Cloud Integration Services
Microsoft Azure Cloud Consulting:
Planning, Integration and Technical Support for Microsoft Azure
Progent has assisted organizations of all types and sizes to plan, deploy, and manage information networks based on a variety of hybrid architectures that combine Microsoft Azure cloud resources with local datacenters, private clouds, and other public clouds. Progent is unique in the ability to offer immediate and economical online access to IT experts to help you to evaluate the potential benefits of various Azure products and services for your specific business. Progent's virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure VMs on Azure Virtual Machines. Progent's certified data security consultants can help you centralize identity management using Azure Active Directory. Progent's data protection experts can assist you to plan backup and restore solutions with Azure Backup. In addition, Progent's VPN and firewall experts can show you how to create secure and dependable connections to Azure.
About Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure, formerly branded Windows Azure, is a leading cloud service that allows you to utilize IT infrastructure, servers, and business-critical application software residing on Microsoft's vast public cloud. Microsoft Azure offers over 100 cloud-based services including the ability to host Windows and Linux-based virtual machines, on-demand storage, unified messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and backup/restore. Microsoft Azure products are delivered by subscription and allocated as-needed, so organizations can instantly ramp up or reduce processing and data storage capacity. Since you are billed only for the computer resources you need, utilization is very high, which is the key of cloud computing.
Popular Azure Cloud Products and Services
Microsoft Azure provides more than 60 IaaS and PaaS options and many hundreds of cloud services. This expanding family of integrated cloud services covers practically all areas of IT such as processing, data and storage, network infrastructure, management, cybersecurity, web hosting, mobile, applications, and development. Other Microsoft offerings like Office 365 Exchange Online rely on Azure network infrastructure. (See Office 365 Exchange Online integration and troubleshooting expertise.)
Major Microsoft Azure products and services for which Progent can deliver advanced expertise and technical support include:
Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines allows organizations to provision, expand and administer virtual machines on the Azure cloud. An 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 Oracle WebLogic Server, and other leading platforms. Various classes of virtual machines are offered and priced based on CPU performance, memory capacity, and I/O throughput. You can access Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines through RDP. The PaaS functionality of Azure Virtual Machines permits organizations to run Windows workloads like SQL Server, Exchange, and Microsoft Dynamics as well as major Linux distributions like Red Hat, Debian, CoreOS, and FreeBSD.
The current deployment model for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines, referred to as Azure Resource Manager, supersedes what is now called Azure Classic and offers streamlined virtual machine management by supporting VM groups with a shared lifecycle. Before, Microsoft Azure services for deploying, sizing, and administering virtual machines had to be performed one VM at a time. Resource Manager provisioning options include a cloud portal, Azure Resource Manager template, Azure PowerShell, and Visual Studio support. Progent's consultants can show you how to build and maintain Azure environments quickly and economically by delivering expertise with these tools for supporting Azure Virtual Machines.
Azure Storage delivers dynamic scale and automatic load balancing for primary storage on the Azure cloud. A General Purpose Storage account gives Azure clients the use of storage services for Blobs, Tables, Files, Queues, and VM disks. Every account includes a 500 terabyte capacity maximum. To get higher performance, you can upgrade to a Premium storage class and run virtual machine workloads on solid state disks.
Azure Blob storage for General Purpose Storage accounts is designed for large volumes of unstructured object data such as documents, social media, backups, web pages, and system logs. Azure Blobs are managed as containers, making it easy to assign policies to object groups. To export blobs that are too massive to move over an Internet connection, you can mail a drive to Microsoft.
A special class of Blob Storage is intended for applications that only need block or append blob storage. You can designate frequently used or infrequently used access characteristics for block and append blobs (not page blobs). The ability to classify data access characteristics in Microsoft Azure Storage allows you to achieve the right balance between price and throughput.
Table storage is economical cloud storage for developers creating non-relational metadata such as address lists, device information, or web apps. Table Storage works with the OData protocol for querying and supports JSON and XMLd AtomPub formats. Queue storage simplifies the creation of messaging applications by supporting asynchronous exchanges between software components across cloud-based and physical systems. Azure File storage accommodates SMB file shares, which simplifies migrating older apps to Azure.
