Albany Remote Workforce Configuration Advisor
Backup Systems Consulting Experts
Expanding your remote workforce can have a significant effect on IT infrastructure, security, and corporate processes. Progent has two decades of background assisting small and mid-size businesses to plan, configure, manage, tune, and debug IT environments that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can assist your Albany company to select the right tools and adhere to leading practices in building and operating a safe virtual office solution for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum value. Progent can provide support services ranging from as-needed expertise for getting you over occasional IT roadblocks to full project management to help you carry out mission-critical initiatives.
Progent's consultants can assist Albany, New York businesses to succeed with any facet of building a high-functioning telecommuting environment by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, Call Desk outsourcing, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.
Data Protection for Teleworkers
Data Protection involves backing up and recovering vital information in order to prevent data loss and reduce restoration time and effort in the event of storage system problems resulting from hardware breakdowns, software glitches, user mistakes, cyber attack, or other causes. Reliable data protection solutions can be especially difficult to design and maintain in hybrid networks that combine in-house data centers, public clouds, and an at-home workforce.
- Backup/Recovery solutions for at-home workers must cover multiple types of user-owned endpoint devices. Progent can provide quick remote access to experts knowledgeable about a wide range of products for protection Windows, Apple and Linux/UNIX powered servers and desktops as well as notebooks, iOS and Android tablets and smartphones. Leading backup/restore products supported by Progent's data protection consultants include Barracuda Backup, Azure Backup, Symantec Backup Exec, Acronis Backup and Recovery, Retrospect, and Time Machine. To back up resources spread throughout a hybrid network, Progent offers ProSight Data Protection Services, a managed backup/recovery service that uses cloud storage and includes fine-grained restore and centralized management.
- Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity (DR/BC) strategies commonly envision scenarios that require a temporary changeover to a work-at-home environment. Progent's senior disaster recovery preparedness consultants and business continuity specialists can help your company to develop, document and test a DR/BC plan that includes the logistics of switching to telecommuting.
Contact Progent for Telecommuter Support Services
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Les Kent has a 35-year track record of effective technology integration, executive administration, sales, and operations. He has demonstrated a talent for creating elegant IT solutions in his roles as as a system designer, application developer, project manager, implementation consultant, and problem solver for small companies, start-ups, and major enterprises.
24/7 Technical Consultant Consulting Rates
Tech Consultant Consulting Hourly Rate
Progent's pricing policy is to charge for online support and in-person help by the minute. As a result, you pay just for delivered services. Progent does not impose a more expensive rate for off-hours or priority support, and within California or in areas where Progent offers on-site support, Progent does not bill for travel time except for urgent calls where on-site work is less than 4 hours. Also, Progent imposes no initialization fee and asks no retainer for services delivered during regular business hours. Many support organizations demand substantial minimum fees or charge for each fifteen minutes or longer. Progent's small granularity does away with large bills for quick solutions so you will not be forced to permit simple problems to fester.
Altaro VM Backup Disaster Recovery Outsourcing
Network Consulting Altaro VM Backup Encryption
Altaro VM Backup offers small and mid-size organizations a reliable and budget-friendly solution for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-based VMs. Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, remote, distributed, and cloud architectures and also enables cost-effective backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Top features include state-of-the-art inline deduplication to cut backup storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup intervals as low as five minutes for minimizing your exposure to data loss, advanced encryption, granular recovery options for specific files and emails, extensive support for Windows Server Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and for VMware vCenter for managing large-scale environments, and support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to back up online VMs without downtime. Progent is an Altaro partner and can provide a broad array of services to help you to design, deploy, optimize and troubleshoot a backup and disaster recovery system based on Altaro VM Backup.
Small Office Specialist
24-Hour Small Business Small Business Network Consulting Firms
For small companies considering Progent's network support outsourcing, design expertise, or troubleshooting offerings, phone 800-993-9400 or e-mail information@progent.com.
64-bit Migration Professionals
64-bit Migration Specialists
Progent’s Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to update your application servers or workstations from 32 to 64 bits. Progent can assist your company to understand the risks and advantages of migrating to 64-bit processing, design an affordable upgrade strategy that minimizes business disruptions, and offer economical, expert online help to aid your organization to install 64-bit software and application software on your existing computers.
