IT Connection Newsletter: Issue 5
Progent's Certified Experts Offer
Server Virtualization Consulting Services
Virtual server software from Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix has never been more affordable or powerful. Progent can help you choose a virtualization solution that works best for your business and makes an immediate, positive impact on your bottom line.
Virtualization allows you to run many Virtual Machines (VMs) on a single physical computer, reducing the number of servers you need to run your workloads. Virtual server solutions from Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix are designed to make economic sense for networks of any size. Unfortunately, many small companies are intimidated by virtual technology and unaware of its many benefits.
In addition to the obvious advantage of cutting hardware costs by 50% or more, virtualization offers improved availability, streamlined management, better security, optimized performance for critical applications, faster recovery from unplanned downtime, lower costs for data center space and power, shortened development cycles, more thorough testing of new applications, plus faster software deployment and hardware provisioning.
Licenses for the entry-level virtual server software from Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix are free. The net result is that businesses can save 50-70% on overall IT costs through virtualization, a return on investment unmatched by any other technology initiative. When used properly, virtualization is one of the most leveraged ways to add business value to your information network.
Windows Hyper-V
Hyper-V is a role of Windows Server 2008 R2 that provides the tools to deploy and manage virtual servers. Hyper-V's hypervisor-based architecture, which requires an x64 host with hardware-assisted virtualization, offers better speed, capacity, and security than Microsoft's previous virtualization platform. Hyper-V supports enterprise-class features such as symmetric multiprocessing, live migration, dynamic storage, expanded memory, and host clustering. An entry-level edition with a single-role version of Windows, called Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, is available as a free download.
Hyper-V works along with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) to provide a comprehensive backup and recovery solution, and Hyper-V's integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager unifies the administration of a virtualized environment. Hyper-V Management Console and Windows PowerShell provide advanced tools for remote and automated management.
VMware vSphere
VMware is the leading source of virtualization software and offers
a free entry-level hypervisor, vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), to provide a fast start for companies new to virtual server technology. VMware offers an easy, affordable upgrade path to vSphere Essentials to add improved management and security features or to the powerful vSphere Essentials Plus, which offers high availability and live migration.
Unlike Hyper-V, which runs in conjunction with Windows Server 2008, all editions of vSphere install on bare metal as purpose-built, low-overhead hypervisors that require only about 100 Mb of disk space. This improves security by exposing a small attack surface. Advanced versions of vSphere and its predecessor, VMware ESX, have been adopted by the world's largest enterprises.
Citrix XenServer
The entry-level version of XenServer from Citrix has advanced features that include live migration, central management of multiple servers, and unlimited servers, VMs, and memory. XenServer has a bare-metal hypervisor, like vSphere, but it also has an open architecture (proven by use in the world's largest virtual technology deployment, Amazon's Elastic Cloud). Like Hyper-V and unlike vSphere, XenServer utilizes paravirtualization to achieve near-native performance, which makes it practical to support more VMs per physical server.
Progent's Hyper-V, vSphere, and XenServer Support
Progent's certified Microsoft and VMware engineers can help you assess the potential benefits of virtualization and select a product that meets your business needs, perform pilot installations to test virtual servers with your production applications, organize your network and server architecture for optimal performance with virtual technology, help you migrate from an older virtualization platform, follow industry best practices for rolling out virtual servers, and train your IT staff to monitor and manage Windows Hyper-V, VMware, or Citrix solutions.
If you plan to deploy Hyper-V, Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you configure, manage, and troubleshoot all aspects of Windows Server 2008 R2.
Contact Progent for Virtualization Help
For help with Hyper-V, vSphere, or XenServer virtual server software, call Progent at
For a more detailed description of virtualization technology from Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix, visit Server Management with Virtual Servers.
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Android Tablet integration Troubleshooting
Android phone integration Troubleshooting
Progent's veteran group of network consultants and subject matter experts have years of background delivering online and on-premises assistance for organizations of any size who want to incorporate Android phones into their IT networks so that users can work together from virtually anywhere. Progent has the range of skills to resolve technical issues that involve multiple manufacturers and that entail a combination of older and current technology. Progent offers cost-effective remote consulting to help you with any aspect of designing, deploying, managing and troubleshooting your Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) environment. Progent can provide occasional support to help you to resolve especially stubborn IT problems, or Progent can provide comprehensive project management services to help you complete major IT initiatives on time and within budget. Progent can help with on-premises, cloud-centric, or hybrid network environments and can provide expertise with operating systems, apps, management tools and network infrastructure. Progent also offers customized group or one-on-one classes to show you how to manage and use Android phones and tablets securely and productively.
