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Most companies with more than one office have some type of IP-based interoffice communications method. Common connectivity solutions include legacy frame relay lines, private T1 circuits, managed VPN, private IP, and unmanaged Internet VPNs. Communications failures for these interoffice links can significantly downgrade  business productivity.

Loss of interoffice connectivity means that users in remote offices are cut-off from key central systems and can be left without the ability to perform even the most basic day-to-day functions required to carry out critical business transactions. As a result, customers are disappointed, orders are delayed, and the afflicted business pays for workers to wait for the network to come back online.

The vast majority of small business interoffice communications infrastructures have virtually no fault tolerance. A single downed communications line or a single router failure can bring vital business processes to a halt. All too often, single-point failures can take hours, and occasionally days, to repair. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE engineers have the knowledge and experience to design and implement sophisticated fault-tolerant architectures for interoffice connectivity. Progent's consultants are expert at fault-tolerant Cisco router configuration based on Interior Gateway Protocols including OSPF, or Open Shortest Path First, and EIGRP, or Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol.

The explosion of low-cost Internet connectivity options provides new opportunities to create affordable, truly fault-tolerant, fully redundant interoffice connections that seamlessly failover in the event of a single-point breakdown. In the past, the high cost of private T1 lines often exceeded reasonable cost/risk assessments for small businesses. But with the diverse selection of low-cost DSL, cable modem, and wireless ISP connections now available, companies can craft cost-effective solutions that offer protection from single points of failure. By utilizing the advanced fault-tolerant features available in Cisco's IOS operating system, critical failures can be made invisible to users. With proper alert mechanisms, in-house IT resources or outside consultants can work efficiently to restore primary communications links without working under the intense pressure associated with crippling outages.

The business case for implementing fault-tolerant interoffice connectivity has never been more compelling. Low-cost DSL links can be configured as a backup to expensive T1 private lines for as little as 1/20th of the monthly operating cost of the primary link. The availability of business-class wireless links makes it possible to create a fault-tolerant communications architecture that completely eliminates the risk of rare but debilitating wired network failures, such as fiber cuts caused by construction work, or traffic accidents that take down utility poles or telephone wiring junction boxes. These solutions are affordably priced and offer acceptable performance in failover situations.

High Availability Technologies Supported by Progent's Experts
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco engineers can help your company to create an affordable, high-availability system that resolves critical problems encompassing a broad range of infrastructure technologies and operations including:

Workplace Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity consultants can help you create a business continuity plan so you can resume network operations in case of an information system disaster. Progent can help 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 show you how to create an affordable, fault-tolerant system architecture that takes into account availability issues involving a broad range of network technologies and procedures. For more information, visit Disaster Recovery Consulting.

CRISC-Certified Network Risk Mitigation
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and maintain information system controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. For details, go to CRISC-Premier network risk mitigation specialists.

Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2019 incorporated significant enhancements in scale, throughput, management, cybersecurity, app compatibility, Linux co-existence, Kubernetes networking, and hybrid integration of local and cloud assets. Top new features of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management of hybrid on-premises/cloud resources, System Insights for taking advantage of modern predictive analytics to control on-premises environments, Windows Defender ATP Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container orchestration with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for creating and administering large high-availability scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for streamlining the migration from outdated releases of Windows Server. For more information, go to Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Expertise.

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity consultants can assist you to design a disaster recovery solution built around Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering tools including Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class network-attached storage using industry-standard equipment, Virtual Machine Load Balancing for improving the speed and resilience of Failover Clusters while reducing TCO and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable creation of a failover cluster quorum arbitration point. For details, go to Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Help.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a component of VMware vCenter that lets you define, automate and test a repeatable process for recovering services quickly after an outage. Site Recovery Manager supports centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site migration, failback and re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also supports transparent testing for disaster recovery, updates and fixes and can produce audit reports to confirm complete service restoration, validate SLAs and prove DR compliance. Progent offers the skills of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to help you to design, deploy, test and administer a DR system based on VMware Site Recovery Manager.

NetApp MetroCluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery Platform
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery software suite that combines array-based storage clustering with replication to provide rapid, zero RPO disaster recovery between datacenters that are up to 300km away from one another. Progent offers online or on-premises access to a certified NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can help you to design, configure, administer, upgrade, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery system built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select a topology for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your functional needs and budget. Progent can make sure you adhere to leading practices for configuring your MetroCluster solution by providing help with tasks such as assigning shelf IDs, arranging aggregate and plexes layout, setting up FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, implementing a tiebreaker, setting up a TCP/IP configuration replication network, and testing your MetroCluster disaster recovery system to show adherence with industry standards and government requirements.

Network Load Balancing
Progent offers high availability load balancing support that addresses system load balancing, load balanced programs, network backbone routing, and content dispatching products including Cisco Content Engine. Fault tolerant load balancing products for which Progent offers consulting expertise include Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Access Gateway, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Distributed Director and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks 3-DNS. For more information, visit Non-stop Load Balancing.

