Companies move from UNIX-based platforms to Microsoft Windows so they can derive more competitive advantage from equipment and applications. The consequent Windows-based environments streamline management, improve the productivity of workers and network support personnel, minimize information replication, improve information integrity, and allow for smoother recovery from catastrophic failure. A MS Windows environment lets businesses create applications quickly and requires less time to be spent on developing, integrating, and managing applications.
Progent can help you to design and deploy an efficient migration from a UNIX-powered IT system to a MS Windows network for supporting Microsoft's familiar office productivity suite, commercial software applications, and developer tools. Progent's experienced UNIX/Linux, Windows MCSE, and Cisco engineers and application experts can show you how to keep your data and reduce business discontinuity by designing and implementing an effective transition plan that protects your existing expenses for UNIX applications and infrastructure. Progent can also assist to train your workers and network support staff so your company stays productive.
UNIX-to-Windows migration support expertise available from Progent include:
- Analysis of Existing Environment
Progent will help you determine the potential benefits and risks of transitioning an operating system, application, server, storage system, or information base. The exercise provides a thorough assessment of your IT environment, establishes a basic resource inventory, reduces technical uncertainties, and inevitably leads to a lower cost of migration by saving time and avoiding expensive mistakes.
- Transition Strategy and Validation
Progent will create a comprehensive migration deployment plan which may feature pilot installations. Progent practices a staged approach with defined waypoints to comply with budgetary, timing, and technical goals while avoiding productivity disruption. This approach is modeled after the best practices defined in the Microsoft Solutions Framework.
- Microsoft Exchange Migration Support
Progent can produce and carry out a complete strategy for transitioning from Sun Solaris-powered messaging to Exchange Server and can assist you to migrate Lotus Notes or GroupWise software applications to a Microsoft SQL application or a Microsoft SharePoint solution. Progent's experienced MS Exchange Server consultants can assess the costs and benefits of migrating to Exchange Server and create a comprehensive record of your current messaging infrastructure. Progent can also manage a pilot deployment to help validate an MS Exchange transition plan. Progent will also evaluate your current email security and propose polices and products to guard against threats.
- Data and Application Software Migration
Progent can design and carry out an information and application transition strategy that includes descriptions of information and software applications to be moved, description of tools and processes to be utilized for the migration, risk analysis and risk mitigation plans, detailed project management services, timeline projections of the migration and expected operational downtime, proof-of-concept techniques, and emergency back-out plans. Progent's migration team can ensure the success of your information and software application transition project by providing certified MS SQL Server 2019 experts, Microsoft SQL Server 2017 consultants, or Microsoft SQL Server 2016 developers and data porting consultants who are veterans of large projects such as Dynamics GP/Great Plains migration.
- Processor and Storage Transition and Economization
Processor and storage migration and consolidation from UNIX to MS Windows can simplify network administration, improve data integrity and accelerate system performance. By removing unneeded equipment and applications and by configuring processor and storage resources effectively, you can build an information infrastructure that is extensible, safe, simple to archive and recover, and affordable to administer and maintain. Progent's processor and media migration and economization service features a detailed plan with an assessment of your current processor and storage environment as well as for hardware, applications, services, education, and support for validation testing. Progent can assist you to design and execute a consolidated, high-availability network architecture informed by in-depth performance evaluation and capacity modeling and can recommend backup and restore solutions.
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 provide businesses in San Francisco, San Jose, and in cities nationwide a broad array of knowledge concerning the fundamental IT needs shared by typical small and mid-size business environments. Progent's core consulting areas include system support, MS Exchange help, network security consulting and HelpDesk consulting and support. Progent's Application Experts Group offers deep knowledge of specific application areas. By offering a single resource for information technology generalists and specialists, Progent is able to tailor fast, affordable and comprehensive IT solutions that address the exact requirements of your company.