Immediate Remote Help for Akron Ohio Information Networks
For businesses located in Akron Ohio, Progent offers remote support for information systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Cisco, macOS and OS, or Linux platforms. Progent's Microsoft Premier consulting experts have provided online support to companies in every state in the United States. (Refer to recommendations from Progent's customers.) In addition, Progent offers the expertise of Cisco CCIE engineers to help with challenging networking issues, as well as the services of CISSP-accredited security experts to handle advanced security design and troubleshooting jobs.
Progent's remote support engineers offer excellent value because they possess the practical background and are equipped with the sophisticated technology required to solve most information system issues rapidly. This lowers direct expenses since solutions accumulate fewer billable minutes. Online support also eliminates the cost of sending a consultant to your office. Your company saves even more in incidental costs by reducing or avoiding network downtime and related losses resulting from business discontinuity, upset customers and vendors, unproductive employees, and distracted management. Progent's advanced remote consulting expertise is particularly important for businesses that depend on public clouds for vital infrastructure or software such as Microsoft Azure, Exchange Online, Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud, or where on-premises IT support may not be an option.
Progent's pricing model for remote help is designed to stretch your network support dollar. Progent charges per minute for phone consulting, so you are billed just for the support that you receive. Unlike typical remote service companies, Progent imposes no startup surcharge or minimum fees. Progent's per-minute granularity and simple model for pricing do away with situations where fast solutions somehow turn into large invoices. Progent's penchant for disposing of technical issues efficiently means you spends less money.
Progent's Online Consulting and Troubleshooting Services
Through years of experience, Progent has refined a set of optimized tools and field-tested methodologies which permit the maximum degree of efficiency for online technical support and repair for information networks of all sizes. Progent provides secure VPN support for VPN gateways from multiple popular vendors including Microsoft, Cisco, SonicWall and WatchGuard. Secure VPN technology permits the consultants of Progent's online support team to connect to your computer system remotely without compromising network security.
Progent's powerful customer support database application maintains thorough documentation of the service that Progent's clients have been provided. Progent's staff service personnel have access to the records of all help delivered to each Progent customer by any Progent engineer. This database of anomalies and resolutions is structured as a quickly accessible internal database that allows Progent's online support professionals to share their knowledge with the whole team to ensure that the quality of Progent's technical support improves daily. Progent's advanced certifications and working associations with major industry leaders such as Cisco and Microsoft make available other extensive support knowledge bases and permit fast response from vendors' in-house support staff so Progent's remote consulting experts can arrive at the best solutions in the least time.
Online support services provided by Progent to clients in Akron Ohio include:
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Certified Windows Expertise
Progent's Microsoft-expert remote service engineers can provide network troubleshooting and consulting assistance for all Microsoft server products. Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and can offer your organization the expertise of consulting engineers who can help your company with a broad range of platform support services including Microsoft Windows Server 2022 solution design and integration services,
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 migration,
Windows Server 2016 configuration for hybrid systems, Windows Server 2012 R2 integration,
Windows Server 2008 migration,
MS Exchange Server 2019 integration,
MS Exchange Server 2016 migration, Exchange Server 2013 integration,
Microsoft Exchange 2010 monitoring and support,
SharePoint 2019 planning and configuration, SharePoint 2016 migration and hybrid integration consulting services, Microsoft Teams integration, Skype for Business Server planning and deployment consulting, Lync Server integration, and Office Communications Server upgrade,
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 administration and ISA Server migration, Microsoft SQL Server 2019 migration consulting, MS SQL Server 2017 expertise, SQL Server 2016 migration and development and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 consulting,
Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) network monitoring and reporting,
Project Server and Project Server Online planning,
Microsoft Office Access Application Development,
Small Business Server support, and
Windows Essentials migration and cloud integration.
