Immediate Online Help for Birmingham Alabama Computer Networks
For businesses in Birmingham Alabama, Progent offers remote help for information systems based on Microsoft, Cisco, macOS and OS, or Linux/UNIX platforms. Progent's Microsoft Certified professionals have provided online support to businesses in every state in the United States. (Check out testimonials from Progent's clients.) In addition, Progent offers the consultation services of Cisco CCIE-qualified network specialists to help with complex networking issues, plus the assistance of CISSP-accredited cybersecurity consultants to help with high-level security architecture and troubleshooting issues.
Progent's remote support engineers provide excellent value because they have the practical experience and have access to the advanced technology needed to solve the majority of network problems rapidly. Efficient support reduces immediate costs since solutions use up minimal chargeable consulting minutes. Online help also avoids the cost of dispatching an engineer to your site. Your organization benefits additionally in incidental expenses by minimizing or eliminating system outages and associated losses due to business discontinuity, upset clients, idle workers, and distracted management. Progent's extensive remote consulting know-how is especially valuable for businesses that are dependent on public clouds for vital infrastructure or software such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or where onsite IT support may not be useful.
Progent's pricing policy for remote help is structured to leverage your network support dollar. Progent charges on a per-minute basis for telephone-based consulting, so you are billed exclusively for the services that you actually get. Unlike many online service organizations, Progent imposes no initialization charge or minimum fees. Progent's one-minute granularity and clean model for billing eliminate situations where speedy. minor fixes somehow turn into major invoices. Progent's penchant for handling technical issues quickly means you saves cash.
Progent's Remote Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise
Over the years, Progent has fine tuned a set of optimized technologies and proven processes which ensure the highest degree of effectiveness for remote consulting and troubleshooting for computer networks of all sizes. Progent's remote service group can connect to your network without violating corporate security.
Progent's proven technical support database system maintains thorough histories for the support that Progent's customers have received. Progent's authorized engineers have the benefit of the details of services rendered to each Progent client by any Progent consultant. This archive of anomalies and solutions is organized as an easily retrievable proprietary knowledge base that permits Progent's remote support professionals to communicate their experiences company-wide to ensure that the value of Progent's support services grows daily. Progent's high-level accreditations and working relationships with important technology companies including Cisco and Microsoft make available other extensive technical knowledge bases and permit fast response from vendors' internal support staff with the result that Progent's online consulting experts can find the most efficient solutions promptly.
Remote technical support services available from Progent to companies in Birmingham Alabama include:
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Certified Microsoft Windows Support
Progent's Microsoft-premier remote support engineers can deliver computer system troubleshooting and consulting assistance for the complete line of Microsoft server technologies. Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and can offer your company the assistance of consulting engineers who can help you with a broad variety of platform support including Microsoft Windows Server 2022 solution design and integration services,
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 migration,
Windows Server 2016 configuration for hybrid cloud environments, Windows Server 2012 R2 planning and deployment,
Windows Server 2008 maintenance,
Microsoft Exchange 2019 integration,
MS Exchange 2016 planning and deployment, Microsoft Exchange 2013 consulting,
Microsoft Exchange 2010 monitoring and support,
SharePoint Server 2019 design and deployment, SharePoint 2016 migration and hybrid integration consulting, Microsoft Teams planning and integration, Skype for Business migration support, Lync Server management, and Microsoft Office Communications Server troubleshooting,
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 management and ISA Server 2006 maintenance, Microsoft SQL Server 2019 integration expertise, MS SQL Server 2017 consulting, SQL Server 2016 migration and development and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 consulting,
Systems Center Operations Manager system monitoring,
Project Server planning,
Microsoft Access Programming,
SBS Server support, and
Windows Essentials cloud integration.
Progent also can deliver a wide range of affordable PC desktop consulting and support services to assist you business to install, configure, repair, and administer desktop PCs and notebooks based on Microsoft Windows. Progent's desktop support services cover areas such as providing Windows 11 system design and upgrade support and Windows 10 integration support, plus Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager planning and deployment, Microsoft System Center 2016 Configuration Manager (SCCM 2016) cloud integration, and Intune expertise to streamline the administration of your PCs and web-facing tablets and smartphones.