Largest Outsourcing Mission Critical IT Applications
Services Server Management
By using virtual servers, companies can run many virtual machines on one actual server. Virtualization technology enables companies to gain all the advantages of server isolation, while avoiding the expense associated with buying additional server hardware. Virtualization is also the enabling technology behind private clouds, which offer important advantages including reducing the costs of capital equipment, datacenter facilities, and management while improving information protection, system availability, and recoverability. Other useful server management technologies include network monitoring software, Windows Server Update Services, and remote system management hardware. Progent's certified server management consultants can help you with all areas of server consolidation and administration to allow your business to cut expenses and conserve time.
Data center Monitoring On-site Technical Support
SCOM 2012 Fabric Monitoring Setup and Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have over a decade of experience planning, deploying, optimizing and fixing SCOM environments and can provide companies of any size advanced online or on-premises consulting support for SCOM 2012. Progent can assist your company to design an architecture for System Center 2012 Operations Manager servers that provides the performance and resilience needed to monitor your IT resources effectively, whether your infrastructure are on-premises, cloud-based, or a hybrid solution. Progent can also help you to install and customize SCOM 2012 management packs according to industry best practices for monitoring network fabric and both Microsoft and 3rd-party applications and services. In addition, Progent can deliver responsive remote or onsite troubleshooting to help you to fix serious problems detected by SCOM 2012.
Consulting IP PSTN
Support and Setup CUCM and SIP
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP integration experts can assist your business to plan, deploy, maintain, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP connectivity technology and Cisco's CUBE-connected IP PSTN trunks and offer affordable remote or on-premises support to assist businesses to move smoothly to a modern unified communications environment that delivers accelerated return on investment. Progent's certified Microsoft collaboration consultants can help you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media applications such as Skype for Business or Lync for connectivity to a SIP PSTN trunk.
SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Consultant Services
Biggest Remote Consulting SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Progent can provide the support of certified consultants and seasoned software programmers, DBAs, project managers, Cisco-certified network engineers, disaster recovery planning specialists, and data security consultants to assist your business to evaluate the likely benefits of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for your organization, set up pilot environments at your site or at Progent's lab, plan and carry out an efficient transition to SQL Server 2012 from previous releases of SQL Server or from legacy database platforms, and define a cost-effective and safe IT infrastructure that helps you realize the full business benefit of SQL Server 2012.
Specialists Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V 3.0
Network Engineer Virtual Server Administration Website
Widows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V improves server virtualization in critical areas such as secure multitenancy, agile infrastructure, cloud readiness, expandability and performance, and fault tolerance. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can assist your company to benefit from Hyper-V to deploy and manage virtual servers to cut IT costs and enhance productivity.
System Center 2016 and Windows 10 Integration Professionals
Consulting System Center 2016 Azure Integration
System Center 2016 provides major improvements in the management of hybrid cloud environments by offering comprehensive support for Windows Server 2016, Windows 10; unified management of heterogeneous environments that include various Linux distributions, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; and expanded public and private cloud support such as tighter integration with Microsoft Intune for Apple iPhone and Android smartphone administration plus native integration with Microsoft Operations Management Suite for cloud-enhanced analytics and reporting. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting staff can provide world-class online and onsite expertise for all elements of System Center 2016 including Operations Manager (SCOM), Configuration Manager (SCCM), Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Data Protection Manager, Orchestrator, and Service Manager. Progent can help your business to design and install a new deployment of Microsoft System Center 2016, extend or optimize your current one, upgrade efficiently from a prior version of System Center, or troubleshoot your System Center environment.
Office 365 IDFix Professionals
24 Hour Office 365 and iPhones Technology Consulting Services
Progent can help your business to evaluate the wealth of subscription options offered with Office 365 and integrate your network with Office 365 so you realize top business value. Progent supports cross-platform environments that include Windows, macOS or OS X, and Linux operating systems. Progent can also assist your business to create and manage hybrid networks that transparently combine on-premises and cloud resources.
