Fast and Affordable Online Technical Support for Albany New York IT Networks
For organizations located in Albany New York, Progent provides remote support for computer systems based on any mix of Microsoft, Cisco, Apple macOS and OS X, or Linux/UNIX technology. Progent's Microsoft Premier professionals have provided remote troubleshooting to businesses in all 50 states in the United States. (Check out recommendations from Progent's customers.) Progent also offers the consultation services of Cisco CCIE network specialists to help with complex networking issues, plus the assistance of CISSP-accredited security experts to handle high-level security design and diagnostic issues.
Progent's remote technical support experts offer excellent leverage due to the fact that they possess the real-world background and have access to the sophisticated tools required to solve the majority of information system issues quickly. Efficient support lowers direct costs because service calls use up fewer chargeable consulting minutes. Online help also eliminates the cost of sending a consultant to your site. Your company saves even more with indirect costs by reducing or eliminating network downtime and related costs resulting from business discontinuity, upset clients, unproductive workers, and distracted executives. Progent's extensive remote consulting expertise is particularly helpful in environments that are dependent on public clouds for critical network infrastructure or software such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, Amazon AWA, Google Cloud, or where on-premises tech support may not be an option.
Progent's billing model for online help is structured to leverage your network support dollar. Progent bills on a per-minute basis for telephone-based assistance, so you are charged exclusively for the support that you receive. In contrast to many online support firms, Progent asks for no initialization charge or minimum job duration. Progent's per-minute billing unit and simple model for pricing avoid scenarios where speedy. minor solutions manage to turn into large bills. Progent's penchant for handling problems quickly means you saves money.
Progent's Remote Consulting and Technical Support Expertise
Through years of experience, Progent has mastered a collection of optimized technologies and field-tested methodologies which promote the highest degree of effectiveness for online technical support and repair for IT networks of any size. Progent provides protected Virtual Private Network support for VPN gateways from multiple popular sources including Microsoft, Cisco, SonicWall and Checkpoint. Protected VPN connectivity permits the engineers of Progent's Technical Response Center to connect to your company's environment remotely without breaching network security.
Progent's sophisticated service database system stores detailed documentation for all service that Progent's customers have been provided. Progent's staff service personnel have access to the details of assistance provided to every Progent customer by every Progent consultant. This history of issues and responses is organized as a conveniently exploitable support database that permits Progent's remote technical engineers to share their knowledge with the whole team to make sure that the efficiency of Progent's technical support grows daily. Progent's high-level accreditations and close relationships with major vendors such as Cisco and Microsoft open up other extensive technical support knowledge bases and allow priority response from vendors' internal support staff with the result that Progent's remote consulting experts can come up with optimal resolutions quickly.
Online support available from Progent to companies in Albany New York include:
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Certified Windows Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified remote service engineers can provide computer repair and consulting assistance for the complete line of Microsoft server technologies. Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and can provide your organization the assistance of consulting engineers who can assist you with a wide variety of platform support services such as Microsoft Windows Server 2022 solution design and migration expertise,
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 migration,
Windows Server 2016 configuration for hybrid systems, Windows Server 2012 R2 integration,
Windows Server 2008 R2 migration,
MS Exchange Server 2019 deployment,
MS Exchange 2016 Server planning and deployment, Exchange Server 2013 consulting,
Exchange 2010 monitoring and support,
SharePoint Server 2019 planning and integration, SharePoint 2016 migration and hybrid integration consulting services, Microsoft Teams migration expertise, Skype for Business Server migration support, Lync Server integration, and Microsoft Communications Server 2007 troubleshooting,
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway administration and ISA Server migration, Microsoft SQL Server 2019 integration expertise, Microsoft SQL Server 2017 expertise, Microsoft SQL Server 2016 migration and development and SQL Server 2014 consulting,
Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) network monitoring,
Project Server and Project Server Online training,
Microsoft Office Access Programming,
Small Business Server 2011 consulting, and
Windows 2012 R2 Essentials cloud integration.
