Cloud Integration Solutions
Microsoft Azure Consulting:
System Design, Configuration and Technical Support for Microsoft Azure
Progent has helped businesses of all sizes to plan, implement, and manage networks that use a variety of hybrid architectures that combine Microsoft Azure cloud-based resources with physical datacenters, private clouds, and other public clouds. Progent is unmatched in the ability to offer rapid and affordable online help from IT consulting experts to help you to assess the potential advantages of various Azure products and services for your specific organization. Progent's virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines. Progent's certified data security experts can help you centralize identity management using Microsoft Entra ID (formerly called Azure Active Directory). Progent's data protection experts can assist you to plan backup and restore systems based on Azure Backup. In addition, Progent's VPN and firewall specialists can show you how to set up secure and reliable connections to Azure.
About Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure, formerly called Windows Azure, is a leading public cloud service that lets you utilize IT infrastructure, servers, and key applications hosted on Microsoft's massive cloud. The Azure ecosystem offers dozens of cloud-centric services such as hosting Windows and Linux-based virtual machines, scalable cloud storage, messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and backup/restore. Azure products are delivered by subscription and allocated dynamically, so organizations can instantly scale up or ratchet down processing and data storage resources. Since you are billed just for the computer resources you consume, utilization is high, which is one of the major attractions of public clouds.
Popular Azure Cloud Products and Services
Azure offers dozens of IaaS and PaaS options and many hundreds of services. This expanding catalog of cloud-based services covers practically all facets of IT such as compute, data and storage, networking, administration, security, web hosting, mobility, business applications, and software development. Additional Microsoft offerings like Office 365 Exchange rely on Azure cloud infrastructure. (See Office 365 Exchange Online integration and technical support consulting services.)
Major Microsoft Azure offerings for which Progent provides high-level expertise and technical support include:
Azure Virtual Machines allows you to deploy, expand and manage virtual machines on Azure. Your Azure Storage subscription takes care of storage for the OS disk and associated data disks. Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines supports Microsoft Windows Server, major distros of Linux, IBM, Oracle Database, and other platforms. Various classes of virtual machines are offered and priced according to processor power, memory and disk size, and I/O latency. You can access Microsoft Azure VMs through Remote Desktop Connection. The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) features of Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines allows you to run Windows workloads like SQL Server, Exchange, and Microsoft Dynamics as well as mainstream Linux distributions such as Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, and FreeBSD.
The current deployment model for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines, referred to as Azure Resource Manager and introduced in 2014, supersedes what is now known as Azure Classic and enables more efficient VM management by supporting VM groups with a common lifecycle. Before, Azure cloud services for provisioning, sizing, and managing virtual machines had to be handled one VM at a time. Resource Manager deployment options include Azure Portal, Azure Resource Manager template, Azure PowerShell, and Azure Tools for Visual Studio. Progent's consultants can help you build and administer Azure environments efficiently and economically by delivering expertise with these tools for managing Azure Virtual Machines.
Azure Storage delivers on-demand scale and load balancing for primary storage on the Azure cloud. A General Purpose Storage account gives Azure subscribers the use of storage services for Blobs, Tables, Files, Queues, and VM drives. Each storage account has a 500 TB storage limit. For faster throughput, you can subscribe to Azure's Premium storage class and operate virtual machine applications on solid state disks.
Azure Blob storage for General Purpose Storage accounts is designed for large volumes of unstructured data such as documents, social media, backups, web pages, and logs. Azure Blobs are managed as containers, which makes it easy to assign policies to object groups. To export blobs that are too massive to upload over an Internet connection, you can send a physical drive to Microsoft.
A separate category of Blob Storage is designed for applications that use only block or append blob storage. You can specify Hot or Cool access patterns for block and append blobs (but not for page blobs). The ability to define access characteristics in Azure storage accounts allows you to arrive at an appropriate trade-off between price and speed.
Table storage is low-cost cloud storage intended for developers using schemaless metadata such as contact books, device information, or web apps. Azure Table Storage supports the OData protocol for querying and supports JSON and XML-based AtomPub formats. Queue storage helps in the creation of messaging solutions by handling asynchronous communication between software components that span cloud-based and physical systems. Microsoft Azure File storage accommodates SMB file shares, which simplifies moving older apps to Azure.
