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(Note: Microsoft has terminated support for Windows Server 2003 and it is advisable to consider upgrading from this legacy OS to an up-to-date version of Windows Server. If your organization is considering moving up to Windows Server 2019 or Windows Server 2016, Progent can provide online and onsite Windows Server 2019 planning and configuration consulting services or Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consulting to ensure your project finishes on time and within budget. In addition, Progent's Windows Server Failover Clustering Consultants can help you a configure and troubleshoot a high-availability clustering solution based on Microsoft's latest technology.

Even with typical fault tolerant feature found in high-end server hardware, such as redundant power supplies and mirrored or RAID 5 disk arrays, failed devices must be identified and replacement components must be procured and installed. These failures can bring down a server for hours, if not days. Furthermore, during regularly scheduled software maintenance functions, servers need to be rebooted or brought off-line for an extended period. For customers who need 100% uptime, the only solution is to deploy a clustered server configuration that provides fully redundant servers for a single application.

A server cluster is a group of independent computers that work together to provide a common set of services. Windows 2003 provides this high-availability solution with the Cluster service. If a cluster node (a computer in a cluster) fails, other nodes in the cluster assume the functions of the failed node. Server clustering is an essential piece of any fault-tolerant architecture, and making large investments in communication infrastructure redundancy without providing for server redundancy defeats the value of that investment.

Progent offers Windows 2003 Server consulting to help your company implement clustered server configurations that can potentially provide 100% uptime, even for normal maintenance functions. This high-availability is possible because a single server in a cluster can be brought off-line for maintenance work without affecting users. Clustering also allows IT personal to perform critical security updates during regular business hours without reducing user productivity.

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server offers mature clustering technology. This is the third major release of Microsoft clustering technology, which was first released in 1997. Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, and Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition, present a single view of the server to users, applications, and the network and both versions of Windows Server 2003 support up to eight-node clusters. Failover clustering configurations can be built around Microsoft technologies for mission-critical and collaborative applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server file and print services.

Host Clustering with Microsoft Virtual Server
Virtual Server host clustering is a technique for enhancing the capability of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 with the server cluster support incorporated in Microsoft Windows Server 2003. By means of Virtual Server host clustering, your network can benefit from an array of services via a minimum number of actual hardware servers and, simultaneously, ensure the high availability of the provided services. In case one server requires scheduled or unscheduled downtime, another server can immediately take its place and begin supporting services. As a result, your clients experience minimal service disruption. Progent's Microsoft-certified network engineers have in-depth experience deploying and supporting Microsoft Virtual Server. For more information, refer to Consulting Services for Microsoft Virtual Server.

Server Clustering and Storage Area Networks
A storage area network (SAN) is a set of disks, tapes, and servers connected to a common infrastructure, or storage fabric, such as Fibre Channel. A SAN allows multiple servers to access a common pool of storage. This allows storage to be assigned dynamically from the pool whenever it is required. Storage on a given server can be increased or decreased as needed without complex reconfiguring or re-cabling of devices. SAN technology is a good way to build clusters where shared access to a data set is required. By deploying multiple clusters onto a single storage area network, all of the benefits of SAN technology can be brought to the cluster environment. Progent's Microsoft certified engineers can show you how to combine Microsoft's server cluster technology with storage area networking to make your network more fault tolerant and easier to manage.

Server Clustering with Microsoft Exchange
Messaging systems based on Microsoft Exchange are vital for many businesses. Unfortunately, this crucial function is vulnerable to component failure, power loss, operator errors, and natural disasters. By allowing the failover of resources, server clustering provides fault tolerance for an Exchange environment. Server clusters that use the Microsoft Cluster Service can maintain data integrity and provide failover support and high availability for mission-critical applications and services on your back-end servers, including messaging systems, databases, and file and print services.

This figure shows an example of a four-node Exchange cluster with three active nodes and a passive standby node:

Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange experts have proven, world-class skills in designing high-availability Exchange environments and can show you how to configure an Exchange Server cluster with shared data access to data and automatic failover capabilities. For details about Exchange consulting services available from Progent, visit Microsoft Exchange Consulting Support.

Non-stop Technologies Supported by Progent's Consultants
Progent's certified consultants can assist your business to design an efficient, zero-downtime environment that resolves critical challenges encompassing a broad array of infrastructure solutions and operations including:

Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's disaster recovery planning consultants can show you how to create a business continuity plan in order to restore network operations in the event of an IT system catastrophe. Progent can help you to define a complete disaster recovery plan that incorporates periodic disaster recovery evaluations and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized professionals can also show you how to create an affordable, non-stop network solution that addresses availability issues covering a wide array of infrastructure technologies and processes. For details, visit Business Continuity Consulting Services.

