Businesses migrate from Sun Solaris-based systems to Microsoft Windows in order to derive more competitive advantage from hardware and software. The consequent Microsoft Windows-powered systems simplify management, enhance the efficiency of workers and network support staff, minimize data duplication, increase information integrity, and provide for smoother rebounds from disaster. A Windows environment helps businesses develop applications quickly and demands less time to be expended on writing, deploying, and managing applications.
Progent can assist you to design and deploy a smooth move from a Sun Solaris-based network to a Windows network capable of running Microsoft's powerful office productivity software, commercial applications, and software development tools. Progent's skilled Solaris, Windows MCSE, and Cisco engineers and application experts can show you how to keep your data and reduce productivity discontinuity by creating and executing an effective migration strategy that protects your existing investments in Sun Solaris software and infrastructure. Progent can also help to educate your users and IT group so your company stays productive.
Sun Solaris-to-Windows migration consulting expertise available from Progent include:
- Analysis of Current Environment
Progent will assist you understand the possible benefits and risks of transitioning an operating system, application, computer, storage system, or information base. The process provides a thorough assessment of your information system, establishes a baseline IT inventory, reduces engineering uncertainties, and ultimately results in a lower cost of transition by saving time and avoiding costly mistakes.
- Migration Planning and Validation
Progent will develop a detailed transition deployment plan which may feature pilot installations. Progent uses a staged methodology with specified waypoints to comply with budgetary, scheduling, and engineering goals while minimizing productivity discontinuity. This approach is based on the best practices outlined in the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF).
- MS Exchange Migration Services
Progent can create and carry out a complete strategy for migrating from Solaris-powered email to Microsoft Exchange Server and can help you to port Lotus Notes or Novell Groupwise software applications to a Microsoft SQL application or a SharePoint Portal Server solution. Progent's experienced Microsoft Exchange Server consultants can assess the costs and benefits of migrating to Microsoft Exchange Server and generate a comprehensive inventory of your existing messaging infrastructure. Progent can also conduct a proof-of-concept deployment to confirm a Microsoft Exchange transition strategy. Progent will also evaluate your current messaging security and recommend procedures and products to protect against attacks.
- Data and Application Software Porting
Progent can develop and carry out an information and software application transition plan that includes descriptions of information and applications to be migrated, description of tools and processes to be utilized for the migration, risk analysis and risk mitigation plans, detailed project management support, schedule estimates of the transition and anticipated operational downtime, proof-of-concept processes, and emergency back-out procedures. Progent's consultants can ensure the success of your data and software application porting project by providing certified MS SQL Server 2019 experts, Microsoft SQL Server 2017 experts, or MS SQL Server 2016 integrators and data migration professionals who are experienced with major engagements such as Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains migration.
- Server and Media Migration and Consolidation
Processor and mass storage transition and economization from Solaris to MS Windows can simplify network management, improve data integrity and speed system performance. By removing unneeded hardware and applications and by configuring processor and storage assets efficiently, you can build an IT architecture that is extensible, safe, easy to archive and restore, and inexpensive to manage and maintain. Progent's server and media migration and economization service includes a comprehensive plan with an inventory of your existing processor and storage infrastructure plus recommendations for equipment, applications, services, education, and support for validation testing. Progent can assist you to develop and execute a consolidated, high-availability IT architecture based on detailed load evaluation and capacity assessment and can specify archiving and restore solutions.
If you are looking for technical assistance migrating from Sun Solaris system to Microsoft Windows, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.
Progent's Expertise for UNIX Systems
Progent's UNIX-family consulting services provide small businesses and software developers assistance with managing and servicing UNIX/Linux/Mac-based networks that can coexist with Microsoft technology. Progent provides your organization access to UNIX technical professionals, certified Microsoft consultants, Cisco-certified CCIEs, and security specialists certified by CISSP. This wide range of expertise gives you a convenient one-stop source to assist your business to build and support a protected and robust multi-vendor network and communications system that blends Windows with leading versions of UNIX such as:
macOS and OS X ,
Sun Solaris,
IBM AIX Operating System,
HP-UX,
BSD,
SCO UNIX and
SGI/Irix or important Linux distributions such as
RedHat,
SUSE,
Debian-GNU and
CentOS Linux,
Ubuntu Linux,
Mandriva Linux,
PCLlinuxOS Linux,
fedora, and
Gentoo.