Microsoft Entra, previously branded Azure Active Directory, is a cloud-based directory and identity control service that enables password synchronization and single sign-on (SSO) spanning on-premises and cloud environments. Microsoft Azure Entra is incorporated in Microsoft 365, Salesforce.com, DropBox, Dynamics CRM Online, and many other popular apps. Capabilities include multi-factor authentication (MFA), device registration, password management across cloud-hosted and on-premises environments, privileged account management, granular role-based access control (RBAC), auditing, security monitoring and reporting, and alerts. Microsoft Azure Entra ID integrates transparently with your Windows Server AD to make it easy to combine on-premises and cloud-based authentication. Azure offers high availability by locating your directories on a minimum of three separate datacenters.
The Azure Entra Connect utility has superseded Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (DirSync), Azure AD Sync (AAD Sync) and Forefront Identity Manager as the recommended way to connect local directories and synchronize identity information with AD, Office 365 and SaaS cloud apps.
Azure Backup is a managed backup service for offsite backup of local, cloud, and hybrid cloud/local environments. Three backups are stored in a single Azure datacenter, and three additional backups can optionally be protected in a different Azure region. Microsoft offers Service Level Agreements for 99.9% availability, and retention 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 more affordable than traditional tape technology. Backups are encrypted prior to being sent across a protected connection to Azure, and backups are stored in their encrypted state. The encryption key is kept locally for enhanced security compliance. Other features include throttling to utilize off-peak hours, compression for enhanced throughput and lower 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 (SCDPM) to provide specialized support for Microsoft's mission-critical workloads including Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, and Hyper-V. System Center Data Protection Manager works transparently with Hyper-V Volume Shadow Copy Services to backup virtual machines without interrupting their operation. SCDPM also offers platform-specific granular restore capability like mailbox recovery for Exchange, database-level recovery for SQL Server, and ILR for SharePoint Server. Azure Backup environments integrated with SCDPM can be tracked with SCOM to watch over system health, performance, and efficiency.
How Progent's Experts Can Help You with Microsoft Azure Integration
If you intend to move your IT infrastructure to the Microsoft Azure cloud or build a hybrid ecosystem that combines on-premises and cloud-based resources, Progent can help you assess the benefits of the Microsoft Azure family of products and services compared to other public clouds or different architectural models like using colo centers. Progent can assist your business with any phase of Azure integration including benefits analysis, solution design, pilot testing, implementation, unified management and monitoring, performance tuning, software license management, disaster recovery strategies, cybersecurity solutions, and regulatory compliance validation.
Progent can help you to decide which of your critical applications are appropriate for Microsoft Azure and help you make your older apps are cloud compatible. Progent offers affordable as-needed expertise so you can quickly get past occasional technical roadblocks or Progent can provide end-to-end project management outsourcing services to make sure your Azure integration initiative is successfully completed on schedule and within your budget.
For setting up unified administration of a hybrid network that includes Azure services, Progent offers Microsoft System Center consulting services including SCDPM expertise, System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) support, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) consulting, System Center Virtual Machine Manager hybrid cloud management consulting, and Microsoft Intune mobility management consulting.
Hybrid cloud solutions need to furnish a secure, manageable, seamless, and resilient way for user to connect to both on-premises cloud-based applications and services. Progent has a wealth of experience deploying IPsec VPN connections and setting up or debugging firewalls to connect to Microsoft Azure. Progent offers rapid remote access to Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants and to firewall experts certified by top vendors like Symantec, Barracuda, and WatchGuard to assist you to set up or troubleshoot firewalls for connecting your on-premises resources with Azure. Progent also supports mobile users by offering the help of Apple iPhone and iPad technology consultants as well as Android integration consultants to show you how to configure and administer handheld devices connected to your Microsoft Azure ecosystem. When you come up against problems with your Microsoft Azure solution, Progent has extensive experience working with Microsoft's Azure support personnel to fix issues with Azure.