CRISC-Premier Network Risk Mitigation
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. To find out more, go to CRISC-Certified network risk management experts.

Microsoft Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 introduced important enhancements in capacity, performance, management, cybersecurity, application compatibility, Linux co-existence, Kubernetes technology, and hybrid combinations of on-premises and cloud-hosted resources. Headline enhancements of Windows Server 2019 include Windows Admin Center for centralizing the management of hybrid local/cloud deployments, System Insights for taking advantage of advance predictive analytics to manage on-premises networks, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Exploit Guard for host-intrusion defense, container networking with Kubernetes, Cluster Sets technology for deploying and managing massive non-stop scale-out clusters, and Microsoft's Storage Migration Service for simplifying the migration from legacy editions of Windows Server. To learn more, see Microsoft Server 2019 High Availability Failover Clustering Help.

Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consultants can help your organization to design a DR system built around Microsoft's latest Failover Clustering tools including Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class storage clusters using commodity equipment, Virtual Machine Load Balancing for enhancing the performance and fault-tolerance of Failover Clusters while reducing TCO and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for easy, economical creation of a failover cluster quorum witness. To learn more, see Windows Server 2016 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Expertise.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is a component of VMware vCenter that lets you orchestrate, automate and verify a consistent runbook for restoring applications and services quickly after a breakdown. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally managed and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site migration, failback and site re-protect. SRM also enables transparent testing for disaster recovery, updates and patches and can produce audit reports to confirm full service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate compliance. Progent offers the skills of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to help you to design, configure, test and maintain a disaster recovery system powered by VMware SRM.

NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Software
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery software suite that combines failover storage clustering along with continual replication to provide fast, zero RPO disaster recovery between sites that are as far as 185 miles (300km) away from one another. Progent can provide the skills of a NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can help your business to plan, deploy, manage, update, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select a topology for your MetroCluster environment that meets your functional needs and budget. Progent can make sure you follow leading practices for configuring your MetroCluster environment by delivering guidance with tasks like assigning shelf IDs, arranging plexes layout, setting up volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning switches, implementing a tiebreaker, setting up a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your DR system to prove adherence with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

High Availability Load Balancing
Progent provides high availability load balancing support covering network load balancing, load balanced programs, network backbone routing, and content delivery products including Cisco Content Engine. High availability load balancing technologies for which Progent offers consulting services include Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Access Gateway, Cisco CSS, Cisco Content Distribution Manager and ACNS, and F5 Networks BIG-IP. To read more, visit High Availability Load Balancing.

Zero Downtime Colocation
Progent's Data Center consultants can help you find high availability data centers that meet the specific requirements of your company. Fault tolerant off-site data centers are particularly attractive to small and mid-size companies due to of their low cost and convenience compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself strategy. Attempting to build an in-house data center with even a minimum level of fault tolerance is too costly for the majority of small organizations. Progent is ready to help you get all the advantages of non-stop colo centers by offering a complete range of consulting and support services. To learn more, see Non-stop Data Centers Solutions.

Fault Tolerant Interoffice Connectivity
Progent's multi-site connectivity engineers can help companies achieve non-stop interoffice connectivity via redundant networks with automatic failover. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE engineers can plan and deploy ultra-reliable Inter-office networks based on fault tolerant EIGRP network routers or zero-downtime OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how redundant connectivity and automatic fail-over offers affordable non-stop interoffice connectivity. To find out more, go to 24x7 Inter-office Networking.

24x7 Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-certified network experts can show you how to build an affordable, fault tolerant Internet configuration solution that can achieve non-stop Internet access via a wide range of high availability Internet access solutions including non-stop BGP, automatic fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent can provide CCIE engineers to help you apply the most up-to-date techniques for fault tolerant Internet connections to build an affordable, completely redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other capabilities to create zero-downtime Internet connections. To learn more, visit High Availability Internet Access Solutions.

