation sites are especially attractive to small and mid-size businesses due to of their affordability and simplified logistics compared to taking a do-it-yourself approach. Attempting to build an in-house data center that offers even a minimum degree of fault tolerance is too expensive for most small companies. Progent can help you reap all the advantages of 24x7 colocation centers by providing a full array of consulting and maintenance services. To read more, see High-Availability Data Centers Expertise.
Fault Tolerant Branch Office Connectivity
Progent’s inter-site connection professionals can help businesses create non-stop interoffice connectivity solutions through redundant system architectures with transparent failover. Progent’s Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers can plan and implement ultra-reliable Inter-office networks based on fault tolerant EIGRP routers or non-stop OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connections and transparent fail-over can provide affordable 24x7 interoffice connectivity. To find out more, see Failsafe Inter-office Connectivity.
Fault Tolerant Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-authorized network professionals can show you how to design an affordable, fault tolerant Internet configuration solution that can achieve 24x7 Internet connectivity via a broad array of high availability Internet network technologies including high availability BGP, transparent fail-over, and multiple Internet Service Providers. Progent can provide CCIE engineers to help you apply the most advanced techniques for 24x7 Internet access to implement an economical, completely redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other features to deliver zero-downtime Internet availability. For details, go to 24x7 Internet Access Solutions.
Backup and Recovery Solutions Consulting
Progent can provide affordable remote access to IT engineers skilled in a wide array of utilities and services that provide solutions for backing up Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux/UNIX physical and virtual servers and desktops as well as laptops and handhelds. Progent offers expertise for all major data protection platforms including Acronis Backup and Recovery, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, CrashPlan, Double-Take Backup, Mozy, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, vSphere Data Protection, and FLARs. Progent can help your company to design, enhance, or maintain data backup solutions for a range of architectures such as on-premises, remote, cloud, or hybrid. For more information, see Backup and Restore Solutions Expertise.
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Data Recovery Consultants
Progent's certified System Center Data Protection Manager engineers can assist you to develop a practical workplace recovery plan, design a cost-effective high-availability IT architecture, configure a Microsoft SCDPM-based backup and restore system, thoroughly test your DPM system, train your administrative staff or regular consultants how to manage SCDPM, or provide extensive information technology support outsourcing including remote hosting of virtual or physical SCDPM servers in Progent's world-class data center. To find out more, visit System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting and Support Services.
Barracuda Backup Multi-site and Cloud Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription backup/restore service for small and medium-size organizations. A Barracuda Backup solution can incorporate a purpose-built physical appliance manufactured by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with comparable features but which utilizes your own storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup protects critical company data produced on-premises, at one or multiple 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 site with a physical or virtual Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts offer a broad range of consulting support services to assist you to plan, integrate, operate and repair a backup and disaster recovery solution built on Barracuda technology. For more information, visit Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting.
Altaro VM Backup Solutions for Backup and Disaster Recovery
Altaro VM Backup software offers small businesses a reliable and affordable platform for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, offsite, multi-site, and cloud environments and also enables cost-effective backup to Microsoft Azure Block Blob storage. Top features include industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to cut backup storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection with backup spacing as low as five minutes for reducing your exposure to data loss, military-grade encryption, item-level recovery options for individual files and emails, extensive support for Windows Server Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and for VMware vCenter for handling large-scale deployments, and support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to back up online virtual machines with zero downtime. Progent is a certified Altaro partner and offers a wide range of services to help you to plan, deploy, optimize and troubleshoot a backup/restore system based on Altaro VM Backup. To learn more, go to Altaro VM Backup Consulting Services.
Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Backup/Restore
Double-Take Software offers a selection of products designed to provide small companies a range of affordable alternatives for replicating and recovering vital applications such as Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, RIM Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent’s disaster recovery planning experts have extensive experience integrating Double-Take products into small company information networks to achieve an advanced level of availability and disaster recovery readiness at a budget-friendly cost. For more information, 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 established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. To find out more, see CRISC-Certified network risk management experts.
Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Because Progent is a Microsoft Partner and offers professional application expertise for a broad variety of business software programs, Progent can help clients to find efficient information technology solutions that maximize the productivity of your IT network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent can provide the services of certified engineers and specialists with expertise in architecting, implementing and maintaining networking solutions built on Cisco products. The breadth of Progent's IT experience and Progent's familiarity with the requirements of small and midsize companies make Progent the perfect resource for creating and running a cost-effective, fault-tolerant information system.
