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Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition includes significant enhancements to Failover Clustering, a key technology that supports disaster recovery (DR) and high availability by allowing you to combine multiple servers to form a fault-tolerant cluster on physical hardware or in virtual machines. A major enhancement is Storage Replica, Microsoft's first native solution for zero-data-loss disaster recovery, Storage Replica allows organizations to configure separate sites within a metro area to mirror data with crash-consistent volumes in order to ensure full data recovery in the event of a site outage. Windows Server 2016 includes a number of other important new and enhanced features for Failover Clusters, offering significant benefits in areas including availability and fault tolerance, Hyper-V virtualization, storage and infrastructure costs, ease of deployment, manageability, security, scale, performance, hybrid cloud support, health monitoring and audit reporting.

Windows Server 2016 is a cloud-tested platform that takes technology proven in Microsoft's vast Azure public cloud, including Azure's software-defined data plane, and makes it available for on premises deployments. As hybrid networks have become the norm, the migration of cloud technology to private data centers has made enterprise-class disaster recovery solutions practical for organizations of virtually any size.

Progent's team of disaster recovery consultants and certified Windows Server experts have the knowledge and experience to help you plan, deploy, test, maintain and troubleshoot a disaster recovery solution based on Windows Server 2016 that aligns with your business goals and IT budget. Progent's information assurance experts can help you prove compliance with regulatory requirements for disaster recovery, and Progent's business continuity consultants can help you integrate your disaster recovery strategy into a broader plan to keep your business operating at an acceptable level in the event of a predictable widespread catastrophe. By showing you practical and affordable ways to deploy Windows Server 2016 to improve your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Progent can help ensure that your investment in current disaster recovery and clustering technology adds maximum business value to your information network.

Windows Server 2016 Storage Replica
The headline disaster recovery feature of Windows Server 2016 is Storage Replica, Microsoft's first foray into zero-data-loss DR. Storage Replica allows you to mirror data between sites located within metro distances by using synchronous replication over a low-latency (5 ms or better round trip) TCP/IP or RDMA network using an SMB3 transport. If a protected site (also called a source or primary site) suffers a complete shutdown, you can switch quickly to the recovery site (also called destination or secondary site) without losing any data written to disk storage. Storage Replica can also be used for disaster avoidance, where users are seamlessly switched over to a recovery site in expectation of an imminent catastrophe such as a flood, wildfire or hurricane. For sites separated by longer distances or otherwise subject to higher latencies, Storage Replica supports an asynchronous replication mode that provides minimal data loss.

Storage Replica uses block-level replication between clusters or servers. This means that protected applications write data to at least two locations before the completion of any write operation. Because Storage Replica operates below the file level, it avoids the restrictions of technologies like DFS Replication, which requires that files be closed before replication and is subject to issues like files locks and open handles. Progent can help you upgrade from low-end disaster recovery solutions like DFS Replication to a zero-data-loss DR solution based on Windows Server 2016 Storage Replica.

For higher latency networks that span longer distances, Storage Replica supports asynchronous replication. Since Storage Replica asynchronous replication is continuous, not checkpoint based, the amount of data at risk of being lost is far lower than DR solutions based on snapshots. In addition, Storage Replica works at the partition layer, so it replicates all Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshots, allowing application-consistent data snapshots for point-in-time recovery.

Topologies supported by Storage Replica include stretch clusters, cluster-to-cluster, and server-to-server. These configurations can run on physical hardware or VMs based on Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix XenServer, or other leading virtualization platforms. Stretch cluster configurations allow you to orchestrate and automate the failover process for workloads like Hyper-V private cloud clusters and SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) and can be managed with Failover Cluster Manager. Storage Replica with stretched clusters can use Storage Spaces, SAN, iSCSI, and RAID through persistent reservation and can be run with two or more nodes.

The cluster-to-cluster configuration utilizes uses two distinct clusters and allows administrators to control the failover process manually. This topology is suited for environments where the secondary site set up solely for disaster recovery rather than as an active data center. With a cluster-to-cluster configuration, Storage Replica supports the cost-saving Storage Spaces feature of Windows Server 2016 and can be run with four or more nodes.

If your hardware does not support clustering, you can run Storage Replica in a server-to-server configuration. In this case the failover process must be performed manually. This can be a cost-effective DR solution between branch offices and data centers, and with asynchronous replication can support significantly better RPO than can be achieved with DFS Replication.

