Cloud Integration Consulting
Microsoft Azure Cloud Consulting and Support:
System Design, Configuration and Technical Support for Microsoft Azure
Progent has helped businesses of all types and sizes to design, configure, and manage networks that use a range of hybrid models that mix Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure and services with local datacenters, private clouds, and additional public clouds like Amazon AWS or Google Cloud Platform. Progent is unmatched in the ability to offer rapid and affordable online access to IT experts to help you to evaluate the possible benefits of various Azure services for your specific organization. Progent's virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure VMs on Azure Virtual Machines. Progent's certified information security consultants can help you unify identity management with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly called Azure Active Directory). Progent's data protection consultants can help you to plan backup/recovery solutions based on Azure Backup. In addition, Progent's VPN and security appliance specialists can show you how to set up secure and dependable connections to Azure.
About Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure, formerly called Windows Azure, is a popular public cloud service that allows you to utilize IT infrastructure, virtual servers, and key application software hosted on Microsoft's vast cloud. Microsoft Azure offers dozens of cloud-based services such as hosting Windows and Linux-powered virtual machines (VMs), scalable cloud storage, unified messaging, development, and backup/recovery. Microsoft Azure services are delivered on a subscription basis and allocated as-needed, so organizations can immediately ramp up or reduce compute and storage resources. Since you pay only for the computer resources you need, utilization is very high, which is the key of cloud computing.
Key Azure Cloud Services
Microsoft Azure provides dozens of IaaS and PaaS options and hundreds of services. This expanding family of integrated cloud services addresses virtually all areas of IT including compute, data and storage, network infrastructure, administration, security, web hosting, mobility, applications, and development. Additional Microsoft products such as Office 365 Exchange depend Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. (See Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online consulting and troubleshooting expertise.)
Key Microsoft Azure products and services for which Progent provides high-level consulting expertise and technical support include:
Azure Virtual Machines makes it easy for you to configure, expand and administer virtual machines on Azure. Your Azure Storage account takes care of storage for the OS disk and any data disks. Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines supports Windows Server, Linux, IBM, Oracle Database, and other popular platforms. Different classes of VMs are available and priced based on processor power, memory and disk capacity, and I/O latency. You can access Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines via Remote Desktop Connection (RDP). The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) functionality of Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines allows organizations to run Windows applications such as SQL Server, Exchange Server, and Microsoft Dynamics plus major Linux distributions like Red Hat, CentOS, CoreOS, and FreeBSD.
The enhanced deployment model for Azure Virtual Machines, branded Azure Resource Manager and introduced in 2014, replaces what is now called Azure Classic and enables streamlined virtual machine management by supporting VM groups with a common lifecycle. Previously, Microsoft Azure cloud services for deploying, sizing, and administering VMs had to be performed one VM at a time. Resource Manager deployment features include Azure Portal, Azure Resource Manager template, Azure PowerShell, and Visual Studio support. Progent's Azure specialists can help you create and maintain Azure solutions efficiently and economically by providing expertise with all these technologies for managing Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines.
Microsoft Azure Storage delivers dynamic scale and automatic load balancing for primary storage hosted on Azure. An Azure General Purpose Storage account gives Azure subscribers the use of storage services for Blobs, Tables, Files, Queues, and VM drives. Every account includes a 500 terabyte storage maximum. To get higher performance, you can upgrade to Azure's Premium storage tier and operate virtual machine applications on solid state disks (SSDs).
Azure Blob storage for General Purpose Storage accounts is intended for massive amounts of unstructured data like documents, social media, backups, web content, and logs. Blobs are arranged as containers, making it simpler to assign security policies to groups of objects. To send blobs that are impractical to move over the Internet, you can send a physical drive to Microsoft.
A separate category of Blob Storage is designed for apps that only need block or append blob storage. You can specify Hot or Cool access characteristics for block and append blobs (not page blobs). Being able to define data access patterns in Microsoft Azure storage accounts enables you to arrive at the right trade-off between price and performance.
Table storage is low-cost cloud storage intended for developers creating non-relational metadata such as contact lists, device information, or web apps. Azure Table Storage works with the OData protocol for advanced querying and allows JSON and XML-based AtomPub formats. Queue storage helps in the creation of messaging applications by handling asynchronous exchanges between application components across cloud-based and physical environments. Azure File storage supports SMB shares, which simplifies moving older apps to the Azure cloud.