SonicWall TZ400 Firewall Protect
SonicWall NSA Firewall Cybersecurity Group
Progent's certified SonicWall firewall consultants can show you how to deploy, maintain, and update SonicWall firewall/VPN appliances including the newer SonicWall TZ, NSa and NSsp Series of appliances and the legacy SonicWall PRO 2040 devices. Progent's CISSP and GIAC-certified network security consultants can help you incorporate SonicWall firewalls into a complete security solution and build security into your corporate operations.
Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 Help and Support
Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 IT Services
Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) is an affordable suite of server products that offers the basis for a powerful but easy-to-manage IT network. The integration demands of the Microsoft .NET components bundled with Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 requires an IT consultant with hands-on background and broad experience in planning and building cohesive end-to-end business technology solutions. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have extensive backgrounds with the technologies incorporated in SBS 2011 and SBS 2008. This experience assures you success in deploying, administering, and troubleshooting IT solutions powered by the Microsoft SBS line of servers and programs.
24-7 Exchange 2013 Unified messaging IT Consulting
Exchange 2013 Performance Tuning Engineer
Exchange 2013 incorporates major improvements to the functionality of Microsoft Exchange 2010 and introduces important new features as well as a revamped architecture. These improvements affect key areas including manageability, availability, security and compliance, cost of ownership, teamwork, extensibility, throughput, compatibility, and the user experience. Progent's certified Exchange 2013 consultants can help you evaluate the possible advantages of upgrading to Exchange Server 2013, create a cost-effective test and deployment strategy, and educate your IT team to manage your Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 environment. Progent also offers affordable online support and management for Exchange Server 2013.
IPsec VPN Security Team
Intrusion Protection Systems information Systems Audit
Progent offers small and medium size organizations professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN solutions from leading firewall and VPN security vendors such as WatchGuard, Juniper, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to create a comprehensive security plan and choose appropriate technologies from a variety of vendors to achieve your security goals while sticking within your budget restraints.
Top Rated Linux Network Monitoring Technical Support Services
24/7 Nagios Online Help
Nagios and MRTG are useful, free monitoring utilities that operate with Linux and can be deployed to analyze UNIX environments, Windows networks, or mixed-OS situations where the Linux OS and Windows coexist. Nagios lets system support engineers to monitor network services including SMTP, HTTP, FTP, and NNTP. Multi Router Traffic Grapher permits you to track the bandwidth in and out of SNMP-enabled network devices such as processors, routers, and switches. Progent's system integration experts can assist you to utilize both these utilities to tune and repair your system.
Hybrid cloud solutions Specialists
Cisco Certified Experts Amazon AWS hybrid cloud integration Developer Firm
Progent can provide advanced remote support services to help businesses connect their networks with popular public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. Progent can assist your it team to design and manage cost-effective ecosystems that can include Windows and Linux systems and apps in either cloud-centric systems or in hybrid topologies that seamlessly combine local IT assets as well as public clouds. To assist you to incorporate cloud services with physical datacenters, Progent offers a variety of public cloud integration services such as Azure hybrid cloud design and integration consulting, Amazon Web Services cloud integration support, and Amazon Web Marketing Service development and troubleshooting. Progent has over 15 years of background delivering high-level consulting expertise online, and Progent can make sure you complete your cloud integration initiatives quickly and affordably.
Windows Knowledge Transfer
Training Router
Progent is committed to knowledge transfer from Progent's support experts to clients. By educating customers to deal with problems that are within their scope, Progent is able to focus on providing hard-to-find services where Progent faces few competitors. Medium-size companies who work with familiar freelance service providers or who employ in-house support staffs benefit when Progent passes on information about new technology and tested methodologies to make their networks more robust, secure, and efficient.
Live Online Windows 10 Training
Microsoft Desktop Apps Instruction IT Service
Progent's webinars provide small businesses the affordability, ease, and versatility of online learning plus the proven training methods of seasoned instructors who utilize the latest technology to emulate live, interactive classrooms. Progent can provide remote training for key desktop applications including components of Microsoft Office suite such as Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Project: Microsoft Dynamics business accounting and analytics software including Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains); plus other popular desktop applications like Photoshop, Acrobat Writer, and Crystal Reports.