Progent in addition can deliver a broad array of affordable desktop consulting and support services to assist your company to install, integrate, troubleshoot, and manage desktop PCs and laptops powered by Microsoft Windows. Progent's PC desktop support services cover areas such as providing Windows 11 system design and migration consulting and Windows 10 integration assistance, plus System Center 2012 Configuration Manager planning and deployment, Microsoft System Center 2016 Configuration Manager (SCCM 2016) cloud integration, and Intune expertise to centralize the management of your PCs and cloud-connected tablets and smartphones.
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Contact a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert for High-level Network Troubleshooting
The Cisco CCIE credential is the top recognition for networking engineers, and certifies an individual's technical knowledge at the master level. CCIEs can handle even the most stubborn issues associated with network planning, deployment, maintenance, protection, and troubleshooting. Cisco qualified CCIEs work closely with Cisco's in-house engineers in isolating anomalies with IOS network management utilities and coming up with workarounds or identifying program patches. Cisco qualified CCIEs are an exceptional cost-effectiveness since their depth of experience enables them to resolve problems rapidly. In typical cases, less seasoned engineers can struggle for many hours or even days with identical tasks that a Cisco-qualified CCIE can fix in minutes. Progent's Cisco-qualified CCIE engineers can tie into your environment via state-of-the-art remote troubleshooting tools to perform efficient, safe, and affordable analysis and remediation.
Upstate New York Contact Information:
Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout upstate New York.
Progent locations in Upstate New York
Progent's CCIEs can provide assistance with the complete line of Cisco's top-selling family of connectivity appliances. Cisco technology consulting offered by Progent includes ASA Next Generation firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and debugging, Cisco routers configuration and troubleshooting, Catalyst switch consulting and support, Nexus switch consulting services, Meraki switches configuration and management, Cisco Unified Communications Manager/CallManager configuration and technical support, Cisco Voice over IP phones and IP video phones solutions and wireless VoIP phones integration, Cisco Meraki wireless AP planning and configuration, Cisco Aironet APs consulting services, Cisco WiFi controllers support Services, Cisco Security and VPN Consulting support, and SIP and CUBE integration solutions for SIP PSTN trunks and Cisco CUBE integration expertise. Progent can also provide online and onsite Wi-Fi site surveys to assist you to modernize your Wi-Fi infrastructure.
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Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line: Call 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line is intended to guide organizations to complete the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware expert can assist businesses to locate and isolate breached servers and endpoints and guard clean assets from being penetrated. If your Albany system has been breached by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly 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 consultants can assist your Albany company to restore an IT network breached by a ransomware crypto-worm like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, LockBit or Egregor. Progent's team of cybersecurity experts bring the broad selection of knowledge necessary to rebuild all critical components of a targeted network rapidly and with minimal data loss. To learn more, see Progent's ransomware removal and business restoration experts.
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CISM and CISSP Certified Network Security Specialists
Progent's certified CISM and CISSP security and compliance consultants can provide a variety of system protection solutions to improve the safety of your Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and OS X, Linux, or UNIX environment against attacks or assist you to recover rapidly after a damaging breach. Security solutions offered by Progent cover comprehensive information security and compliance audits utilizing utilities such as GFI LANguard NSS, NMAP Port Scanner, and software from Solar Winds tools and Netcat; quick recuperation from malicious assaults; integrating firewalls; building secure techniques for remote and mobile communication; protecting your email system from viruses, spam and DHA attacks; and initiating 24x7 proactive monitoring.
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Cloud Integration
Progent offers expert remote support to help businesses of any size connect their information networks with leading public clouds such as Azure and Amazon AWS. Progent can help you to plan and administer hybrid environments that can include Windows and Linux systems and applications in either cloud-centric systems or in hybrid topologies that seamlessly combine physical resources along with cloud services. To assist you to incorporate public cloud services with networks, Progent can provide a variety of cloud migration support services that include Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-prem Exchange environments,
Azure hybrid cloud design and deployment services, Amazon Web Services hybrid cloud solutions, Amazon Web Marketing Service development and troubleshooting, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise. Progent has more than two decades of background delivering advanced consulting services online, and Progent can make sure you complete your cloud migration initiatives quickly and within your budget.
