Progent's Microsoft certified consultants provide small and medium sized companies consulting services for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Servers. Microsoft's Forefront TMG and Internet Security and Acceleration Servers contain an advanced application-layer aware firewall that can protect your IT network from attack by external and internal sources. Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Server provide deep inspection of Internet protocols such as HTTP, which allows these products to detect many threats that can get by traditional firewalls. The combined firewall and VPN structure of Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Server permit stateful filtering and inspection of all VPN traffic. ISA Servers are the mainstay of Microsoft's system security strategy, and Progent's Microsoft-certified experts and CISSP, CISA and CISM certified security consultants can help you strengthen your IT protection through experienced planning and integration of Forefront TMG and ISA Servers. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help you to configure Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010, manage and troubleshoot all versions of ISA Server, or upgrade from ISA Server environments to Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway.
Microsoft supports transparent hybrid networks that combine Microsoft 365 and on-premises Exchange deployments. This allows you to have certain Exchange mailboxes hosted at your on-premises datacenter or private cloud and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can assist your organization with any phase of designing, implementing and troubleshooting your hybrid Exchange Online solution. Progent's Exchange specialists can provide occasional support to help you through stubborn technical issues and also can provide extensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to ensure your hybrid Exchange initiative is completed on time and within budget.
Progent delivered a wireless integration solution that enabled a school to increase efficiency and avoid the ongoing expense of a dedicated data connection. Progent proposed a Proxim Tsunami high-speed wireless bridge. The economical building-to-building Proxim bridge is designed for connecting remote locations as far as 2.5 miles apart and can reach even greater distances. This wireless alternative provided improved bandwidth and dependability than recourse to amplifying the 802.11b wireless connection, and since it utilizes the 5.8Ghz spectrum it provided protection against outside interference.
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Progent can provide remote and onsite consulting to help your organization with any phase of business intelligence reporting from troubleshooting or modernizing applications to designing and deploying a comprehensive business intelligence solution. Progent's BI consultants can help you to support your existing BI environment, assist you to migrate databases and applications from an outdated reporting platform to a modern solution, and deliver as-needed online training tailored to your individual requirements. Progent's management reporting and analytics consultants can provide experience in the leading BI reporting platforms including the SQL Server BI suite (SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS), Microsoft Management Reporter/FRx, Microsoft Access, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Power BI, Excel business analytics add-ins including Power Pivot, Power Query and Power View, Report Designer and Report Builder.
Cisco's Firepower NGFWs Firewalls provide a major performance improvement over Cisco's previous-generation ASA 5500-X firewalls and include centralized control of advanced cybersecurity features such as application visibility and control (AVC), next-generation intrusion protection (NGIPS) with risk prioritization, advanced malware protection (AMP), DDoS mitigation, and multi-node sandboxing. Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified firewall consultants can help you to design and carry out a smooth migration to Cisco Firepower firewalls from Cisco's legacy ASA 5500-X, ASA 5500, or PIX firewalls and help you enhance Firepower firewalls with Cisco's cloud-based services to create and centrally control IT environments that include branch offices, data centers, private clouds and public clouds.
Progent provides a variety of IT service packages for small companies. These information technology outsourcing and server monitoring services are built around the anticipatory problem handling capabilities of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, a next-generation network and system support software platform that monitors the availability, throughput, and safety of your information system and isolates potential problems before they can disrupt your system. With Progent's affordably priced IT support packages, small companies can choose a simple co-sourcing service program based on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 with server monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and online service or a comprehensive 24x7 outsourcing solution.
Progent practices information transfer from Progent's consultants to customers. By teaching clients to resolve technical issues that are within their comfort zone, Progent is able to concentrate on delivering hard-to-find services where Progent has few competitors. Small companies who work with familiar freelance service providers or who employ internal support staffs benefit when Progent transfers knowledge about new technology and proven methodologies to make their IT environments more reliable, protected, and productive.
Progent provides the services of Microsoft and Cisco-Premier IT consulting experts to show clients economical alternatives to help companies optimize the benefits of Microsoft and Cisco products. For networks that range from small offices to nationwide corporations, Progent's network engineers can assist you to improve your network's e-mail architecture, security, reliability, throughput, and system administration.
Progent can provide the support of an accredited consultant with an extensive background deploying products from the leading video conferencing/telepresence vendors such as Cisco, Polycom, LifeSize and Radvision and can help you to design, configure, upgrade, or troubleshoot a telepresence environment that protects your current investment and optimizes the strategic value of your information system. Progent also offers the expertise of infrastructure engineers able to assist companies of all sizes to create and maintain a network that delivers the speed, reliability, protection, and expandability you need to accommodate your video conferencing/telepresence solution.