Azure Active Directory is a cloud-based directory and authentication control service that provides password synchronization and single sign-on across on-premises and cloud-hosted infrastructure. Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) is built into Office 365, Salesforce.com, DropBox, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and many other popular applications. Features include multi-factor authentication (MFA), endpoint registration, password management across cloud-hosted and local systems, privileged account management, granular role-based access control, auditing, security monitoring and reporting, and alerts. Microsoft Azure AD works seamlessly with your Windows Server AD to make it simple to unify local and cloud authentication. Azure offers advanced reliability by storing your directories on at least three geo-dispersed datacenters.
The Azure AD Connect utility has superseded Windows Azure DirSync, Azure AD Sync and Forefront Identity Manager as the recommended way to connect on-premises directories and synchronize identity data with AD, Office 365 and SaaS cloud-hosted apps.
Azure Backup is an automated cloud-based backup service that simplifies offsite backup of on-premises, cloud, and hybrid data. Three copies of backup data are stored in a single Azure facility, and three more copies can optionally be stored at a geographically separate Azure region. Microsoft offers SLAs for 99.9% reliability, and retention in the Azure cloud is available for as long as 99 years. You can schedule backups for daily, monthly, weekly, and yearly periods, and restoration is quicker and less expensive than traditional tape-based solutions. Backups are encrypted prior to transmission over a secure link to the Azure cloud, and backups are retained encrypted. The encryption key is stored and managed locally for better security compliance. Additional features include throttling to utilize low-traffic periods, data compression to improve throughput and reduced storage costs, and incremental backups to conserve bandwidth. Azure Import/Export allows you to perform your seed 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 in-depth support for Microsoft's mission-critical platforms including Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, and Windows Hyper-V. Data Protection Manager works seamlessly with Windows Hyper-V VSS to backup virtual machines without disrupting their operation. DPM also offers platform-specific granular restore capability like mailbox restoration for Exchange, database-level recovery for SQL Server, and ILR for SharePoint Server. Azure Backup environments integrated with SCDPM can be tracked with System Center Operations Manager to watch over system health, throughput, and efficiency.
How Progent Can Assist You with Azure Environments
If you want to move your IT infrastructure to the Microsoft Azure cloud or create a hybrid ecosystem that combines on-premises and cloud-based resources, Progent can help you evaluate the advantages of the Azure line of services compared to competing public cloud platforms or different architectural strategies such as using colo centers. Progent can help you with every phase of Microsoft Azure integration including benefits analysis, solution planning, pilot testing, configuration, unified administration, performance tuning, license management, disaster recovery strategies, security planning, and regulatory compliance analysis.
Progent can assist you to determine which of your line-of-business applications are a good fit for Microsoft Azure and help you make your older apps are cloud ready. Progent offers affordable on-demand support so you can immediately get past stubborn technical hurdles or Progent can provide end-to-end project management consulting services to ensure your Microsoft Azure integration initiative is successfully completed on schedule and on budget.
To help you implement centralized administration of a hybrid environment that includes Azure services, Progent offers Microsoft System Center support including System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) expertise, System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) support, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) consulting, SCVMM hybrid cloud management expertise, and Microsoft Intune mobile device management consulting.
Cloud-integrated networks must provide a safe, manageable, transparent, and reliable way for user to access both on-premises cloud-based applications and services. Progent has extensive experience deploying VPN tunnels and setting up or troubleshooting firewalls to connect to Azure. Progent offers fast online access to Cisco-certified CCIE network integration consultants and to firewall experts certified by top suppliers like Symantec, Barracuda, and SonicWall to help you to configure or debug firewalls for connecting your local network with Azure. Progent also supports mobile users by providing the help of Apple iPhone and iPad technology experts as well as Google Android integration experts to help you to configure and administer smartphones and tablets that utilize your Azure ecosystem. When you encounter glitches with your Azure solution, Progent has experience teaming with Microsoft's support engineers to resolve problems with Azure.