Microsoft Entra ID, previously branded Azure Active Directory, is a cloud directory and identity control service that enables password synchronization and single sign-on (SSO) across on-premises and cloud infrastructure. Microsoft Entra is built into Microsoft 365, Salesforce.com, Concur, Dynamics CRM Online, and thousands of other popular apps. Features include multi-factor identification, device registration, password synchronization across cloud and local environments, privileged account management, granular role-based access control (RBAC), auditing, security monitoring and reporting, and alerts. Microsoft Azure Entra works seamlessly with Windows Server Active Directory to make it simple to combine on-premises and cloud authentication. Azure offers high availability by locating your directories on at least three separate datacenters.
The Azure Entra Connect utility has replaced Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (DirSync), Azure AD Sync and Forefront Identity Manager as the recommended way to integrate on-premises directories and synchronize identity data with Active Directory, Office 365 and SaaS cloud-hosted applications.
Azure Backup is an automated backup service that simplifies offsite backup of local, cloud-resident, and hybrid data. Three copies of protected data are stored in one Azure datacenter, and three extra copies of target data can be stored in a geographically separate Azure location. Microsoft offers Service Level Agreements for 99.9% reliability, and archiving in Azure can be as long as 99 years. Backups can be scheduled for daily, monthly, weekly, and yearly periods, and restoration is faster and less expensive than old-school tape-based technology. Azure encrypts backups prior to being sent over a secure link to the Azure cloud, and backups are stored encrypted. The encryption key is kept locally for enhanced compliance. Other features include throttling to take advantage of off-peak hours, data compression to improve performance and lower storage costs, and incremental backups to save bandwidth. Azure Import/Export enables you to perform your initial backup locally and send a physical storage device to the nearest Azure datacenter.
Azure Backup can be integrated seamlessly with System Center Data Protection Manager to provide specialized support for Microsoft's mission-critical workloads like Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, and Windows Hyper-V. System Center Data Protection Manager works seamlessly with Windows Hyper-V Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) to protect VMs without disrupting their operation. SCDPM also offers platform-specific granular recovery features like mailbox recovery for Exchange, database-level recovery for Microsoft SQL Server, and Item Level Recovery for SharePoint Server. Azure Backup environments integrated with SCDPM can be tracked with SCOM to watch over system health, throughput, and efficiency.
How Progent Can Help You with Azure Solutions
If you intend to migrate your organization's network to the Microsoft Azure cloud or create a hybrid environment that combines on-premises and cloud-based components, Progent's consultants can help you assess the advantages of the Microsoft Azure family of products and services compared to other public cloud platforms or alternative architectural models like using colo centers. Progent can assist you with any stage of Azure integration including ROI assessment, system planning, pilot testing, implementation, centralized management and monitoring, performance tuning, license control, disaster recovery strategies, cybersecurity solutions, and regulatory compliance analysis.
Progent can help you to determine which of your mission-critical applications are appropriate for Azure and help ensure your older applications are cloud compatible. Progent can provide cost-effective as-needed support to help you immediately deal with stubborn technical roadblocks or Progent can deliver end-to-end project management consulting expertise to make sure your Microsoft Azure integration initiative is completed on time and on budget.
To help you implement centralized management of a hybrid cloud network that includes Microsoft Azure services, Progent can provide System Center consulting services including System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) consulting, System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) support, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) expertise, SCVMM hybrid cloud management consulting, and Microsoft Intune mobility management consulting.
Hybrid cloud networks have to furnish a safe, manageable, seamless, and resilient environment for user to connect to both local cloud-based applications and services. Progent has a wealth of experience deploying VPN tunnels and implementing or debugging firewalls to link to Microsoft Azure. Progent can provide fast remote access to Cisco-certified CCIE network infrastructure consultants and to firewall experts certified by top suppliers such as Symantec, Barracuda, and SonicWall to assist you to set up or troubleshoot firewalls for connecting your on-premises network with Azure. Progent also provides mobility support by offering the help of Apple iPhone and iPad technology consultants and Android integration consultants to assist you to configure and manage handheld devices connected to your Azure environment. When you come up against problems with your Azure solution, Progent has extensive experience working with Microsoft's Azure technical engineers to resolve issues with Azure.
