Onsite Service Available in Sausalito, San Rafael, Novato, Larkspur, Mill Valley, Corte Madera, Fairfax, San Anselmo, Belvedere, Ross, Tiburon
Marin County small businesses reduce costs and increase productivity through the use of IT outsourcing. By outsourcing IT services, small companies can gain affordable access to expert IT consultants and avoid the expense of adding full-time personnel to their internal IT group. IT outsourcing makes it possible for you to spend more time managing your business and less time worrying about your network.
Many small businesses are unaware that IT outsourcing is not just for enterprises with big IT budgets and the willingness to negotiate complex, long-term support contracts. New technologies for remote support, centralized management, and automated security and performance monitoring combined with flexible and easy engagement policies have made IT outsourcing the most cost-effective alternative for keeping your network running smoothly. Surveys show that the most common motives for small businesses to outsource IT services are:
Focus management on the business
Save money and improve operations
Make internal technical resources available for strategic projects
Ensure fast access to expert consultants
Supplement the technical range of in-house IT personnel
Progent's outsourcing services can help your small business lower the cost of IT services, make your network more reliable and secure, and streamline your operational processes in order to increase the value of your information system. You do not have to commit to expensive, long-term contracts common among giant support organizations, and you will not be dependent on the availability and skill of an independent consultant or a small consulting firm.
Progent can provide small and midsize organizations a broad range of network consulting options highlighted on Progent's web. The following links describe a few of the support services and benefits provided for businesses in Marin County:
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SMS 2003 and Configuration Manager Support |
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Progent can assist your company to conserve time and reduce expenses by deploying Microsoft SMS 2003 or System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to ease application and OS deployment and update processes. Progent can help your company to use Systems Management Server or System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to reduce IT management costs, improve network-wide protection, increase efficiency by keeping software up-to-date, oversee adherence to software licenses, and monitor applications usage patterns to help your company to make intelligent purchasing choices.
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Microsoft Windows Cluster Support |
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The server cluster technology incorporated into high-end editions of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 has been dramatically redesigned to provide improved levels of system availability, protection, performance, and versatility. New or improved capabilities include cluster Validation, improved cluster management, new cluster architecture for maximum availability, hardened security and quorum structure, minimization of failure points, greater disk and RAM capacity, and enhancements for geographically dispersed clusters. Progent's clustered server consultants can help you assess the business benefits of failover clusters, plan and execute a deployment, train your IT staff to administer your cluster environment, deliver continuing consulting and support services, and produce and test a disaster recovery plan.
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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Support Services |
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Progent has lengthy background both providing consulting services for Microsoft Operations Manager and using this mature monitoring application to increase information system availability, throughput and security. You can outsource problem response to Progent's Microsoft-qualified support engineers. With years of server management experience, Progent's Information Technology professionals can also respond quickly on the information produced by Microsoft Operations Manager to make sure that business-critical systems remain up and running.
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Microsoft Dynamics GP Support |
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Progent can give you access to a Great Plains expert to maintain and enhance your accounting system. Progent can also assist you to plan and execute a smooth deployment strategy for Great Plains so that you preserve your data, enhance your security, enhance your analytics, take full advantage of Office integration, and minimize operational interruption.
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Network Security Consulting |
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Progent's CISSP, GIAC, CISM, and CISA-certified staff can help your business to protect your network by performing a variety of security services such as security assessments, setting up firewalls, designing Cisco Systems-based network architecture, and creating a proven security strategy. Progent offers cost effective hourly or contract service to help small businesses set up and maintain secure networks based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco solutions.
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Microsoft Windows Active Directory Consulting Services |
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Progent's Microsoft-certified staff have broad experience troubleshooting complex Active Directory issues such as server replication problems, multi-domain partition configurations, damaged AD objects, removal of legacy application configuration objects in on-line Active Directory systems, and restoration of unsuccessful setups of AD and AD-dependent applications. Progent is also skilled in using “expert only” AD utilities like NTDSUTIL, DCDIAG and NETDIAG. Progent can help companies to design and implement deployments of AD Domain Services as part of Progent's Microsoft Windows Server 2008 integration services.
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UNIX/Linux and Windows Integration Help |
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Progent can assist your business to deploy Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) to achieve interoperability between Windows and Linux/UNIX/Solaris environments. Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX offers cross-platform services between Windows Server 2003 and various flavors of UNIX and Linux such as Solaris 7 and 8, HP-UX 11i, and AIX 5L 5.2. Windows Services for UNIX permits users to access Windows folders over NFS and supports transparent password management in native Windows 2003 AD environments. Progent's Windows Server 2008 experts can also help your company to configure Windows Server features that support the UNIX interoperability of security and directory services, file and printer access, and re-use of UNIX code on different systems while centralizing management.
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White Paper: Why Outsource?
Progent has written a report that explains the benefits a small company can realize by outsourcing IT management services. To read this summary and learn the reasons outsourcing can reduce expenses, simplify administration, and maximize efficiency,
visit Small Firm Information Technology Outsourcing White Paper.
Progent offers onsite IT support, remote consulting services, and optional round-the-clock urgent technical help in San Rafael, Sausalito, Novato, Larkspur, Mill Valley, Corte Madera, Fairfax, San Anselmo, Belvedere, Ross, Tiburon and other cities throughout Marin County, the San Francisco Bay Area, the Monterey Peninsula and the California Central Valley.
If your small business is in Marin County
and you are looking for technical assistance, information technology outsourcing, or advanced expertise from a Progent engineer:
Call 415-526-1400 or send email to information@progent.com