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VMware Site Recovery Manager Consulting
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is an extension to VMware vCenter that allows you to orchestrate, automate and test a consistent workflow for recovering applications and services quickly following an outage. SRM supports centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site migration, failback and site re-protect. SRM also allows non-intrusive testing for disaster recovery, upgrades and fixes and can generate reports to verify complete service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to help you to plan, deploy, test and manage a disaster recovery solution based on VMware Site Recovery Manager.
Progent's VMware vSphere experts offer in-depth experience of VMware vCloud Director, VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRO and vCloud Suite tools for administering private and public cloud and hybrid cloud solutions that provide high uptime, data security, and disaster recovery. Progent also offers world-class VMware NSX expertise from a VCDX-NV certified network architect to help your organization to plan and deploy a fully virtualized Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) that can be set up or migrated instantly and administered with a high degree of automation regardless of the physical components making up the basic IP network.
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UNIX/Linux, Sun Solaris, and macOS and OS X Expertise
Progent's UNIX, Linux experts and Apple macOS and OS X technology specialists can provide remote support services to cover a wide spectrum of information technologies such as network infrastructure, email solutions, network and operational security, plus UNIX/Linux and Windows integration. For server consolidation and simplified management in environments that combine Linux and Windows, Progent offers VMware vSphere integration and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent can also assist with migration from legacy systems to MS Windows or Linux solutions. Progent's group-based approach to solving network issues promotes fast escalation, if necessary, to consultants with task-relevant experience to tackle challenging situations. This expedites repair of urgent problems, minimizes network downtime, and lowers service expense.
Major Linux platforms for which Progent offers expert support include:
RedHat
SUSE Linux
Debian-GNU
Slackware
Ubuntu
Progent's ProSight Subscription-based IT Services for Small and Medium Size Organizations
Progent offers a selection of affordable, flat-rate services intended to allow small and medium-size businesses to benefit from the same cutting-edge IT solutions deployed by some of the industry's leading corporations. Progent's ProSight series of network monitoring and management services covers all critical facets of information technology including email protection, threat defense based on machine leaning, automated backup/recovery, infrastructure management, VM hosting, and IT asset documentation management. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:
- ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint detection and response (EDR) service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to address the entire threat progression including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.
- ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Endpoint Security and Exchange Filtering
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also assist you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.
- ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore technology vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. ProSight DPS products automate and monitor your data backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and fast restoration of important files/folders, apps, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you protect against data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, user error, malicious insiders, or software glitches. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to identify which of these fully managed services are most appropriate for your network.
- Progent's Patch Management: Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving information system. In addition to maximizing the protection and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT staff to concentrate on more strategic projects and tasks that derive maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management services.
- ProSight Duo Multi-Factor Authentication: Access Security, Endpoint Policy Enforcement, and Secure Single Sign-on
Progent's Duo MFA services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and give your password you are requested to confirm your identity on a device that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be used for this added form of ID validation such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. To find out more about Duo identity validation services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for access security.
- ProSight Reporting: Real-time Reporting for Ticketing and Network Monitoring Applications
ProSight Reporting is an expanding family of real-time reporting tools designed to work with the top ticketing and network monitoring platforms including ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting incorporates Microsoft Graph and features color coding to surface and contextualize key issues such as spotty support follow-through or endpoints with missing patches. By exposing ticketing or network health problems concisely and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting enhances productivity, lowers management overhead, and saves money. For more information, visit ProSight Reporting for ticketing and network monitoring platforms.
- ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.
- ProSight WAN Watch: Network Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
ProSight WAN Watch is an infrastructure monitoring and management service that makes it easy and inexpensive for small and mid-sized businesses to map, track, reconfigure and debug their networking appliances such as switches, firewalls, and load balancers as well as servers, client computers and other networked devices. Incorporating cutting-edge RMM technology, ProSight WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology diagrams are kept current, captures and displays the configuration of almost all devices on your network, tracks performance, and generates alerts when potential issues are detected. By automating complex management processes, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off ordinary tasks like making network diagrams, reconfiguring your network, finding devices that require important software patches, or isolating performance bottlenecks. Learn more details about ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure management services.
- ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Remote Monitoring
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's server and desktop monitoring service that uses state-of-the-art remote monitoring and management technology to keep your network operating efficiently by checking the health of vital computers that power your business network. When ProSight LAN Watch detects an issue, an alert is transmitted immediately to your designated IT management personnel and your assigned Progent engineering consultant so that any looming problems can be resolved before they have a chance to disrupt productivity Find out more details about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring consulting.
- ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
- ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management Services
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.
ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a quick and affordable way for small and medium-size organizations to get an objective evaluation of the health of their information system. Powered by a selection of the top remote monitoring and management tools in the industry, and overseen by Progent's world-class group of information technology professionals, ProSight Network Audits help you see how well the configuration of your essential infrastructure assets conform to best practices. Both the Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are offered at a low, one-time cost and provide instant ROI such as a cleaner Active Directory (AD) system. Both also include a year of cutting-edge remote network monitoring and management. Advantages can include lower-cost network management, better compliance with government and industry security requirements, more efficient utilization of IT resources, faster problem resolution, more dependable backup and recovery, and higher availability. Read more about ProSight Network Audits network infrastructure review.
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is a low-cost service centered on a phone interview with a Progent backup/recovery expert. The fact-finding interview is intended to assess your company's preparedness to block or recover rapidly following an attack by a ransomware variant like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Hermes. Progent will consult with you directly to collect information about your current antivirus tools and backup/recovery system, and Progent will then produce a written Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how you can follow industry best practices to create an efficient security and backup environment that aligns with your business requirements. For details, refer to Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.
Additional Consulting Services Offered by Progent
Progent offers the skills of seasoned remote consulting professionals for contract information technology programs. Billing rates for longer-term consulting projects are determined according to the level of expertise of the consultants assigned. Progent's experience with these special areas of computer technology allows customers to execute critical projects economically and on time. Progent's project-based online engineering solutions include:
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Call Center Services
Progent's Help Desk programs for organizations with environments that incorporate Microsoft Windows, Cisco, macOS and OS X, UNIX, or Linux platforms include comprehensive Call Center services, co-managed Help Desk services, and Help Desk process consulting.
Progent's Standard Help Desk Services offer smaller businesses a complete solution that handles all aspects of online Level 1 desktop technical support from service requests through trouble ticket generation, screen sharing, status tracking, problem resolution, and management reports. Progent provides service desk support at a significant discount off Progent's regular desktop support rates, and Progent can provide the option of rapid as-needed escalation to Level 2 and Level 3 experts to handle the most issues.
Progent's Help Desk consulting expertise can assist you in creating an efficient new Help Desk or revamping your current organization, identifying or customizing Help Desk software products to address the unique demands of your company, or adding temporary phone support personnel to work with your in-house Help Desk team during unusually busy events like software transitions, major updates, or rolling out new applications.
Progent's Call Center staff of veteran information technology consultants offers your computer users in Albany New York immediate assistance from an efficient support group with substantial background offering telephone-based help and remote repair service for networks based on Microsoft, Cisco, Apple macOS and OS X, or UNIX/Linux technology. Progent's concentration is to earn the Help Desk the reputation as a major contributor to business performance, and Progent's policy is to solve and not merely annotate network problems.
- Business Applications Support: Training, Development, and Problem Solving
Progent's Applications Consulting Group offers phone-based and in-depth consulting support and education in key business application fields that include Enterprise Requirements Planning, MRP, custom financial systems, and Customer Relationship Management. Progent also offers consulting expertise, custom development, and education for Microsoft applications such as Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Project, Office Word, and Microsoft 365 Excel. For more information about Progent's consulting, customization, and training services, go to Progent's Business Application Experts Group.
