Organizations move from Solaris to Microsoft Windows so they can extract more competitive value from equipment and software. The consequent Windows-powered systems simplify administration, enhance the productivity of users and IT staff, minimize data duplication, improve information consistency, and allow for smoother rebounds from disaster. A MS Windows system lets businesses develop applications quickly and demands less time to be spent on writing, integrating, and managing applications.

Progent can assist you to plan and deploy a smooth migration from a Solaris-based network to a MS Windows network capable of running Microsoft's popular office productivity software, commercial applications, and software development tools. Progent's skilled Solaris, Windows, and Cisco engineers and application experts can help you to keep your data and reduce productivity discontinuity by creating and executing an economical migration plan that protects your past expenses for Sun Solaris applications and network equipment. Progent can also assist to train your workers and network support group so your business remains productive.

Sun Solaris-to-Windows transition support expertise available from Progent include:

  • Analysis of Current Environment
    Progent will assist you evaluate the possible advantages and risks of migrating an operating system, application, server, storage system, or database. The exercise produces a comprehensive evaluation of your IT environment, creates a baseline resource inventory, lowers technical uncertainties, and ultimately leads to a less expensive transition by saving time and dodging expensive mistakes.

  • Migration Planning and Testing
    Progent will develop a comprehensive migration deployment plan which may include validation installations. Progent uses a staged methodology with specified milestones in order to comply with economic, scheduling, and engineering objectives while avoiding productivity discontinuity. This approach is based on the best practices outlined in the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF).

  • Microsoft Exchange Migration Expertise
    Progent can create and execute a comprehensive plan for transitioning from Solaris-based messaging to Exchange Server and can help you to port Notes or Novell Groupwise applications to a Microsoft SQL application or a SharePoint Portal Server application. Progent's expert Exchange Server consultants can evaluate the costs and advantages of migrating to Microsoft Exchange Server and generate a detailed inventory of your current email system. Progent can also manage a proof-of-concept deployment to help validate a Microsoft Exchange migration plan. Progent will also audit your existing messaging protection and recommend procedures and products to protect against attacks.

  • Information and Application Software Migration
    Progent can design and implement a data and software application porting strategy that incorporates definitions of information and software applications to be migrated, identification of tools and procedures to be used for the move, risk assessment and risk minimization strategies, complete project management services, timeline estimates of the transition and anticipated network downtime, proof-of-concept techniques, and critical back-out plans. Progent's migration team can promote the success of your data and software application porting initiative by offering accredited MS SQL Server 2019 consultants, MS SQL Server 2017 consultants, or Microsoft SQL Server 2016 integrators and data porting consultants who are veterans of major engagements such as Dynamics GP/Great Plains migration.

  • Processor and Media Transition and Consolidation
    Processor and storage transition and economization from Solaris to Microsoft Windows can streamline IT management, improve data consistency and speed network performance. By eliminating unnecessary hardware and applications and by configuring server and storage assets effectively, you can create an IT infrastructure that is extensible, safe, simple to backup and recover, and economical to manage and maintain. Progent's server and mass storage migration and economization service includes a comprehensive plan with an inventory of your existing server and storage infrastructure as well as for equipment, applications, services, training, and consulting for proof-of-concept piloting. Progent can assist you to design and execute a consolidated, fault-tolerant IT architecture informed by detailed performance analysis and capacity modeling and can recommend backup and disaster recovery solutions.

If you are looking for technical assistance migrating from Sun Solaris system to Microsoft Windows, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

Progent's Consulting Services for UNIX Environments
Progent's UNIX support experts offer small businesses and product developers assistance with managing and maintaining UNIX/Linux/Mac-based networks that can coexist with Microsoft technology. Progent offers your company contact with UNIX support professionals, authorized Microsoft consultants, Cisco-certified CCIEs, and security specialists certified by CISM. This wide array of knowledge offers your company a readily available one-stop source to help your business to create and maintain a protected and robust multi-vendor network and communications solution that blends Windows with leading derivatives of UNIX such as: macOS and OS X , Solaris, IBM AIX Operating System, HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO UNIX and Silicon Graphics IRIX (SGI/IRIX) or major Linux distributions such as RedHat Linux, SUSE, Debian GNU/Linux and CentOS Linux, Ubuntu, Mandriva Linux, PCLlinuxOS Linux, fedora, and Gentoo Linux.



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