Progent has agent agreements with several of the industry's leading data and voice carriers and can provide your company the same data/voice bundles you can purchase by buying direct. Progent can also help you to determine the service packages that make the best sense for your organization and can provide world-class consulting expertise to help you incorporate your data/voice services into a communications solution that optimizes the business value of your IT network. Service providers whose services are offered by Progent include AT&T, Speakeasy, and New Edge Networks.
Progent's network professionals can help you analyze the possible benefits of Hyper-V-based server virtualization for your business, conduct test installations to validate Hyper-V's compatibility with your production applications, evaluate your network architecture for smooth performance with virtualization technology, help you in upgrading to Windows Server 2008 and configuring Hyper-V, train your network management personnel to track and administer Hyper-V, offer world-class consulting support for improving the protection of your virtual machines, design and validate business continuity procedures that optimize system uptime, and deliver ongoing consulting and technical support including affordable low-cost online repair and comprehensive Help Desk services.
Even if your business has a minimal network support group and a limited IT budget, your information system can still feature the same high availability and performance that once required a large internal support group. Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services for small businesses combine the experience of skilled Microsoft-qualified and Cisco-qualified IT professionals, the most recent network management products for 24x7 monitoring and threshold alarms, and cost-effective service packages such as a help desk call center to keep your mission-critical business applications and hardware operating. Progent's 24x7 Network Management Services include round-the-clock network monitoring, server monitoring, and application monitoring to cut service costs, fix trouble spots quickly, and prepare for issues before they degrade network performance. Progent is expert at installing System Center 2005, part of Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative powered by Microsoft Operations Manager (Microsoft MOM) to deliver comprehensive event management. Progent can help with MOM 2000 and MOM 2005 to offer small company networks enterprise-class reliability, protection and capacity.
The service background of Progent's certified Microsoft Windows Server 2003 consulting team, with an average of more than 11 years of work in Microsoft technology, assures you success in selecting the edition and set up of Windows 2003 Server that matches most closely with your company's strategy. Progent can also help you with planning, deploying, administering and supporting powerful information technology applications powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and can assist your upgrade from Windows 2000 Server or Windows NT.
Small to middle size businesses can now enjoy all the advantages of MOM and also have quick access to Progent’s Microsoft and Cisco qualified IT consulting experts. With Progent's affordably priced network service programs, mid-size businesses can select a basic MOM-based co-sourcing service program with server monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and online service or a complete 24x7 outsourcing solution. Progent supports Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and MOM 2000 to provide small business networks world-class reliability, security and performance.
Progent’s data center support services are designed for businesses with equipment housed at Internet Data Centers or data center collocation hosting sites and requiring timely in-person assistance at the colocation site plus off-site help from Microsoft and Cisco certified professionals. Progent offers a full range of IDC and IDC and colo support services including system topology evaluation, Windows and Linux server installation and maintenance, troubleshooting for server and telecommunications networking, design and deployment of fault tolerant configurations, defining and implementing layered security defenses, firewall integration and support, designing load balancing solutions, and planning fault tolerant server and storage clustering configurations.
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can help you design and implement an efficient in-place Microsoft Exchange 2007 upgrade plan that avoids productivity downtime, reduces ongoing support demands, and makes your Exchange Server 2007 easy to manage. For complex multi-server or multi-site upgrades, Progent has the experience to finish your move quickly and affordably. Progent's Exchange 2007 support, repair, and design services include expertise with the configuration of outside vendor enhancements of Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server that are in keeping with your business goals.
Progent’s Cisco-qualified technology professionals offer wireless consulting support for Cisco WAP and wireless bridge technology. Cisco provides access points that have either single 802.11g radios for up to 54 Mbps of capacity or dual-radio access points supporting both 802.11g and 802.11a for as much as 108 Mbps of network capacity. Progent’s Cisco wireless consultants can offer expertise for the whole family of Cisco 802.11g wireless access points and wireless bridges such as the Cisco Aironet 350 Access Point, the Cisco Aironet 350 Wireless Bridge, the Cisco Aironet 1130AG Series and 1230AG Series access points, the Cisco Aironet 1300 Series Outdoor Access Point/Bridge, the Cisco Aironet 1400 Wireless Bridge, plus any Cisco 802.11b Wireless Access Point product. The Cisco Aironet 1130AG Series and 1230AG Series access points are built to protect present and future system infrastructure dollars10:25 AM 6/28/2006. The 802.11a transceiver supports data rates of as much as 54 Mbps on 12 non-overlapping 5 GHz channels to offer high bandwidth plus high expandability. The 802.11g transceiver allows throughput as high as 54 Mbps in the 2.4 GHz band. When using an 802.11g radio, the access point may be configured to support only 802.11g users for high-performance scenarios, or, for added investment protection, it may be configured to support both 802.11g and legacy 802.11b technology.
Les Kent has a 25-year history of successful network integration, corporate administration, marketing, and operations. He has shown a talent for creating elegant information technology solutions in his roles as as a network architect, software developer, project manager, implementation expert, and troubleshooter for small businesses, new ventures, and global corporations.
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT experts can show you how to build an economical, high availability Internet connection architecture that can deliver 24x7 Internet access via a broad range of high availability Internet network technologies including non-stop BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant ISPs. Progent can provide CCIE consultants to help you utilize the latest techniques for high availability Internet access to create a cost-effective, completely redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other features to deliver fault tolerant Internet access.
Progent's Linux support experts offer small companies and developers support for managing and supporting Linux systems that run with Microsoft-powered technology. Progent offers your business contact with Linux experts, consulting professionals qualified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISA and CISSP certification. This wide range of expertise provides you with a convenient single source to help you build and manage a protected and robust mixed-platform network and communications infrastructure that allows Linux and Microsoft coexistence by combining MS Windows with major Linux platforms such as RedHat, SUSE, Mandrake/Mandriva, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware.
Progent provides the services of Microsoft and Cisco-qualified IT support professionals to show customers economical ways to help companies maximize the value of Microsoft and Cisco technology. For networks that span from small offices to nationwide corporations, Progent's network engineers can help you enhance your information system's e-mail infrastructure, protection, reliability, performance, and IT management.