24x7x365 Sun Solaris Engineer
Consulting Services Solaris
If your office network mixes Sun Solaris technology with MS Windows, Progent can help you to integrate your computers into a unified network that allows all your operating systems to run side by side for simple administration, transparent dataflow, high availability, superior performance, and tight protection. Progent's Solaris and Windows coexistence assistance offerings include IT architecture integration and service, consulting for Microsoft Windows services for UNIX (SFU), remote server monitoring and administration, online network help and repair, in-person technical support, and Helpdesk support.
Microsoft Access Programming Companies
24/7 Integration Firm Microsoft BI Stack
Progent can provide remote and onsite expertise to assist your organization with any facet of BI reporting from debugging or enhancing reports to planning and deploying a comprehensive BI solution. Progent's BI experts can assist you to maintain your current BI system, help you to migrate databases and applications from an outdated reporting product to a modern solution, and provide custom online mentoring tailored to your specific needs. Progent’s management reporting and analytics professionals can provide expertise in the leading BI reporting platforms including the SQL Server business intelligence suite (SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS), Microsoft Management Reporter/FRx, Office Access, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Power BI, Excel business analytics tools such as Power Pivot and Power View, Report Designer and Report Builder.
Part-Time CIO Remote Troubleshooting
24/7 Consulting Services Part-Time CIO
Progent can provide small businesses with an information management professional who can function as a part-time CIO. This part-time Chief Information Officer can provide strategic direction to help you deploy sensible technology to improve business processes so they align more closely with your corporate objectives. Your business can develop and install a well thought out IT strategy without absorbing the cost of a full-time senior IT executive.
Ubuntu Linux Professional
Suse Linux Online Technical Support
Progent's Linux support services offer small companies and software developers assistance with managing and supporting Linux systems that coexist with Microsoft-powered networks. Progent offers your business contact with Linux experts, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISM credentials. This broad array of expertise offers you an easy one-stop consulting firm to show you how to create and maintain a secure and robust mixed-platform network and communications infrastructure that supports Linux and Microsoft interoperability by combining Microsoft Windows with major Linux platforms such as RedHat, SUSE Linux, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu, PCLOS, fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Consulting Snatch ransomware recovery
Technology Professional ransomware virus recovery
Progent's proven ransomware recovery consultants can help you to reconstruct an IT network damaged by a ransomware attack like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Snatch or Egregor.
IT Consultants Small Business WAP500 AP
CCIE Expert Certified Small Business 500 Access Point Professionals
Cisco's Small Business family of APs are Linux-powered devices designed as value-priced wireless solutions for light workloads. Progent's Cisco CCIE Wi-Fi infrastructure consultants can provide remote or onsite integration and troubleshooting support to assist you to plan, configure, upgrade, tune, manage and debug Cisco Small Business wireless AP deployments of any scale or architecture.
Firewall Configuration Oracle database administration
Oracle DBA Consulting
Progent offers affordable online access to a certified Oracle database administration expert or an Oracle application programmer. Progent offers comprehensive DBA services for any version of Oracle's RDBMS platform and can also assist you to design, create, update, or fix Oracle database applications based on SQL and PL/SQL. Progent also can provide consulting for Data Guard and Streams replication tools and ASM file/volume manager.
Load Aggregation Testing Specialists
Best VLAN Test Lab Consultancy
Progent's Test and Training Lab located at the QTS (formerly Herakles) Data Center can be used for testing mission-critical applications, creating cost-effective system upgrade methodologies, assessing and optimizing performance, designing or validating disaster recovery strategies, resolving compatibility problems, and building training environments for the latest products and technologies. For Progent clients who lack adequate in-house resources to assemble effective test environments, the lab cuts capital outlay and technical risk and helps keep critical IT initiatives on schedule.