Common samples of remote consulting services Progent has delivered to organizations to help them build and manage their Azure-connected networks are:
- Set up and troubleshoot IPsec VPN connections forremote connectivity to Azure
- Plan or provide guidance for the system architecture of hybrid Azure/local network models
- Put together Virtual Machine images for Windows or Linux systems to be hosted on Azure
- Configure Microsoft Entra (Azure AD), Entra Connect (Azure AD Connect), and Federation Services
- Plan and validate data protection systems based on Azure Backup
- Prep and troubleshoot VHDs for Microsoft Azure
- Specify and implement policies
- Fix problems involving IP addresses
- Resolve synchronization problems with Office 365
- Configure, patch, and troubleshoot firewalls from Cisco, Barracuda, SonicWall and other security appliance vendors
- Configure Cisco AnyConnect technology for accessing Microsoft Azure resources
- Simplify license administration
- Resolve issues with certificates
- Select and configure unified management, monitoring and reporting platforms that span hybrid cloud/on-premises networks
- Set up System Center Configuration Manager to deploy applications
- Install SCVMM on premises and on Azure
- Plan and implement hybrid Exchange solutions
- Tune query performance on SQL Server hosted by Microsoft Azure
- Migrate Citrix XenDesktop to Azure
- Resolve PowerShell problems for uploading modules to Azure
If you need assistance with any aspect of integrating your IT network with Azure or other public cloud, call Progent at
Other Cloud Platforms Supported by Progent's Cloud Integration Experts
Products and services offered on public clouds like Azure are expanding rapidly in volume and complexity. Choosing the right options can be a challenge. The majority of enterprises maintain hybrid IT networks that use multiple public cloud and at the same time maintain corporate facilities. Office 365 line of applications, including Exchange Online and Skype for Business Online, rely on the Azure cloud and offer alternatives to Azure's IaaS options. Progent's cloud experts can assist your organization to evaluate the business advantages of the service portfolios of the leading public clouds and help you plan, integrate, and maintain network environments that include a mix of public and private clouds along with on-premises facilities.
Other public clouds supported by Progent include:
Microsoft allows you to create transparent hybrid environments that combine Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and on-premises installations of Exchange. This allows you to have certain mailboxes located on your on-premises datacenter or private cloud and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can help your organization with any facet of planning, integrating and debugging your hybrid Microsoft 365/Exchange solution. Progent's Exchange specialists can deliver as-needed support to help you resolve challenging technical bottlenecks and also can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing to make sure your hybrid Exchange initiative is carried out on time and on budget. For details about Progent's consulting expertise for integrating Microsoft 365 Exchange and on-premises Exchange environments, refer to Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-prem Exchange.
Progent's certified Office and Microsoft 365 experts can help businesses of any size to incorporate Microsoft Office desktop and Microsoft 365 applications including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Project and OneNote into a seamless productivity solution that offers fast return on investment and enables improved business outcomes. Progent can assist your company to interface Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365 apps with one another and with additional core Microsoft technologies including SharePoint, Exchange Server and SQL Server deployed locally or hosted in the cloud. Progent's consultants can also help you to resolve compatibility problems with different releases of Office desktop and offers customized online Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 training to individuals or teams.
Progent's Amazon AWS cloud planning and integration consultants offer affordable remote support to assist companies of any size to integrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for virtual machine hosting, Amazon S3 for expandable high-performance storage, and Glacier for low-cost long-term archiving. Progent can help you with every aspect of Amazon AWS integration including requirements analysis, preparedness evaluation, architectural design, pilot testing, deployment, centralized administration, performance tuning, software license management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security. Progent offers advanced expertise with firewalls and VPN connections and can help you create cloud-based or hybrid environments that seamlessly incorporate Amazon AWS resources. Progent offers occasional support or Progent can deliver project management outsourcing services to help you migrate efficiently to the Amazon AWS cloud platform.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is an integrated collection of APIs that enables Amazon sellers to streamline their operations by automating key sales activities such as listings, orders, shipments, inbound and outbound fulfillment, and reports. By leveraging Amazon's extensive online ecosystem and automating their sales processes, merchants can broaden their market, reduce their operating costs, improve response time to customers, and increase their profits. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service consultants can collaborate with your development staff and provide programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training to help you cut development time and get to market quickly.
Progent's Google Cloud Platform integration experts can provide cost-effective online and on-premises consulting to help companies of any size to migrate all or part of their critical network resources to Google Cloud Platform services. This can save management hassle and hardware expense and enable the use of Google's cutting edge machine learning tools. Progent can help your IT team with every phase of Google Cloud Platform integration including needs analysis, readiness assessment, system design and review, pilot testing, configuration, centralized administration, performance optimization, licensing management, disaster recovery solutions, and security strategies.
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Progent is convinced that a carefully designed and implemented network is a pivotal piece for enabling a firm's success, and Progent follows this credo in our corporate system infrastructure. We have built a fault-tolerant virtual office infrastructure that allows our in-house consultants and certified contractors to deliver fast and efficient service, cooperate closely on sophisticated jobs, and experience professional and private maturity by being a member of an exciting company ethos of personal drive and freedom.
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Progent's software experts have worked for 20 years with .NET tools and the Visual Studio development environment and can create or enhance .NET applications quickly and at low cost.