24 Hour SharePoint Backup and Recovery Professionals
Consulting Services SharePoint 2019 Hybrid Search
Progent's certified SharePoint 2019 and SharePoint Online experts can provide affordable online and on-premises expertise, software development, and debugging services for organizations of any size who intend to migrate to SharePoint 2019 or SharePoint Online from earlier versions of SharePoint. Progent can help you plan and execute a cost-effective upgrade to SharePoint 2019 on premises, SharePoint Online, or a hybrid environment that combines onsite and cloud-based components into a cohesive intranet solution.
Network Consulting Exchange 2013 Disaster Recovery
Information Technology Consulting Exchange 2013 Load Balancing
Exchange Server 2013 includes major improvements to the functionality of Microsoft Exchange 2010 and delivers powerful innovations as well as a redesigned architecture. These enhancements favorably impact vital IT areas such as ease of administration, high availability (HA), security, cost of ownership, collaboration, expandability, performance, cross-version interoperability, and productivity. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange Server 2013 consulting experts can assist your organization to understand the possible advantages of migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2013, create a cost-effective test and deployment strategy, and educate your IT staff to manage your Exchange Server 2013 environment. Progent also offers ongoing remote support and management for Exchange 2013.
Windows Server 2003 Engineer
Immediate Windows 2003 Help and Support
The service background of Progent's certified Microsoft Windows Server 2003 consulting team, with an average of over 11 years of work in Microsoft integration, assures you success in selecting the edition and configuration of Windows 2003 Server that aligns most closely with your business strategy. Progent can also help you with planning, installing, administering and supporting sophisticated information technology applications powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and can streamline your upgrade from Windows 2000 Server or Windows NT.
Cloud Network Infrastructure Management Network Consulting Organization
Cisco Network Management Solutions Phone Support Services
Progent's Cisco-Certified network consultants can show you how to run Cisco's network management utilities alongside a selection of powerful third-party applications to build a comprehensive network management strategy in order to keep your environment running smoothly, conserve limited resources, guard your data, recover rapidly from hardware breakdown or deliberate attacks, and allow you to add or reassign valuable resources sensibly and economically as your business evolves.
Linux Phone-based Network Support Technician
Linux Phone-based Information Technology Consultant
Progent provides nationwide online phone support and consulting services for businesses who operate environments based on versions of Linux or whose information systems include a mix of Linux platforms/Linux and Microsoft Windows technology. Remote IT help offers maximum leverage for your information technology budget by protecting user efficiency and shortening the hours billed for computer repair services. Sophisticated remote support utilities and experienced service specialists and engineers combine to enable Progent to handle the majority of IT problems without wasting time and expense by going to your site. In most of situations your network issues can be remediated by telephone or through a mix of phone support and online connectivity. Progent can make available Cisco certified CCIE network experts and CISM and CISSP certified security specialists to help you with the toughest network issues.
Proxim Support and Integration
Android Integration Network Engineer
Progent's Wireless Consulting Services offer a fast, affordable option for businesses of any size to integrate, manage, monitor and repair the latest wireless connectivity solutions. For 802.11n and the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi environments, Progent can show you how to design and install hardware like Cisco's Aironet and Meraki wireless access points and wireless network controllers. For wireless email and online business applications, Progent can help with Apple IOS iPhones, Apple iPads, Google Androids, and Windows smartphones and tablets.
iPhone and Power BI integration Technical Support
iPhone DNS Remote Support Services
Progent can provide affordable online assistance to help you to design, deploy, and troubleshoot any facet of your iPhone and Windows integration solution and is available for quick tasks to help you get past occasional technical bottlenecks or major engagements to help you complete business-critical initiatives on schedule and within budget. Progent has experience in local, cloud-centric, or hybrid networks and can help you create or maintain a highly available, protected and scalable infrastructure that aligns with your computing model. Progent also offers remote and on-premises training for individuals or groups to show you how to manage and use your iPhones and iPads in a secure, team-oriented ecosystem that optimizes the strategic value of your IT network.
Dynamics 365 NAV Setup and Support
Application Consultant Dynamics 365 Business Central
Progent offers remote and onsite deployment, migration, programming, reporting for Dynamics Business Central/Navision.
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