- Unified and Automated Administration of Hybrid Cloud Environments
System Center centralizes and automates the administration of hybrid cloud environments by offering advanced integration with Windows Server 2022 servers, Windows 10 and Windows 11; cohesive integration of heterogeneous networks that include Linux, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware; and expanded cloud support including closer integration with Microsoft Intune for Apple iPhone and Android smartphone administration plus built-in integration with Operations Management Suite for cloud-enhanced analytics and reporting. Progent's System Center consulting experts offer world-class remote and on-premises expertise for all elements of System Center2including Operations Manager, Configuration Manager (SCCM), Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Data Protection Manager, Orchestrator, and Service Manager (SCSM). Progent can assist organizations of any size to design and install a new deployment of Microsoft System Center2, expand or optimize an existing one, upgrade efficiently from a previous version of System Center, or troubleshoot your System Center environment.
- Remote Hybrid Network Monitoring and Reporting Support
Progent offers businesses in Albany New York remote hybrid network monitoring and reporting by providing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager consulting. Progent can adapt Operations Manager for your business so your network maintenance is proactive and automated. By exposing potential issues before they cause network outages, proactive monitoring can avoid inconvenient and costly service failures. Progent can also deploy network monitoring utilities like Nagios and MRTG to troubleshoot UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Apple macOS and OS X systems, Windows environments, or environments that incorporate a mix of operating systems.
How Your Albany Company Can Contact Progent's Online Support Experts
To contact Progent about emergency online assistance with Windows, macOS and OS X, or Linux/UNIX networks, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Support, call 1-800-993-9400, or see Contact Progent.
For businesses and new ventures in Albany New York, Progent's online computer support specialists are ready to deliver effective and cost-effective system support the instant your company requires it. More than two decades of offering online tech support has led to Microsoft Partner certification for Progent's consulting experts and has enabled Progent to develop world-class troubleshooting capability and to fine tune remote connectivity tools to repair IT problems quickly while eliminating the cost and lost productivity associated with on-site support visits.
Even if your Albany business works with a local independent consultant or maintains a full time IT staff that know how to handle day-to-day network problems, Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified consultants are available to offer a convenient and seamless remote extension of your local resources in cases when your usual IT support personnel either lack the time or the knowledge to address sudden network crises or especially complex integration projects.
Features of Progent's Online Network Services for Albany New York
Progent's phone support, remote repair, system security consulting, and network management services offer offices in Albany New York the greatest leverage for your IT budget. Whether you need occasional phone help and remote troubleshooting or full-time Help Desk services and network administration, Progent's experts can deliver your office enterprise-level IT support while allowing you to avoid the expense and hassle of maintaining a full-service internal IT organization. Highlights of Progent's online help program include:
- Immediate Telephone Access to Microsoft Certified Support Specialists
Progent's staff of Microsoft-certified technicians can deliver fast and affordable expertise to offices in Albany New York and is also ideal for networks in geographic areas that lack technicians with in-depth experience supporting Microsoft's latest line of server technologies. All Progent engineers have over 10 years of background integrating Microsoft solutions. As a Microsoft Certified Partner support company, Progent has the use of a wide selection of Microsoft support tools, technical databases, and continuing education.
- By the Minute Billing to Minimize Costs
Progent offers online support on a per-minute billing plan, so you pay only for the support you use. Progent requires no minimum fee for online help and asks for no ongoing subscription fee for support services delivered during normal working hours. This protects you from paying big bills for simple repairs.
- Access to Cisco Network Architecture Experts
Progent's registered experts for Cisco can provide access to on-staff professionals with experience in designing, implementing, and managing networking solutions powered by Cisco products. Progent can offer a CCIE or CCNP to help you create high-speed, high-availability, and protected infrastructure for wireline and wireless networking.
