Fort Wayne, Indiana Microsoft-Premier Consultants
Microsoft SQL Server Consulting and Development
MS SQL Server technology offers your business information network a relational database foundation that organizes all classes of digital information, operates with a multitude of popular applications from Microsoft and other vendors, can be used to create custom applications rapidly and affordably, provides a wide array of intelligent functions for making decisions based on multiple information stores, and gives you these benefits within a framework engineered for security and privacy, performance, stability, scalability, and low-overhead administration. Progent's Microsoft-Certified consultants offer years of hands-on background in designing, integrating, customizing, and supporting effective SQL Server systems that are closely integrated with the Microsoft .NET family of servers. Progent's SQL experts can make sure your SQL-powered database infrastructure is integrated thoroughly with your IT environment in order to optimize the strategic benefit of your IT investment.
Progent's SQL consultants offer remote and on-premises support services to assist your Fort Wayne, Indiana business to prepare and implement upgrades from outdated database management systems to the most advanced release of Microsoft SQL Server. Progent also can provide automated network tracking to make sure your business network is always available, and Progent's remote Help Desk is ready to offer quick remediation for SQL-related issues. Progent's Power BI integration experts can help you utilize information from SQL Server Reporting Services and SQL Server Analysis Services to create visualizations to produce interactive Power BI analytical reports and dashboards.
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement and manage Microsoft SQL Server environments that include local and cloud hosted resources. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud solutions.)
Indianapolis Metro Area Contact Information:
Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the state of Indianapolis.
| City | Address | Phone | Link |
| Fort Wayne | 921 E Dupont Rd Fort Wayne, IN 46825 United States |
(260) 264-4700 | Fort Wayne Network Support Services |
| Indianapolis | 3960 Southeastern Avenue Indianapolis, IN 46204 United States |
(317) 800-7667 | Indianapolis Network Support Services |
MS SQL 2019 Server Planning and Integration Consulting
Progent's certified SQL Server 2019 experts can help your organization to assess the business case for upgrading to SQL Server 2019 and can deliver rapid remote or onsite contact with consulting experts in system design and integration, application development, SQL Server management, and network security. To find out more, visit SQL Server 2019 migration expertise.
MS SQL 2017 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2017 consultants can help your business to assess the business benefits of upgrading to SQL Server 2017 and can help your organization to plan and carry out an efficient migration of your databases and applications to any deployment architecture including onsite, cloud-hosted, or hybrid. Progent's SQL Server experts can provide remote or on-premises support ranging from as-needed design review or debugging to end-to-end project management and co-management to make sure your SQL Server 2017 initiative is successfully completed on time and within budget. Find out about Progent's Microsoft SQL Server 2017 migration and support.
SQL 2016 Server Support Services
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 offers significant enhancements in speed, scale, data security, availability, mobile computing integration, and integrated BI. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide remote and onsite expertise to help businesses of any size to deploy, manage or troubleshoot any version of SQL Server 2016. Progent can also assist you to integrate SQL Server 2016 with all key Microsoft products including Windows Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Lync or Skype for Business, and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). Read about Progent's SQL 2016 expertise.
Microsoft SQL 2014 Server Consulting and Support
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 includes major enhancements in key areas including performance, availability, security, and cloud integration. SQL Server 2014 is the first release of SQL Server that includes in-memory technology that works seamlessly across all workloads including OLTP, enterprise data warehousing, and business analytics (BI). Progent's Microsoft SQL Server 2014 consulting team can deliver cost-effective remote and onsite services that include planning, configuration, management, remediation, and software development services to help organizations of any size to achieve maximum business value from their SQL Server 2014 investment. Find out about Progent's SQL Server 2014 expertise.
MS SQL 2012 Server Consulting
SQL Server 2012 includes a broad range of features that deliver major improvements in key technologies including availability, data protection, throughput, manageability, analytics, cloud support, scalability, collaboration, data discovery, and fast application development. Progent can provide the expertise of Microsoft-certified consultants and seasoned database application developers, DBAs, project managers, network infrastructure architects, business continuity specialists, and data security professionals to assist you to assess the likely advantages of SQL Server 2012 for your organization, set up pilot systems at your site or at Progent's test lab, plan and execute out a smooth transition to SQL Server 2012 from earlier releases of SQL Server or from legacy RDBMS platforms, and define a cost-effective and secure network infrastructure that helps you maximize the business benefit of SQL Server 2012. Learn about Progent's Microsoft SQL Server 2012 expertise.
