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Internet Data Centers offer an attractive option for companies with the need to host applications that are delivered to a geographically dispersed user base.

For costs that are well within the IT budget of virtually any small business (often starting as low as $100 per month), companies can immediately enjoy the advantages of housing their equipment in a professional-grade Data Center whose benefits include Internet availability that usually exceeds 99.999% uptime, dramatic savings in management expenses due to the elimination of common infrastructure failures, lighting-fast Internet connections that are usually at least 60 times faster than the fastest Internet connections available to most small businesses, the highest levels of physical security, and electrical power that is immune to blackouts, brownouts, and internal breakdown.

Colocation Data Centers offer useful features including remote hands capability, a service in which Data Center staff can provide rudimentary but valuable assistance such as pushing a reset button or power cycling a server. This value-added service avoids the cost of having your in-house support personnel travel to the office to perform simple troubleshooting steps. Better yet, such Data Center services are available on a 24x7 basis, 365 days a year, relieving stress and cutting expenses by dramatically simplifying the logistics required to maintain high network availability.

There are over almost 2,000 enterprise-class Internet Data Centers in the U.S. and Progent's Data Center consulting experts can help you select one that meets the particular requirements of your business, including geographic proximity, space, connectivity, affordability, and value-added features and services.

For companies concerned about the risks associated with potentially catastrophic impacts caused by major earthquakes in the Bay Area, world-class Data Centers in the Sacramento area offer close proximity to your business while significantly reducing your network's exposure to damage from seismic events.

Internet Data Centers are especially appealing to small businesses because of their affordability and feasibility in comparison to taking a do-it-yourself approach. Trying to build an in-house data center with even a minimum level of fault tolerance by installing features such as a local computer room generator for power protection, redundant air conditioning systems, multiple Internet T1 lines, and a physically secure infrastructure, is for most small businesses either impossible due to facility limitations or financially prohibitive.

By using multiple data centers, businesses can enhance not only fault-tolerance but also performance. For example, by deploying F5 Networks' BIG-IP controller in each data center to load balance a farm of web servers, and then F5's BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (formally 3-DNS) product at each data center, Internet traffic will be spread automatically between multiple, geographically dispersed sites. The BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager routes web requests to different data centers based on their proximity to the requester, availability and current utilization/response times. This approach can accelerate application performance by up to three times, ensure that priority applications are served first, and offload expensive server cycles. For more information about Progent's support for fault tolerant technology from F5 Networks, visit Load Balancing Consulting.

Zero-Downtime Technologies Supported by Progent's Consultants
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting experts can assist your business to design a sensible, fault-tolerant system that addresses critical problems encompassing a broad array of networking technologies and operations such as:

Workplace Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity planning engineers can show you how to create a business continuity plan so you can resume IT functionality in case of an information network catastrophe. Progent can help you to develop a complete disaster recovery strategy that includes periodic disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants can also help you create an affordable, fault-tolerant system architecture that addresses availability issues involving a broad range of infrastructure technologies and procedures. To learn more, visit Workplace 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 a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and maintain IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. For details, visit CRISC-Certified network risk mitigation experts.

Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2019 introduced significant enhancements in scale, performance, management, security and compliance, application compatibility, Linux support, container networking, and hybrid combinations of local and cloud-hosted assets. Top new features of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management of hybrid local/cloud deployments, System Insights for utilizing modern predictive analytics to manage local networks, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Exploit Guard for host-intrusion prevention, container orchestration using Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for creating and administering large high-availability scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for streamlining the migration from outdated versions of Windows Server. For more information, see Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Expertise.

Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consultants can help you to design a disaster recovery solution built around Microsoft's most advanced Failover Clustering technologies including Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class network-attached storage using commodity equipment, VM Load Balancing for enhancing the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while reducing capital investment and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable deployment of a stretch cluster quorum witness. For details, go to Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Expertise.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to orchestrate, automate and verify a consistent process for recovering applications and services rapidly following a breakdown. Site Recovery Manager supports centrally managed and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, plus transparent site relocation, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also enables transparent testing for disaster recovery, updates and patches and can generate reports to verify full service recovery, validate SLAs and demonstrate DR compliance. Progent offers the skills of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to help you to plan, configure, test and manage a disaster recovery solution based on VMware SRM.

NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Technology
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery platform that uses array-based storage clustering with continual replication to deliver fast, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between sites located as far as 185 miles (300km) away from one another. Progent can provide access to a NetApp MetroCluster expert who can help you to plan, configure, administer, upgrade, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery system based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to choose an architecture for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your functional needs and IT budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to leading practices for installing your MetroCluster environment by delivering help with procedures such as assigning disk pools, arranging plexes layout, setting up FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, setting up a TCP/IP configuration replication network, and testing your MetroCluster disaster recovery system to show compliance with information assurance standards and government requirements.

Fault Tolerant Load Balancing
Progent offers high availability load balancing support covering system load balancing, load balanced programs, LAN/WAN infrastructure routing, and content delivery technology including Cisco Content Engine. Fault tolerant load balancing technologies for which Progent offers consulting services include Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Access Gateway, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Distributed Director and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. To find out more, go to Non-stop Load Balancing.