Progent in addition offers a wide array of affordable desktop support services to assist your company to install, integrate, repair, and manage desktop PCs and laptops based on Windows. Progent's desktop support services cover areas such as providing Windows 11 system design and upgrade assistance and Windows 10 configuration support, as well as System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012) design and deployment, Microsoft System Center 2016 Configuration Manager (SCCM 2016) cloud integration, and Intune integration help to streamline the management of your PCs along with your web-facing tablets and smartphones.
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Contact a Cisco CCIE for Complex Network Troubleshooting
The Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) credential is the premier recognition for networking consultants, and validates an individual's networking knowledge at the expert level. Cisco-qualified CCIEs can deal with even the most challenging challenges associated with network infrastructure design, installation, maintenance, compliance, and problem solving. Cisco qualified CCIEs can cooperate on a privileged basis with Cisco's in-house engineers in analyzing problems with Cisco IOS network administration tools and developing alternate approaches or locating software updates. Cisco CCIEs provide exceptional value since their depth of expertise allows them to resolve problems rapidly. In typical instances, less seasoned service providers can wrestle for hours or days with the same problems that a CCIE can fix in minutes. Progent's Cisco CCIE certified engineers can interface to your computer system using the latest remote support technology in order to perform efficient, safe, and affordable analysis and repair.
Ohio State Contact Information:
Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the state of Ohio.
Progent locations in Ohio State
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Address |
Phone |
Link |
Akron |
1717 Brittain Rd Akron, OH 44310 United States |
(234) 285-6100 |
Akron Network Support Services |
Cincinnati |
250 East 5th Street, 15th Floor Cincinnati, OH 45202 United States |
(513) 808-9721 |
Cincinnati Network Support Services |
Cleveland |
2515 Jay Ave. Cleveland, OH 44113 United States |
(440) 596-5997 |
Cleveland Network Support Services |
Columbus |
20 S 3rd St, Suite 210 Columbus, OH 43215 United States |
(614) 826-7776 |
Columbus Network Support Services |
Dayton |
301 W 1st St, Suite 200 Dayton, OH 45402 United States |
(937) 519-4355 |
Dayton Network Support Services |
Toledo |
5533 Southwyck Boulevard, Suite 101 Toledo, OH 43614 United States |
(419) 930-5536 |
Toledo Network Support Services |
Progent's Cisco CCIEs offer assistance with the complete line of Cisco's market leading family of infrastructure devices by providing services that include:
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Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line: Call 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line is designed to guide you to take the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware expert can help you to identify and isolate breached devices and protect undamaged resources from being penetrated. If your Akron system has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800. For details, visit Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line.
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Ransomware Cleanup Services
Progent's ransomware recovery experts can help your Akron company to rebuild an IT network damaged by a ransomware crypto-worm such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Conti or Egregor. Progent's group of IT security specialists bring the wide range of knowledge required to rebuild all vital components of a compromised network rapidly and with little loss of data. To learn more, see Progent's ransomware cleanup and business restoration experts.
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CISM and CISSP Certified System Security Professionals
Progent's accredited CISM, CISSP, and CISSP-ISSAP cybersecurity experts offer a variety of system protection solutions to bolster the defenses of your Windows, macOS and OS X, Linux, or UNIX environment against attacks or assist you to recover quickly following a damaging breach. Security support services offered by Progent cover thorough data security and compliance audits using utilities such as GFI LANguard, EEYE Vulnerability Scanner, and products from Solar Winds tools and Hydra; quick recuperation from malicious assaults; configuring firewalls; building safe mechanisms for remote and mobile access; securing your messaging system against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks; and establishing 24x7 network monitoring.
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Hybrid Cloud Integration Solutions
Progent offers expert remote consulting services to help businesses of all sizes integrate their information networks with popular public cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Progent can assist you to design and manage hybrid environments that support Windows and Linux operating systems and applications in either cloud-centric solutions or in hybrid architectures that seamlessly combine local IT assets along with cloud services. To help you to integrate cloud services with physical datacenters, Progent offers a range of cloud migration support services such as Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange,
Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud design and integration services, Amazon AWS hybrid cloud solutions, Amazon Web Marketing Service development and debugging, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise. Progent has over two decades of background providing advanced consulting support online, and Progent can make sure you complete your cloud integration initiatives on schedule and within your budget.
