Cloud Integration Consulting Services
Microsoft Azure Consulting:
System Design, Configuration and Technical Support for Microsoft Azure
Progent has helped businesses of all sizes to plan, deploy, and administer networks that use a variety of hybrid architectures that combine Azure cloud-based resources with local datacenters, private clouds, and other public clouds like Amazon AWS or Google Cloud Platform. Progent is unmatched in the ability to provide fast and affordable online help from Technology experts to assist you to assess the potential benefits of different Azure services for your particular organization. Progent's virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and configure VMs on Azure Virtual Machines. Progent's certified information security experts can help you unify identity management using Microsoft Entra ID (formerly called Azure Active Directory). Progent's data protection consultants can help you to deploy backup/recovery solutions with Azure Backup. In addition, Progent's VPN and security appliance experts can show you how to set up safe and reliable connections to Azure.
About Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure, previously branded Windows Azure, is a popular public cloud platform that allows you to utilize network infrastructure, virtual servers, and business-critical application software residing on Microsoft's massive public cloud. Microsoft Azure supports dozens of cloud-centric services such as hosting Windows and Linux-based VMs, scalable cloud storage, unified messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and backup/recovery. Azure products are delivered on a subscription basis and allocated as-needed, so organizations can immediately ramp up or ratchet down processing and storage resources. Since you are billed just for the computer resources you need, utilization is very high, which is the key of cloud computing.
Key Azure Cloud Services
Azure offers more than 60 infrastructure and PaaS products and hundreds of services. This expanding catalog of integrated cloud services covers practically all areas of information technology including compute, data and storage, networking, administration, security, web hosting, mobile, business applications, and software development. Additional popular offerings like Office 365 Exchange Online depend Azure cloud infrastructure. (Visit Office 365 Exchange Online integration and technical support expertise.)
Key Azure products and services for which Progent can deliver advanced expertise and technical support include:
Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines makes it easy for you to configure, scale and administer virtual machines on the Azure cloud. Your Azure Storage account takes care of storage for the OS disk and associated data disks. Azure Virtual Machines works with Windows Server, Linux, SAP, Oracle Database, and additional popular platforms. Various classes of VMs are offered and priced based on CPU power, memory and disk capacity, and I/O throughput. You can connect with Azure Virtual Machines through Remote Desktop Connection. The Platform-as-a-Service features of Azure Virtual Machines permits 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, referred to as Azure Resource Manager, supersedes what is now known as Azure Classic and enables more efficient VM management by supporting VM groups with a shared lifecycle. Previously, Azure services for provisioning, scaling, and managing VMs had to be handled individually. Resource Manager deployment options include a cloud portal, Azure Resource Manager template, Azure PowerShell, and Azure Tools for Visual Studio. Progent's consultants can help you build and maintain Azure solutions efficiently and economically by providing expertise with these technologies for managing Azure Virtual Machines.
Microsoft Azure Storage delivers on-demand capacity and automatic load balancing for primary storage hosted on the Azure cloud. An Azure General Purpose Storage account gives Azure clients access to storage services for Blobs, Tables, Files, Queues, and virtual machine drives. Every account includes a 500 terabyte capacity limit. For faster performance, you can subscribe to a Premium storage class and operate virtual machine applications on solid state disks (SSDs).
Azure Blob storage for General Purpose Storage accounts is designed for large volumes of unstructured data like documents, social media, archives, web pages, log files and Big Data. Blobs are arranged as containers, making it simpler to assign policies to object groups. To transfer blobs that are impractical to upload over an Internet connection, you can ship media to Microsoft.
A separate class of Blob Storage is intended for apps that only need block or append blob storage. You can designate Hot or Cool access characteristics for block and append blobs (not page blobs). The ability to classify data access characteristics in Azure Storage enables you to establish an optimal balance between price and speed.
Table storage is affordably-priced storage designed for developers creating non-relational metadata like contact books, device information, or web applications. Table Storage works with the OData protocol for querying and allows JSON and XMLd AtomPub formats. Queue storage facilitates the creation of messaging solutions by supporting asynchronous exchanges between application components that span cloud-based and physical systems. Microsoft Azure File storage supports SMB file shares, which streamlines moving older apps to Azure.
