IT Connection Newsletter: Number 6
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Windows Server 2012 Integration Help
Windows Server 2012 includes over 300 new or enhanced features that address critical IT issues including cloud readiness. Progent's Microsoft-certified Server Platform consultants can help you integrate Windows Server 2012 into your information network.
Windows Server 2012 includes over 300 new or enhanced features that address critical IT issues such as cloud readiness, virtualization, scalability and performance, identity and security, Bring-Your-Own-Device support, availability and disaster recovery, application development, and manageability. Licensing for Windows Server 2012 has been simplified, with the only functional difference between the two primary versions is that the Standard Edition supports two virtual instances and the Datacenter supports unlimited ones.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you assess the business value of Windows Server 2012 for your company, plan and implement pilot and production systems, optimize your infrastructure for local, multi-site, cloud-based, and hybrid environments, train your IT administration, refine your security strategy, automate network management, assist with application development, and create and test a disaster recovery/business continuity plan.
New Features of Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 offers major innovations that have an impact on almost every aspect of information technology. Combined with System Center 2012 and with Windows 8, Windows 2012 redefines the datacenter for any size organization. Most of the most significant improvements in Windows Server 2012 focus on optimizing cloud functionality and performance. Because cloud computing depends on large-scale virtualization, many of the enhancements offered by Windows Server 2012 center around advances in Microsoft's Hyper-V technology.
Cloud Optimized
Cloud computing is becoming the new reality for information technology because it enables ultra-efficient utilization of IT resources through the dynamic reallocation of available processing power, memory, and storage while sharing the substantial costs associated with creating and maintaining high-performance and high-availability datacenters. Windows Server 2012 can support private or public clouds or hybrid environments by allowing IT managers to pool computing resources seamlessly and securely across physical boundaries.
New and enhanced features of Windows Server 2012 that facilitate cloud-based infrastructure include:
- Multitenancy Support
- Hyper-V Network
- Live Migration Across
- Self-service Provisioning
- Resource Metering
- Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V offers improvements that benefit both cloud-based and local datacenters. Key enhancements impact resource consolidation, uptime and recoverability, expandability and performance. New or improved Hyper-V features include:
- Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
- VHDX Virtual Hard Disk Format
- Shared Nothing Live Migration
- Live Storage Migration
- Live Merge
- Dynamic Memory
- Smart Paging
Windows Server 2012 has also been enhanced with features that improve scalability and speed, identity and security, Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) support, availability and disaster recovery, development, and manageability. New features in these areas include Storage Spaces to reduce disk storage costs, Federated Identity for centralized authentication across cloud-based and on-premises environments, support for rich graphics on smart phones and tablets, Active-Active File Server Clusters for transparent failover across server clusters, cloud-aware languages and application development tools, and the new Server Manager for centralizing the management of multiple servers.
How Progent Can Help with Windows Server 2012
Progent offers consulting, project management, and technical support services to help businesses of any size get the most out of Windows Server 2012. Progent can provide project management services for creating and executing a Windows Server 2012 migration plan, and Progent's disaster recovery experts can show you how to keep your Windows Server 2012-based network running even under worst-case scenarios.
For more details about the enhancements included with Windows Server 2012, visit Windows Server 2012 Consulting.
Find Out More About Progent's Support for Windows Server 2012
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Branch Office Consultants
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Nexus 6000 Switch Outsourcing
Nexus series switches are engineered to deliver the speed, scale, resilience, cloud readiness, density, data protection and ease of management required to function as the foundation of an enterprise data center. Progent's Cisco-certified Nexus switch consultants can provide online and on-premises support expertise to assist you to plan an efficient network architecture, build pilot systems to validate your network design, deploy Nexus switches, create and enforce appropriate policies, perform security vulnerability evaluations, configure proactive monitoring, fully utilize network resources through virtualization technologies, analyze and repair switching and routing problems, maximize performance, plan for expected growth, and set up the advanced fault-tolerant capabilities available for Cisco's Nexus switches. Progent can also assist you to migrate efficiently from outdated Nexus switches or Cisco Catalyst switches to current Nexus platforms.
Cisco Certified Expert Multi-site Security Consulting Firms
Enterprise Windows Networking Help
For large organizations, Progent can leverage internal network support groups by offering world-class background in supporting critical Microsoft and Cisco products. Progent's certified experts offer Enterprise Active Directory consulting, Exchange Server 2010 support, SharePoint experience, and Microsoft SQL Server consulting. For the nationwide or worldwide enterprise with branch offices, Progent can act as a transparent nearby extension of enterprise IT management. Progent's enterprise consulting services include company-wide security, remote branch office support, network design, Sarbox conformance, project planning, and world-class service for multiple location office environments based on Enterprise Windows 2000. Progent can provide on-site consultants and specialists to help with a campus move or branch move, or a system designer to help with setting up or utilizing an Internet Data Center or Hosting Facility.