Microsoft SQL 2008 Server Consulting
SQL Server 2008 delivers significant enhancements over earlier versions of Microsoft's flagship database management technology. New features introduced by SQL 2008 cover vital areas of data control and analysis such as protection, fault tolerance, scalability, simplicity of support, and intelligent functions for turning dispersed stores of data into useful business insight. New features in SQL 2008 include transparent encryption for guaranteeing confidentiality and simplifying compliance, automated policy execution to control support costs, new synchronization services to support occasionally connected workers, seamless interaction with Word and Excel and SharePoint for working with report data, and resource definition to ensure consistent responsiveness to your users. (Note: SQL Server 2008 has arrived at End-of-Support. Progent can provide SQL Server 2008 migration consulting services to help you to upgrade smoothly to a current version of SQL Server.) Find out about Progent's SQL 2008 support services.
MS SQL 2005 Support Services SQL Server 2005 enhances your information environment by providing a secure and reliable business data control and analysis system. MS SQL Server 2005 maximizes the business value of your IT environment by offering a proven data management solution for non-stop operations of enterprise-class, multiterabyte databases, enabling users to make smarter decisions derived from up-to-date business measurements through sophisticated analytics, reporting utilities, and data-mining capabilities, and providing an enhanced development system that allows programmers to build secure mission-critical applications quickly, and effortlessly add new capabilities for users. Find out about Progent's SQL 2005 Server expertise.
MS SQL Server 2K Consulting
MS SQL Server 2000 is a full-featured, Web-aware DBM and information analysis product that facilitates the speedy creation of a new generation of enterprise-level line-of-business solutions that can give your company a critical business advantage. MS SQL Server 2000 offers core compatibility with Extensible Markup Language and the capability to operate over the Internet and outside your corporate firewall. Progent's Microsoft-expert SQL Server engineers can assist your company to move your applications and data from Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server. Find out more details concerning Progent's MS SQL Server 2000 support services.
Progent's Application Programming Support for SQL Server
Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server application developers and DBAs can provide remote expertise to assist organizations of all sizes to create, administer, and maintain applications based on SQL Server. Progent's SQL Server consultants offer help with any phase of the application life cycle in solutions that range from small office databases to N-tier VLDB applications. Support services offered by Progent's Microsoft SQL Server software programmers and DBAs include:
- Requirements analysis
- Data tier architecture
- Normalization
- T-SQL programming
- Program configuration
- Documentation and training
- Capacity planning
- Performance tuning
- Backup and Restore processes
- Partitioning strategies
- Consolidation of stored procedures
- Synchronization solutions
- Security and compliance
- Fault tolerance planning
To get in touch with Progent about consulting expertise for SQL Server environments, phone
Progent's Professional Support Services for Microsoft Technology
For organizations of any size in Fort Wayne Indiana, Progent's Microsoft-authorized consultants offer low-cost online computer help and professional consulting support for the entire family of Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers. Progent can provide Windows Server 2019 upgrade consulting, Windows Server 2016 hybrid cloud solutions, Windows Server 2012 R2 planning and configuration help, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 expertise, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 maintenance. Progent's migration, integration, update, and consulting capabilities cover network architecture, configuration, and management outsourcing for
project management and documentation, local and off-site
IT help and system diagnosis,
Help Desk Support, comprehensive
security consulting, turn-key
outsourcing, and
ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
Progent's System Center 2016 consultants include System Center 2016 Operations Manager (SCOM 2016) specialists, Microsoft System Center 2016 Configuration Manager (SCCM 2016) specialists and System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM 2016) hybrid cloud management consultants who can assist your organization to plan and deploy Microsoft's solution for unified management of hybrid cloud environments that incorporate on-premises resources and cloud-based services.
Progent also can deliver a full range of online desktop support services such as Windows 10 planning and migration support, Microsoft Windows 8.1 consulting, Microsoft Windows 7 support, moving to 64-bit computing, preparing for to 64-bit computing, integrating Microsoft Office 365, and streamlining desktop configuration.
In case your Fort Wayne Indiana company needs urgent online support from a certified consultant, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support.
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Small Business WAP371 Configuration
Small Business 300 AP Online Support Services
Progent's Cisco-certified Wi-Fi integration experts can assist organizations to deploy, administer, and troubleshoot Cisco Small Business Wireless APs.