Windows Server 2012R2 upgrade Consulting
Windows Server 2012R2 Cloud Professionals
Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals can assist you to assess the business value of Windows Server 2012 R2 for your company, create test environments and rollout strategies, tune your network for local, multi-site, private or public cloud-based, and hybrid datacenters, train your IT management staff, develop an enterprise-wide security strategy, streamline IT management, help with creating applications, and generate and validate a DR/BC plan.
Network Consulting Companies Oregon
West Virginia Network Integration
Progent’s Technical Response Center offers affordable nationwide after-hours online support for computer systems based on Windows and Cisco products and technologies. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier service professionals provide 24x7 phone help and remote direct network connection to isolate and resolve technical problems rapidly and affordably.
ISA 2004 Standard Edition Server Support Outsourcing
ISA 2004 Enterprise Edition Server Support and Setup
Progent's certified ISA Server consulting experts have long backgrounds developing ISA Server-based security solutions for IT networks with many offices, remote workers, and line-of-business web applications. Progent's Microsoft Firewall experts can help your company in planning and deploying an installation of ISA Server 2000 or ISA 2004 Server that supports your network security requirements without adversely limiting your network productivity. Progent's consultants can help you upgrade from Microsoft Proxy Server from ISA 2000 Server to ISA 2006 Enterprise Edition Server or Microsoft ISA 2006 Standard Edition Server.
Engineer Dharma ransomware recovery
Professionals ransomware virus recovery
Progent's experienced ransomware recovery consultants can assist you to reconstruct an IT network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky.
SQL Server 2019 and Power BI Support
SQL Server 2019 Performance Tuning Outsourcing
Progent's certified SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Online consultants offer economical remote and on-premises consulting expertise, software development, and debugging services for organizations of all sizes who want to upgrade to SharePoint 2019 or SharePoint Online from older releases of SharePoint. Progent can assist customers plan and execute a cost-effective upgrade to SharePoint 2019 on premises, SharePoint Online, or a hybrid environment that combines local and cloud-based infrastructure into a cohesive intranet system.
Network Engineer Office SharePoint Server 2016
SharePoint Professional
Progent’s Microsoft-certified consultants can provide small and medium sized businesses computer consulting, maintenance, and troubleshooting services for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is an advanced portal solution for intelligently connecting people, groups and data. SharePoint Portal Server offers a central spot for your employees or customers to connect to, organize, share and manipulate relevant information, documents, and applications and to interact with other people. It allows quicker and more intelligent decisions, more efficient sharing across teams and more streamlined business processes. The primary objective of SharePoint Server is to gather together, in a productive way, all of the many sources of information available inside and without an organization. Windows SharePoint Services join workers, clients, teams and major tasks with the data they’ve developed in a way that makes data convenient to locate, retrieve and apply.
Consultant Microsoft LCS Server 2007
Microsoft LCS Server IM Remote Troubleshooting
Microsoft Office Communications Server delivers IM and Real Presence in a scalable, enterprise-grade solution featuring advanced security, transparent integration with additional Microsoft software, an extendable, industry-standard development environment, and compliance with regulatory mandates such as HIPAA, SOX, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Your enterprise can benefit from cost savings and elevated business efficiencies, increased individual productivity, and stronger IP protection with this easy-to-administer, fault-tolerant IM platform. Successful deployments of Microsoft Office Communications Server require extensive planning and consideration prior to installation. Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals can deliver the skill needed to realize all the advantages of Office Communications Server throughout your whole organization.
Cisco Firepower NGIPS Integration
Cisco ASA Firewall with Firepower Consultants
Cisco's Firepower Next Generation Firewalls provide a major performance boost compared to Cisco's previous-generation ASA 5500-X security appliances and include unified control of advanced security features such as application visibility and control, next-generation intrusion protection (NGIPS) with risk prioritization, advanced malware protection, DDoS mitigation, and multi-node sandboxing. Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified firewall experts can help you to plan and carry out an efficient migration to Cisco Firepower firewalls from Cisco's legacy ASA 5500-X, ASA 5500, or PIX appliances and show you how to integrate Firepower appliances with Cisco's cloud-based services to create and centrally manage network ecosystems that span branch offices, data centers, private clouds and public clouds.
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