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Engineer Private Cloud Integration
24/7 ProSight Small Business Private Clouds Consultants
Progent's ProSight Virtual hosting services offer small companies a variety of advantages such as reduced capital costs, reductions in operational expense, better executive focus, enterprise-class security, enhanced fault tolerance, and business continuity.
Consultant Services Microsoft Exchange
Top Exchange 2003 Upgrade Computer Engineer
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants provide computer help and network consulting services for Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and for the entire family of Microsoft Servers. Progent's upgrade, integration, management, and troubleshooting services for Microsoft Exchange Server include planning, deployment, documentation, onsite and off-site troubleshooting, Help Desk outsourcing, expert security consulting, and full-service network management outsourcing.
Firewall Setup Juniper Junos CLI
Juniper Junos J-Web Security Companies
Progent's Juniper Networks-authorized network consultants can help you to design and deploy Juniper Firewall and VPN technology, optimize and support your infrastructure, and migrate smoothly from outdated products to the latest versions. Progent's Junos OS consultants can offer support for Juniper's premier network control software to enable you to streamline the administration and strengthen the security of your Juniper VPN devices firewalls, and routers. Progent also has broad background supporting Juniper's NetScreen OS and ScreenOS operating system platforms and can help organizations maintain networks that incorporate a mix of Juniper's OS platforms.
24x7 Microsoft Certified IT Consultants 64-bit Server
64-bit Computing Professionals
Progent’s Microsoft-premier engineers can help your organization to update your workstations from 32 to 64 bits. Progent can assist you to understand the risks and advantages of upgrading to 64-bit PC desktop computing, plan an efficient migration process that minimizes operational disruptions, and deliver economical, expert remote support to aid you to configure 64-bit desktop operating systems and application software on your current computers.
iPhone and Windows Server integration IT Consulting
Emergency Remote Support iPhone Active Directory
Progent offers affordable remote assistance to assist your business to design, configure, and fix any aspect of your iOS and Windows integration efforts and is available for short-term tasks to help you get past occasional technical bottlenecks or major engagements to help you finish business-critical initiatives on time and within budget. Progent has expertise in local, cloud-centric, or hybrid environments and can help you create or support a resilient, protected and scalable network infrastructure that aligns with your mode of computing. Progent also offers online or on-premises training for individuals or groups to help manage and use your iOS devices in a secure, collaborative ecosystem that maximizes the business value of your information network.
MRTG for Linux Consultant Services
MRTG for Linux Engineer
Network monitoring commonly entails observing a network’s resource usage in order to uncover throughput bottlenecks or troubleshoot hardware or software problems. Nagios and Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) are powerful, license-free network monitoring tools that run under Linux and can be used to monitor mixed-platform networks where UNIX and Windows coexist. Progent's system integration engineers can show you how to use both these programs to optimize and troubleshoot your network. Progent's UNIX consulting professionals offer small companies and programmers assistance with administering and supporting UNIX/Linux and Solaris networks that coexist with Microsoft-based products.
Microsoft Office 2000 Contractor
Remote Consulting Group Microsoft Windows
Progent’s IT outsourcing support offerings for small businesses feature designing 2003 Server, .NET, and BackOffice environments, managing upgrades to Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Active Directory, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Help Desk services, online and on-site troubleshooting, resolving stubborn IT issues, and creating a comprehensive security plan. Progent can show you how to maximize network reliability and performance via zero-downtime technologies, redundant network topology, and proactive server monitoring. Progent also provides project management assistance for large-scale upgrades and can help with requirements assessment, product inventory, bill of materials production, sourcing selection, procurement coordination, and complete documentation. Progent’s IT outsourcing help also includes education for office productivity programs such as Office XP.
ProSight Remote Network Troubleshooting Network Consultants
ProSight Remote Network Infrastructure Troubleshooting Network Consultant
ProSight WAN Watch is an infrastructure management service that makes it easy and inexpensive for small and mid-sized organizations to map out, track, enhance and debug their connectivity hardware like routers, firewalls, and wireless controllers as well as servers, printers, endpoints and other networked devices. Using cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management technology, WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology maps are kept current, copies and manages the configuration information of virtually all devices connected to your network, monitors performance, and sends notices when problems are detected. By automating time-consuming management and troubleshooting processes, WAN Watch can cut hours off ordinary tasks like making network diagrams, expanding your network, finding devices that need critical software patches, or identifying the cause of performance problems.
Network Engineer Microsoft Exchange 2000 Upgrade
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Upgrade Remote Consulting
Progent is one of the most experienced IT consulting companies for integrating email solutions powered by Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Progent specializes in helping small and mid-size businesses get all the benefits of Exchange 2000 for common scenarios including upgrading from Microsoft Exchange 5.5, moving from an ISP-managed or POP3 e-mail system, and jobbing out your Microsoft Exchange 2000 management.
