Spam and Virus Protection E-Mail Guard Managed Services to Block Spam, Viruses, and Directory Harvest Attacks
E-Mail Guard from Postini provides constantly upgraded spam and virus blocking, data filtering, and security from e-mail-borne directory harvesting and DSA attacks. Progent is a Postini aggregator and support firm. If your company is too small to purchase for a standard Postini license, you can still get the use of Postini’s Perimeter Management services through Progent’s E-Mail Guard spam filtering and antivirus service offering. Progent’s certified email protection consultants can show you how to devise an email defense plan that features antispam and virus defense services and processes.
For organizations with a combination of Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows computers, Microsoft has two products for using Windows applications on Apple systems: VirtualPC and Remote Desktop Connection Client. Progent's Apple-certified Mac consultants can help you set up VirtualPC or Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac so you can operate Windows-based software on Macintosh computers.
Nagios and MRTG are powerful, free monitoring tools that run with the Linux OS and can be deployed to monitor UNIX/Linux environments, MS Windows systems, or multi-platform environments in which Linux and Microsoft Windows run side by side. The Nagios monitor lets system support engineers to monitor system services including SMTP, HTTP, SSH, and PING. MRTG lets you graph the traffic in and out of SNMP network devices such as processors, routers, and switches. Progent's system monitoring experts can show you how to use both these programs to tune and repair your computer network.
Progent offers access to Cisco switches consultants to deliver professional network design and troubleshooting services for information networks based on Cisco switching products. Cisco switches offer exceptional Quality of Service to help ensure that network traffic is classified and prioritized, and that bottlenecks are minimized. Configuration of Quality of Service for a Cisco switch is greatly simplified through automatic QoS, a function that detects Cisco IP phones and automatically programs the switch for the appropriate sorting and transit staging. This optimizes data prioritization and system availability without forcing your IT staff to implement a complicated switch configuration. Through the Cisco Catalyst switches for small and medium-sized companies, Cisco allows customers to realize the full benefits of putting intelligent services into their networks. A Cisco network switch makes it practical to install abilities that make the network environment consistently able to handle real-time needs, scalable to accommodate growth, secure enough to protect sensitive data, and capable of differentiating and managing data flows. Progent’s Cisco-qualified network consultants can help you select and install a Cisco Ethernet switch to optimize your system's throughput and reliability.
Windows 2003 Cluster Server Consulting Services IT Services
Progent's high availability consulting services for small company networks offer Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting experts who can show you how to deploy clustered servers to build a robust network that incorporates key technologies and processes for line-of-business environments. Progent’s fault-tolerant system consultants can help you create non-stop networks by designing and integrating the growing line of Microsoft Windows Cluster servers. Clustered Windows servers for fault-tolerant networks include Microsoft Windows 2003 Cluster Server, SQL Server Cluster, and Microsoft Exchange Cluster. By helping you create your non-stop network based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Cluster, Progent’s consulting professionals can help implement a network infrastructure with features such as fault tolerant Internet access, network load balancing, fault tolerant data center planning, high-availability interoffice connections, high-reliability multi-location systems, and fail-safe business continuation design.
Cisco's security and offsite connectivity technology for small to medium sized companies offer a full range of easy-to-administer protection products to let you safeguard your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's VPN product family includes routers and switches, firewalls, and VPN access concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes experienced specialists with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who can assist your organization to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security technologies that fit best with your corporate goals.
Progent’s Cisco-certified technology consultants provide professional PIX Firewall support services covering architecture, integration and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security products. The Cisco PIX 500 Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and safe connectivity services. Extending from small, easy-to-install desktop devices for small businesses and home offices to scalable gigabit products, Cisco PIX firewalls provide a sensible combination of security, performance and availability for business networks of all sizes. PIX firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed platform, PIX OS, avoiding potential OS-specific security holes. The Cisco PIX Firewall has received ICSA Firewall and IPsec certification plus Common Criteria EAL4 evaluation status. PIX firewalls provide multiple integrated protection and connectivity services, including powerful application-aware firewall services, Voice over IP and multimedia security, site-to-site and remote-access IPSec VPN networking, intelligent access services, and flexible management tools. Progent’s Cisco consultants can show you how to choose and integrate any Cisco PIX 500 Series firewalls such as the Cisco PIX 501 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506E, PIX 515 Firewalls, the PIX 515E Firewall, the Cisco PIX 520 Firewall, Cisco PIX 525 Firewalls and the Cisco PIX 535.
Progent's expert consultants can help you design and deploy an efficient in-place Exchange Server 2003 upgrade plan that avoids productivity downtime, simplifies long-term support demands, and makes your Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 easy to administer. For complex multiple server or multi-location migrations, Progent has the experience to complete your project quickly and affordably. Progent's Exchange 2003 support, troubleshooting, and design services include expertise with the integration of outside vendor enhancements of Exchange Server 2003 that are in keeping with your business goals.
Progent's Microsoft authorized experts provide several service programs to help medium-size and large companies develop a cost-effective and productive internal Network Support Help Desk Call Center. Progent's help desk consulting services include Return on Investment analysis, process analysis and enhancement, executive reporting, education of internal staff, and documentation of processes. Progent's Software Selection and Integration Support Services help businesses sift through the numerous high-quality Help Desk application programs on the market and determine what packages might be excessively costly, miss critical features, or align poorly with your organization's business goals. Progent also provides temporary staffing for organizations who need to augment their in-house Help Desk team for occasional tasks or to fill in for absent or indisposed workers.
Progent can assist you to design and execute an efficient transition from a UNIX-based information system to a network based on Microsoft Windows and capable of running Microsoft's popular office productivity products, business applications, and developer platforms. Progent's UNIX, Windows and Cisco consultants and application specialists can help you guard your information and minimize productivity disruption by designing an effective transition plan that preserves your current assets in UNIX software and technology. UNIX-to-Windows transition consulting expertise available from Progent include analysis of existing infrastructure, migration planning and validation, MS Exchange migration expertise, data and application transition, and server and media transition and consolidation.