Progent uses an enterprise-class support reporting system that stores and formats detailed documentation for all delivered support activities. Unlike many independent consultants or local service organizations who provide scant documentation or specifics of services performed, each service provided by Progent is tracked by comprehensive documentation. Every Progent consultant has access to the support reports transmitted by every staff member to each customer. The discipline of documenting and organizing service activity allows more effective support and avoids a slew of typical problems such as when a support client is effectively held captive to a consultant who won't release the keys to the kingdom.
Microsoft Office for Mac allows Apple Macintosh users to run the industry's most popular office productivity applications. Progent's Apple-certified Macintosh consultants can show you how to configure Microsoft Office for Macintosh on a mixed-platform network that incorporates Apple OS X and Windows-powered platforms so that Macintosh users can take advantage of the new capabilities of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage for Mac in order to share data and system resources with colleagues who run Windows. Progent's consultants have expertise with both Apple Macintosh and Windows technology and can provide service for networks that mix Apple Macintosh with Windows systems with complete resource sharing, or networks which intentionally restrict sharing between Apple Mac and Windows systems.
Progent can help you to design and administer hybrid environments that support Windows and Linux systems and apps in both cloud-only systems or in hybrid architectures that combine on-premises resources as well as one or more cloud services. To assist you to integrate public clouds with physical datacenters, Progent offers a variety of public cloud integration services such as Azure enterprise hybrid cloud planning and integration consulting, Amazon AWS cloud migration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service (WMS) programming and troubleshooting. Progent has 20 years of background providing advanced consulting expertise remotely, and Progent can help you successfully carry out your cloud migration initiatives quickly and within your budget.
Even if your company has a small network services group and a limited IT budget, your information network can still feature the same high availability and performance that once required a substantial internal support organization. Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services for small businesses combine the experience of world-class Microsoft-certified and Cisco-certified IT consultants, the most recent system management products for proactive monitoring and threshold alarms, and cost-effective service programs such as a help desk service to keep your mission-critical business applications and hardware up and running.
VMware's popular Site Recovery Manager is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to specify, automate and verify a repeatable process for restoring applications and services quickly after a breakdown. SRM supports centrally managed and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and non-disruptive site migration, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also supports non-intrusive testing for site recovery, upgrades and fixes and can produce audit reports to verify full service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and prove DR compliance. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to help you to plan, deploy, test and manage a DR system based on VMware Site Recovery Manager.
For enterprises with branches in California or any area served by Progent's engineers, Progent's Microsoft-Certified IT support professionals and authorized Cisco system consultants can provide a variety of network consulting services such as project management, SOX compliance, site relocations, enterprise security, network design, local or remote emergency support, and technical support for data center hosting facilities. A Progent IT architect can help you design a multi-site information system that makes smart use of colocation facilities and Internet data centers. Progent's Microsoft Premier engineers can help large enterprises design, integrate and maintain major rollouts of the latest releases of Microsoft products including Enterprise Active Directory, Exchange Server, SharePoint, SQL Server, and Enterprise editions of Windows. Progent's CCIE and CCNP experts can help you deploy Cisco technology for connection solutions that incorporate simple, high-speed, integrated, and wireless networking.
Progent's expert support team can help you define and implement a smooth in-place Exchange Server 2007 migration strategy that avoids productivity disruption, simplifies ongoing support demands, and makes your Exchange 2007 Server easy to administer. For complex multiple server or multi-site migrations, Progent has the background to finish your move rapidly and affordably. Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 support, troubleshooting, and design offerings include assistance with the integration of third-party add-ons to Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server and the creation of unified messaging implementations powered by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
Progent's support services for software/firmware update management offer businesses of any size a flexible and cost-effective solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your virtual and physical; servers, such as printers and scanners, infrastructure appliances such as switches and wireless APs, and IoT devices such as sensors and robotics.
E-Mail Guard represents a comprehensive service for defending against spam and viruses. E-Mail Guard addresses the security and management of corporate email by offering continually improved spam and virus blocking, policy administration, content filtering, and defense against email-borne directory harvesting and DDoS attacks. E-Mail Guard also includes tracking, administration and reporting tools as well as outgoing email testing to let you repair your email system and define and enforce corporate email policy.
Citrix has developed a powerful line of platforms that provide enterprise-level manageability, expandability, and performance for server virtualization and for server-based delivery of Windows desktops and applications. For distributing virtualized Windows desktops and applications, Citrix has developed XenDesktop and XenApp. For creating and managing virtual servers, Citrix offers Citrix XenServer and Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V. Progent's Citrix-certified engineers can help you to evaluate the business benefits of Citrix virtualization products and can help you plan, validate, implement, troubleshoot, and maintain Citrix solutions.