Backup and Recovery Solutions Consulting Experts
Progent offers economical remote support from engineers with expertise in a broad array of utilities and technologies that provide solutions for backing up Windows, Mac, and Linux servers and workstations plus laptops and smartphones. Progent can provide consulting support for leading backup platforms such as Acronis Backup and Recovery, Symantec Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, CrashPlan PRO, Double-Take Software, MozyPro, Retrospect for Macintosh, Apple Time Machine, vSphere Data Protection, and Oracle Solaris FLARs. Progent can assist you to install, upgrade, or maintain backup solutions for a range of environments including on-premises, edge to datacenter, cloud, or hybrid. To read more, go to Backup and Recovery Technology Consulting Services.

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) Backup and Restore Consulting and Support Services
Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager consultants can assist your company to create an effective business continuity strategy, design a cost-effective high-availability IT architecture, install a Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager-based recovery system, comprehensively test your DPM system, educate your IT personnel or local service providers how to manage Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, or provide complete IT outsourcing services such as off-site hosting of System Center Data Protection Manager machines in Progent's data center facility. To read more, see Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Consulting and Support Services.

Barracuda Backup On-premises and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription backup and disaster recovery service for small and medium-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup solution can incorporate a purpose-built physical appliance manufactured by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar features but which utilizes your own storage hardware. Barracuda Backup safeguards vital company data generated on-premises, at one or multiple remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster recovery, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any site with a Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts can provide a wide array of consulting services to assist you to design, integrate, operate and debug a backup and disaster recovery system based on Barracuda technology. For more information, go to Barracuda Backup and disaster recovery consulting.

ProSight Altaro VM Backup Solutions for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Hornetsecurity's Altaro VM Backup provides small and mid-size organizations a dependable and budget-friendly solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, remote, distributed, and cloud-hosted architectures and also supports cost-effective cloud backup to Microsoft Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup supports high-end capabilities like Immutable Cloud Storage for an extra layer of protection from ransomware. Progent is an Altaro partner and can provide a wide array of remote or onsite services to assist you to plan, deploy, manage and debug a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution based on Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a managed backup/restore service based on Altaro VM Backup software. To learn more, go to Altaro VM Backup certified consultants.

ProSight DPS 365 Total Backup Solutions for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 provides rudimentary archiving but does not have native support for crucial data protection capabilities such as Exchange backups or greater than 30-day point-in-time data recovery for OneDrive or SharePoint Online. Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup provides a feature-rich BDR solution for automatic backup and rapid restoration of all your organization'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 offers ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup to deliver end-to-end managed services for Hornetsecurity's 365 Total Backup product. ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup provides an affordable backup-as-a-service alternative that protects M365 apps against data loss resulting from human or system error, malicious sabotage, and malware assaults such as ransomware. To find out more, visit ProSight Data Protection Services 365 Total Backup services for Microsoft 365.

Managed Cloud Backup: ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS ECHO automates and monitors your backup processes and enable rapid recovery of critical files, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS ECHO can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide world-class support to set up ProSight DPS ECHO to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS ECHO managed backup and recovery.

ProSight MSP360 Backup Services
Progent's data protection experts can help your company to create, implement and debug a backup/restore solution based on MSP360 software. MSP360 enables file or image backup/recovery for virtual machines and physical computers, supports all popular public clouds, and allows businesses to build a data protection ecosystem with a minimum Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a defined Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight MSP360 Backup, Progent offers end-to-end monitoring and remote management of your backup environment to prevent data loss caused by user miscues, computer glitches, ill-intentioned users, and malware assaults such as ransomware. To read more, visit ProSight MSP360 Backup solutions.

Consulting for Double-Take Software for Data Backup and Recovery
Double-Take Software publishes a selection of tools designed to deliver small companies a range of affordable alternatives for backing up and restoring business-critical workloads including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent's disaster recovery planning experts have in-depth backgrounds integrating Double-Take Software technology into small business IT networks to create an advanced state of availability and disaster recovery readiness at a budget-friendly cost. For details, visit Consulting Services Double-Take Software for Data Backup.

Why Choose Progent for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Solutions?
Since Progent is a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner and provides high-level application expertise for a wide range of business software programs, Progent is able to help clients to arrive at efficient information technology solutions that maximize the productivity of your network. As a Registered Partner with Cisco, Progent can provide the services of premier consultants and specialists with expertise in architecting, configuring and supporting infrastructure solutions based on Cisco technology. The broad scope of Progent's technical know-how and Progent's appreciation for the needs of small businesses make Progent the ideal partner for creating and running a cost-effective, high-availability network.

How You Can Access Progent's Engineers for Support for Fault Tolerant IT Systems
If you wish to ask Progent about technical expertise for non-stop infrastructure, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.