Non-stop Interoffice Networking
Progent's inter-site network infrastructure consultants can help organizations create non-stop inter-site connections through redundant networks with transparent failover. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE engineers can design and implement high-availability Inter-office networks supported by non-stop EIGRP routers or zero-downtime OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connections and automatic fail-over offers economical non-stop interoffice connectivity. For details, see High-Availability Interoffice Connectivity.

Fault Tolerant Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-certified IT professionals can help you build an affordable, high availability Internet configuration solution that can achieve 24x7 Internet access through a broad array of fault tolerant Internet access solutions including non-stop BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent can provide CCIE consultants to show you how to utilize the most advanced technology for fault tolerant Internet connectivity to build an affordable, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other features to create fault tolerant Internet access. To find out more, see High Availability Internet Connectivity Architecture.

Backup and Restore Technology Consulting
Progent can provide affordable online support from consultants skilled in a wide range of utilities and services that deliver solutions for protecting Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX servers and desktops plus notebooks and smartphones. Progent can provide expertise for leading backup products such as Acronis, Backup Exec, BackupAssist, CrashPlan PRO, Double-Take Software, MozyPro, Retrospect for Macintosh, Apple Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery, and Solaris FLARs. Progent can assist you to deploy, enhance, or maintain backup solutions for a variety of topologies such as local, remote, cloud-based, or hybrid. To read more, go to Backup and Restore Technology Consulting and Support Services.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Restore Consulting Services
Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager engineers can help you to create an effective disaster recovery plan, implement a cost-effective high-availability IT architecture, deploy a SCDPM-based backup and restore solution, thoroughly test your system, educate your IT staff or regular consultants how to maintain SCDPM, or provide extensive information technology support outsourcing including remote housing of virtual or physical SCDPM machines in Progent's data center. To read more, go to System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Consulting and Support Services.

Barracuda Backup Cloud and Offsite Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription backup/restore service for small and mid-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup deployment can include a purpose-built physical storage device built by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with comparable features but which uses your own storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup protects critical company data generated locally, at one or more remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster protection, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any site with a Barracuda appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants offer a wide array of consulting support services to help you to design, integrate, operate and troubleshoot a BDR system built on Barracuda Backup. For additional information, go to Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting and management.

ProSight Altaro VM Backup Software for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Hornetsecurity's Altaro VM Backup offers small organizations a reliable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, remote, distributed, and cloud architectures and also supports cost-effective cloud backup to Azure storage. Altaro VM Backup supports advanced capabilities such as Immutable Cloud Storage for enhanced protection from ransomware. Progent is an Altaro partner and offers a wide array of online or onsite services to help you to design, install, manage and debug a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution based on Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a fully managed backup/recovery service powered by on Altaro VM Backup technology. For details, visit Altaro VM Backup consulting.

ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 provides rudimentary archiving but does not include integrated support for key data protection services such as Exchange backups or long-term point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup delivers a feature-rich BDR solution for automatic backup and quick recovery of all your organization's M365 mail, Microsoft 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 (DPS) 365 Total Backup to provide comprehensive managed services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup product. ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup provides a low-cost backup-as-a-service (BaaS) solution that defends M365 components against data loss caused by human or system mistakes, malicious sabotage, and cyber attacks like ransomware. To read 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 medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS ECHO automates and monitors your backup processes and enable rapid recovery of critical data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight DPS ECHO to to comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed backup.

ProSight MSP360 Backup Services
Progent can assist you to create, implement and debug a backup plan built around MSP360 software. MSP360 offers file/folder or image-based backup/recovery for virtual machines and physical machines, supports all leading public clouds, and permits you to build a data protection ecosystem with a low RTO and a defined Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight MSP360 Backup, Progent can provide end-to-end monitoring and remote management of your backup system to protect against data loss caused by user miscues, computer errors, ill-intentioned insiders, and external assaults like ransomware. For details, see ProSight MSP360 Backup services.

Consulting for Double-Take Solutions for Data Backup
Double-Take Software offers a family of tools intended to deliver small and midsize companies a variety of affordable alternatives for replicating and restoring vital applications including Exchange Server, SQL, Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning consultants have extensive backgrounds incorporating Double-Take technology into small company information networks to achieve a high level of availability and business continuity capability at an affordable cost. For more information, see Consulting for Double-Take Software for Backup.

Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Because Progent is a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner and offers specialized application expertise for a wide range of small business applications, Progent can help customers to find comprehensive IT solutions that optimize the productivity of your information system. As a Registered Partner for Cisco, Progent offers the support of premier engineers and specialists with experience in designing, implementing and maintaining networking environments based on Cisco products. The depth and breadth of Progent's IT know-how and Progent's familiarity with the requirements of small businesses make Progent the perfect resource for building and running a cost-effective, high-availability information system.

How to Get in Touch with Progent's Experts for Support for High Availability Networks
If you wish to get in touch with Progent about technical expertise for high availability computing, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.