Progent can help you determine which Storage Replica topology makes the most sense for you business and can also help you plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot your Storage Replica solution. For other zero-data-loss disaster recovery platforms supported by Progent, see VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting and NetApp MetroCluster disaster recovery consulting.

Additional Features of Windows Server 2016 for Failover Clustering
Important new and enhanced features of Windows Server 2016 include:

• Storage Spaces Direct allows you to pool low-cost commodity servers running Windows Server 2016 to create network attached failover storage clusters. The rotating and solid-state disks (SSDs) integrated with each server are automatically onboarded to the Failover Cluster by Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), and you can combine as many as 16 servers and 400 drives for up to 1 petabyte of storage per cluster. New servers can be added in minutes, and with Microsoft System Center require only a checkbox to install. The scale-out servers use their built-in Ethernet RDMA controllers and Microsoft's SMB3 transport to interconnect, eliminating the expense and management overhead associated with deploying a SAN solution with FC fabric.
  When you create volumes from the storage pool, Storage Spaces Direct automatically generates a virtual disk and takes care of partitioning, formatting, and adding it to your Failover Cluster so it can be accessed by any node as a CSV. These shared volumes can tolerate drive, server, or component failures with uninterrupted availability, and you can replace failed hardware without downtime or complex management intervention. Performance can exceed 150,000 mixed random IOPS per server thanks to an integrated read/write cache and support for NVMe drives mounted directly on the PCIe bus. Storage Spaces Direct automatically utilizes the fastest storage available, such as SSDs, for its always-on cache.
  
  
  Hyper-converged deployments of Storage Spaces Direct are a good fit for SMBs or branch offices

  System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager supports two models for configuring and managing Storage Spaces Direct clusters. In a converged deployment, also called disaggregated, compute and storage resources run on different clusters. This provides administrators with the flexibility to scale compute resources independently from storage and is suitable for enterprises with larger environments and the skills to manage complex deployments. With a hyper-converged deployment model, Hyper-V compute and storage share the same cluster. This model, which minimizes hardware costs and is easier to configure and manage, is appropriate for smaller organizations or branch offices.

• Health Service is a feature introduced in Windows Server 2016 for monitoring the performance and capacity of Storage Spaces Direct clusters. Metrics reported by Health Service include IOPS, IO throughput and latency, physical (raw) storage and storage pool capacity, volume capacity, processor utilization, and memory. Health Service also continually monitors Storage Spaces Direct clusters and generates fault alerts ranked by severity and covering cluster and storage hardware, the Storage Spaces software stack, storage Quality of Service, and Storage Replica. For conciseness, fault alerts report root causes, such as a failed enclosure, rather than all the components affected by the failure.

  Health Service can automate workflows in the disk retirement/replacement cycle by reporting a failed disk, copying data from the retired disk to the remaining disks to restore full resiliency, indicating a failed disk by blinking its disk or slot indicator light, verifying a replacement disk against a Supported Components Document, and substituting the replacement disk into the storage pool previously occupied by the retired disk.

• Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade is a new feature of Windows Server 2016 that allows the live migration of all virtual machines in a cluster from a Windows Server 2012 R2 host to Windows Server 2016 host. This lets you move Hyper-V and scale-out file server workloads to the latest version of Windows Server with zero interruption of service, avoiding downtime penalties against SLAs. Other cluster workloads like SQL Server are paused only for the few minutes required to failover to Windows Server 2016. The rolling upgrade process requires no extra hardware and the upgraded cluster continues using the existing cluster objects stored in Active Directory.

  Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade utilizes a new mixed-OS mode that allows nodes with different host operating system versions to run within the same cluster. This allows you to pause, drain, evict, and reformat any node in the cluster, install Windows Server 2016 on the node, and bring the node back online. The Failover Cluster continues operating during this procedure as it would during any node outage. You can then use Failover Cluster Manager or PowerShell to add the upgraded node back into the cluster. All nodes operate at the older Windows Server 2012 R2 functional level until every node in the cluster has been upgraded. When all nodes have been migrated to Windows Server 2016, the entire cluster can be upgraded at once to the new functionality level with a single PowerShell cmdlet.

  
  
  Rolling Upgrades allow you to stage a migration to Windows Server 2016 VMs without incurring cluster downtime

  Progent can guide you through the Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade process following best practices, help you load balance the upgraded cluster, and show you how to take advantage of the new features provided by Windows Server 2016.