Typical samples of online expertise Progent has delivered to businesses to help them create and manage their Azure-connected ecosystems are:
- Configure and debug IPsec VPN connections forremote access to Azure
- Design or review the system architecture of hybrid Azure/local network models
- Build Virtual Machine images for Windows or Linux technology to be hosted on Azure
- Implement Azure Active Directory, Azure AD Connect, and AD Federation Services
- Design and validate data protection systems based on Azure Backup
- Set up and debug VHDs for Microsoft Azure
- Specify and implement policies
- Identify and resolve problems involving IP addresses
- Fix synchronization problems with Office 365
- Configure, patch, and debug firewalls from Cisco, Barracuda, SonicWall and other leading vendors
- Configure Cisco AnyConnect technology for accessing Azure resources
- Streamline software license administration
- Fix problems with certificates
- Identify and deploy centralized management, monitoring and reporting utilities across hybrid environments
- Set up Configuration Manager to deploy apps
- Configure SCVMM on premises and on Microsoft Azure
- Design and implement hybrid Exchange solutions
- Optimize query speed on SQL Server hosted by Azure
- Migrate Citrix XenDesktop to the Azure cloud
- troubleshoot PowerShell problems for uploading modules to Azure
If you need help with any aspect of integrating your IT network with Azure or other public cloud platform, phone Progent at
Additional Cloud Platforms Supported by Progent's Cloud Integration Experts
Services offered on leading public clouds like Azure are growing rapidly in volume and sophistication. Choosing the right options is increasingly difficult. Most large businesses have hybrid networks that use more than one public cloud and also manage on-premises datacenters. Office 365 line of applications, including Exchange Online and Skype for Business Online, rely on Azure infrastructure and offer alternatives to Azure's Infrastructure-as-a-Service options. Progent can assist your organization to evaluate the business benefits of the service portfolios of the major public clouds and can show you how to design, integrate, and maintain network environments that incorporate a mix of public and private clouds along with on-premises datacenters.
Additional public cloud platforms supported by Progent include:
Microsoft supports transparent hybrid ecosystems that integrate Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and local installations of Exchange. This allows you to have specific mailboxes hosted at your on-premises datacenter or private cloud and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's certified Exchange consultants can help your organization with any phase of planning, implementing and debugging your hybrid Microsoft 365/Exchange network. Progent's Exchange specialists can deliver as-needed support to help you resolve challenging technical bottlenecks and also offer extensive project management outsourcing to make sure your hybrid Microsoft 365/Exchange solution is successfully completed on schedule and within budget. To find out more about Progent's online consulting expertise for integrating Microsoft 365 Exchange and on-premises Exchange environments, visit Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange.
Progent's Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 experts can assist companies of any size to integrate Microsoft Office desktop and Microsoft 365 apps including Excel, Office Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Visio and Publisher into a seamless solution that offers fast return on investment and promotes better business results. Progent can assist your company to integrate Office or Microsoft 365 apps with one another and with other key Microsoft platforms such as SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server deployed on-premises or hosted in the cloud. Progent can also help you to fix compatibility problems with different releases of Microsoft Office desktop and can provide live online Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 training to individuals and teams.
Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) planning and integration consultants can provide cost-effective online support to assist companies to access Amazon AWS cloud services including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for virtual machine hosting, Amazon S3 for expandable cloud storage, and Amazon Glacier for value-priced long-term archiving. Progent can help your IT team with every phase of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including requirements analysis, preparedness assessment, system design, testing, deployment, centralized administration, performance tuning, licensing management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security. Progent offers advanced expertise with firewall configuration and VPN access and can show you how to create all-cloud or hybrid environments that seamlessly incorporate Amazon AWS resources. Progent can provide as-needed consulting or Progent can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to help you move efficiently to the Amazon AWS cloud platform.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service is an integrated library of APIs that enables Amazon sellers to streamline their business processes by automating key sales activities including listings, orders, payments, fulfillment, and reports. By leveraging Amazon's extensive online selling environment and automating their sales processes, merchants can broaden their reach, lower their cost of sales, improve response time to customers, and increase their bottom line. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service developers can collaborate with your development team and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training so you can cut development time and expedite your ROI.
Progent's Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consultants can provide affordable remote and on-premises support to help companies of any size to migrate any portion of their core IT resources to Google Cloud Platform services. This can save management hassle and hardware costs and allow access to Google's state-of-the-art AI and machine learning tools. Progent can assist you with every phase of Google Cloud Platform integration including requirements analysis, preparedness assessment, system design and review, testing, deployment, centralized administration, performance optimization, licensing management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security strategies.
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