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Contact a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert for High-level Infrastructure Troubleshooting
The Cisco CCIE credential is the top recognition for network infrastructure professionals, and validates a consultant's technical knowledge at the master level. Cisco-qualified CCIEs know how to deal with the most stubborn challenges occurring in network design, integration, management, protection, and repair. Cisco qualified CCIEs work on a privileged basis with Cisco's in-house product support engineers in analyzing problems with IOS Software network management tools and developing alternate approaches or identifying program updates. Cisco CCIEs are an exceptional cost-effectiveness since their depth of experience enables them to solve problems rapidly. In many instances, less experienced consultants can wrestle for hours or even days with identical tasks that a Cisco CCIE can fix in minutes. Progent's Cisco CCIE support experts can communicate with your computer system by means of sophisticated remote support technology in order to perform efficient, safe, and economical diagnosis and remediation.
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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Alabama.
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Progent's Cisco-qualified CCIEs offer consulting for all of Cisco's popular selection of infrastructure appliances. Cisco infrastructure expertise provided by Progent includes ASA Next Generation firewalls with Firepower configuration and debugging, Cisco routers planning and management, Catalyst switch consulting services, Nexus switch consulting and support services, Cisco Meraki switches consulting and troubleshooting services, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CallManager) configuration and troubleshooting, Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) phones and IP video desktop phones solutions and wireless IP phones solutions, Cisco Meraki wireless access point planning and set up, Cisco Aironet Access Points planning and integration support, Cisco wireless controllers support Services, Cisco VPN and Network Security Consulting help, and SIP and CUBE integration solutions for SIP trunking and CUBE integration consulting. Progent also offers online and onsite Wi-Fi site surveys to help 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 carry out the time-critical first step in responding to a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware expert can assist businesses to locate and quarantine infected devices and guard undamaged assets from being compromised. If your Birmingham system has been breached by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800. For more information, see Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line.
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Ransomware Removal and Operational Continuity Services
Progent's ransomware recovery experts can assist your Birmingham organization to rebuild a network victimized by a ransomware crypto-worm like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, LockBit or Egregor. Progent's team of cybersecurity experts bring the broad range of skills necessary to reconstruct all vital components of a targeted network quickly and with little data loss. To learn more, see Progent's ransomware removal and operational restoration services.
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CISM and CISSP Certified Network Security Specialists
Progent's accredited CISM, CISSP, and CISSP-ISSAP security and compliance experts can provide a variety of system protection services that can enhance the immunity of your Microsoft Windows, macOS and OS X, Linux, or UNIX network against internal or external threats or help you to clean up rapidly following a damaging breach. Security consulting services available from Progent cover in depth data security analysis using tools such as GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner, AMAP Application Scanner, and products from Solar Winds tools and Nikto; quick cleanup after virus and worm attacks; integrating firewalls; establishing secure architectures for off-site and mobile communication; securing your messaging infrastructure against viruses, spam and DHA attacks; and offering 24x7 network monitoring.
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Cloud Integration
Progent offers advanced online support to help organizations of any size connect their IT infrastructure with leading public cloud platforms such as Azure and Amazon AWS. Progent can assist you to design and administer hybrid ecosystems that can include Windows and Linux operating systems and applications in both cloud-only solutions or in hybrid network models that seamlessly combine local resources along with public clouds. To assist you to integrate cloud services with networks, Progent can provide a variety of public cloud integration support services such as Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-prem Exchange environments,
Azure hybrid cloud planning and integration services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) hybrid cloud integration support, Amazon Web Marketing Service (WMS) programming and debugging, and Google Cloud integration consulting. Progent has over 20 years of experience delivering high-level consulting expertise remotely, and Progent can make sure you complete your cloud integration initiatives quickly and within your budget.
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VMware Site Recovery Manager and NSX Planning and Deployment
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you specify, automate and verify a repeatable runbook for restoring applications and services rapidly following an outage. SRM supports centrally controlled and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site migration, failback and re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also allows non-intrusive testing for site recovery, upgrades and patches and can generate audit reports to confirm complete service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and prove DR compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consulting expert to help your organization to plan, configure, test and manage a disaster recovery solution powered by VMware SRM.
Progent's VMware vSphere experts have extensive experience of VMware vCloud Director (vCD), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) and vCloud Suite used for managing private and hybrid cloud environments that provide high availability, security, and application mobility. Progent also offers world-class VMware NSX expertise from a VCDX-NV certified network architect to help you to plan and deploy a fully virtualized Software Defined Data Center that can be provisioned or migrated in minutes and administered with a high degree of automation independent of the physical components used by the underlying IP network.