• Fault Domains are hardware entities that share a single point of failure. Servers, or nodes, are the original fault domain supported by Windows Server Failover Clustering. Windows Server 2016 adds support for fault domains at the chassis, rack and site levels. Fault domain awareness improves fault tolerance by helping to distribute data across multiple vulnerable components so copies of protected data reside in different fault domains. Windows Server 2016 allows you to define fault domains with PowerShell or XML markup. Storage Spaces Direct uses fault domains to optimize data protection by automatically placing copies of data on different drives, nodes, chasses and racks. Windows Server 2016 Health Service uses fault domains to improve the usefulness of alerts. Stretch clustering uses fault domains for storage affinity, improving performance by running applications or VMs on servers in closest proximity to their storage servers.

• Virtual Machine Load Balancing is a new integrated feature of Windows Server 2016 that allows automatic live migration of virtual machines between nodes within a Failover Cluster. This helps maximize availability and performance of Failover Clusters and reduces the need to deploy additional physical servers to handle critical workloads during peak periods. VM Load Balancing improves performance, fault tolerance and resource utilization by automatically determining whether a node has become overloaded and assigning VMs from that node to an under-committed one, such as a server that has just been rebooted. This process requires no downtime, takes into account failure policies like fault domains, and is based on heuristics for weighing VM memory pressure, which is the most common resource constraint on a Hyper-V host, and CPU utilization of the node. VM Load Balancing can be configured to run every 30 minutes or on demand, and you can use PowerShell to select one of three thresholds for determining the aggressiveness of load balancing.
  
  
  VM Load Balancing automatically and non-disruptively moves VMs from over-utilized to under-utilized nodes

• Virtual Machine Start Order is a new feature in Windows Server 2016 Failover Clustering that allows you to orchestrate the priority in which VMs and all groups in a cluster are activated or re-activated. You can group VMs into tiers and define dependencies between different tiers. This can ensure, for example, that VM domain controllers are started first. This avoids scenarios where VMs that require services are activated before the VMs that deliver those services.

• Cloud Witness is a new type of quorum witness for Windows Server 2016 Failover Clusters that uses Microsoft Azure Blob Storage to maintain a blob file to act as the quorum arbitration point. The quorum witness has a vote in determining whether to keep a stretch cluster running after a datacenter experiences an outage and is an important component of an enterprise-class disaster recovery solution. Leveraging the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure is an easy and affordable way to host an offsite quorum witness without the cost and management overhead of deploying a separate datacenter. This also adheres to best practices when designing the topology of a quorum witness. You can use a single Azure Storage Account for multiple clusters, with one blob file required for each cluster. Since only a small amount of data is written to the blob file, which is updated only when the state of the cluster nodes change, the ongoing costs of the Azure storage account is low.
  
  
  Azure-based Cloud Witness is a fast, affordable way to configure a Failover Cluster quorum witness

• Support for Workgroup and Multi-domain Clusters makes it possible to create Windows Server 2016 Failover Clusters without Active Directory dependencies. In previous releases of Windows Server, Failover Clusters could only be created with server nodes joined to the same domain. Windows Server 2016 still lets you create single-domain clusters but you can also deploy Workgroup clusters and Multi-domain clusters with nodes that are members of different domains. You can use Failover Cluster Manager or PowerShell to create Workgroup clusters and Multi-domain clusters. The recommended witness type for Workgroup clusters and Multi-domain clusters is Disk Witness or the new Windows Server 2016 Cloud Witness. File Share Witness is unsupported for clusters with nodes that are not domain joined.

Progent's information assurance consultants can help you achieve and prove compliance with regulatory and industry data security requirement such as SOX, ISO 27001, PCI DSS 3.2 and FedRAMP by showing you how to configure the powerful new security tools available with Windows Server 2016 including Windows Containers, Shielded Virtual Machines, Credential Guard, Remote Credential Guard and Just In Time (JIT) Privileged Access Management. (For a description of these security enhancements, see Windows Server 2016 integration consulting.)

Progent's information assurance consultants can help you deploy new security feature like Windows and Hyper-V Containers, Shielded Virtual Machines, Credential Guard, Remote Credential Guard and Just In Time (JIT) Privileged Access Management to make it easier for you to comply with regulatory and industry data security requirement such as SOX, ISO 27001, PCI DSS 3.2, and FedRAMP. Progent's roster of Cisco CCIE-certified network infrastructure consultants is one of the largest of any independent IT services firm in the U.S., and Progent can help you design, deploy and manage a hybrid network ecosystem that fully delivers the high-availability and disaster recovery capabilities of Windows Server 2016. To streamline the management of your Windows Server 2016 Failover Clusters, Progent can provide expertise with PowerShell scripting, Failover Cluster Manager, Hyper-V Manager, System Center 2016 migration, System Center 2016 Operations Manager (SCOM 2016) integration and Virtual Machine Manager 2016 (VVM 2016) hybrid cloud management consulting.

