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Legacy Microsoft Windows Clustered Server Solutions
(Note: Microsoft has terminated support for Windows Server 2003 and it is advisable to consider upgrading from this legacy OS to an up-to-date version of Windows Server. If your organization is considering moving up to Windows Server 2019 or Windows Server 2016, Progent can provide online and onsite Windows Server 2019 planning and configuration consulting services or Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consulting to ensure your project finishes on time and within budget. In addition, Progent's Windows Server Failover Clustering Consultants can help you a configure and troubleshoot a high-availability clustering solution based on Microsoft's latest technology.
Even with typical fault tolerant feature found in high-end server hardware, such as redundant power supplies and mirrored or RAID 5 disk arrays, failed devices must be identified and replacement components must be procured and installed. These failures can bring down a server for hours, if not days. Furthermore, during regularly scheduled software maintenance functions, servers need to be rebooted or brought off-line for an extended period. For customers who need 100% uptime, the only solution is to deploy a clustered server configuration that provides fully redundant servers for a single application.
A server cluster is a group of independent computers that work together to provide a common set of services. Windows 2003 provides this high-availability solution with the Cluster service. If a cluster node (a computer in a cluster) fails, other nodes in the cluster assume the functions of the failed node. Server clustering is an essential piece of any fault-tolerant architecture, and making large investments in communication infrastructure redundancy without providing for server redundancy defeats the value of that investment.
Progent offers Windows 2003 Server consulting to help your company implement clustered server configurations that can potentially provide 100% uptime, even for normal maintenance functions. This high-availability is possible because a single server in a cluster can be brought off-line for maintenance work without affecting users. Clustering also allows IT personal to perform critical security updates during regular business hours without reducing user productivity.
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server offers mature clustering technology. This is the third major release of Microsoft clustering technology, which was first released in 1997. Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, and Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition, present a single view of the server to users, applications, and the network and both versions of Windows Server 2003 support up to eight-node clusters. Failover clustering configurations can be built around Microsoft technologies for mission-critical and collaborative applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server file and print services.
Host Clustering with Microsoft Virtual Server
Virtual Server host clustering is a technique for enhancing the capability of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 with the server cluster support incorporated in Microsoft Windows Server 2003. By means of Virtual Server host clustering, your network can benefit from an array of services via a minimum number of actual hardware servers and, simultaneously, ensure the high availability of the provided services. In case one server requires scheduled or unscheduled downtime, another server can immediately take its place and begin supporting services. As a result, your clients experience minimal service disruption. Progent's Microsoft-certified network engineers have in-depth experience deploying and supporting Microsoft Virtual Server. For more information, refer to Consulting Services for Microsoft Virtual Server.
Server Clustering and Storage Area Networks
A storage area network (SAN) is a set of disks, tapes, and servers connected to a common infrastructure, or storage fabric, such as Fibre Channel. A SAN allows multiple servers to access a common pool of storage. This allows storage to be assigned dynamically from the pool whenever it is required. Storage on a given server can be increased or decreased as needed without complex reconfiguring or re-cabling of devices. SAN technology is a good way to build clusters where shared access to a data set is required. By deploying multiple clusters onto a single storage area network, all of the benefits of SAN technology can be brought to the cluster environment. Progent's Microsoft certified engineers can show you how to combine Microsoft's server cluster technology with storage area networking to make your network more fault tolerant and easier to manage.
Server Clustering with Microsoft Exchange
Messaging systems based on Microsoft Exchange are vital for many businesses. Unfortunately, this crucial function is vulnerable to component failure, power loss, operator errors, and natural disasters. By allowing the failover of resources, server clustering provides fault tolerance for an Exchange environment. Server clusters that use the Microsoft Cluster Service can maintain data integrity and provide failover support and high availability for mission-critical applications and services on your back-end servers, including messaging systems, databases, and file and print services.