Microsoft Entra, previously called Azure Active Directory, is a cloud directory and identity control service that provides password synchronization and single sign-on spanning local and cloud-hosted infrastructure. Azure Entra ID is incorporated in Microsoft 365, Salesforce.com, Concur, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, and thousands of other cloud applications. Features include multi-factor authentication (MFA), device registration, self-service password management across cloud and local environments, group management, granular role-based access control, auditing, security monitoring, and alerts. Azure Entra ID works transparently with your Windows Server AD to make it easy to combine on-premises and cloud-based identities. Azure provides high availability by storing your directories on a minimum of three geo-dispersed facilities.
The Microsoft Azure Entra Connect tool has replaced Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (DirSync), Azure AD Sync (AAD Sync) and Forefront Identity Manager as the preferred means to connect local directories and synchronize identity information with AD, Office 365 and SaaS cloud apps.
Azure Backup is an automated backup service that simplifies offsite backup of local, cloud, and hybrid cloud/local data. Three backups are kept in one Azure datacenter, and three more backups can be housed at a different Azure region. Microsoft offers SLAs for 99.9% reliability, and retention in the Azure cloud can be up to 99 years. You can schedule backups for daily, monthly, weekly, and yearly cycles, and recovery time is quicker and more affordable than traditional tape solutions. Azure encrypts backups before to being sent across a secure link to the Azure cloud, and backups are stored in their encrypted state. The encryption key is kept locally for enhanced security compliance. Other features include throttling to utilize low-traffic hours, compression for enhanced performance and lower storage costs, and incremental backups to conserve bandwidth. Azure Import/Export allows you to perform your initial backup on-premises and send a physical drive to the nearest Azure facility.
Azure Backup integrates closely with System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) to provide in-depth support for Microsoft's key platforms including Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, and Hyper-V. Data Protection Manager works seamlessly with Windows Hyper-V Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) to protect virtual machines without disrupting their accessibility. DPM also offers platform-specific granular recovery capability such as mailbox restoration for Exchange, database-level restore for Microsoft SQL Server, and ILR for SharePoint Server. Azure Backup environments integrated with Data Protection Manager can be monitored with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to watch over system health, throughput, and utilization.
How Progent Can Help You with Microsoft Azure Integration
If you intend to migrate your organization's IT infrastructure to the Azure cloud or create a hybrid ecosystem that integrates local and Azure components, Progent's consultants can help you evaluate the benefits of the Microsoft Azure line of products and services compared to competing public cloud platforms or alternative architectural models like using colo centers. Progent can assist you with any and every phase of Microsoft Azure integration such as ROI assessment, system planning, proof of concept, implementation, unified management and monitoring, performance tuning, software license management, disaster recovery strategies, cybersecurity solutions, and compliance analysis.
Progent can help you to determine which of your mission-critical applications are a good fit for Microsoft Azure and help ensure your older applications are cloud compatible. Progent offers affordable as-needed expertise so you can quickly deal with occasional technical roadblocks or Progent can deliver end-to-end project management consulting expertise to make sure your Azure integration initiative is successfully completed on time and within your budget.
For setting up unified management of a hybrid environment that incorporates Azure services, Progent offers System Center consulting services including SCDPM expertise, System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) support services, System Center Configuration Manager consulting, System Center Virtual Machine Manager hybrid cloud management expertise, and Microsoft Intune mobility management consulting.
Cloud-integrated solutions must furnish a secure, easy-to-manage, user-friendly, and reliable way for user to connect to both local cloud-based applications and services. Progent has extensive experience deploying VPN tunnels and implementing or debugging firewalls to link to Azure. Progent can provide fast remote access to Cisco-certified CCIE infrastructure experts and to firewall experts certified by leading suppliers such as Symantec, Barracuda, and SonicWall to help you to set up or debug firewalls for connecting your local network with Azure. Progent also provides mobility support by offering the help of iPhone and iPad technology consultants and Android connectivity experts to assist you to configure and manage smartphones and tablets connected to your Microsoft Azure environment. If you come up against problems with your Azure solution, Progent has extensive experience teaming with Microsoft's support personnel to fix issues with Azure.