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VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Consulting
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is a component of VMware vCenter that lets you define, automate and verify a consistent workflow for restoring services rapidly following an outage. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, plus non-disruptive site migration, failback and re-protect. SRM also enables non-disruptive testing for disaster recovery, updates and patches and can generate audit reports to confirm complete service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and prove disaster recovery compliance. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to help you to plan, configure, test and manage a disaster recovery solution powered by VMware SRM.
Progent's VMware vSphere and vCloud consultants offer in-depth understanding of VMware vCloud Director, VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRO and vCloud tools for administering private and hybrid cloud environments that deliver high uptime, data security, and application mobility. Progent also offers advanced VMware NSX consulting from a VCDX-NV certified network designer to assist your organization to create a fully virtualized Software Defined Data Center that can be provisioned or migrated in minutes and managed with a high level of automation regardless of the physical components making up the basic network infrastructure.
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UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, and Apple macOS and OS X Expertise
Progent's UNIX, Linux experts and Apple macOS and OS X specialists can provide remote consulting services to address a broad array of computer technologies including network architecture, email systems, network and operational security, plus UNIX/Linux and Windows coexistence. For server economization and easy management in environments that combine Linux with Microsoft Windows, Progent offers VMware vSphere consulting and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent can also help with transitioning from legacy applications to Microsoft Windows or Linux solutions. Progent's team-oriented approach to solving network issues enables quick escalation, if necessary, to engineers with task-relevant experience to handle challenging scenarios. This expedites repair of critical problems, minimizes network downtime, and cuts support costs.
Important Linux platforms for which Progent offers expertise include:
RedHat Linux
SUSE Linux
Debian-GNU
Slackware
Ubuntu
ProSight Fixed-price Managed Services for Small and Medium Size Organizations
Progent offers a family of low-cost, flat-rate services designed to allow small and mid-size organizations to utilize the same advanced IT solutions used by many of the world's leading corporations. The ProSight suite of IT management outsourcing services covers all critical aspects of modern networking such as email protection, behavioral-based threat defense, automated backup/recovery, network 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 detection and response (EDR) service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire threat progression including filtering, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.
- ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security and Microsoft Exchange Email Filtering
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent can also help you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.
- ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of subscription-based management outsourcing plans that provide backup-as-a-service. ProSight DPS services automate and track your backup operations and enable transparent backup and fast recovery of critical files, applications, images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you protect against data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human mistakes, malicious employees, or application glitches. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS product line include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to identify which of these managed services are best suited for your network.
- Progent's Patch Management: Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide businesses of all sizes a versatile and affordable solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving information network. Besides optimizing the protection and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your in-house IT team to concentrate on more strategic projects and tasks that deliver the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.
- ProSight Duo Multi-Factor Authentication: Access Security, Endpoint Remediation, and Protected Single Sign-on (SSO)
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected application and give your password you are requested to verify who you are via a unit that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of devices can be utilized for this added means of ID validation including a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate several verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity validation services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for access security.
- ProSight Reporting: In-depth Reporting for Ticketing and Network Monitoring Applications
ProSight Reporting is an expanding suite of real-time management reporting utilities designed to work with the leading ticketing and remote network monitoring programs including ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting incorporates Microsoft Graph and features color coding to highlight and contextualize key issues like spotty support follow-up or machines with out-of-date AVs. By exposing ticketing or network health concerns clearly and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting enhances network value, lowers management overhead, and saves money. For more information, visit ProSight Reporting for ticketing and network monitoring applications.
- ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of leading information security vendors to provide web-based control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.