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UNIX/Linux, Sun Solaris, and macOS and OS X Expertise
Progent's UNIX/Linux consultants and macOS and OS X technology specialists offer online support services to address a broad spectrum of computer technologies including system infrastructure, messaging solutions, network and process security, plus UNIX and Windows integration. For server economization and easy management in environments that incorporate Linux and Windows, Progent offers VMware consulting and Citrix support. Progent can also help with migration from older applications to Microsoft Windows or Linux environments. Progent's group-based methodology for solving technical problems promotes fast escalation, when required, to consultants with appropriate expertise to handle challenging scenarios. This accelerates solutions of urgent problems, minimizes network downtime, and lowers service costs.
Major Linux platforms for which Progent offers expert support include:
RedHat Linux
SUSE
Debian GNU/Linux
Slackware
Ubuntu
ProSight Flat-rate Managed Services for Small and Mid-size Organizations
Progent provides a selection of low-cost, flat-rate services intended to enable small and mid-size businesses to benefit from the same advanced technology used by many of the industry's leading enterprises. The ProSight suite of network management outsourcing services covers all critical areas of information technology such as email content filtering, behavioral-based threat defense, automated backup and disaster recovery, network infrastructure management, virtual server cloud hosting, and network 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 (ASM) is an endpoint detection and response (EDR) service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including protection, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.
- ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Exchange Email Filtering
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn 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 Recovery
Progent has worked with advanced backup technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). ProSight DPS products automate and monitor your data backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of important files, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business protect against data loss caused by equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, user mistakes, ill-intentioned employees, or software bugs. Managed services in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to identify which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.
- Patch Management: Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your dynamic information system. Besides maximizing the security and reliability of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your in-house IT staff to focus on more strategic initiatives and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's patch management services.
- ProSight Duo Multi-Factor Authentication: Identity Validation, Endpoint Remediation, and Protected Single Sign-on
Progent's Duo MFA services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you sign into a protected application and give your password you are requested to verify your identity via a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A broad range of devices can be utilized as this added form of authentication including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can register several verification devices. For more information about Duo two-factor identity validation services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services.
- ProSight Reporting: Real-time Reporting for Ticketing and Network Monitoring Platforms
ProSight Reporting is a growing line of real-time reporting tools created to work with the industry's top ticketing and network monitoring platforms such as ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting uses Microsoft Graph and utilizes color coding to surface and contextualize critical issues like inconsistent support follow-through or endpoints with missing patches. By identifying ticketing or network health problems clearly and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting improves productivity, lowers management hassle, and saves money. For details, see 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 filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see 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 affordable for smaller businesses to map, track, optimize and debug their networking appliances such as routers and switches, firewalls, and load balancers plus servers, endpoints and other networked devices. Incorporating cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) technology, WAN Watch makes sure that network diagrams are kept current, copies and manages the configuration information of almost all devices on your network, tracks performance, and generates alerts when potential issues are detected. By automating complex management and troubleshooting activities, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off common tasks such as network mapping, reconfiguring your network, finding devices that need important software patches, or resolving performance bottlenecks. Learn more details about ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure monitoring and management services.
- ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Monitoring Services
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's server and desktop remote monitoring managed service that uses state-of-the-art remote monitoring and management techniques to keep your network running efficiently by checking the state of vital computers that power your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch detects a problem, an alert is transmitted automatically to your specified IT staff and your Progent engineering consultant so all potential issues can be resolved before they can impact your network Find out more details about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring services.
- ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware solution without a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
- ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management Services
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time wasted searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a quick and affordable alternative for small and medium-size businesses to get an objective assessment of the health of their information system. Based on some of the top remote monitoring and management platforms available, and overseen by Progent's certified team of information technology experts, ProSight Network Audits help you see how well the deployment of your core infrastructure devices adhere to industry best practices. Both the Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are available at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and deliver instant ROI like a more manageable Active Directory system. Both also come with a year of cutting-edge remote network monitoring and management. Benefits can include lower-cost management, better compliance with information security regulations, higher utilization of network assets, faster problem resolution, more reliable backup and recovery, and increased uptime. See more information about ProSight Network Audits IT infrastructure review.