To help you protect critical Microsoft workloads with Windows Server 2016's disaster recovery solutions, Progent offers services that include Exchange 2016 integration consulting, SQL Server 2016 consulting, and SharePoint development and integration. For hybrid environments that use public cloud services, Progent offers Office 365 Exchange Online consulting, Amazon AWS integration, and Google Cloud integration consulting.

Progent's Online Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise
Progent is a pioneer in delivering online consulting and troubleshooting expertise and has provided remote solutions to organizations in every state in the U.S. (See Progent's Customer Testimonials.) Progent also offers onsite consulting services in major metropolitan areas across the United States and parts of Canada. Progent can provide as-needed guidance to help you resolve occasional technical issues or full project management outsourcing or co-sourcing services to make sure your Windows Server 2016 initiative is successfully completed on time and within budget.

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Contact Progent for Windows Server 2016 Expertise
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Fault Tolerant Technologies Provided by Progent's Consultants
Progent's certified consultants can help you to design a sensible, zero-downtime network that resolves major problems encompassing a wide array of infrastructure solutions and operations including:

Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity planning engineers can help you create a business continuity strategy in order to restore network operations in case of an information system disaster. Progent can assist you to create a complete disaster recovery strategy that includes periodic disaster recovery assessments and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized consultants can also show you how to build an affordable, non-stop network solution that takes into account availability issues involving a wide range of network technologies and procedures. For more information, visit Disaster Recovery Consulting.

CRISC-Certified IT Risk Mitigation
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. To find out more, visit CRISC-Certified network risk control experts.

Microsoft Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 incorporated significant improvements in capacity, performance, management, security and compliance, application compatibility, Linux co-existence, container networking, and hybrid integration of local and cloud assets. Headline enhancements of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management and monitoring of hybrid local/cloud resources, System Insights for taking advantage of modern predictive analytics to control on-premises networks, Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container networking using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets for building and managing massive non-stop scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for streamlining the upgrade process from outdated editions of Windows Server. To learn more, see Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Consulting.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a component of VMware vCenter that lets you specify, automate and test a consistent process for restoring applications and services rapidly following an outage. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, plus non-disruptive site migration, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also supports transparent testing for site recovery, upgrades and fixes and can produce reports to verify full service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and prove disaster recovery compliance. Progent can provide the support of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consulting expert to help you to design, configure, test and maintain a DR system based on VMware SRM.

NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that uses failover storage clustering with continual replication to deliver fast, zero RPO disaster recovery (DR) between sites that are up to 300km apart from each other. Progent can provide access to a NetApp MetroCluster expert who can assist you to plan, configure, administer, update, test and repair a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to select a topology for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your functional needs and budget. Progent can make sure you follow best practices for installing your MetroCluster environment by providing guidance with tasks like assigning shelf IDs, arranging aggregate layout, provisioning volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, implementing a tiebreaker, designing a configuration replication network between your storage clusters, and verifying your DR solution to prove compliance with information assurance standards and regulatory mandates.

Fault Tolerant Load Balancing
Progent provides high availability load balancing support covering system load balancing, load balanced programs, LAN/WAN backbone routing, and content dispatching technology including Cisco Content Engine. Non-stop load balancing technologies for which Progent can provide consulting expertise include Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Access Gateway, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Distributed Director and Cisco CDN Software, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. To read more, visit Non-stop Load Balancing.

Zero Downtime Internet Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to select fault-tolerant data centers that meet the specific requirements of your business. High availability off-site data centers are especially attractive to small and mid-size organizations because of their affordability and simplified logistics compared to taking a do-it-yourself approach. Attempting to build an on-site data center with even a basic degree of fault tolerance is too costly for typical small organizations. Progent can show you how to reap all the benefits of high-availability colo centers by offering a complete array of consulting and support services. To find out more, go to High-Availability Colocation Expertise.

High-Availability Interoffice Networking
Progent's multi-site connectivity professionals can help businesses create zero-downtime multi-site connections by means of fully redundant networks featuring automatic failover. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE engineers can design and deploy ultra-reliable Inter-office networks based on non-stop EIGRP routers or fault tolerant OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connectivity and transparent fail-over can provide affordable non-stop interoffice networking. To find out more, visit 24x7 Interoffice Connectivity.