Online Troubleshooting Windows, UNIX, Solaris
Technology Professional UNIX, Windows
Progent's UNIX family consulting experts provide small and mid-size businesses and developers support for administering and maintaining UNIX, Linux or Solaris systems that coexist with Microsoft-based technology. Progent offers your organization contact with UNIX consultants, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM certification. This broad array of experience offers you a convenient single source to show you how to create and manage a secure and robust cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that supports UNIX and Microsoft interoperability by integrating MS Windows with popular versions of UNIX including Apple Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, AIX UNIX from IBM, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, BSD, SCO UNIX, and SGI/Irix or major Linux variations including RedHat Linux, SUSE Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu Linux, PCLinuxOS, fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Antispam Installation support
Information Technology Consulting Postini
E-Mail Guard is a comprehensive service for defending against spam and virus attacks. E-Mail Guard addresses the security and management of corporate email by offering continually updated spam and virus blocking, policy management, content filtering, and protection against email-based directory harvesting and DDoS attacks. E-Mail Guard also includes tracking, management and reporting tools as well as outbound email filtering to let you repair your email system and specify and regulate company security policy.
Microsoft Certified Partner Exchange 2013 Disaster Recovery Online Consulting
Exchange 2013 Disk Availability Group Specialists
Microsoft Exchange 2013 includes major improvements to the functionality of Exchange 2010 and delivers powerful new features as well as a revamped architecture. These enhancements affect key facets of IT like manageability, high availability (HA), compliance, operational costs, collaboration, expandability, performance, compatibility, and productivity. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange Server 2013 consulting experts can help you evaluate the potential business benefits of migrating to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, create a cost-effective test and deployment plan, and train your IT team to manage your Microsoft Exchange 2013 solution. Progent also offers affordable remote consulting and support and management for Microsoft Exchange 2013.
Network Consultants Windows 2012 Cluster Server
On-site Support Windows 2012 Clustering
Progent's certified failover clustering experts can help businesses to evaluate the advantages of deploying Microsoft Windows Server 2012 failover clustering to build a powerful fault-tolerant/disaster recovery strategy, help you to design and deploy a Windows Server 2012 environment, provide online and on-premises consulting services and engineering support for failover clusters composed of physical servers or virtual ones, and show you how to streamline the administration of failover clusters.
SCDPM 2016 On-site Support
Technical Consultant Microsoft System Center 2016
System Center 2016 provides major enhancements in the management of hybrid cloud environments by offering comprehensive support for Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 clients; unified management of heterogeneous networks that include Linux, Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; and expanded cloud support such as closer integration with Intune for iPhone and Google Android smartphone administration plus built-in integration with Microsoft Operations Management Suite for cloud-enhanced analytics. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can provide world-class remote and on-premises expertise for all elements of System Center 2016 including Operations Manager (SCOM), Configuration Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Data Protection Manager (SCDPM), Orchestrator, and Service Manager. Progent can assist your business to plan and configure a new deployment of Microsoft System Center 2016, expand or optimize your current one, migrate smoothly from an earlier version of System Center, or debug your System Center environment.
Double-Take Backup and Restore Outsourcing
DoubleTake Carbonite Software Information Technology Consulting
DoubleTake/Carbonite Software offers a selection of products designed to deliver small and midsize companies a range of cost-effective alternatives for replicating and recovering business-critical workloads including Exchange Server, SQL Server, Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent’s disaster recovery planning experts have extensive backgrounds integrating DoubleTake/Carbonite products into small company information networks to achieve a high level of availability and disaster recovery capability at a budget-friendly price.
Consultants Hybrid cloud
Enterprise hybrid cloud Consultants
Progent can assist your it team to design and manage cost-effective ecosystems that can include Windows and Linux systems and apps in both cloud-based solutions or in hybrid topologies that combine on-premises resources along with public cloud services. To help you to integrate cloud services with physical datacenters, Progent can provide a range of cloud integration support services that include Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud planning and deployment services, Amazon Web Services cloud integration support, and Amazon Web Marketing Service (WMS) development and troubleshooting. Progent has two decades of background providing advanced consulting support remotely, and Progent can make sure you successfully carry out your cloud integration initiatives on schedule and affordably.
24-Hour Wi-Fi VoIP phone integration Computer Consultant
wireless IP phone integration Online Troubleshooting
Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi VoIP phone configuration and troubleshooting consultants offer remote and onsite support to help you create and manage a Cisco wireless IP phone deployment by providing services that range from debugging the configuration of a wireless IP phone or AP to offering project management outsourcing or co-sourcing services for updating the wireless infrastructure of an entire campus.
