Data Security and Safe Management Practices For Small and Midsize Company IT Networks: Additional Firewall/VPN Security Solutions
Progent provides small and medium size businesses expert consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPSec VPN technology from leading firewall and VPN security companies including WatchGuard, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to design a comprehensive security strategy and select appropriate products from a variety of vendors to achieve your security objectives while staying within your budget limits.
Progent's expert support team can help you define and deploy a smooth in-place Exchange Server 2007 upgrade strategy that avoids network downtime, simplifies ongoing support demands, and makes your Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server easy to manage. For complicated multi-server or multi-location migrations, Progent offers the experience to finish your move rapidly and economically. Progent's Exchange 2007 support, repair, and consulting services include assistance with the integration of third-party add-ons to Exchange 2007 Server that are best aligned to your business goals.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team offers computer troubleshooting and information technology consulting services for Microsoft Operations Manager and for the expanding family of Application Management Packs that extend the power of MOM to a broad array of business-critical applications. Progent offers consulting for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to bring small to mid-size information systems ultra-high reliability, protection and performance. Progent can show you how to benefit from Microsoft Operations Manager by providing needs assessment, deployment, configuration, customization, troubleshooting, Help Desk services, security planning, and management. With more than five years of experience working with the NetIQ platform upon which MOM is built, Progent's network consulting professionals can provide small companies enterprise-class support for MOM.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have 20 years of experience designing, installing, and maintaining email solutions for San Francisco Bay Area businesses. Progent provides economical Microsoft Exchange Servers consulting support to ensure that your email system features protection, fault tolerance, easy connectivity for off-site and mobile users, time-saving administrative tools, and seamless integration with telecommunications. Progent provides expertise and integration services for Exchange 2007 Server, Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server, Exchange 2000 Server, and Exchange Server 5.5. Progent can also assist small or mid-size businesses to migrate from Microsoft Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000, or Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server to Exchange Server 2007.
Microsoft Great Plains allows you to grow and manage your business better by offering easy access to decision-driving data and a fast return on investment. Microsoft Dynamics GP offers major business benefits such as its ability to extend the presence of your company, handle your financials, computerize financial processes, standardize processes throughout your company, improve inventory control, enhance order accuracy, expand revenue and shorten turnaround time, and maximize cash flow. Progent can show you how to configure and manage a robust, secure server and network foundation to support Great Plains, and can offer expert Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains consultants to help you derive the full benefits of your Microsoft Dynamics GP software.
For large businesses, Progent can supplement internal network support groups by providing world-class experience in supporting critical Microsoft and Cisco products. Progent's certified professionals can provide Enterprise Active Directory consulting, Exchange Server 2003 integration, Systems Management Server (SMS) experience, and SQL Server consulting. For the national or global enterprise with branches in the San Francisco Bay Area, Progent can perform as a seamless nearby extension of corporate network management. Progent’s enterprise support services include corporate-wide security, online branch office support, system design, Sarbox conformance, project management, and world-class service for multiple location office environments based on Enterprise Windows. Progent can offer on-site engineers and technicians to help with a campus move or branch move, or a system architect to assist with building or utilizing an Internet Data Center or Hosting Facility.
Progent’s Microsoft-certified consultants can provide small and midsize companies IT consulting, support, and troubleshooting services for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is an advanced portal solution for intelligently connecting people, groups and information. SharePoint Portal Server offers a central spot for your employees or clients to connect to, manage, share and interact with useful information, documents, and applications and to interact with other people. It enables faster and better decisions, more effective sharing across groups and more economical business practices. The primary goal of SharePoint Server is to gather together, in a productive way, all of the diverse sources of knowledge accessible within and without a business network. Windows SharePoint Services join workers, clients, teams and major tasks with the knowledge they’ve developed in a way that makes data convenient to locate, download and re-use.
Integration for Windows 2003 Cluster Server IT Consultants
Progent's high availability consulting services for small business IT systems offer Microsoft and Cisco-qualified consulting professionals who can help you implement clustered servers to create a robust network that includes essential technologies and processes for mission critical environments. Progent’s fault-tolerant network experts can help you create non-stop IT systems by designing and integrating the expanding suite of Microsoft Windows Cluster servers. Clustered Windows servers for high-availability systems include Microsoft Windows 2003 Cluster Server, SQL Server Cluster, and Exchange Cluster. By helping you build your non-stop environment based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Cluster, Progent’s consulting experts can help implement a network infrastructure with features that include high-availability Internet connections, network load balancing, fault tolerant data center planning, high-availability interoffice connections, high-reliability multi-location networks, and fault-tolerant disaster recovery.
Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants offer small and medium sized companies consulting services for Microsoft ISA Servers. Microsoft's Internet Security and Acceleration Server contains a full featured application-layer aware firewall that can protect your business network from attack by outside and internal threats. ISA Server provides deep inspection of Internet protocols such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which allows ISA Server to detect many attacks that can elude traditional firewalls. The integrated firewall and VPN architecture of ISA Server support stateful filtering and inspection of all VPN streams. ISA Servers are the centerpiece of Microsoft's system security strategy, and Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers and CISA and CISSP certified security professionals can help you strengthen your IT protection through experienced planning and integration of Microsoft ISA Servers. ISA Server is offered in several editions including the Microsoft ISA 2006 Enterprise Edition and the ISA 2006 Standard Edition. Progent’s ISA Server consulting staff can also show you how to integrate Microsoft Proxy Server and migrate from ISA 2000 Server to the newest editions of ISA Server.
Progent’s Microsoft qualified consultants offer small and medium-size businesses expert support services for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM 2005) and MOM 2000. MOM 2005 delivers extensible and expandable enterprise-class system management by featuring detailed event management, proactive monitoring and threshold alarms, recording and trend analysis, and system and program-specific intelligence and routines to improve the control of Windows Server System networks. Through internal application profiles, Microsoft MOM 2005 helps you identify your system health problems before they grow into disasters, improve the efficiency of your network operations via actionable best practices, and support your IT operations and senior administrative staff by sharing critical service level and capacity information. Progent’s MOM consulting experts have broad hands-on familiarity with MOM 2000 and MOM 2005 and can help your business install and configure MOM in order to optimize the availability and efficiency of your IT network.
Progent can assist you to plan and implement a smooth transition from a UNIX-powered IT system to a network based on Windows and suited for running Microsoft's familiar office productivity suites, commercial applications, and developer platforms. Progent's UNIX, Windows and Cisco consultants and application specialists can assist you to guard your information and minimize productivity discontinuity by designing an effective migration plan that preserves your existing assets in UNIX application and infrastructure. UNIX-to-Windows migration support expertise available from Progent include analysis of existing infrastructure, migration planning and testing, Exchange migration support, data and application migration, and server and mass storage transition and consolidation.
Progent’s IT outsourcing services offer affordable computer consulting for medium-size corporations. Whether it includes planning system architecture, setting up an in-house Help Desk or outsourcing a one, rolling out an updated e-mail platform, monitoring your network, or developing a web-based business application, outsourcing your IT engineering services can smooth out costs and minimize risks, permitting network support expenses to grow in a more linear and manageable fashion than is feasible by amassing a large, all-purpose in-house IT staff. Progent’s Outsourcing White Paper and datasheets show how Progent can help you build a secure and highly available network architecture for your vital Windows-based business software such as Office XP, Microsoft Office 2003, and Office 2000.
Progent can supply small businesses with an IT management expert who can function as a part-time Chief Information Officer. This part-time Chief Information Officer can provide strategic direction to help you integrate appropriate IT products to improve business processes so they match more closely with your business objectives. Your business can create and implement a well thought out information technology strategy without absorbing the expense of a full-time Chief Technology Officer.
Progent’s Cisco Security/VPN professionals and CCIE and CCNP certified experts can help your small or mid-size company integrate and maintain Cisco’s security and Virtual Private Network technology including routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN access concentrators. Cisco Virtual Private Network solutions include both off-site access and site-to-site VPNs with Cisco IOS Software and Advanced Integrated Module hardware encryption cards, and hardware appliances, such as a VPN concentrator, router, Cisco PIX Firewall, or dedicated VPN server for dial-up services. Cisco VPN products are easy to administer and provide the versatility to expand with your 1:25 PM 6/28/2006growing business needs. Progent’s Cisco-certified network experts support Cisco’s complete family of products aimed at preventing data theft, virus and worm outbreaks, DDoS attacks, and other threats to your information system. Progent can help you integrate Cisco products to achieve safe access, intrusion protection, and comprehensive Identity services based on Cisco ACS using RADIUS security and TACACS to create a centralized user access control framework for user certification, authorization, and tracking from an easy-to-use Web interface.
With Cisco Catalyst switches for small and medium-sized companies, Cisco enables companies to realize all the advantages of bringing intelligent services into their IT infrastructures. Cisco's switching product line makes it possible to enable features to make your IT network sufficiently robust to handle time-critical requirements, expandable to support future growth, secure enough to protect confidential data, and capable of differentiating and controlling traffic flows to optimize system operations. Progent's CCIE certified engineers can show you how to pick out and deploy Cisco switches that make sense for your company. In addition, Progent's CISSP certified security specialists can show you how to develop a comprehensive security plan and set up Cisco switches so they powerfully support your security strategy. Catalyst switches that Progent supports include Cisco's Catalyst 2950 switches, Catalyst 3560 switches, Cisco Catalyst 4948 switches, and Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches.
