IT Connection Newsletter: Number 6
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Consulting:
Planning, Deployment, Software Development, Troubleshooting
SQL Server is Microsoft's flagship database management and analysis system and is tightly integrated with key Microsoft platforms such as SharePoint, Excel, Microsoft CRM, and Dynamics GP (Great Plains). Progent can provide the expertise of Microsoft-certified engineers as well as experienced application developers, database administrators, project managers, network architects, disaster recovery experts, and security specialists to help you derive the maximum business value from your deployment of SQL Server 2012.
SQL Server is Microsoft's top database management and analysis system and is tightly integrated with key Microsoft platforms such as SharePoint, Excel, CRM, and Dynamics GP (Great Plains). SQL Server 2012 has a broad range of features that offer major improvements in vital areas such as availability, security, performance, manageability, analytics, cloud readiness, scalability, collaboration, fast application development, and data discovery. SQL Server 2012 also consolidates the key editions of SQL Server from five to three, simplifying the selection of a version that fits your needs.
Progent can provide the expertise of Microsoft-certified engineers as well as experienced application developers, DBAs, DR/BC experts, network designers, and security specialists to help you evaluate the potential benefits of SQL Server 2012 for your business, set up pilot systems at your datacenter or at Progent's lab, plan and carry out a smooth migration to SQL Server 2012 either from prior releases of SQL Server or from other platforms, and design an efficient and secure environment that helps you maximize the business benefit of SQL Server 2012.
AlwaysOn High-Availability for SQL Server 2012
The headline innovation incorporated into SQL Server 2012 is Microsoft's AlwaysOn solution, which provides flexible and cost-effective system design options for insulating mission-critical application databases from downtime caused either by scheduled maintenance or network failures. Microsoft designed AlwaysOn to achieve or exceed the famous "five nines" availability, or 99.9999% uptime, which translates into just a few minutes of downtime per year.
AlwaysOn technology uses two enhancements in SQL Server 2012 to eliminate the inefficiencies of SQL Server 2008's Failover Clustering Instances (FCIs) for high availability (HA) and SQL Server 2008's database mirroring mechanism for disaster recovery (DR). For a more effective and affordable HADR solution, SQL 2012 includes AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances and the new AlwaysOn Availability Groups.
AlwaysOn Failover Clustering Instances support multi-subnet clustering across geographically dispersed sites, allowing you to deploy so-called Stretch Clusters. This architecture offers both a high level of availability as well as the basis for an advanced disaster recovery solution. SQL Server 2012's AlwaysOn FCI also improves failure detection and provides more flexibility for configuring an optimal failover policy. In addition, SQL Server 2012 has an option for indirect checkpoints as a viable alternative to automatic checkpoints. This new feature allows you to specify the maximum permissible downtime for a database so you can safely guarantee the recovery time of critical databases in case of a failover event.
AlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 improve mirroring in SQL Server 2008 by allowing log-based data movement without shared disks and thereby enabling zero data loss in case of a fail over condition.
AlwaysOn Availability Groups improve database uptime as well as resource utilization by letting you define sets of user databases that fail over as a single logical unit and to create a set of primary and secondary availability replicas to host copies of each availability database. Availability Groups can have four secondary replicas and feature listeners for fast application failover over, automatic page repair to event page corruption, and the ability to force a Failover Clustering (WSFC) quorum. Secondary replicas can be used actively for read-intent applications and backup in order to improve hardware utilization.
For additional information about Progent's consulting support for Microsoft SQL Server 2012, see Progent's Support Services for SQL Server 2012.
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Google Cloud GKE Engineers
Specialist Google Cloud solutions
Progent can provide cost-effective online and onsite support to assist companies of any size to migrate all or part of their core network resources to Google Cloud Platform services. This can save management hassle and equipment expense and allow the use of Google's state-of-the-art AI and machine learning technology. Progent can help your IT team with every aspect of Google Cloud Platform migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, readiness evaluation, architectural design and review, testing, deployment, centralized administration, performance optimization, software license management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security.
24/7 Wireless Integration Case Study
Wireless Case Studies
Progent provided a wireless integration environment that enabled a school to improve productivity and avoid the ongoing expense of a dedicated data connection. Progent recommended a Proxim Tsunami high-speed wireless bridge. The low-cost building-to-building Proxim bridge is intended for connecting remote sites up to 2.5 miles apart and can reach even greater distances. This wireless solution offered improved performance and dependability than recourse to amplifying the 802.11b network, and since it utilizes the 5.8Ghz band it offered immunity to local interference.
Repairing Microsoft Office System
Microsoft Computer Consultants
Progent's IT outsourcing support offerings for small businesses include planning Server 2003, .NET, and BackOffice environments, managing migrations Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Active Directory, and Exchange Server 2003, Help Desk Call Center, remote and on-site troubleshooting, resolving chronic IT problems, and producing a company-wide security plan. Progent can help you enhance system reliability and throughput with fault-tolerant technologies, resilient network topology, and proactive server monitoring. Progent also provides special project assistance for large-scale upgrades and can assist with needs definition, resource identification, BOM production, sourcing qualification, purchasing coordination, and complete documentation. Progent's IT outsourcing help also includes training for office productivity packages such as Microsoft Office.