Microsoft ISA 2004 Server Technology Consulting
Microsoft Proxy Server Consultant Services
Progent’s Microsoft certified professionals offer small and midsize businesses consulting services for Microsoft Forefront TMG and ISA Servers. Microsoft's Forefront Threat Management Gateway and Internet Security and Acceleration Servers contain an advanced application-layer aware firewall that can protect your business system from attack by outside and inside sources. Forefront TMG and ISA Server provide deep inspection of Internet protocols such as HTTP, which allows these security platforms to uncover many attacks that can elude traditional firewalls. The integrated firewall and VPN structure of Forefront TMG and ISA Server permit stateful filtering and inspection of all VPN streams. ISA Servers are the mainstay of Microsoft's network security strategy, and Progent's Microsoft-certified experts and CISSP, CISA and CISM certified security consultants can help you enhance your network protection through experienced design and integration of Forefront Threat Management Gateway and Microsoft ISA Servers. Progent's Microsoft consultants can assist you to deploy Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010, manage and troubleshoot all versions of ISA Server, or upgrade from ISA Server to Microsoft Forefront TMG.
Jobs Cisco Consulting
Freelance Microsoft Consultant Subcontractor Job
Progent is hiring a range of on-staff employees such as solutions-driven MCSEs; network experts who have Cisco CCDP or CCIE credentials; and specialists in advanced network design with backgrounds in mobile connectivity, wireless integration, high-availability systems, disaster recovery solutions, data preservation, and VMware technology. Progent is also hiring desktop support technicians, off-site troubleshooting professionals, and CISSP or CISM certified security consultants. Progent is also looking for experienced managers who can perform efficiently in our high-growth, virtual office environment. Progent contracts independent professionals who have in-depth expertise and field background in crucial information technology topics outside Progent's primary technical concentration. Progent's Experts Team employs contractors who offer advice and development support for mission-critical solutions such as Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM; possess deep knowledge of non-Microsoft platforms such as Linux derivatives, Apple OS, or Sun, or offer expert help in technologies such as telecom, web site development, EDI, web commerce, or dbm programming. Freelance contractors premier by us cooperate with Progent's staff engineers to provide end-to-end solutions for small business networks.
SQL Development Firm
Microsoft SQL Server Consulting Services
Progent's certified SQL Server application developers and database administrators can provide remote consulting to help businesses of any size to create, manage, and troubleshoot applications powered by the Microsoft SQL Server platform and Microsoft's .NET architecture. Progent's SQL Server experts offer help with any facet of the application life cycle in environments that range from small business or departmental databases to VLDB applications and data warehousing.
24-7 Information Assurance Specialists
GIAC Network Consultant
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance consultants can provide support for all of the security disciplines addressed under GIAC accreditation including auditing network security mechanisms, incident management and response, intrusion detection, web services security and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.
Programming Company Excel Power Pivot
Excel 2016 desktop Consultants
Progent's certified Excel and Office 365 Excel application consultants offer a wide variety of remote support services to assist your organization to design, develop, test, install, manage, and debug applications powered by any release of Excel, including Excel 2016 and Microsoft Office 365 Excel. Progent can help you to upgrade your current Excel applications to the newest releases of Excel, support Excel on iOS-based iPhones and iPads and Google Android phones and tablets, and identify and fix compatibility problems between different releases of Excel. Progent can provide as-needed help to clients who need a fast fix to a specific issue related to Office Excel and Progent can also provide full project management support for migrating or developing line-of-business application software based on Excel. Progent's affordable webinar training for Excel can be customized to address the needs of individual users or groups.
64-bit Upgrade Setup and Support
64-bit Computing Consultancy
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you design, document, carry out, manage, and repair a network-wide move to 64-bit server and client operating systems and business applications. Progent can help you pilot your 64-bit environment to verify that it supports all of the key 32-bit applications which you want to retain plus the latest 64-bit versions of applications you plan to install.
SQL Server 2016 and Power BI Onsite Technical Support
Immediate SQL Server 2016 and Power BI Technical Support
SQL Server 2016 offers major enhancements in performance, scale, data security, uptime, mobile computing support, and built-in BI. Innovations include PolyBase for processing relational and non-relational databases simultaneously for big data applications, Hadoop support, Always Encrypted mode, Mobile Report Publisher, and centralized management of on-premises and cloud resources. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can deliver remote and onsite support to help businesses of any size to deploy, manage or debug any version of SQL Server 2016. Progent can also assist you to integrate SQL Server 2016 with all core Microsoft technologies including Windows Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Skype for Business, and SCOM.
Support and Integration Redundant ISP
Fully Redundant Internet Network Network Engineer
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT consultants can show you how to create an economical, fault tolerant Internet configuration solution that can achieve non-stop Internet connectivity through a wide range of fault tolerant Internet network technologies including fault tolerant BGP, automatic fail-over, and redundant ISPs. Progent offers Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert consultants to help you utilize the most current techniques for 24x7 Internet connectivity to build an economical, fully redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other features to deliver non-stop Internet access.