Common examples of remote consulting services Progent has delivered to businesses to help them create and maintain their Azure-connected ecosystems include:
- Configure and troubleshoot IPsec VPN connections forsecure access to Microsoft Azure
- Design or provide guidance for the architecture of hybrid Azure/local environments
- Build VM images for Windows or Linux systems to be hosted on Azure
- Configure Microsoft Entra (Azure Active Directory), Entra Connect (AD Connect), and Federation Services
- Design and validate backup vaults based on Azure Backup services
- Prep and debug VHDs for Microsoft Azure
- Define and implement security policies
- Identify and resolve issues involving IP addresses
- Fix sync issues associated with Office 365
- Configure, patch, and troubleshoot firewalls from Cisco, Barracuda, SonicWall and other leading providers
- Set up Cisco AnyConnect for remote access to Azure products and services
- Streamline software license management
- Fix issues with certificate management
- Identify and set up unified management, monitoring and reporting tools across hybrid environments
- Implement Configuration Manager to deploy applications
- Install SCVMM on premises and on Azure
- Design and implement hybrid Exchange solutions
- Optimize query speed on SQL Server running on Microsoft Azure
- Move Citrix XenDesktop to Azure
- troubleshoot PowerShell issues for loading modules to Azure
If you are looking for assistance with any facet of integrating your IT network with Microsoft Azure or other public cloud platform, phone Progent at
Additional Cloud Platforms Supported by Progent's Cloud Integration Experts
Services offered on public clouds like Azure are expanding rapidly in number and complexity. Selecting the right options is increasingly difficult. The majority of large businesses have hybrid networks that use more than one public cloud and also maintain corporate datacenters. Microsoft's Office 365 line of apps, such as Exchange Online, depend on the Azure cloud and provide alternative paths to Azure's Infrastructure-as-a-Service options. Progent's cloud experts can assist your organization to assess the potential benefits of the service portfolios of the leading cloud vendors and can show you how to design, integrate, and maintain IT environments that include an assortment of public and private clouds along with physical local facilities.
Additional public cloud platforms supported by Progent's experts include:
Microsoft allows you to create transparent hybrid networks that integrate Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and local Exchange. This permits you to have some Exchange mailboxes hosted on your corporate datacenter and other mailboxes resident on Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your organization with any phase of designing, implementing and debugging your hybrid Exchange solution. Progent's Exchange specialists can provide as-needed expertise to help you resolve stubborn technical problems and also can provide extensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to make sure your hybrid Exchange initiative is completed on schedule and within budget. For details about Progent's consulting expertise for integrating Microsoft 365 Exchange and on-premises Exchange systems, go to Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-prem Exchange.
Progent's certified Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 experts can help companies of any size to integrate Office desktop and Microsoft 365 apps such as Office Excel, Office Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Access, Visio and OneNote into a seamless productivity solution that provides quick ROI and promotes improved business results. Progent can help you to interface Office or Microsoft 365 applications with each other and with additional core Microsoft technologies including SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server running on-premises or hosted in the cloud. Progent's consultants can also help you to resolve compatibility issues between different versions of Office desktop and offers customized online Office and Microsoft 365 training to individual users or teams.
Progent's Amazon AWS integration consultants offer affordable remote consulting to help companies of any size to access Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for virtual server hosting, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for scalable low-latency storage, and Glacier for value-priced long-term archiving. Progent can help your IT team with every phase of Amazon AWS integration including needs analysis, preparedness evaluation, system design and review, pilot testing, deployment, centralized administration, performance optimization, software license management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security. Progent offers advanced expertise with firewall configuration and VPN access and can show you how to create cloud-centric or hybrid ecosystems that efficiently integrate Amazon AWS cloud services. Progent offers as-needed support or Progent can deliver comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to help you migrate efficiently to the Amazon AWS cloud.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service is an integrated collection of APIs that enables Amazon sellers to streamline their operations by automating key sales functions including listings, orders, payments, fulfillment, and finances. By leveraging Amazon's vast online ecosystem and automating their sales, vendors can broaden their reach, lower their cost of sales, accelerate reaction time to customers, and increase their bottom line. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) consultants can work with your development staff and provide programming, workflow integration, project management support, and mentoring so you can shorten development time and expedite your ROI.
Progent's Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consultants offer affordable remote and onsite support to help companies of any size to migrate any portion of their critical IT infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This can save time and hardware costs and enable the use of Google's cutting edge AI and machine learning tools. Progent can assist you with every aspect of Google Cloud Platform integration including requirements analysis, readiness assessment, architectural design and review, testing, deployment, administration, performance optimization, software license management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security.