This figure shows an example of a four-node Exchange cluster with three active nodes and a passive standby node:
Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange experts have proven, world-class skills in designing high-availability Exchange environments and can show you how to configure an Exchange Server cluster with shared data access to data and automatic failover capabilities. For details about Exchange consulting services available from Progent, visit Microsoft Exchange Consulting Support.
Fault Tolerant Technologies Offered by Progent's Consultants
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco engineers can assist your business to implement an affordable, zero-downtime information network that resolves critical problems encompassing a wide array of networking solutions and processes including:
Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's disaster recovery engineers can show you how to design a workplace recovery plan so you can restore IT operations in the event of an information network disaster. Progent can help you to develop a complete disaster recovery strategy that includes scheduled disaster recovery assessments and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can also show you how to build an affordable, non-stop network solution that takes into account reliability issues covering a broad range of infrastructure technologies and processes. To find out more, see Disaster Recovery Consulting Services.
CRISC-Premier Network Risk Management
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. To find out more, see CRISC-Certified network risk management experts.
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 introduced important improvements in scale, throughput, management, cybersecurity, app compatibility, Linux support, container technology, and hybrid combinations of local and cloud-hosted assets. Top new features of Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for unifying the management of hybrid on-premises/cloud deployments, System Insights for taking advantage of advance predictive intelligence to control on-premises networks, Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container orchestration with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for creating and managing large high-availability scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for streamlining the migration from legacy editions of Windows Server. To learn more, go to Microsoft Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Expertise.
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consultants can assist you to plan and deploy a disaster recovery system based on Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies such as 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 industry-standard hardware, VM Load Balancing for improving the performance and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while reducing TCO and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, economical deployment of a stretch cluster quorum witness. For details, go to Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Consulting.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you orchestrate, automate and test a repeatable workflow for recovering services rapidly after a breakdown. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, plus non-intrusive site migration, failback and re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also supports non-disruptive testing for site recovery, updates and fixes and can produce reports to confirm full service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and prove disaster recovery compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to help your organization to design, deploy, test and administer a DR solution powered by VMware Site Recovery Manager.
NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Technology
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that uses failover storage clustering with continual replication to deliver fast, zero RPO disaster recovery (DR) between datacenters that are up to 185 miles away from one another. Progent offers access to a certified NetApp MetroCluster expert who can assist you to design, configure, manage, upgrade, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery system built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to choose a topology for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your technical needs and IT budget. Progent can ensure you follow leading practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by delivering guidance with procedures like assigning shelf IDs, arranging aggregate and plexes layout, provisioning volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your disaster recovery system to show adherence with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
Network Load Balancing
Progent offers high availability load balancing consulting that addresses network load balancing, load balanced programs, LAN/WAN infrastructure routing, and content dispatching technology including F5 Networks 3DNS. Fault tolerant load balancing technologies for which Progent can provide consulting services include Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Access Gateway, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Content Distribution Manager and Cisco CDN Software, and F5 Networks BIG-IP. For details, visit High Availability Load Balancing.
Fault Tolerant Data Centers
Progent's Data Center professionals can help you find zero-downtime data centers that match the specific requirements of your company. Fault tolerant co-location sites are especially appealing to small and mid-size companies because of their affordability and convenience compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Attempting to build an in-house data center with even a minimum degree of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for most small businesses. Progent can help you reap all the advantages of 24x7 colo centers by offering a complete range of engineering and support services. To read more, visit High-Availability Colocation Solutions.
Fault Tolerant Branch Office Connectivity
Progent's multi-site connection professionals can help companies achieve fault tolerant inter-site connectivity solutions through fully redundant networks featuring transparent failover. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE engineers can plan and implement fault-tolerant Inter-office networks based on non-stop EIGRP routers or non-stop OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how redundant connections and automatic fail-over offers economical non-stop interoffice connectivity. To find out more, go to Failsafe Interoffice Networking.