24x7 Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-certified network consultants can help you create an economical, fault tolerant Internet configuration solution that can deliver 24x7 Internet access via a wide range of fault tolerant Internet access technologies including high availability BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent offers Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert consultants to show you how to utilize the most up-to-date technology for high availability Internet access to build an economical, completely redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other capabilities to create zero-downtime Internet access. To read more, see Non-stop Internet Access Solutions.

Backup and Recovery Solutions Consulting and Support Services
Progent can provide economical online access to consultants with expertise in a wide range of utilities and services that deliver solutions for protecting Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux servers and desktops plus notebooks and smartphones. Progent can provide help for all major data protection platforms such as Acronis Backup and Recovery, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, CrashPlan, Double-Take Software, MozyPro, Retrospect, Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery, and Solaris FLARs. Progent's consultants can help your company to install, enhance, or troubleshoot backup/restore solutions for a variety of topologies such as local, edge to datacenter, cloud-based, or hybrid. To learn more, see Backup and Recovery Solutions Expertise.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Backup and Recovery Consultants
Progent's expert Microsoft SCDPM support professionals can assist your company to create a practical disaster recovery strategy, design a cost-effective high-availability network infrastructure, configure a System Center Data Protection Manager-based backup and recovery solution, thoroughly test your system, train your IT personnel or local service providers how to maintain Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, or provide complete IT support outsourcing including remote hosting of SCDPM machines in Progent's data center. To learn more, visit System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting Services.

Barracuda Backup Local, Offsite and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription-based backup/restore service for small and mid-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup solution can incorporate a custom-designed physical storage device built by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with similar features but which utilizes your existing storage hardware. Barracuda Backup protects critical company data generated locally, at one or multiple remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster recovery, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), or to any location with a Barracuda appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts offer a wide array of consulting services to assist your business to design, integrate, operate and repair a BDR solution built on Barracuda technology. For more information, see Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting and management.

ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup Solutions for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Altaro VM Backup software provides small organizations a reliable and budget-friendly solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, offsite, multi-site, and cloud environments and also supports low-cost backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup includes advanced capabilities like Immutable Cloud Storage for enhanced recoverability from ransomware. Progent is a certified Altaro partner and offers a broad array of remote or on-premises services to help you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot a modern backup and disaster recovery solution based on Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a managed backup/restore service based on Altaro VM Backup. To find out more, go to Altaro VM Backup consulting services.

ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Services for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 offers rudimentary archiving but does not include native support for vital data protection capabilities such as Exchange backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a feature-rich BDR solution for programmable backup and rapid recovery of all your company's M365 mailboxes, Teams Chats, SharePoint documents, OneDrive for Business data, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup to provide end-to-end managed services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup product. ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup delivers a low-cost backup-as-a-service (BaaS) solution that defends M365 components against data loss or corruption caused by user or system error, malevolent sabotage, and cyber assaults like ransomware. To learn more, go to ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup solutions for Microsoft 365.

Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates and monitors your backup activities and allow fast restoration of vital files, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed backup and recovery.

ProSight DPS 360 Backup Solutions
Progent can assist you to create, implement and troubleshoot a backup plan based on MSP360 technology. MSP360 offers file or image backup/restore for VMs and physical computers, works with all leading public clouds, and permits you to build a backup ecosystem with a low RTO and a granular Recovery Point Objective. With ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup, Progent can provide comprehensive monitoring and remote management of your backup system to prevent data loss resulting from user miscues, system glitches, ill-intentioned insiders, and malware attacks such as ransomware. To find out more, go to ProSight Data Protection Services 360 Backup solutions.

Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Backup/Restore
Double-Take publishes a selection of tools intended to deliver small businesses a variety of cost-effective solutions for backing up and restoring business-critical workloads including Exchange, SQL Server, Blackberry, and Microsoft SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning consultants have in-depth backgrounds integrating Double-Take products into small business IT networks to create a high level of availability and disaster recovery capability at a budget-friendly price. To find out more, visit Consulting for Double-Take Software for Backup.

Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Partner and offers specialized application consulting for a broad range of business applications, Progent is able to help clients to arrive at comprehensive IT solutions that optimize the business value of your network. As a Registered Partner for Cisco, Progent can provide the support of certified consultants and specialists with expertise in designing, deploying and troubleshooting infrastructure environments built on Cisco products. The broad scope of Progent's technical experience and Progent's appreciation for the requirements of small and midsize businesses make Progent the ideal resource for building and maintaining a cost-effective, high-availability information system.