Progent's certified professionals can assist you to evaluate the benefits of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 for your organization, develop pilot environments and migration plans, optimize your network infrastructure for local, multi-location, cloud-based, and hybrid environments, train your IT support team, create a corporate-wide security strategy, streamline IT management, help with creating applications, and build and test a disaster recovery/business continuity plan.
Cisco offers an extensive array of routers including routers built to provide the protection, bandwidth, and availability required by organizations from small businesses to worldwide enterprises and ISPs. Cisco routers feature support for redundancy, automatic failthrough, and redundant power for improved fault tolerance and network uptime. Progent can help you select and integrate Cisco routers to build a solid infrastructure for your IT system and to make it easy to grow as you add new users, start new offices, deploy new services, extend your network to customers and partners, and manage an increasingly mobile workforce. Progent can provide help with a range of routers powered by Cisco's IOS platform, such as the Cisco 800 family of small office VPN routers, Cisco 1800 and 3800 ISR routers, Cisco 3900 and 4000 G2 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 Aggregation Services Routers for wide area network edge applications, Cisco CRS Carrier Routing System for core Networks, as well as older 3600 and 3700 Routers.
System Center 2016 Operations Manager is designed to ensure consistent performance and maximum availability for key workloads by offering unified, mixed-platform tracking of IT infrastructure installed across on-premises datacenters and cloud environments. Progent's consulting team can provide advanced online and onsite expertise to help businesses of any size to plan, implement, tune, update and repair SCOM 2016 deployments. Progent can help you to move to Operations Manager 2016 from older versions of Operations Manager or from other monitoring platforms, or integrate multiple monitoring systems into a unified infrastructure management solution. Progent can also show you how to expand your Operations Manager 2016 environment to incorporate resources hosted on public clouds including Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
Progent's Check Point experts can show you how to choose and configure Check Point Firewall utilities and appliances based on Check Point Software's security platform to provide an economical and efficient security defense for your IT network. Progent can also show you how to integrate other Check Point products such as ZoneAlarm and Check Point Series 80 appliances with security products from other suppliers and offer a central stop for continuing network support, maintenance, education, and design services.
The current ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services deliver substantially more bang for the buck than Cisco's previous firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for new deployments. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can assist you to manage your legacy PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls and migrate to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also assist you to design, deploy, optimize, administer and troubleshoot firewall solutions based on Cisco ASA firewalls with Firepower Services.
Progent's ProSight WAN Watch is an infrastructure monitoring and management service that makes it easy and affordable for small and mid-sized organizations to map, track, enhance and debug their connectivity appliances such as switches, firewalls, and load balancers as well as servers, printers, endpoints and other devices. Incorporating state-of-the-art Remote Monitoring and Management technology, ProSight WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology diagrams are kept current, captures and displays the configuration of virtually all devices connected to your network, monitors performance, and sends alerts when issues are discovered. By automating complex management activities, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off ordinary chores such as making network diagrams, expanding your network, finding devices that need critical software patches, or identifying the cause of performance issues.
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 provides Instant Messaging, Real Presence, voice/video conferencing, desktop sharing, as well as IP-based and public switched telephone network (PSTN) voice communication. Lync Server 2010 can extend the capability of Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint Server and Office desktop or Microsoft 365 and simplify management through integration with Windows AD. Lync 2010 can also reduce expenses by eliminating VoIP hardware and subscription fees, PBX systems, or legacy teleconferencing technology. Progent's Microsoft-certified IM and Presence consultants can provide online and on-premises support to help you to maintain and repair your existing Lync 2010 environment or evaluate the advantages of upgrading from Lync Server 2010 to Skype for Business, which is the new release of the product family. Progent can also assist your organization to design and carry out an efficient Skype for Business migration or a migration to Microsoft Teams.
Progent's certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server consulting experts have extensive experience configuring ISA Server-based security installations for IT networks with many offices, mobile users, and line-of-business web applications. Progent's ISA Firewall consultants are available to help your small business in planning and deploying a configuration of ISA 2000 Server or ISA Server 2004 that supports your information protection needs without overly limiting your IT system accessibility. Progent's consultants can help you migrate from Microsoft Proxy Server from Microsoft ISA 2000 to Microsoft ISA 2006 Enterprise Edition Server or ISA 2006 Standard Edition Server.
Progent offers expert online consulting support to help businesses integrate their information networks with popular public clouds such as Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Progent can help your IT team to design and administer hybrid environments that support Windows and Linux systems and applications in both cloud-centric systems or in hybrid topologies that combine on-premises IT assets as well as cloud services. To help you to incorporate cloud services with physical datacenters, Progent offers a range of public cloud migration support services such as Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud planning and integration consulting, Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud migration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service (WMS) development and troubleshooting. Progent has more than 20 years of background delivering advanced consulting expertise online, and Progent can make sure you successfully carry out your cloud migration projects quickly and within your budget.