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service built around a brief phone discussion with a Progent information assurance expert. The interview is designed to evaluate your company's ability either to stop or recover quickly after an assault by a ransomware strain such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. Progent will work with you directly to gather information concerning your existing AV defense and backup/recovery platform, and Progent will then deliver a written Basic Security and Best Practices Report describing how you can apply industry best practices to build a cost-effective security and backup/recovery environment that aligns with your business needs. For more information, refer to Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.
Special Consulting Services Offered by Progent
Progent can provide the services of world-class remote consulting experts for contract information technology projects. Billing rates for longer-term development or consulting projects are set according to the qualifications of the engineers required. Progent's background in these important areas of computer technology enables customers to complete major projects within budget and on schedule. Progent's project-based online consulting solutions include:
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Help Desk Call Center Expertise
Progent's Help Desk Call Center service offerings for businesses with environments based on Microsoft Windows, Cisco, macOS and OS X, UNIX, or Linux technology include comprehensive Call Center services, shared Helpdesk support services, and Help Desk consulting.
Progent's Standard Help Desk Services offer small businesses a complete solution that handles all aspects of online desktop support from initial requests through ticketing, remote desktop control, progress tracking, problem solving, and management reports. Progent offers help desk services at a substantial discount from Progent's normal Level 1 desktop service rates, and Progent can provide the additional option of rapid on-demand escalation to Level 2 and Level 3 experts to handle the most problems.
Progent's Help Desk Co-management services make it possible for your IT organization to split the load for Help Desk support transparently between your IT team and Progent's nationwide pool of seasoned desktop support technicians and subject matter experts. Progent's Help Desk sharing service is an advanced service desk solution built around the top PSA tool for managing end-user service requests, ticket lifecycle, accountability, status tracking, and reporting.
Progent's Help Desk staff of seasoned network experts provides your clients in Birmingham Alabama instant assistance from an efficient network service resource with years of background offering phone consulting and online diagnostics for IT systems based on Microsoft, Cisco, Apple macOS and OS X, or UNIX/Linux components. Progent's focus is to give the Help Desk the reputation as a significant enabler of company success, and Progent's target is to resolve and not merely annotate IT issues.
- Business Applications Support: Education, Custom Development, and Integration
Progent's Applications Experts Group can supply remote professional consulting support and education in special business application areas that include ERP, MRP, custom financial systems, and CRM. Progent also can deliver consulting expertise, custom programming, and training for popular Microsoft business applications including CRM, MS Project, Microsoft 365 Word, and Microsoft 365 Excel. To learn more information on Progent's expertise, customization, and training offerings, visit Progent's Applications Experts Services.
- Unified and Streamlined Management of Hybrid Cloud Environments
System Center centralizes and automates the administration of hybrid cloud environments through advanced support for Windows Server 2022 servers, Windows 10 and Windows 11; seamless management of mixed-OS environments that include various Linux distributions, Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; and better cloud support such as closer integration with Microsoft Intune for Apple iPhone and Android smartphone administration plus built-in integration with Microsoft Operations Management Suite for cloud-enhanced analytics. Progent's System Center consulting experts offer world-class online and on-premises support for all elements of System Center2including Operations Manager (SCOM), Configuration Manager (SCCM), Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Data Protection Manager (SCDPM), Orchestrator, and Service Manager. Progent can help organizations of any size to plan and install a new implementation of System Center2, expand or tune an existing one, upgrade smoothly from a previous release of System Center, or debug your System Center environment.
- Online Hybrid Network Monitoring and Reporting Support
Progent offers businesses in Birmingham Alabama online IT infrastructure monitoring and reporting by providing System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) expertise. Progent can configure SCOM to fit your business so that your IT support is proactive rather than reactive. By spotting looming trouble spots before they evolve into crashes, automated monitoring can avoid disruptive and expensive network failures. Progent can also deploy system monitoring tools like Nagios and MRTG to analyze UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Apple macOS and OS X networks, Microsoft systems, or environments powered by a combination of OS platforms.
How Your Birmingham Business Can Contact Progent's Online Service Professionals
To get in touch with Progent about urgent phone-based expertise with Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and OS X, or Linux environments, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Support, phone 1-800-993-9400, or visit Contact Progent.