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Cisco ASA firewall VPN Technology Consulting
Cisco firewall IPS Consultant
Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network engineers can help you to maintain your current PIX 500 or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls and upgrade efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also help your business to design, configure, tune, manage and debug firewall environments built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services
Apple Macintosh Network Consultants
24x7 OS X RAID On-site Support
Progent's Apple Mac support consultants can help you with a broad array of network infrastructure issues including network architecture, off-site and mobile connectivity, internetwork communication, security, and new technologies including Voice over IP and high-speed wireless networking. For business networks built exclusively on Apple Mac OS X or for systems that use a mix of Mac, Linux and Windows based servers and desktops, Progent has the knowledge and depth to handle the complexity of designing, configuring, and supporting a network architecture that is reliable, safe, efficient and supportive of your business objectives. Progent can show you how to deploy Apple's Xserve enterprise servers, Apple's Xserve RAID zero-downtime storage products, and Xsan storage area network systems. Progent can also provide certified experts to help you with Cisco routers and switches.
wireless VoIP phone integration Remote Troubleshooting
Specialist Catalyst Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E AP Planning
Progent's Cisco-certified Wi-Fi integration experts can assist you to deploy, administer, and troubleshoot Cisco wireless products including Cisco's Aironet and Meraki Wave 2 wireless access points (APs) plus Cisco's Wireless Network Controllers.
Part-time CIO Computer Consultants
Microsoft ERP Troubleshooting
Progent's application experts offer in-depth consulting, software programming, integration assistance, and webinar classes for leading applications covering key areas including ERP and MRP, financials, business analytics, web commerce application development, and the MS Office family of business productivity solutions. As a Microsoft Partner with years of background delivering high-level consulting support online, Progent can help clients throughout the United States to save the lost productivity and expense related to travel and on-premises visits without compromising the effectiveness of technical support.
Consultant Services Business Portal for Dynamics GP
MCSE Expert Certified Dynamics GP VBA Consultant Services
Progent's expertise delivering Microsoft .NET support and Microsoft SQL Server consulting, and Progent's application development experience with Microsoft VBasic, XML, and other developer tools enable Progent to create specialized line-of-business programs and eCommerce solutions that integrate seamlessly with Dynamics GP Software. Progent's Dynamics GP management reporting services can help you create reports that allow you to track your business more effectively, transforming raw information into useful understanding of your business.
CISSP Certified Cybersecurity Consultancy
CISSP Computer Security
Progent's CISSP-premier network security consultants can help organizations of any size with any facet of information system security. Progent can help create efficient cybersecurity systems that guard a small business against advanced malware attacks or Progent can design, deploy, and monitor an end-to-end security strategy for hybrid networks that accommodate local, online, and mobile clients sharing IT resources spread over multiple physical sites and public and private clouds.
.NET Raspberry Pi Development Firm
Largest .NET C++ Integration Companies
Progent's software developers have worked for 20 years with .NET tools and the Visual Studio development system and can create or update .NET apps rapidly and affordably.
Information Technology Consulting UNIX
UNIX Security Auditing
If your company runs a Sun Solaris environment or a mixed-platform IT environment, Progent's CISM and CISSP-certified consultants can assist your whole organization in a broad range of security topics such as security management procedures, security architecture and strategies, access control products and methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, telecommunications, network and Internet security, and disaster recovery preparedness. CISM, CISSP and ISSAP define the core competencies and international standards of knowledge that information security professionals are expected to master. These certification give IT management the assurance that consultants who have achieved their CISM or ISSAP certification have demonstrated the background and knowledge to offer effective security support and consulting services.
Top Specialist Infor SyteLine CloudSuite Excel Integration
Infor SyteLine CloudSuite ERP Consult
Infor CloudSuite Industrial, previously known as SyteLine, is an ERP solution that incorporates more than a quarter century of background assisting manufacturing and distribution organizations to simplify complicated supply chains and streamline critical business processes in order to get products to market fast and adhere to customer commitments dependably. Progent offers the expertise of an ERP consultant with over 20 years of experience working with the SyteLine/CloudSuite Industrial product family. Progent can provide online or onsite consulting that can range from occasional advice to solution planning and project management. Sample consulting services available from Progent for CloudSuite Industrial/SyteLine include installation, migration, business analysis, customization, CPQ, web site integration, troubleshooting, data conversion, Excel and SQL integration, disaster recovery planning, and database administration.
Home Based Cisco Consultants Position
Work from Microsoft Consultants Careers
Progent is convinced that a well designed and implemented network can be a pivotal piece for enabling a firm's growth, and we apply this philosophy in our own network environment. Progent has built a fault-tolerant virtual office infrastructure that allows our in-house engineers and authorized contractors to deliver rapid and efficient service, cooperate easily on sophisticated projects, and experience professional and personal maturity from being a member of a dynamic company ethos of personal drive and freedom.
Cloud-managed Email Security Engineers
Email Virus Fingerprint Technology Professional
Progent's ProSight Email Guard solution uses the services and infrastructure of leading data security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of ProSight Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall.
24 Hour ProSight ESP Endpoint Protection Services Integration
ProSight Next Generation Endpoint Protection Technology Consulting Services
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware.
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