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In situations where a single server or cluster can't provide the throughput required for a critical application, load balancing of multiple servers offers a solution that not only enhances performance but, as a natural byproduct, provides fault tolerance by working around failed servers in a load-balanced farm. Firewalls and routers can also be set up in a load-balanced and fault-tolerant configuration, so that failures of a single device have limited impact on overall system functionality. It is far easier for users and organizations to manage the impacts of reduced resources or bandwidth than to deal with complete outages.

Load balancing solutions area well suited for many web based applications where the front-end web servers can utilize the services of a back-end clustered SQL Server data repository. Applications such as web-based eCommerce are ideal candidates for a load-balanced configuration. Load balancing can provide greatly improved operational reliability because failed servers are transparently removed from the resource farm, thus making such failures nearly invisible to users.

Once you have established a base architecture for a load balancing environment, you have cleared the way for future growth and scalability because adding additional resources to the server farm is a seamless process.

Progent is experienced with a wide range of load balancing technologies covering server balancing, application balancing, and LAN/WAN infrastructure routing. Progent offers consulting expertise with products from the leading vendors of load balancing technology including Microsoft, Cisco, Citrix, and F-5 networks.

Windows Server 2016 Virtual Machine Load Balancing
VM Load Balancing is a new feature of Windows Server 2016 that can automatically and non-disruptively migrate virtual machines between nodes within a Failover Cluster. VM Load Balancing improves Failover Cluster availability and performance and can help you avoid the need to add physical servers to peak workloads. Virtual Machine M Load Balancing automatically determines whether a node has become over utilized and moves virtual machines from the over-committed node to an under-committed node, for example a server that has been freshly rebooted. This entails no cluster downtime, adheres to failure policies such as fault domains, and uses advanced heuristics for measuring VM memory pressure and CPU utilization of the node. Virtual Machine Load Balancing can be set up to run every 30 minutes or on demand. You can use PowerShell to pick one of three thresholds for establishing the aggressiveness of load balancing.

Cisco Content Services Switches and Cisco IOS-based Routers
Through content fast switching and forwarding, the Cisco CSS 11500 Series switches improve utilization, responsiveness, availability, scalability, and security of Web sites, server farms, cache clusters, and firewall systems. Load balancing is a standard functionality of the Cisco IOS router software, and is available across all router platforms. It is based on standard routing protocols, such as Routing Information Protocol (RIP), RIPv2, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP), or derived from statically configured routes and packet forwarding mechanisms. Progent's Cisco-certified network engineers can help you select and deploy a Cisco-based network infrastructure that makes good business sense for your environment and can configure Cisco's IOS Server Load Balancing (SLB) service. To find out more about Progent's Cisco consulting services, see Cisco Consulting Support.

Citrix Metaframe, Presentation Server, and Access Gateway
Citrix Presentation Server is an application delivery system offering client-side and server-side application virtualization for enhanced application performance and flexible delivery options. Citrix Presentation Server allows organizations to centralize applications and data in secure data centers, reducing costs of management and support, increasing data security, and ensuring consistently high performance. MetaFrame Secure Access Manager technology has been integrated into Citrix Access Gateway, an SSL VPN that securely delivers any application with policy-based SmartAccess control. Users have easy-to use secure access to the applications and data they need to be productive. Organizations can cost effectively extend access to datacenter resources from outside the office while maintaining control through comprehensive SmartAccess policies. Progent's Citrix-certified consultants can help you implement Citrix products to help optimize application performance and availability.

F5 Networks BIG-IP and BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
F5 Networks' BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery networking system featuring a set of unified application infrastructure services. BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager removes single points of failure and virtualizes the network and applications using L7 intelligence. LTM improves application performance, increases the capacity of existing infrastructure, and lowers infrastructure costs. BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager uses topology-based load balancing to inspect a user's IP and determine the most efficient data center. When users try to access a data center that is overloaded or unreachable, BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager automatically and seamlessly directs them to a secondary data center. This capability makes BIG-IP GTM especially important for enterprises that need to maintain operations in the event of a natural disaster, power failure, or any other large-scale service disruption. Learn more about Progent's disaster recovery consulting.

