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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.

Progent: The Microsoft Certified Information Technology Service Professionals
For over 20 years, Progent's network support experts have been the top providers of affordable Microsoft Windows support services, Cisco network technology expertise and IT consulting services for companies in Northern California and Silicon Valley. If your company needs urgent network help from a certified expert, a network engineer, or a software developer, Progent is your most reliable source for IT services including Microsoft Exchange and Outlook expertise, network security evaluation and enhancement, Helpdesk support, specialized application design, virtual server consulting, online classes for Microsoft Office and Office 365 apps, and fault tolerant network engineering.

As a Microsoft-authorized computer consultant company, Progent offers businesses of all sizes in Petaluma enterprise-class information technology support expertise as well as remote or in person troubleshooting assistance for environments based on Windows and Cisco technology. Areas of expertise offered by Progent cover Windows Server 2016 hybrid cloud solutions, Windows Server 2012 R2 planning and deployment expertise and Windows Server 2008 R2 migration help to create a solid foundation for your information network, MS Exchange Server 2016 planning and deployment, Exchange 2013 consulting and Exchange 2010 maintenance to establish an advanced messaging solution, SharePoint management to facilitate information sharing, SQL Server 2016 integration consulting and Microsoft SQL 2017 migration consulting to harness your vital corporate data, Microsoft Dynamics GP software education for timely financial reporting, and Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager (SCOM 2012) expertise and Operations Manager 2016 consulting services for proactively tracking the health of your network. Progent can in addition offer Cisco qualified network engineers to help you maximize and support your connectivity architecture.

Other on-premises and remote information technology support services available from Progent to clients in the Petaluma vicinity include senior project management consulting, Apple iPhone and iPad integration, Android phone integration and management, Blackberry troubleshooting and Microsoft Windows handhelds integration, site design for Wi-Fi deployment, DBA and software development support from certified Microsoft SQL consultants, Oracle professionals, and MySQL application programmers, virtual server solutions from certified Hyper-V consultants, VMware vSphere configuration and troubleshooting, VMware Site Recovery Manager business continuity consulting, VMware NSX virtual network architecture and management, and Citrix consultants, plus disaster recovery planning and testing.

Progent's ProSight Flat-rate Managed Services for Small and Mid-size Organizations
Progent provides a selection of low-cost, fixed-price services intended to enable small and mid-size businesses to benefit from the same advanced technology used by some of the industry's top enterprises. Progent's ProSight suite of network management outsourcing services addresses all key aspects of modern networking including email content filtering, security and compliance, cloud-based backup and disaster recovery, infrastructure health monitoring, virtual server cloud hosting, and IT asset documentation management. ProSight managed services include:

• ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
  ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

• ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Endpoint Protection and Exchange Email Filtering
  ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific needs and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for immediate action. Progent can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

• ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
  ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows fast recovery of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

• ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
  ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading information security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

• ProSight WAN Watch: Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
  ProSight WAN Watch is an infrastructure management service that makes it easy and inexpensive for smaller businesses to map, monitor, enhance and troubleshoot their connectivity appliances such as routers, firewalls, and wireless controllers plus servers, printers, endpoints and other devices. Using cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management technology, ProSight WAN Watch makes sure that network diagrams are kept updated, copies and manages the configuration information of almost all devices connected to your network, monitors performance, and sends notices when problems are discovered. By automating tedious management and troubleshooting activities, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off common chores such as making network diagrams, expanding your network, locating devices that need critical software patches, or identifying the cause of performance bottlenecks. Find out more 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 monitoring service that incorporates advanced remote monitoring and management (RMM) techniques to keep your network running at peak levels by tracking the health of vital computers that power your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers an issue, an alarm is sent immediately to your designated IT staff and your assigned Progent engineering consultant so any looming problems can be addressed before they can impact your network Learn more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring services.

• ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
  With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

• ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
  Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and protect information related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service based on a brief discussion with a Progent information assurance expert. The interview is designed to help evaluate your organization's ability to stop or recover quickly from a ransomware incident. Progent will consult with you directly to collect information about your current security profile and backup/recovery system, and Progent will then deliver a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report document describing how you can apply industry best practices to create an efficient AV and backup/recovery environment that aligns with your company's needs. For additional information, see The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.

Cloud Integration Solutions
Progent can provide advanced online consulting support to help businesses of any size integrate their networks with popular public clouds such as Azure and Amazon Web Services. Progent can help you to plan and manage cost-effective ecosystems that can include Windows and Linux operating systems and applications in both cloud-based solutions or in hybrid network models that seamlessly combine on-premises IT assets as well as public clouds. To help you to incorporate public clouds with networks, Progent offers a variety of public cloud integration services that include Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud design and integration consulting, Amazon AWS cloud integration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service development and troubleshooting. Progent has more than 15 years of background delivering advanced consulting expertise online, and Progent can make sure you successfully carry out your cloud migration initiatives quickly and affordably.

On-premises Consulting Services Available at the QTS Sacramento Internet Data Center
The QTS Data Center facility, previously called the Herakles Data Center, is situated in the earthquake-neutral Natomas neighborhood of Sacramento, California. If your company is currently using the QTS Sacramento Data Center as a colocation site or if you are considering moving your primary or disaster recovery equipment to the QTS Data Center, Progent can provide a range of cost-effective consulting services including colocation migration, equipment installation and updates, network improvements, project management, virtual server configuration, remote network monitoring, streamlined network management, application development, business continuity solutions, security evaluation, and the use of the Progent Test Lab. To find out more, refer to Progent's onsite consulting support services at the QTS Colocation Center.

The Progent Test Lab is a lab at the QTS Data Center with a collection of advanced computers and network equipment able to be used remotely or on site to facilitate system testing, evaluations, capacity modeling, troubleshooting, disaster recovery planning, education, and other reasons to help Progent's clients successfully carry out large-scale projects. To learn more, visit Progent's Test Lab at the QTS Sacramento Data Center.

24x7 Local Service Availability
Progent offers optional 24x7 on-line or on-site 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 are looking for technical help, information technology outsourcing, or top-level expertise from a certified Progent professional, call 707-559-7400 or visit Contact Progent.