- Application Experts Consulting
Progent's core consulting offerings consist of system integration, Microsoft Exchange Server consulting, system security planning, and Help Desk Co-management services. Progent's Experts group can provide world-class consulting expertise in specific business applications. Help offered by the Application Experts staff includes:
Dynamics GP/Great Plains Support and Customization
MS Project Support
Office 365 solutions consulting
Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office 365 Excel Technical Support and VBA Programming
Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office 365 Word Help
Business Information (BI) Reporting Development and Troubleshooting
Power BI Integration and Training
UNIX, Linux and Solaris Support
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 solution design, MS SQL Server 2017 migration, Microsoft SQL 2016 Application Programming, and Microsoft SQL 2014 Application Programming and Troubleshooting
Oracle Database Administration and Application Development
MySQL Management Support and Application Programming
Apple Macintosh Help
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) Programming
By providing a full service centralized resource for network generalists and application experts, Progent is able to deliver fast, inexpensive, and comprehensive information technology solutions that address the special needs of your business.
- Advanced Online Connectivity Tools
Secure online access permits Progent's service professionals to observe precisely what your users see. This makes it easier to produce fast fixes to problems that might otherwise require a costly personal service call. Cutting-edge online access tools and expert technicians combine to allow Progent to resolve most network problems quickly and affordably. Progent is a pioneer in online support and remote system tracking.
- Support for Popular VPN Gateways
Progent can provide safe VPN connectivity for gateways from leading VPN vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco, NetScreen and CheckPoint. Protected VPN remote access enables the engineers at Progent's Technical Response Center to access your network remotely without weakening network security.
- Round-the-Clock Service for High Network Uptime
For businesses with line-of-business applications, Progent offers optional 24x7 remote support services. Combined with automated 24x7 network monitoring based on Microsoft Operations Manager, this service can help produce maximum system availability.
- Help Desk Call Center
Progent's Help Desk support services are designed specifically for budget-constrained businesses whose workers need instant recourse to a Help Desk Call Center with effective telephone support and complete escalation ability.
How Is Progent Unique from Other Support Organizations?
Progent is a Microsoft Partner support firm and Progent's staff size, breadth of technical knowledge, refined remote support software, and understanding of enterprise networking enable companies to escape the pitfalls of excessive reliance on smaller consulting organizations, individual freelance service providers, or over-stretched in-house IT help.
Progent stands out by offering:
- Best Practices
Progent's staff of Microsoft and Cisco Premier Certified experts average longer than a decade of real-world industry experience, at the forefront of IT service, performing a broad range of IT projects for a large array of customers. Each Progent support professional shares a refined set of personal best practices which are combined into company-wide leading practices training that Progent instills in its consulting staff. This means that you get not only expert technical help, but also a support engineer with field-tested approaches for applying technical knowledge to resolve real-world IT problems quickly.
- Value Pricing
Progent's pricing policy is to bill for remote support and in-person visits by the minute. Consequently, you are charged only for received services. Progent does not impose a more expensive rate for after-hours or priority support, and within California or in areas where Progent provides on-premises service, Progent does not bill for travel time except for urgent calls where on-site time is less than four hours. In addition, Progent imposes no service activation fee and asks no monthly commitment for services delivered during regular business hours. Many support firms impose substantial minimum fees or charge for each fifteen minutes or longer. Progent's fine granularity avoids large bills for quick fixes so you won't be tempted to allow simple problems to fester.
- Complete Documentation of IT Services
Progent has developed a sophisticated service reporting system that records and organizes complete documentation for all delivered support activities. Unlike some independent consultants or small support firms who provide minimal documentation or details of services done, each service delivered by Progent is tracked by full documentation. Every Progent staff member has use of the service reports sent by each consultant to each customer. The practice of documenting and archiving service activity results in more efficient support and eliminates a slew of typical misfortunes such as when a service client is virtually held hostage to a consultant who won't let go of vital service information.
- 24x7 Network Monitoring with MS System Center Operations Manager
Progent is one of the few consulting companies to offer round-the-clock remote monitoring services based on MS Operations Manager. MS Operations Manager allows your computer support to be proactive instead of reactive. By revealing possible issues before they result in lost productivity, network monitoring can save your information network from painful and expensive service losses.
How Does My Business Start Getting Remote Computer Support from Progent?
To initiate Progent's online help services or to learn more about Progent's online support options, call Progent at 1-866-PROGENT (866-776-4368) or visit Contact Progent. If you have an urgent need for IT support, go to Immediate Technical Support.