IT Connection Newsletter: Issue 4
Progent's Certified Experts Offer
Disaster Recovery Soltutions for Small Businesses
The latest technologies for Disaster Recovery cost less, do more, and are easier to manage. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants show you how to create and implement a business continuity plan that is both effective and affordable.
For businesses of any size, network downtime is costly whether it is due to unexpected breakdowns or scheduled maintenance. Enterprise networks have for a long time utilized processes and technologies that minimize the chances of network failure, expedite the recovery process in case of a catastrophe, and eliminate maintenance-related downtime.
For small businesses, however, disaster recovery planning, fault tolerant network architecture, and non-disruptive maintenance solutions have all seemed too expensive to implement and too complex to manage. This has changed.
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified network engineers have in-depth experience helping small businesses avoid network downtime by offering affordable consulting support for business continuity planning, high-availability system design, and on-line maintenance. Progent's disaster recovery team can help you develop, implement, and validate a sensible business continuity plan that aligns with your business needs and IT budget. Progent's specialists in fault tolerance can assist you to implement and maintain high-availability technologies such as redundant Internet connectivity, clustering, load balancing, virtualization, and multi-location data centers. Progent's system management engineers can help you minimize or eliminate network downtime associated with routine maintenance.
Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity engineers can help you design a disaster recovery plan so you can restore network operations in case of an IT system catastrophe. Progent can assist you to develop a complete disaster recovery strategy that includes scheduled disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also help you build an affordable, fault-tolerant system architecture that takes into account reliability issues covering a wide range of network technologies and procedures.
Microsoft Server 2008 Failover Clustering
The server cluster technology built into the high-end editions of MS Windows Server 2008 is radically redesigned to simplify the installation, configuration, and maintenance of clusters that provide greater levels of network availability, security, efficiency, and versatility. New or improved capabilities include cluster verification, revamped setup and deployment, unified cluster management, redesigned cluster architecture for maximum availability, better protection and quorum models, minimization of failure points, greater disk and memory capacity, and improvements for multi-site clusters.
Non-stop Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to identify fault-tolerant data centers that meet the particular needs of your business. High availability co-location sites are especially appealing to small companies because of their low cost and convenience in comparison to taking a do-it-yourself approach. Trying to design an on-site data center with even a basic level of fault tolerance is too expensive for typical small organizations. Progent can show you how to get all the benefits of high-availability data centers by providing a complete range of engineering and support services.
System Center Data Protection Manager
Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager is the first mainstream solution for continuous online backup to remote disk farms plus fast disaster recovery. Progent's expert DPM engineers can help you create an effective business continuity plan, design a cost-effective fault-tolerant IT infrastructure, deploy a Microsoft DPM-based backup and restore system, thoroughly test your system, or train your IT staff how to manage DPM.
Progent can also provide IT outsourcing services that include hosting of Microsoft DPM servers in Progent's secure data center facility (see Virtual Data Center Hosting Services).
Find Out More About Progent's Disaster Recovery Consulting Services
For more information about how Progent can help your business with continuity planning and fault-tolerant network design, call
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Microsoft Windows 8.1 is engineered to run on devices ranging from smartphones and slates to engineering workstations. A wealth of innovative features, such as touch screen interface and iconic live tiles GUI, offer a wide range of benefits for organizations who understand how to put them to work. Progent's Microsoft-certified experts can assist get your business up to speed with Windows 8.1 and show you how to derive maximum business advantage from the product's many technical enhancements.
Forefront Threat Management Gateway is based on the powerful security technologies of Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 and offers a centrally administered web gateway that delivers a single-server platform for an array of security features including an application and network layer firewall, URL monitoring and filtering, malware inspection, intrusion protection, application proxy, VPN management, plus HTTP/HTTPS inspection. Forefront TMG 2010 includes comprehensive web security logging and reporting capabilities, allows custom reporting generated by Microsoft SQL Server, integrates with Active Directory to simplify authentication and policy enforcement, and can be operated as a virtual machine to cut costs and improve recoverability. Progent's Microsoft consultants can assist you to plan and carry out test and production deployments; interface Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010 with Windows Server 2008 R2, AD, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and SharePoint 2010; install Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 to operate on a virtual server with Microsoft Windows Hyper-V; and provide ongoing support and repair services. Progent's consultants can also help your organization to migrate smoothly to Forefront Threat Management Gateway from ISA Server 2006 or ISA Server 2004.
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