Non-stop Colocation
Progent's Data Center professionals can show you how to find fault-tolerant data centers that meet the specific needs of your business. Fault tolerant Internet Data Centers are especially attractive to small and mid-size businesses due to of their affordability and convenience in comparison to taking a do-it-yourself strategy. Trying to create an on-site data center that offers even a basic level of fault tolerance is too expensive for typical small companies. Progent is ready to show you how to get all the advantages of non-stop Internet data centers by providing a full range of engineering and support services. For more information, see High-Availability Data Centers Consulting.

Fault Tolerant Internet Connections
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT engineers can help you create an affordable, high availability Internet configuration solution that can deliver 24x7 Internet access via a wide array of high availability Internet network technologies including non-stop BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent offers CCIE consultants to show you how to apply the most advanced technology for high availability Internet connectivity to create a cost-effective, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other capabilities to deliver fault tolerant Internet availability. For more information, visit High Availability Internet Connectivity Solutions.

Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting and Support Services
Progent offers affordable remote support from IT engineers skilled in a wide range of products and technologies that provide solutions for backing up Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux physical and virtual servers and workstations as well as notebooks and smartphones. Progent can provide help for all major backup products such as Acronis Backup and Recovery, Backup Exec, BackupAssist, HP Data Protector, Double-Take Software, MozyPro, Retrospect for Macintosh, Apple Time Machine, vSphere Data Protection, and FLARs. Progent's consultants can assist you to implement, upgrade, or troubleshoot backup/restore solutions for a range of environments such as local, remote, cloud, or a mix. For more information, visit Backup and Restore Solutions Consulting Services.

System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Recovery Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified System Center Data Protection Manager consultants can help your company to create an effective workplace recovery strategy, design a cost-effective high-availability IT infrastructure, deploy a System Center Data Protection Manager-based backup and recovery system, thoroughly validate your DPM system, educate your IT personnel or local service providers how to manage SCDPM, or provide complete IT outsourcing services such as remote hosting of Microsoft SCDPM servers in Progent's data center. To learn more, go to System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting.

Barracuda Backup Multi-site and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription-based backup/restore platform for small and mid-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup solution can incorporate a custom-designed physical appliance built by Barracuda or a software-based appliance with similar functionality but which utilizes your existing storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup safeguards critical business data generated on-premises, at one or more remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any location with a physical or virtual Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts offer a wide array of consulting services to help you to design, configure, manage and debug a backup and disaster recovery system built on Barracuda Backup. For more information, see Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consultants.

ProSight Altaro VM Backup Software for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Altaro VM Backup software offers small businesses a dependable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, remote, multi-site, and cloud-hosted architectures and also enables cost-effective backup to Azure storage. Altaro VM Backup supports advanced capabilities such as Immutable Cloud Storage for enhanced recoverability from ransomware. Progent is an Altaro partner and offers a broad range of online or onsite services to assist you to plan, deploy, manage and debug a modern backup/restore system powered by Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a fully managed backup/recovery service based on Altaro VM Backup software. To learn more, go to Altaro VM Backup consulting services.

ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Services for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 provides rudimentary archiving but does not have integrated support for crucial data protection services such as Exchange Online backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time recovery for OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a feature-rich platform for automatic backup and rapid restoration of all your organization's M365 mailboxes, Microsoft Teams Chats, SharePoint documents, OneDrive data, and content on Windows endpoints. Progent is an authorized Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and has designed ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) 365 Total Backup to deliver end-to-end managed services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup suite. ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup delivers a low-cost backup-as-a-service solution that defends M365 apps against data loss caused by user or software mistakes, malicious sabotage, and cyber assaults like ransomware. For details, see ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup solutions for Microsoft 365.

Fully Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates and monitors your backup processes and allow rapid recovery of vital data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-premises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to restore your critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed cloud backup and recovery.

ProSight MSP360 Backup Solutions
Progent can help your company to design, deploy and debug a backup/restore solution based on MSP360 technology. MSP360 offers file or image-based backup/recovery for VMs and physical computers, works with all leading public clouds, and permits businesses to build a backup ecosystem with a minimum Recovery Time Objective and a granular Recovery Point Objective. With ProSight MSP360 Backup, Progent can provide end-to-end monitoring and management of your backup system to protect against data loss caused by human mistakes, computer errors, ill-intentioned users, and external attacks like ransomware. For details, see ProSight MSP360 Backup solutions.

Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup/Restore
Double-Take Software offers a family of tools designed to deliver small and midsize companies a range of cost-effective alternatives for replicating and restoring vital applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL, Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning consultants have extensive backgrounds integrating Double-Take Software products into small company information systems to create a high level of availability and disaster recovery readiness at a budget-friendly price. To read more, visit Consulting Services Double-Take Solutions for Backup.

Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Because Progent is a Microsoft Certified AI Cloud Partner and provides professional application expertise for a wide variety of small business software programs, Progent is able to assist clients to arrive at comprehensive IT solutions that substantially enhance the productivity of your network. As a Registered Partner for Cisco, Progent offers the services of certified engineers and specialists with experience in architecting, configuring and managing infrastructure environments built on Cisco products. The broad scope of Progent's IT experience and Progent's appreciation for the needs of small businesses make Progent the ideal resource for creating and maintaining a cost-effective, fault-tolerant network.

How You Can Contact Progent's Experts for Help with Non-stop Networks
In order to contact Progent about professional expertise for fault tolerant IT design, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.