Lync Server 2013 and Exchange UM Server Consulting Services
Lync Server 2013 PSTN Gateway Consultancy
Lync 2013, now called Skype for Business, allows businesses of all sizes to build a manageable and protected communications ecosystem that supports a Bring-Your-Own-Device computing style with instant messaging, presence, web conferencing with app sharing, and both IP and PSTN telephony across a wide assortment of desktop and mobile devices. Progent's Microsoft-certified Lync 2013 experts and system architects can assist your company to evaluate the advantages of Lync Server 2013, design an on-premises, cloud-based (with Microsoft Lync Online) or hybrid topology appropriate for your current and long-term goals, deploy Lync Server 2013 in a way that expedites your return on investment, and deliver live webinar and onsite training to your IT team and users. Progent has expertise in key pieces of a Lync Server 2013 solution including Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server and Exchange, and Progent can assist you to integrate Lync 2013 with key Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 apps including Outlook and PowerPoint.
Citrix desktop virtualization Technology Professional
Citrix VM desktops Specialist
Citrix has developed a powerful line of products that provide enterprise-level manageability, expandability, and performance for virtualizing servers and for server-based delivery of Windows desktops and applications. For distributing virtualized desktops and applications, Citrix offers Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp. For making and administering virtual servers, Citrix has developed Citrix XenServer and Citrix Essentials. Progent's Citrix-certified engineers can assist your company to evaluate the business benefits of Citrix technology and help you plan, test, deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain Citrix virtualization platforms.
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Microsoft MCSA Freelancing Jobs
If you are a network engineer with technical support experience, teaming with Progent and helping Progent's clients will expand your skills through interaction with our team of mutually supportive, world-class consultants. Progent's focus on providing IT consulting and technical support to small companies will give you the chance to consult in depth with business leaders and add significantly to the success of exciting companies. Also, Progent's virtual office environment offers state-of-the-art tools for off-site service and wireless connectivity to help you to come up with speedy fixes when you take on mission-critical problems.
Windows Server 2019 Live Migration Support and Help
Windows Server 2019 Windows Admin Center Setup and Support
Progent's Windows Server 2019 disaster recovery/business continuity planning experts can help your organization to design a DR/BC solution built around Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering tools including Cluster Sets, Storage Replica, Storage Spaces Direct, Virtual Machine Load Balancing, and Cloud Witness.
Windows 2008 Cluster Support and Setup
Help and Support Clustering Windows Server 2008
The cluster technology built into the Datacenter and Enterprise editions of Windows Server 2008 has been radically redesigned to simplify the installation, configuration, and administration of server clusters that provide greater levels of system availability, security, efficiency, and flexibility. New or improved capabilities include cluster Validation, revamped setup and deployment, improved cluster administration, redesigned cluster infrastructure for maximum availability, better security and quorum models, minimization of failure points, greater storage and memory capacity, and improvements for geographically dispersed clusters. Progent's consultants can help you assess the advantages of Windows clustering, design and execute a deployment, educate your IT personnel to administer your cluster environment, deliver ongoing consulting and support services, and create and test a workplace recovery plan.
Office 365 Access Development Integration Services
Microsoft 365 Integration Remote Consulting
Progent can help you to understand the wealth of subscription plans available with Microsoft 365, formerly called Office 365, and configure your network with Microsoft 365 in a way that delivers top business value. Progent offers expertise with cross-platform networks that include Windows, macOS or OS X, and Linux software. Progent can also help your business to build and manage hybrid solutions that transparently combine on-premises and cloud-based products and services.
Developer Firm Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
Azure integration Professional
Progent's consultants can help you with every stage of Azure cloud integration including requirements definition, prerequisites assessment, solution architecture, pilot testing, implementation, centralized administration, performance optimization, license controls, disaster recovery strategies, security planning, and compliance assessment. Progent can help your IT staff to set up and troubleshoot firewalls and VPN tunnels so your clients can securely connect to Azure resources, and Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you set up key Microsoft platforms to run in Azure including Windows Server, Exchange, SQL and SharePoint. Progent can also help you to set up a hybrid cloud environment that seamlessly combines on-premises datacenters with Azure resources.
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Progent's Symantec experts can help you support discontinued Symantec firewall and VPN products including the Raptor and Symantec VelociRaptor line or show you how to migrate to more recent firewall solutions. Progent can also enable you to create and execute a comprehensive security plan that can include firewall/VPN devices and utilities, outsourced security and network protection services, server and application monitoring software, and documented policies and processes. Progent has the expertise to be your one-stop source for continuing technical help, administration, training, and security expertise.
Infor SyteLine CloudSuite Process Improvement Professionals
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Infor CloudSuite Industrial, previously called SyteLine, is an ERP platform that incorporates over 25 years of experience helping manufacturing, distribution and service organizations to manage complicated supply chains and improve the efficiency of critical processes to bring products to market fast and adhere to customer commitments consistently. Progent offers the expertise of an ERP specialist with more than two decades of background with the SyteLine/CloudSuite Industrial product family. Progent offers online or on-premises services that spans from as-needed advice to solution design and project management outsourcing or co-sourcing. Sample services offered by Progent for CloudSuite Industrial/SyteLine include installation, migration, process improvement, customization, Configure/Price/ Quote, web site integration, technical support, data conversion, Amazon AWS integration, disaster recovery planning, and DBA services.
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