Common examples of remote expertise Progent has delivered to organizations to integrate and maintain their Azure-connected ecosystems include:
- Set up and troubleshoot IPsec VPN connections forsecure connectivity to Microsoft Azure
- Plan or provide guidance for the architecture of hybrid Azure/local environments
- Assemble VM images for Windows or Linux technology to be hosted on Microsoft Azure
- Implement Microsoft Entra (Azure Active Directory), Entra Connect (AD Connect), and Federation Services
- Plan and test backup/restore solutions based on Azure Backup services
- Prep and debug virtual hard disks for Microsoft Azure
- Specify and implement policies
- Identify and resolve problems involving IP addresses
- Resolve synchronization problems associated with Office 365
- Configure, patch, and troubleshoot firewalls from Cisco, Barracuda, SonicWall and other security appliance vendors
- Set up Cisco AnyConnect technology for remote access to Azure products and services
- Simplify software license control
- Fix issues with certificate management
- Select and set up unified management, monitoring and reporting tools across hybrid cloud/on-premises environments
- Set up SCCM to deploy apps
- Install System Center Virtual Machine Manager on premises and on Microsoft Azure
- Design and implement hybrid Exchange solutions
- Optimize query speed on SQL Server hosted by Azure
- Move Citrix XenDesktop to the Azure cloud
- troubleshoot PowerShell problems for uploading modules to Azure
If you are looking for help with any facet of integrating your IT network with Microsoft Azure or other public cloud platform, call Progent at
Additional Cloud Platforms Supported by Progent's Cloud Integration Experts
Services offered on public clouds like Azure are growing rapidly in volume and sophistication. Selecting the best options is increasingly difficult. Most large businesses maintain hybrid networks that utilize more than one public cloud and also manage on-premises facilities. Microsoft's Office 365 line of applications, such as Exchange Online and Skype for Business Online, rely on the Azure cloud and provide alternatives to Azure's Infrastructure-as-a-Service options. Progent's cloud experts can assist you to assess the potential benefits of the service portfolios of the leading cloud vendors and can help you plan, configure, and manage IT environments that include a variety of public and private clouds along with on-premises facilities.
Other public cloud platforms supported by Progent's experts include:
Microsoft supports seamless hybrid ecosystems that integrate Microsoft 365 and on-premises installations of Exchange. This permits you to have some mailboxes located at your corporate datacenter and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your organization with any facet of designing, implementing and debugging your hybrid Microsoft 365/Exchange solution. Progent's Exchange specialists can deliver occasional support to help you through stubborn technical bottlenecks and also can provide extensive project management outsourcing to ensure your hybrid Exchange solution is completed on schedule and on budget. For details about Progent's online consulting services for integrating Microsoft 365 Exchange and on-prem Exchange systems, go to Exchange Online integration solutions with on-prem Exchange.
Progent's certified Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 consultants can assist businesses of any size to integrate Microsoft Office desktop and Microsoft 365 applications such as Excel, Office Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Visio and OneNote into a seamless productivity solution that offers fast ROI and promotes better business outcomes. Progent can help your company to integrate Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365 apps with one another and with additional key Microsoft platforms including SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server running on-premises or in the cloud. Progent's consultants can also help you to resolve compatibility problems with various versions of Office desktop and can provide customized online Office and Microsoft 365 instruction to individual users or groups.
Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) planning and integration experts can provide affordable online consulting to assist companies to integrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services such as Amazon EC2 for virtual machine hosting, Amazon S3 for expandable high-performance storage, and Glacier for value-priced long-term archiving. Progent can assist your IT team with every aspect of Amazon AWS integration including needs analysis, preparedness evaluation, architectural design, testing, deployment, administration, performance optimization, licensing management, backup/restore solutions, and security strategies. Progent offers advanced expertise with firewalls and VPN connections and can show you how to deploy all-cloud or hybrid ecosystems that seamlessly incorporate Amazon AWS services. Progent offers occasional support or Progent can deliver project management outsourcing to help you move efficiently to the Amazon AWS platform.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is a collection of APIs that allows Amazon sellers to improve the efficiency of their operations by automating crucial sales functions such as listings, orders, payments, fulfillment, and finances. By tapping into Amazon's vast online selling environment and automating their sales processes, vendors can expand their reach, reduce their cost of sales, improve response time to customers, and increase their bottom line. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) developers can work with your development team and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training so you can cut development time and costs and expedite your ROI.
Progent's Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration experts can provide cost-effective remote and onsite consulting to assist businesses to migrate any part of their critical IT infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This can save management hassle and hardware costs and enable the use of Google's state-of-the-art machine learning technology. Progent can assist your IT team with every aspect of Google Cloud Platform migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, readiness evaluation, architectural design and review, testing, configuration, centralized administration, performance optimization, licensing management, backup/restore solutions, and security and compliance.
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