- ProSight WAN Watch: Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure management service that makes it easy and affordable for smaller organizations to diagram, monitor, reconfigure and troubleshoot their networking appliances like routers and switches, firewalls, and wireless controllers as well as servers, endpoints and other devices. Using state-of-the-art RMM technology, ProSight WAN Watch makes sure that network diagrams are kept current, captures and manages the configuration information of virtually all devices on your network, monitors performance, and generates notices when issues are detected. By automating time-consuming management and troubleshooting activities, WAN Watch can knock hours off common chores such as making network diagrams, expanding your network, finding devices that need critical software patches, or isolating performance bottlenecks. Find out more details about ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure monitoring and management services.
- ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Remote Monitoring Services
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's server and desktop monitoring service that uses advanced remote monitoring and management (RMM) technology to help keep your IT system operating efficiently by tracking the health of vital computers that power your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers a problem, an alert is transmitted automatically to your designated IT management staff and your Progent engineering consultant so that all looming problems can be addressed before they can 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 protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
- ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management Services
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and protect information about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a quick and affordable alternative for small and mid-size organizations to get an objective assessment of the overall health of their information system. Based on some of the top remote monitoring and management platforms in the industry, and overseen by Progent's world-class group of IT professionals, ProSight Network Audits help you see how closely the deployment of your core network devices adhere to industry best practices. Both the Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are available at a low, one-time cost and deliver instant ROI such as a more manageable Active Directory (AD) system. Both versions also include one year of advanced remote network monitoring and management (RMM). Benefits can include lower-cost network management, better compliance with information security standards, higher utilization of IT assets, quicker troubleshooting, more reliable backup and recovery, and higher availability. Read more information about Progent's ProSight Network Audits network infrastructure review.
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service centered on a phone interview with a Progent information assurance consultant. The fact-finding interview is designed to assess your company's preparedness either to stop or recover quickly after an attack by a ransomware variant such as Ryuk, WannaCry, MongoLock, or Locky. Progent will work with you directly to gather information concerning your existing security profile and backup system, and Progent will then produce a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how you can follow best practices to build an efficient security and backup system that meets your company's needs. For additional information, visit The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.
Special Consulting Programs Available from Progent
Progent can provide the services of seasoned remote consulting experts for special IT programs. Progent's rates for ongoing development or consulting projects are set based on the level of expertise of the consultants involved. Progent's experience with these important areas of computer technology allows clients to execute critical projects within budget and on time. Progent's special remote consulting solutions include:
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Help Desk Call Center Services
Progent's Help Desk Call Center programs for companies with environments based on Microsoft, Cisco, macOS and OS X, or UNIX/Linux technology include full-service Call Center services, shared Help Desk services, and Help Desk consulting.
Progent's Standard Help Desk Services provide small businesses a comprehensive service desk solution that handles all aspects of remote desktop support from service requests through trouble ticket generation, remote desktop control, progress tracking, problem resolution, and reporting. Progent offers help desk services at a substantial discount off Progent's regular Level 1 desktop support rates, and Progent can provide the option of fast on-demand escalation to Level 2 and Level 3 experts to resolve the most problems.
Progent's Help Desk Call Center consulting support can guide you in building an effective new Help Desk Call Center or revamping your existing one, evaluating or modifying Call Center software to address the particular demands of your corporation, or providing occasional online personnel to supplement your in-house Help Desk Call Center team to deal with high-demand situations like software transitions, mass updates, or rolling out brand new business software.
Progent's Help Desk team of experienced information technology professionals provides your workers in Akron Ohio rapid communication with a dependable support group with substantial experience delivering phone help and online troubleshooting for computer environments based on Microsoft, Cisco, macOS and OS X, or UNIX/Linux products. Progent's charter is to earn the Help Desk Call Center the reputation as a major contributor to company success, and Progent's aim is to fix and not simply record IT problems.