Catalyst 802.11ax Access Point IT Consulting
Emergency Support and Help Catalyst Wi-Fi 6 AP Layout
Progent's Cisco-certified Catalyst 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E Wireless Access Point consultants can provide economical remote and on-premises help for Catalyst next-generation Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E wireless APs.
24x7 Microsoft Exchange 2000 Support and Integration
Network Engineer Exchange 2000 Server Upgrade
Progent is one of the most expert network support companies for integrating e-mail solutions based on Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Progent specializes in helping small and mid-size businesses get the full advantages of Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 for typical situations such as upgrading from Microsoft Exchange 5.5, migration from an ISP-managed or POP3 e-mail system, and jobbing out your Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server support.
Specialist Web Application Security Assessment
Web Application Security Testing Consulting
Progent offers several security service bundles intended to provide larger institutions a professional and comprehensive security audit from a group of premier security consultants. All Progent's network security assessment bundles incorporate a collection of procedures including automated scans from inside and from beyond the network firewall, expert interpretation of scanned data by accredited security engineers, creation of a paper documenting the findings, plus a live high-level executive summary and a detailed live review for internal IT administrators.
Linux with Windows Consulting Services
Linux with Windows Professional
If your office computer system combines Linux platforms with Microsoft Windows, Progent can show you how to integrate your computers into a cohesive environment that allows all your OS platforms to run side by side for easy administration, seamless dataflow, high availability, enhanced throughput, and tight security. Progent's Linux and Windows integration assistance offerings feature IT architecture configuration and service, support for Microsoft Windows services for UNIX (SFU), remote server monitoring and administration, remote network help and repair, in-person technical support, and Contact Center support.
Horizon3.ai NodeZero Certified Security Penetration Testing Consultants
Intrusion Detection Horizon3.ai NodeZero Security Penetration Testing
Progent's certified security consultants can run NodeZero-powered threat assessments to verify your security monitoring and protection tools and policies are correctly configured and effective.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Support and Integration
Support SharePoint Portal Server 2007
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer companies of any size consulting, technical support, and application development expertise for Microsoft SharePoint and SharePoint Online. SharePoint is an enterprise collaboration platform that uses web-based technology for efficiently coordinating people, groups and data. SharePoint provides a central location for your workers or clients to access, manage, share and interact with useful data, files, and software and to communicate with other people. Microsoft SharePoint allows faster and more intelligent decisions, more effective access across teams and more economical business practices. Windows SharePoint Services join employees, customers, workgroups and projects with the information they've created in a way that makes data easy to locate, download and apply. Progent's SharePoint experts can help your organization to support your existing SharePoint solution or migrate to the current release of SharePoint Server or to SharePoint Online.
Support and Help SCCM 2007 Device Management
SCCM 2007 Mobile Device Management Specialists
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your business to maintain Microsoft System Center 2007 Configuration Manager (SCCM 2007) to simplify administration, improve security and compliance, and boost worker output by making sure that critical applications are always current, tracking product licenses, and monitoring resource usage profiles to help you make smart purchasing decisions. Once you are set to upgrade your SCCM 2007 change management solution, Progent can help you to plan and carry out an efficient migration to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.
Microsoft Windows Server 2012R2 Active Directory Professionals
Windows Server 2012R2 Hyper-V Virtual Switch Computer Engineer
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to assess the advantages of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 for your company, develop test environments and rollout plans, tune your network for local, multi-site, private or public cloud-based, and partial-cloud environments, train your IT support team, develop an enterprise-wide security plan, automate network administration, assist with application development, and build and validate a DR/BC plan.
At Home Workers Collaboration Information Technology Consulting
Onsite Technical Support At Home Workers Collaboration Software
Progent can assist small and mid-size companies to set up collaboration solutions to make it easy for their at-home workforce to benefit from positive interaction with fellow workers and other stakeholders.
24 Hour Microsoft Dynamics GP Software Online Help
Setup and Support Dynamics GP/Great Plains
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants provide a range of consulting services for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Dynamics GP is a Microsoft accounting platform and business management tool based, like all Microsoft financial tools, on the scalable and popular platform of Windows technology. Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010, the latest edition of Microsoft financial products in the Microsoft Dynamics GP family, provides a cost-effective solution for controlling and integrating finances, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, on-site support, CRM, and human resources. Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains is easy to deploy and configure, and with its modular design you are able to license only the capability you currently require, with the ability to expand clients and enlarge capabilities when necessary. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains Software support engineers can help you install, customize and administer Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains 2010 and also older editions of Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains.
Exchange 2013 Migration Computer Engineer
Exchange 2013 Voice Mail Engineer
Microsoft Exchange 2013 includes significant improvements to the functionality of Microsoft Exchange 2010 and delivers powerful innovations as well as a redesigned architecture. These improvements affect key facets of IT like ease of administration, high availability (HA), compliance, cost of ownership, teamwork, scalability, throughput, compatibility, and the user experience. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange Server 2013 consulting professionals can assist your organization to understand the possible advantages of migrating to Exchange Server 2013, create a cost-effective test and rollout strategy, and educate your IT staff to maintain your Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 environment. Progent can also provide affordable remote support and management services for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013.
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