Small Office IT Manager
Best Small Office Network Consulting Companies
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified computer engineers can provide expert help with a wide range of technologies and can deliver that expertise remotely nationwide or onsite in major cities throughout the country and anywhere in California. Progent provides remote support for information systems powered by Windows, UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple macOS and OS X, or for environments that include a mix of Microsoft Windows and UNIX/Linux technology. Progent also can provide access to the expertise of Cisco CCIE infrastructure engineers for the toughest network issues, as well as the the support of CISA and CISM-accredited security consultants to assist with high-level security design and troubleshooting. Progent has delivered remote network support to businesses in all 50 states in the United States.
SPS Onsite Technical Support
Immediate SharePoint Server Computer Consulting
Progent’s Microsoft-certified experts can provide small and medium sized businesses computer consulting, support, and repair services for Microsoft SPS 2003. Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is an enterprise portal solution for intelligently connecting people, groups and data. SharePoint Portal Server offers a common location for your workers or customers to connect to, manage, distribute and interact with relevant data, files, and applications and to communicate with other people. It enables faster and more intelligent decisions, more effective access across groups and more economical business processes. The primary objective of SharePoint Server is to gather together, in a productive way, all of the diverse sources of knowledge accessible inside and without an organization. Windows SharePoint Services connect workers, customers, teams and projects with the information they’ve created in a way that makes data convenient to find, retrieve and apply.
Best Envisioning Phase: Requirements Definition Small Business Computer Consulting
Deploying Phase: Implementation Networking Organization
In conducting consulting projects for enterprise clients, Progent follows a phased methodology driven by defined milestones so as to meet financial, timing and technical targets while reducing business disruption. Progent's Enterprise Services Project Methodology utilizes industry project management standards derived from the leading practices defined by the Microsoft MSF methodology which includes requirements definition, design recommendations, pilots, design adjustments, and professional deployment. All phases are recorded to make available a detailed description of IT services performed and to assist in ongoing system maintenance.
Consulting Services SQL Server 2014 Azure Backup
SQL Server 2014 Security Online Support Services
SQL Server 2014 includes major enhancements in critical areas such as speed, uptime, security, and cloud integration. SQL Server 2014 is the first release of Microsoft SQL Server that incorporates in-memory technology that operates transparently with all workloads including OLTP, data warehousing (DWH), and data analytics. Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2014 consultants can provide efficient online and on-premises services such as system design, deployment, administration, remediation, and application development expertise to enable organizations of all sizes to realize fast return from their SQL Server 2014 investment.
Office 365 and Apple iOS Online Support Services
Office 365 Single Sign On Support and Integration
Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online allows you to utilize cloud-based virtual machines, mailboxes and associated email infrastructure to lower hardware expense and management overhead. You can configure Office 365 Exchange Online to run all your mailboxes, or you can run a hybrid architecture that combines both local and cloud-resident mailboxes. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts offer budget-friendly remote technical support to help your small businesses to evaluate the potential advantages of Exchange Online, plan a solution that aligns with your functional requirements and IT budget, carry out an efficient move from your existing Exchange organization to one that includes Office 365 Exchange Online, train your IT staff and users, and deliver as-needed consulting and technical support.
Microsoft Hyper-V 3.0 Specialists
Engineer Microsoft Hyper-V 3.0
Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals can assist you to evaluate the potential advantages of Hyper-V-based server virtualization for your business, perform test installations to validate Hyper-V's operation with your production applications, evaluate your network architecture for smooth performance with virtual server technology, assist you in upgrading to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and configuring Windows Hyper-V, train your IT staff to track and administer Hyper-V, offer expert consulting support for enhancing the protection of your virtual machines, establish and validate business continuity procedures that maximize system uptime, and deliver continuing consulting and technical support including affordable remote troubleshooting and turn-key Help Desk services.
virtual application delivery Engineer
Citrix FlexCast Troubleshooting
Citrix offers a comprehensive family of products that deliver enterprise-level manageability, scalability, and performance for server virtualization and for centralized distribution of virtual Windows desktops and Windows applications. For managing virtualized Windows desktops and applications, Citrix offers XenDesktop and XenApp. For creating and managing virtual servers, Citrix has developed XenServer and Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V. Progent's Citrix-certified consultants can help you to assess the strategic benefits of Citrix virtualization products and can help you plan, validate, implement, optimize, and maintain Citrix solutions.
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