Progent's Palo Alto Networks firewall experts can show you how to choose, configure, and manage Palo Alto Networks firewall appliances to provide a modern cybersecurity environment that extends across your on-premises and cloud-based assets and guards any user at any location with any endpoint device.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts have over 10 years of experience designing, deploying, optimizing and troubleshooting SCOM environments and can provide organizations of all sizes expert online or onsite consulting services for Microsoft SCOM 2012. Progent can assist you to plan an architecture for System Center 2012 Operations Manager servers that delivers the responsiveness and availability required to monitor your datacenter efficiently, whether your datacenters are on-premises, cloud-based, or a mixed solution. Progent's SCOM consultants can also assist you to import and customize Microsoft SCOM 2012 management packs according to leading practices for tracking network infrastructure and both Microsoft and 3rd-party apps and services. Also, Progent can provide fast remote or on-premises technical support to assist you to remediate serious problems uncovered by Microsoft SCOM 2012.
ISA 2006 is a multi-functional gateway that provides a powerful application layer firewall, virtual private network (VPN), proxy, and Web caching platform for securing the Internet-facing applications of any organization against a wide variety of attacks. Progent's Microsoft ISA Server 2006 support professionals can show you how to plan, cost-justify, pilot, implement, customize and support the Standard or Enterprise version of ISA Server on your information system.
Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a quick and affordable way for small and mid-size businesses to obtain an objective evaluation of the overall health of their IT system. Powered by a selection of the top remote monitoring and management (RMM) platforms available, and supervised by Progent's certified group of IT professionals, ProSight Network Audits help you see how closely the deployment of your essential network devices adhere to industry leading practices. Both the Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are available at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and provide immediate benefits such as a cleaner and safer Active Directory environment. Both versions also provide the ongoing benefits of state-of-the-art remote network monitoring and management technology. These benefits can include easier management, better compliance with data security regulations, more efficient utilization of network assets, faster problem resolution, more reliable backup and recovery, and increased uptime.
Progent's ransomware consultants can assist your business to assess your ransomware vulnerability, monitor and guard your network, help with settlement negotiations with a hacker, and rebuild an information system victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Conti or Nephilim.
Progent's Check Point experts can show you how to choose and deploy Check Point Firewall utilities and hardware powered by Check Point's technology to offer an economical and efficient security solution for your business network. Progent can also show you how to configure other Check Point products such as ZoneAlarm and Check Point Power-1 appliances with security solutions from other suppliers and provide a central source for on-going network support, maintenance, training, and design expertise.
Progent has 20 years of experience helping small and medium-size companies to design, deploy, tune, administer, and troubleshoot computer networks that support telecommuters.
Progent's Citrix-certified experts can assist you to assess the potential business benefits of the various editions of Essentials for Hyper-V, assist you to use Citrix management utilities in your Microsoft Hyper-V network, and demonstrate to you how to deploy Citrix Essentials to improve the performance, uptime, consistency, and fault tolerance of your virtual environment while lowering the cost of equipment and support and simplifying administrative tasks.
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server 2019 experts can assist your company to design and implement a cost-effective migration to Windows Server 2019 using existing deployment architecture or a cloud-hosted or hybrid model. Windows Server 2019 offers significant improvements in scale, speed, ease of management, Hyper-V virtualization, cybersecurity, hybrid local/cloud deployments, resilience, and Linux support.
Progent's staff of Microsoft and Cisco Premier experts average longer than a decade of hands-on industry experience, at the forefront of network service, executing a broad variety of technical tasks for an extensive mix of businesses. Each Progent support professional shares a proven set of individual best practices that are combined into shared best practices training that Progent instills in its consulting personnel. This means that you get not only world-class IT skills, but also a consultant with field-tested methods for using computer knowledge to fix real-world network problems efficiently.
Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2017 consultants can assist your organization to plan and carry out a smooth upgrade from your current SQL Server databases and applications to SQL Server 2017.
Years of experience delivering Microsoft support and Cisco network consulting has enabled Progent to build an unmatched ability for supporting branch offices that need IT service with the flexibility associated with with small firms but which includes professional communications, thorough documentation, and adherence to enterprise IT protocols. If your enterprise has a remote office located anywhere in or any region served by Progent's consultants, Progent can provide a broad array of onsite and off-site network support services and network design expertise.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of top information security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall.
Progent's Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi consultants can help your business to design, install, optimize, manage and troubleshoot a Wi-Fi solution customized for your facilities. Progent offers online or onsite expertise for Ekahau Pro for predictive Wi-Fi design and Ekahau Sidekick for onsite RF signal analysis.