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Progent's IT consulting clients in the Petaluma/Sonoma area include law firms, wineries, and companies involved in manufacturing, Internet technologies, food processing, and distribution. Progent has helped companies in this area to relocate and consolidate their networks, build end-to-end systems for eCommerce and integrated ERP, and set up remote monitoring and Help Desks.

Small businesses in Petaluma and Sonoma need to leverage IT technologies without building up large in-house IT staffs. A low-overhead virtual network of service experts plus proven 24x7 monitoring and remote troubleshooting services allow Progent to offer responsive and professional on-site and remote support from Microsoft- and Cisco-certified experts at affordable rates.

Your Microsoft Certified IT Service Experts
For over 20 years, Progent's network service engineers have been the top providers of economical Microsoft consulting, Cisco network technology integration and IT consulting services for businesses in Northern California and Silicon Valley. Whether your organization needs emergency network support from a seasoned professional, a network consultant, or a software developer, Progent is the most reliable source for IT services such as e-mail and messaging assistance, network security evaluation and enhancement, Help Desk outsourcing, specialized application design, virtual server consulting, live online instruction for Microsoft Office and Office 365 apps, and high availability network design.

As a Microsoft-authorized computer consulting firm, Progent offers businesses in the Petaluma neighborhood world-class information technology consulting expertise plus online or on-premises technical help for environments based on Windows and Cisco platforms. Areas of expertise provided by Progent include Windows Server 2016 hybrid cloud solutions, Windows Server 2012 R2 design and deployment expertise and Windows Server 2008 R2 upgrade support to build a dependable basis for your information system, MS Exchange 2016 Server planning and deployment, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 integration and Exchange 2010 management to establish an advanced email environment, MS SharePoint assistance to improve information sharing, SQL Server 2016 integration and development consulting and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 consulting to harness your key corporate data, Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains software customization for timely management information, and Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager (SCOM 2012) support and Operations Manager 2016 consulting for proactively monitoring the reliability of your network. Progent can also provide Cisco qualified network consultants to show you how to maximize and support your network architecture.

Other on-premises and online information technology consulting services available from Progent to clients in Petaluma include project management consulting, iPhone and iPad integration, Android smartphone integration and management, RIM Blackberry support and Microsoft Windows handhelds integration, wireless site design for Wi-Fi installation, database management and software programming services from certified Microsoft SQL experts, Oracle DBAs and developers, and MySQL application programmers, virtual server design and support from certified Windows Hyper-V integrators, VMware vSphere and vCloud planning and deployment, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) application continuity consulting, VMware NSX virtual network architecture and management, and Citrix XenServer integrators, plus business continuity planning and testing.

Progent's ProSight Flat-rate Managed Services for Small and Medium Size Organizations
Progent provides a family of low-cost, fixed-price managed services intended to enable small and mid-size organizations to benefit from the same best-of-breed IT solutions deployed by many of the industry's top enterprises. The ProSight series of outsourced network management services covers all key areas of modern networking such as email protection, threat defense based on machine leaning, automated backup and disaster recovery, network infrastructure management, virtual server hosting, and network asset documentation management. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

• ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
  ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

• ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security and Exchange Filtering
  ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

• ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
  ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of vital data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

• ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
  ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

• ProSight WAN Watch: Network Infrastructure Management
  Progent’s ProSight WAN Watch is an infrastructure management service that makes it simple and affordable for small and mid-sized organizations to map out, monitor, enhance and troubleshoot their networking appliances such as routers, firewalls, and wireless controllers plus servers, printers, endpoints and other devices. Using cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management technology, WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology maps are always updated, copies and displays the configuration information of almost all devices on your network, tracks performance, and sends notices when issues are discovered. By automating time-consuming management activities, ProSight WAN Watch can knock hours off common chores like making network diagrams, expanding your network, finding appliances that need critical updates, or identifying the cause of performance bottlenecks. Learn more details about ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure monitoring and management services.

• ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Monitoring Services
  ProSight LAN Watch is Progent’s server and desktop remote monitoring service that uses state-of-the-art remote monitoring and management technology to help keep your network running at peak levels by checking the state of vital computers that drive your business network. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers an issue, an alert is transmitted immediately to your specified IT staff and your assigned Progent consultant so that all looming issues can be resolved before they have a chance to disrupt your network Find out more details about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring services.

• ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
  With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

• ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management Services
  Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is an affordable service built around a phone interview with a Progent backup/recovery consultant. The interview is designed to help assess your organization's preparedness to stop or recover rapidly from a ransomware incident. Progent will consult with you directly to collect information concerning your existing antivirus tools and backup/recovery platform, and Progent will then deliver a written Basic Security and Best Practices Report document describing how you can follow best practices to build an efficient security and backup/recovery system that aligns with your company's needs. For more information, refer to The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report.

Hybrid Cloud Integration Solutions
Progent can provide advanced online support services to help organizations of any size integrate their networks with popular public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Progent can assist your it team to design and manage hybrid ecosystems that support Windows and Linux systems and apps in both cloud-based solutions or in hybrid topologies that seamlessly combine on-premises resources along with public clouds. To assist you to integrate public cloud services with networks, Progent can provide a variety of cloud integration services such as Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud design and integration consulting, Amazon AWS cloud integration support, and Amazon Web Marketing Service (WMS) development and troubleshooting. Progent has over 15 years of background providing high-level consulting services remotely, and Progent can help you successfully carry out your cloud integration projects quickly and within your budget.

On-premises Consulting Services Offered at the QTS Sacramento Data Center
The QTS Data Center facility, previously called the Herakles Data Center, is located in the earthquake-neutral Natomas neighborhood of Sacramento, CA. If your company is currently utilizing the QTS Sacramento Data Center as a colocation facility or if your business is planning on migrating your main or disaster recovery system to the QTS Sacramento Data Center, Progent can provide a variety of budget-friendly consulting services including data center migration, system deployment and updates, infrastructure improvements, comprehensive project management services, virtual server expertise, offsite monitoring, automated network management, software programming, disaster recovery/business continuity planning and testing, security assessment, and the support of the Progent Test Lab. To find out more, refer to Progent's consulting support at the QTS Colocation Center.

The Progent Test and Design Lab is a lab at the QTS Colocation Center with a collection of advanced servers and network support infrastructure able to be used remotely or on premises to accommodate system testing, assessments, performance modeling, forensics, disaster recovery planning, education, and other reasons to help Progent's customers succeed with major IT initiatives. To learn more, refer to Progent's Test Lab at the QTS Data Center.

Round-the-clock Local Service Options
Progent can provide optional around-the-clock on-line or in person network help and information technology outsourcing expertise in these cities in your area:

• Petaluma
• Sonoma

If your small business is anywhere in the Petaluma/Sonoma area and you require technical support, information technology outsourcing, or top-level services from a Progent engineer, call 707-559-7400 or visit Contact Progent.