Microsoft Teams with Office 365 Consultancy
Microsoft Teams AAD Connect Professional
Progent can help your organization to design a migration to Teams from Skype for Business Online or Lync Server and configure, administer, and troubleshoot a cloud or mixed implementation of Teams. Progent can assist you to connect Teams with Microsoft 365 apps, Exchange Online, SharePoint, and your PSTN gateway.
Computer Installation Envisioning Phase: Requirements Definition
Remote Troubleshooting Deploying Phase: Implementation
When conducting consulting tasks for enterprise customers, Progent uses a phased approach driven by defined milestones in order to meet financial, timing and technical goals while reducing productivity disruption. Progent's Enterprise Services Methodology follows industry project management standards based on the leading practices described by the Microsoft MSF methodology which includes requirements definition, architecture proposals, test models, design adjustments, and expert implementation. All phases are documented to provide a detailed description of IT services delivered and to help in ongoing system maintenance.
Technical Support Services Microsoft Operations Manager
Remote Network Monitoring Network Consultant
Remote continuous network monitoring, proactive alarms, and periodic analytical reporting are crucial to preserving the proper operation of your IT system and avoiding unnecessary and costly disruptions. Remote Monitoring and Management solutions have progressed so far that companies of all sizes can get a level of protection that was previously limited to large enterprises. Progent can provide a variety Remote Monitoring and Management solutions available as economical services designed to help your company to detect and fix a most network issues before they can impact your business.
Amazon cloud AMI Engineer
CISSP Certified Expert Reporting Amazon AWS hybrid cloud integration
Progent can provide cost-effective remote support to assist businesses of any size to access Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for virtual machine hosting, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Glacier. Progent can help you with every phase of Amazon AWS integration including requirements analysis, preparedness evaluation, system design and review, testing, deployment, centralized administration, performance optimization, software license management, backup/restore solutions, and security.
Cisco Firepower 2000 Series Firewalls IT Consulting
Cisco Firepower integration Specialist
Cisco's Firepower Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) provide a major performance boost over Cisco's previous-generation ASA 5500-X firewalls and offer centralized management of advanced cybersecurity capabilities like application visibility and control, next-generation intrusion protection with risk prioritization, advanced malware protection (AMP), DDoS mitigation, and sandboxing. Progent's Cisco CCIE firewall consultants can help you to design and execute a smooth migration to Cisco Firepower Series firewalls from Cisco's legacy ASA 5500-X, ASA 5500, or PIX firewalls and help you integrate Firepower firewalls with Cisco's security services to create and centrally control network ecosystems that span local offices, data centers, private clouds and public clouds.
Antivirus Consulting
Postini Installation support
E-Mail Guard by Postini offers continually updated spam and virus filtering, data filtering, and security from e-mail-borne DHA attacks and DSA attacks. Progent is a Postini partner and service firm. If your company is too small to purchase for a standard Postini license, you can still get access to Postini’s Perimeter Management technology through Progent’s E-Mail Guard anti-spam and antivirus aggregation program. Progent’s expert e-mail protection professionals can help you devise an email protection plan that incorporates anti-spam and virus protection services and policies.
Email Outbound Content Filtering Services
ProSight Email Guard Spam and Virus Filtering Service Consultant Services
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of top information security vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's ProSight Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall.
Engineers XenServer Virtualization
Citrix XenServer Consult
Progent's Citrix-accredited consultants can help your company to understand the strategic benefits of XenServer and additional Citrix products, and can help your IT organization to plan, validate, implement, troubleshoot, and maintain a Citrix XenServer installation. Progent can also analyze your existing Citrix technology environment and show you how to enhance resource utilization, responsiveness, protection, availability, and recoverability.
SQL Server Replication Consult
Developer Microsoft T-SQL
Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server application developers and DBAs offer online consulting to help organizations of all sizes to create, administer, and maintain applications based on the Microsoft SQL Server platform and Microsoft's .NET architecture. Progent's SQL Server experts offer help with any element of the application life cycle in solutions that range from small business or departmental databases to VLDB applications and enterprise-class data warehousing.
Engineers Netwalker ransomware recovery
Award Winning WannaCry ransomware recovery Engineers
Progent's ransomware consultants can assist your business to evaluate your ransomware defenses, remotely monitor and guard your IT environment, help with settlement negotiations with a hacker, and restore an information system damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, Lockbit or Egregor.
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