Organizations move from UNIX to Windows in order to extract more competitive advantage from hardware and applications. The resulting Microsoft Windows-powered systems streamline administration, improve the efficiency of workers and network support personnel, reduce information replication, increase data integrity, and provide for smoother recovery from catastrophic failure. A MS Windows environment helps businesses develop solutions quickly and demands less time to be expended on developing, deploying, and managing applications.
Progent can help you to plan and carry out a smooth move from a UNIX-based network to a Microsoft Windows environment capable of running Microsoft's powerful Office suite, business software applications, and software development technology. Progent's skilled UNIX, Windows MCSE, and Cisco CCIE consultants and application specialists can help you to save your data and reduce productivity discontinuity by designing and executing an effective migration plan that preserves your past investments in UNIX applications and network equipment. Progent can also help to educate your workers and IT group so your company stays productive.
UNIX-to-Windows migration consulting services available from Progent include:
- Evaluation of Existing Environment
Progent will help you determine the potential advantages and risks of migrating an operating system, software application, server, storage subsystem, or database. The exercise produces a comprehensive assessment of your information environment, defines a basic network inventory, reduces engineering uncertainties, and inevitably leads to a less expensive transition by saving time and dodging expensive mistakes.
- Transition Strategy and Validation
Progent will create a detailed transition implementation plan which may feature pilot tests. Progent practices a staged methodology with defined milestones in order to comply with economic, timing, and engineering objectives while minimizing business discontinuity. This approach is modeled after the best practices outlined in the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF).
- Exchange Migration Expertise
Progent can create and implement a comprehensive strategy for transitioning from Solaris-powered email to MS Exchange Server and can assist you to port Lotus Notes or Novell Groupwise applications to a MS SQL application or a SharePoint application. Progent's expert MS Exchange Server consultants can assess the risks and benefits of transitioning to Exchange Server and generate a detailed record of your current email infrastructure. Progent can also manage a pilot implementation to help validate an Exchange transition strategy. Progent will also audit your existing email protection and recommend polices and tools to protect against attacks.
- Information and Application Software Porting
Progent can design and implement an information and application porting strategy that incorporates descriptions of information and software applications to be moved, identification of technologies and processes to be utilized for the migration, risk assessment and risk mitigation plans, detailed project management support, schedule projections of the migration and anticipated network unavailability, validation techniques, and critical back-out plans. Progent's consultants can ensure the effectiveness of your information and application porting initiative by providing accredited Microsoft SQL Server 2019 consultants, Microsoft SQL Server 2017 experts, or MS SQL Server 2016 developers and data migration consultants who are veterans of large projects such as Microsoft Dynamics GP migration.
- Server and Mass Storage Migration and Economization
Processor and mass storage transition and economization from UNIX to MS Windows can streamline network management, improve data integrity and speed network throughput. By eliminating unnecessary hardware and applications and by configuring processor and storage resources efficiently, you can build an IT infrastructure that is expandable, secure, easy to archive and recover, and inexpensive to administer and maintain. Progent's server and media migration and economization support features a comprehensive strategy with an assessment of your current server and storage infrastructure plus recommendations for equipment, applications, services, education, and consulting for proof-of-concept testing. Progent can assist you to develop and implement a consolidated, high-availability network infrastructure informed by in-depth load analysis and capacity assessment and can recommend archiving and disaster recovery strategies.
If you need help migrating from a UNIX platform to a Windows-based network, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.
Microsoft, Cisco, and Applications Consulting from Progent
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified consultants offer customers in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and in cities nationwide a broad range of expertise covering the fundamental IT needs common to typical small and mid-size business networks. Progent's core services include system integration, Microsoft Exchange help, system security consulting and HelpDesk outsourcing and staffing. Progent's Experts Group offers deep knowledge of specific application topics. By offering a one-stop resource for IT generalists and specialists, Progent is able to deliver quick, economical and comprehensive network solutions that fit the unique needs of your company.