- Business Applications Services: Training, Development, and Troubleshooting
Progent's Applications Consulting staff can supply online advanced engineering expertise and training in special application fields including ERP, Manufacturing Requirements Planning, accounting system customization, and Customer Relationship Management. Progent also can provide consulting, custom programming, and training for Microsoft business applications including Microsoft CRM, MS Office Project, Office Word, and Microsoft 365 Excel. For more information on Progent's consulting, custom development, and education offerings, see Progent's Business Application Experts Group.
- Centralized and Automated Administration of Hybrid Cloud Environments
Microsoft System Center unifies and automates the management of hybrid cloud environments through advanced support for Windows Server 2022 servers, Windows 10 and Windows 11; seamless integration of multi-OS environments that include Linux, Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; and better cloud support such as tighter integration with Intune for Apple iPhone and Google Android smartphone management plus built-in integration with Microsoft Operations Management Suite for cloud-enhanced analytics and reporting. Progent's System Center consultants can provide world-class online and onsite expertise for all components of System Center2including Operations Manager (SCOM), Configuration Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Data Protection Manager (SCDPM), Orchestrator, and Service Manager (SCSM). Progent can assist you to plan and install a new implementation of System Center2, expand or optimize your current one, migrate efficiently from a previous version of System Center, or debug your System Center environment.
- Remote IT Infrastructure Monitoring and Reporting Support
Progent can deliver companies in Akron Ohio online IT infrastructure monitoring by providing System Center Operations Manager expertise. Progent can customize Operations Manager for your environment so your computer support is proactive rather than reactive. By uncovering potential problems before they cause crashes, automated monitoring can minimize inconvenient and costly service breakdowns. Progent can also utilize server and infrastructure monitoring tools like Nagios and MRTG Graphical Traffic Load Monitor to troubleshoot UNIX/Linux, Solaris, or Apple macOS and OS X environments, Microsoft Windows environments, or networks based on a variety of OS platforms.
How Your Akron Business Can Contact Progent's Remote Technical Support Experts
To contact Progent about urgent phone-based help with Microsoft, macOS and OS X, or Linux networks, go to Progent's Urgent Phone-Based Help, call 1-800-993-9400, or go to Contact Progent.
For organizations and startups in Akron Ohio, Progent's phone-based computer support engineers can deliver professional and affordable IT support the moment your company needs it. More than two decades of delivering online technical assistance has led to Microsoft Partner status for Progent's consultants and has enabled Progent to acquire world-class troubleshooting capability and to fine tune online connectivity technology to solve computer problems rapidly while avoiding the cost and lost time that comes with on-site service calls.
Even if your Akron company works with a local freelance consultant or maintains a full time organization that can handle typical network issues, Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can still provide an easy and transparent remote expansion of your on-site resources for situations when your regular IT support personnel either don't have the time or the expertise to solve unexpected system crises or especially complicated integration problems.
Advantages of Progent's IT Support for Organizations in Akron Ohio
Progent's remote IT consulting services allow your Akron organization to experience the benefits of timely, world-class IT support without the expense of managing a full-time IT staff. Your information system will acquire greater strategic value by becoming more reliable, productive, and protected. Advantages to your business include:
- Seamless virtual expansion of your on-site IT resources
For most organizations in Akron Ohio, local computer service resources, whether made up of independent consultants or an in-house IT staff, can handle the majority of technical issues. However, IT crises sometimes occur when your regular resources are too busy or absent, and some trouble may be associated with IT products that is unfamiliar to your local service personnel. In these cases, Progent's on-call service experts offer a convenient, quick, and affordable solution to augment your regular resources and to pass on useful knowledge to improve your capability to handle future issues in-house.
- Reduced Reliance on Individual Consultants
For network support, smaller offices commonly rely on individual freelance service providers. While freelance service people have less internal costs than larger consulting companies and can afford to charge lower rates, they are often overextended, making it difficult to respond quickly to urgent situations. If an independent service provider is busy with another client, sick, on vacation, or in class, the absence of backup help may require your business to wait for help during an emergency. As your network grows, system downtime and problems with critical applications are more costly. The budget you thought you were conserving on an independent can be consumed quickly by reduced productivity. Progent provides a reliable source of reserve service expertise to insure your IT system remains available.