High Availability Solutions Supported by Progent
Progent's certified consulting experts can assist your company to create a cost-effective, high-availability system that addresses key challenges covering a wide array of networking solutions and processes such as:

Workplace Recovery Planning
Progent's disaster recovery planning consultants can help you design a workplace recovery strategy that will allow you to resume network operations in the event of an IT network catastrophe. Progent can assist you to create a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that incorporates periodic disaster recovery assessments and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized professionals can also show you how to build an affordable, fault-tolerant network architecture that takes into account reliability issues involving a broad range of infrastructure technologies and procedures. To find out more, visit Workplace Recovery Consulting Services.

CRISC-Premier IT Risk Management
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and execute a business continuity strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. To find out more, go to CRISC-Certified network risk management experts.

Windows Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Windows Server 2019 introduced important improvements in scale, throughput, management, cybersecurity, app compatibility, Linux co-existence, container networking, and hybrid integration of on-premises and cloud-hosted assets. Headline enhancements of Windows Server 2019 are Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management and monitoring of hybrid local/cloud-hosted 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 managing large non-stop scale-out clusters, and Storage Migration Service for streamlining the upgrade process from outdated versions of Windows Server. For details, see Windows Server 2019 Fault-tolerant Failover Clustering Support.

Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery experts can assist your organization to design a DR solution based on Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies including Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Storage Spaces Direct for high-performance network-attached storage using industry-standard hardware, Virtual Machine Load Balancing for improving the performance and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while reducing TCO and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for easy, affordable creation of a failover cluster quorum arbitration point. For details, see Microsoft Server 2016 Disaster Recovery Help.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is an extension to VMware vCenter that allows you to orchestrate, automate and test a repeatable process for restoring services quickly after a breakdown. SRM supports centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, and non-disruptive site relocation, failback and site re-protect. SRM also enables non-intrusive testing for site recovery, updates and patches and can produce audit reports to verify complete service recovery, validate SLAs and prove compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consulting expert to assist you to design, deploy, test and manage a disaster recovery system powered by VMware Site Recovery Manager.

NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Technology
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that uses array-based storage clustering with replication to deliver fast, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between datacenters that are up to 185 miles apart. Progent offers access to a certified NetApp MetroCluster expert who can help your business to design, deploy, administer, update, test and repair a disaster recovery solution built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your functional needs and IT budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to best practices for configuring your MetroCluster environment by delivering guidance with procedures such as assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, determining aggregate and plexes layout, setting up volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, installing switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, setting up a configuration replication network, and verifying your DR solution to prove adherence with industry standards and government requirements.

Non-stop Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can help you find zero-downtime data centers that meet the particular needs of your business. High availability colocation sites are especially attractive to small and mid-size organizations because of their low cost and convenience compared to taking a do-it-yourself strategy. Trying to create an in-house data center with even a basic level of fault tolerance is too expensive for most small organizations. Progent is ready to help you reap all the advantages of high-availability colocation centers by offering a full range of consulting and maintenance services. To learn more, go to High-Availability Colocation Expertise.

Non-stop Inter-office Connectivity
Progent's inter-site connectivity professionals can help companies achieve non-stop multi-site connections via redundant system architectures with transparent failover. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network engineers can plan and deploy high-availability Inter-office connections supported by non-stop EIGRP network routers or non-stop OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how multi-path connectivity and automatic fail-over offers economical non-stop interoffice networking. To find out more, see 24x7 Interoffice Connectivity.

Non-stop Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT experts can show you how to create an economical, high availability Internet connection solution that can deliver 24x7 Internet access through a wide array of high availability Internet network solutions including non-stop BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant ISPs. Progent offers CCIE engineers to show you how to utilize the latest technology for fault tolerant Internet access to implement an affordable, completely redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other capabilities to create zero-downtime Internet connections. To learn more, visit Non-stop Internet Connectivity Solutions.

Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting
Progent can provide affordable online support from consultants with expertise in a wide array of utilities and technologies that provide solutions for backing up Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux physical and virtual servers and desktops as well as notebooks and smartphones. Progent offers consulting support for leading backup products including Acronis, Backup Exec, BackupAssist, HP Data Protector, Double-Take Software, Mozy, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery (VDR), and FLARs. Progent can help you to install, enhance, or troubleshoot backup solutions for a range of environments such as on-premises, edge to datacenter, cloud-based, or hybrid. To read more, see Backup and Restore Technology Consulting and Support Services.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Recovery Consulting Experts
Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) consultants can help your company to create an effective business continuity plan, implement a cost-effective fault-tolerante IT infrastructure, install a SCDPM-powered backup and restore solution, comprehensively test your DPM system, educate your IT staff or regular consultants how to maintain SCDPM, or provide complete information technology outsourcing such as remote hosting of virtual or physical SCDPM machines in Progent's world-class data center. To read more, go to System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting and Support Services.

Barracuda Backup Cloud and Offsite Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription-based backup and disaster recovery service for small and mid-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup solution can incorporate a purpose-built hardware appliance manufactured by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar functionality but which uses your own storage hardware. Barracuda Backup safeguards critical company data generated on-premises, at one or more remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster recovery, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any location with a Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants can provide a broad range of consulting services to assist you to plan, configure, manage and debug a BDR solution based on Barracuda Backup. For more information, visit Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting.

ProSight Altaro VM Backup Software for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Hornetsecurity's Altaro VM Backup software provides small and mid-size organizations a reliable and affordable platform for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in on-premises, offsite, distributed, and cloud-hosted architectures and also enables cost-effective cloud backup to Microsoft Azure storage. Altaro VM Backup supports advanced features like Immutable Cloud Storage for enhanced recoverability from ransomware. Progent is a certified Altaro partner and can provide a wide range of remote or onsite consulting services to help you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot a comprehensive backup/restore system based on Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a fully managed backup/recovery service based on Altaro VM Backup software. To read more, see Altaro VM Backup consulting services.

ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup Services for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 provides rudimentary archiving but does not include integrated support for key data protection capabilities like Exchange backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a feature-rich BDR solution for programmable backup and rapid recovery of all your company's M365 mail, Teams Chats, SharePoint documents, OneDrive for Business data, and content on Windows desktops and laptops. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and has designed ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup to provide comprehensive management services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup product. ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup delivers a budget-friendly backup-as-a-service alternative that guards M365 components against data loss or corruption resulting from human or software mistakes, malicious sabotage, and malware assaults such as ransomware. To learn more, go to ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup services for Microsoft 365.

Fully Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO automates and monitors your backup activities and allow fast restoration of critical files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO managed backup and recovery.

ProSight MSP360 Backup Solutions
Progent can help your company to design, implement and troubleshoot a backup solution based on MSP360 software. MSP360 enables file/folder or image backup/recovery for VMs and physical computers, works with all leading public clouds, and permits businesses to create a backup solution with a minimum Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a defined Recovery Point Objective. With ProSight MSP360 Backup, Progent can provide end-to-end monitoring and remote management of your backup system to protect against data loss resulting from user miscues, computer glitches, ill-intentioned users, and external assaults like ransomware. For more information, visit ProSight MSP360 Backup services.

Consulting for Double-Take Software for Backup and Recovery
Double-Take Software publishes a family of tools designed to deliver small businesses a range of affordable solutions for backing up and restoring vital workloads including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL, Blackberry, and Microsoft SharePoint. Progent's business continuity planning consultants have in-depth backgrounds integrating Double-Take Software technology into small company information systems to create an advanced level of availability and disaster recovery capability at a budget-friendly cost. To read more, go to Consulting for Double-Take Software for Backup.

Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning?
Since Progent is a Microsoft Certified AI Cloud Partner and provides high-level application support for a wide range of small business applications, Progent is able to help customers to arrive at efficient information technology solutions that optimize the business value of your network. As a Registered Partner for Cisco, Progent offers the support of premier consultants and specialists with expertise in designing, implementing and managing infrastructure environments based on Cisco products. The breadth of Progent's technical know-how and Progent's sensitivity to the needs of small businesses make Progent the ideal partner for creating and running a cost-effective, fault-tolerant information system.

How to Contact Progent's Engineers for Support for Fault Tolerant Computer Networks
To contact Progent about technical assistance for fault tolerant LAN design, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.