Non-stop Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT professionals can show you how to design an affordable, fault tolerant Internet configuration solution that can achieve 24x7 Internet access via a broad range of fault tolerant Internet network technologies including high availability BGP, transparent fail-over, and multiple ISPs. Progent can provide CCIE engineers to help you apply the latest technology for fault tolerant Internet connectivity to build a cost-effective, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other features to deliver non-stop Internet availability. To learn more, go to 24x7 Internet Connectivity Architecture.
Backup and Restore Technology Consulting and Support Services
Progent offers affordable remote support from engineers with expertise in a wide range of products and services that provide solutions for backing up Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux/UNIX servers and workstations as well as laptops and smartphones. Progent offers expertise for leading backup products such as Acronis Backup and Recovery, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist, CrashPlan PRO, Double-Take Software, Mozy, Retrospect for Macintosh, Time Machine, vSphere Data Protection, and Oracle Solaris FLARs. Progent can assist your company to install, enhance, or maintain backup/restore systems for a range of architectures such as local, edge to datacenter, cloud-based, or hybrid. To read more, go to Backup and Restore Technology Consulting Services.
System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Restore Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified Microsoft SCDPM engineers can assist your company to develop an effective workplace recovery plan, design an affordable high-availability IT infrastructure, configure a SCDPM-powered recovery system, comprehensively validate your DPM system, educate your administrative staff or regular consultants how to maintain SCDPM, or provide extensive information technology support outsourcing including off-site hosting of System Center Data Protection Manager servers in Progent's world-class data center. For details, go to System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Consulting Services.
Barracuda Backup Local, Offsite and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription backup and disaster recovery platform for small and medium-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup solution can include a purpose-built physical storage device manufactured by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with similar functionality but which uses your existing storage hardware. Barracuda Backup safeguards vital business data generated 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 site with a physical or virtual Barracuda appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts can provide a broad array of consulting support services to assist you to design, integrate, operate and troubleshoot a backup and disaster recovery solution built on Barracuda technology. For additional information, visit Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consultants.
ProSight Altaro VM Backup Solutions for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Altaro VM Backup provides small and mid-size businesses a dependable and budget-friendly solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, remote, distributed, and cloud environments and also enables low-cost cloud backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup supports high-end features such as Immutable Cloud Storage for enhanced protection from ransomware. Progent is a Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and can provide a wide array of online or onsite services to help you to plan, install, optimize and debug a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution based on Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a fully managed backup/recovery service based on Altaro VM Backup software. To find out more, see Altaro VM Backup consulting services.
ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Services for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 offers simple archiving but does not include native support for key data protection services such as Exchange backups or long-term point-in-time recovery for OneDrive for Business or SharePoint. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a full-featured platform for programmable backup and quick restoration of all your organization's M365 mailboxes, Teams Chats, SharePoint sites, OneDrive data, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and has designed ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup to deliver end-to-end management services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup suite. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup provides an affordable backup-as-a-service solution that defends M365 components against data loss resulting from human or software error, malicious sabotage, and malware assaults such as ransomware. To find out more, see ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup solutions for Microsoft 365.
Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent offer small and medium-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates your backup activities and enable rapid recovery of vital data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to component failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide advanced support to set up ProSight DPS ECHO to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed cloud backup and recovery.
ProSight MSP360 Backup Solutions
Progent can help your company to design, implement and troubleshoot a backup plan built around MSP360 technology. MSP360 offers file/folder or image backup/recovery for virtual machines and physical computers, works with all leading public clouds, and allows businesses to build a backup ecosystem with a minimum Recovery Time Objective and a defined RPO. With ProSight MSP360 Backup, Progent can provide comprehensive monitoring and management of your backup environment to prevent data loss resulting from human miscues, computer glitches, malicious insiders, and external attacks like ransomware. For details, go to ProSight MSP360 Backup services.
Consulting Services Double-Take Software for Backup
Double-Take offers a selection of products intended to deliver small businesses a range of cost-effective alternatives for backing up and restoring vital applications including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, RIM Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning consultants have extensive experience integrating Double-Take technology into small company IT systems to create a high state of availability and business continuity readiness at an affordable cost. For more information, see Consulting for Double-Take Software for Backup.
Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Certified AI Cloud Partner and offers professional application support for a broad variety of business software programs, Progent can assist customers to arrive at efficient IT solutions that substantially enhance the business value of your network. As a Registered Partner for Cisco, Progent offers the expertise of certified engineers and specialists with experience in architecting, configuring and supporting infrastructure environments based on Cisco products. The depth and breadth of Progent's technical experience and Progent's familiarity with the needs of small companies make Progent a great resource for building and maintaining an affordable, fault-tolerant information system.
How to Get in Touch with Progent's Experts for Support for Non-stop IT Systems
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Web Site Contract Programmer
Custom Access Contract Programmer
For custom application creation, Progent can supply programming consultants to produce business software in areas such as commercial transaction webs, web site design, Microsoft Business Solutions packages including Great Plains Software accounting system, and specialized management reports based on Crystal Reports, Microsoft Access, or FRx Reports. Progent's experts can use Microsoft IIS to build custom eCommerce applications powered by Microsoft ASP.NET. In addition, Progent offers expertise in a broad array of custom software development platforms including SQL Server and Delphi. For made-to-order e-Commerce programming, Progent also offers expertise in custom Access, custom Microsoft Visual Basic, custom Excel, and any other specialized development based on any Microsoft development platform.
2500 Wireless Controller Technology Consulting Services
Integration Support Wave 2 wireless controller
Cisco's Catalyst family of Wi-Fi controllers simplify the management of wireless networks by unifying the provisioning and control of Wi-Fi access points, optimizing Wi-Fi throughput by reducing the impact of RF congestion, improving Wi-Fi uptime with rapid failover, and strengthening security by detecting threats and filtering traffic content based on user class and location. Progent can help you to configure Cisco Wi-Fi controllers to manage wireless networks of any size. Progent can help you to administer and troubleshoot your existing Cisco-based Wi-Fi solution or implement a smooth upgrade to Cisco's modern Wi-Fi controller technology.
Citrix StorageLink Gateway Engineers
Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V Consulting Services
Progent's Citrix-certified consultants can assist your organization to evaluate the potential strategic value of the various editions of Essentials for Hyper-V, assist you to use Citrix management utilities in your Hyper-V environment, and show you how to deploy Citrix Essentials to enhance the performance, uptime, flexibility, and fault tolerance of your virtualized environment while lowering the cost of equipment and support and streamlining administrative processes.
Consulting WatchGuard Firebox M690 Firewall
Information systems Security Outsourcing WatchGuard Firebox M570 Firewall
Progent provides support expertise for WatchGuard Firewall/VPN security appliances such as the WatchGuard Firebox and XTM lines of Firewalls and the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway. Progent's WatchGuard professionals can show you how to select, configure, and manage a WatchGuard Firewall/VPN product that fits your network security requirements and budget. Progent can help you to manage outdated WatchGuard firewall appliances or upgrade efficiently to current WatchGuard firewall solutions.
ISA 2006 Firewall Engineer
ISA 2006 Help and Support
Secure Application Publishing with Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 allows greater control over intranet applications while enabling increased productivity by making these resources available to legitimate remote or mobile users. Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 helps guard corporate applications, services, and data throughout all network components with application-layer filtering and comprehensive publishing tools. Progent's Microsoft-premier Internet Security and Acceleration Server experts can show you how to design, install, set up, and maintain ISA Server on your network so your company achieves a smart and affordable balance of security, convenience, and speed.
On-site Support Duo Identity Verification
Multi-factor Authentication Computer Consultant
Progent's Duo service plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices.
Top Ranked Azure migration Development Firm
Azure Disaster Recovery Consult
Progent's consultants can help you to plan and carry out an efficient move from onsite Active Directory to cloud-based Microsoft Entra ID (formerly called Azure Actve Directory) or to a hybrid solution that uses Microsoft Entra Domain Services and Microsoft Entra Connect to centralize identity services across onsite and cloud resources.
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