- Build a Solid Basis for Seamless Expansion
Organizations typically begin with an IT system created on a shoestring budget. Lacking a robust infrastructure, band-aid repairs can get thrown on top of an unstable foundation. As a network grows, reliability and expandability problems can hinder the success of the organization. These poorly built environments require proper analysis, smart strategic planning, and wide technical expertise to upgrade to a system architecture able to deliver the stable foundation to meet vital business requirements and simplify future expansion.
- Work with Problem Solvers Instead of Product Resellers
Smaller offices need advice and technical training to negotiate an increasingly complex maze of technology options available for accelerating business growth and improving productivity. They hardly need a network engineer who is motivated to resell a specific vendor's products. Network support and product sales can lead to a scenario where the proposed
solution is built around a predetermined product rather than the true requirements of a client. Progent eliminates these dilemmas by offering only services instead of products. This enables Progent to align IT expertise with the best needs of customers.
What Makes Progent Different from Other Service Firms?
Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner support company and Progent's staff size, breadth of IT knowledge, fine tuned remote support software, and familiarity with corporate IT enable offices to avoid the limitations associated with exclusive reliance on smaller service firms, independent freelance consultants, or over-stretched in-house resources.
Progent stands out by offering:
- Certified Knowledge of Microsoft's Complete Range of Servers
Progent offers world-class expertise for Microsoft's powerful server platforms with services such as Microsoft Windows Server 2022 solution design and migration services, Windows Server 2019 migration consulting, Windows Server 2016 hybrid cloud integration, Windows 2012 R2 Server migration and integration help, Windows Server 2008 expertise, Windows 2003 upgrades, MS Exchange 2019 Server planning and configuration, Microsoft Exchange 2016 Server planning and deployment, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 configuration, Exchange Server 2010 maintenance, Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 upgrades, plus MS SQL Server 2019 configuration expertise, MS SQL Server 2017 planing and migration, Microsoft SQL Server 2016 integration and development, Microsoft SQL Server 2014 support, and SQL Server maintenance.
- Value Pricing
Progent's pricing model is to bill for phone support and on-site help by the minute. Consequently, you are charged just for received support. Progent does not demand a more expensive rate for off-hours or emergency service, and inside California or in areas where Progent offers in-person service, Progent does not bill for travel time except for urgent support where on-site time is less than 4 hours. Also, Progent applies no startup fee and asks no retainer for services provided during regular business hours. Many support organizations demand large minimum fees or charge for each quarter hour or longer. Progent's one-minute granularity eliminates big bills for fast fixes so you won't be forced to allow simple problems to stay unaddressed.
- Complete Records of IT Services
Progent has created a sophisticated support reporting system that records and formats detailed documentation for all billed services. Unlike many freelance consultants or small service firms who provide scant documentation or details of tasks done, every service delivered by Progent is accompanied by full documentation. Each Progent staff member has use of the support documentation sent by each staff member to every client. The practice of detailing and archiving support activity allows more effective service and eliminates a variety of typical problems such as when a service client is effectively held hostage to a consultant who won't let go of vital service information.
- Remote Network Monitoring with MS System Center Operations Manager
Progent is one of the only IT service firms to offer round-the-clock remote monitoring services powered by Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. MS System Center Operations Manager allows your network maintenance to be anticipatory instead of reactive. By uncovering possible issues before they result in downtime, network monitoring can save your IT network from stressful and costly availability disruptions.
How Does My Business Start Receiving Remote Network Help from Progent?
To initiate Progent's Nationwide Remote Support offerings or to find out more about Progent's online support programs, contact Progent at 1-866-PROGENT (866-776-4368) or see Contact Progent. If you have an urgent need for network help, go to Immediate Online Support.