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SQL Server 2016 IT Consulting
SQL Server 2016 introduces significant improvements in performance, capacity, security, availability, mobile computing integration, plus built-in business intelligence. Innovations include PolyBase for handling structured and unstructured databases simultaneously for data warehousing, R language support, Dynamic Data Masking, Mobile Report Publisher, and centralized management of local and cloud resources. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can deliver online and on-premises expertise to help organizations of any size to deploy, administer or debug any edition of SQL Server 2016. Progent can also help you to interface SQL Server 2016 with all key Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Lync or Skype for Business, and System Center Operations Manager.
Microsoft Configuration Manager Consultants
After Hours MCSE Expert Certified System Center Configuration Manager Support and Setup
System Center Configuration Manager automates software provisioning and updating, centralizes security and compliance settings control, keeps track of network assets, guards against corporate data leakage, provides network health reporting, enables safe self service, and delivers a common point of control for administering multi-OS ecosystems based on on-premises, cloud-centric, or hybrid deployment topologies. Progent's Microsoft-certified SCCM consultants and Azure cloud specialists can assist businesses of any size with any aspect of designing, installing, operating and troubleshooting a System Center Configuration Manager deployment for on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid environments.
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IT Services for Service Providers Outsourcing
Progent's Support Program for IT Service Providers lets you take advantage of Progent's information technology engineers while retaining your own service brand as a transparent extension of your IT services team.
Engineer Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Clusters
Windows 2012 Failover Clustering Online Troubleshooting
Progent's certified failover clustering experts can help companies of all sizes to evaluate the advantages of utilizing Windows Server 2012 failover clustering technology to create an advanced fault-tolerant/disaster recovery strategy, help your organization to design and deploy a Windows Server 2012 environment, provide online and on-premises consulting services and engineering support for failover clusters composed of physical servers or virtual ones, and help you to automate the administration of failover clusters.
Microsoft Hyper-V 3.0 Server Virtualization Consult
Consultant Services Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V 3.0
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V improves virtualization in key areas including secure multitenancy, agile network infrastructure, cloud support, scalability and throughput, and high availability. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can assist your business to benefit from Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V to deploy and manage virtual servers to cut IT expenses and improve availability.
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Juniper SSG140 Router Consulting Services
Progent's Juniper-certified consultants can help your business plan the deployment of Juniper SSG integrated firewall/VPN products, configure security policies to match your operational requirements, set up network OS software to streamline management processes, migrate from legacy Juniper products, and troubleshoot infrastructure issues.
Microsoft Experts Best Practices Integration Services
Remote Microsoft Solutions Framework Project Methodology Software Consulting Services
Progent's staff of Microsoft and Cisco Premier Certified experts average more than a decade of real-world industry background, at the front lines of network service, executing a broad range of IT tasks for a large mix of businesses. Every Progent consultant shares a proven collection of personal best practices that are incorporated into company-wide best practices standards that Progent instills in its support staff. This guarantees that you get not just world-class technical help, but also a consultant with proven approaches for using computer knowledge to repair actual network problems rapidly.
Microsoft Project Server Workflow Training
Microsoft Project Server Scheduling Specialists
Progent's Microsoft engineers can provide advanced expertise in implementing, managing and troubleshooting any edition of Microsoft Project Server and can provide a broad range of affordable remote consulting services based on industry best practices to assist organizations of any size to receive all the benefits of this powerful platform. Support services available from Progent include system design, software configuration and upgrades, strategies for safe collaboration among onsite and remote or mobile users, network infrastructure optimization, and customized online training.
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Cisco CCIE Online Network Designers
Progent can provide rapid remote support from Cisco-certified CCIE network infrastructure consultants. Progent's CCIE experts can link to your network using powerful remote diagnostic utilities to deliver fast and affordable troubleshooting and remediation of critical network infrastructure issues.
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Android printing IT Consultants
Progent's seasoned group of IT consultants and application experts have extensive background delivering remote and on-premises support for organizations of all sizes who want to integrate Android phones into their IT systems so that mobile clients can be productive from virtually anywhere. Progent offers the breadth of know-how to resolve network problems that involve multiple manufacturers and that entail a mix of older and current technology. Progent provides cost-effective remote technical support to assist you with any facet of designing, implementing, managing and maintaining your BYOD solution. Progent can provide as-needed technical support to help you to handle especially stubborn IT issues, or Progent can provide comprehensive project management support to ensure that you complete major network initiatives on schedule and within budget. Progent can assist with local, cloud-based, or hybrid networks and can provide expertise with all major operating systems, applications, management tools and network infrastructure. Progent also can provide customized group or one-on-one classes to show you how to manage and operate Android phones efficiently.
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