For offices and new ventures in Birmingham Alabama, Progent's phone-based computer support engineers can provide effective and affordable system help whenever your organization needs it. More than 20 years of delivering online technical assistance has led to Microsoft Partner status for Progent's team of engineers and has allowed Progent to develop high-end troubleshooting capability and to refine online access tools to solve IT problems rapidly while eliminating the expense and lost time associated with on-premises service calls.
Even if your Birmingham business deals with a local freelance consultant or employs an in-house IT staff that know how to deal with common computer problems, Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified consultants can still offer a convenient and transparent remote extension of your local resources in cases when your usual IT support personnel either lack the time or the expertise to deal with unexpected network emergencies or especially challenging integration problems.
Advantages of Progent's IT Support for Companies in Birmingham Alabama
Progent's remote network troubleshooting services enable your Birmingham business to experience the benefits of immediate, enterprise-level network support without the cost of managing a full-time IT organization. Your information system will acquire greater business worth by being increasingly available, productive, and protected. Benefits to your company include:
- Convenient remote extension of your local support resources
For most businesses in Birmingham Alabama, local network support resources, whether represented by freelance consultants or a full-time IT staff, can take care of the majority of network issues. However, IT crises might spring up when local resources are overstretched or unavailable, and some trouble may stem from IT products that is beyond the scope of your onsite support technicians. In these cases, Progent's online support professionals provide an easy, fast, and budget-friendly way to supplement your local resources and to transfer valuable knowledge to improve your ability to resolve downstream issues locally.
- Less Dependence on Freelance Service Providers
For IT maintenance, smaller offices commonly depend on individual freelance service providers. Although freelance consultants have less overhead than big consulting organizations and can often charge lower rates, they are occasionally stretched too thin, making it impossible to respond quickly to urgent situations. If an independent service provider is occupied with another client, ill, on a trip, or in training, the absence of fallback personnel may require your company to go without help during an emergency. As your business expands, network downtime and trouble with vital applications become more costly. The money you thought you were saving on a freelancer can be consumed fast by reduced productivity. Progent offers a dependable source of backup service expertise to insure your IT system is always up and running.
- Build a Solid Basis for Smooth Growth
Organizations often start with an information architecture created on a shoestring budget. Without a proper infrastructure, slap-dash fixes often get thrown on top of a shaky foundation. As a network grows, stability and scalability issues can hinder the productivity of the business. These badly designed environments need careful assessment, intelligent long-term planning, and broad-based IT knowledge to upgrade to a system infrastructure able to offer the stable foundation to meet current business demands and simplify downstream expansion.
- Work with Problem Solvers Rather Than Technology Sellers
Smaller businesses need guidance and technical training to navigate through an increasingly complicated array of product alternatives capable of promoting business growth and improving efficiency. These companies do not need a computer engineer who is motivated to sell a specific vendor's products. Network support and product sales can lead to a scenario where the proposed
solution is built around a predetermined product instead of the genuine requirements of a business. Progent eliminates these conflicts of interest by selling just services rather than products. This enables Progent to align IT expertise with the real interests of clients.
How Is Progent Different from Other Service Firms?
Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner support firm and Progent's head count, range of technical knowledge, refined support software, and familiarity with enterprise networking allow offices to avoid the limitations associated with excessive reliance on smaller service organizations, individual freelance consultants, or over-stretched in-house resources.
Progent stands out by providing:
- In-depth Knowledge of Microsoft's Complete Family of Server Platforms
Progent offers in-depth expertise for Microsoft's popular server products with services such as Windows Server 2022 planning and integration services, Windows Server 2019 migration services, Windows Server 2016 hybrid cloud integration, Windows 2012 R2 Server planning and deployment support services, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 migration, Windows 2003 Server upgrades, MS Exchange 2019 deployment, Microsoft Exchange 2016 Server planning and deployment, Exchange Server 2013 configuration, Exchange Server 2010 support, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2003 moves, plus Microsoft SQL Server 2019 configuration consulting, Microsoft SQL Server 2017 migration, SQL Server 2016 integration and development, SQL Server 2014 support, and Microsoft SQL Server management and troubleshooting.
- Value Pricing
Progent's pricing policy is to bill for online service and in-person help per minute. As a result, you are invoiced exclusively for delivered support. Progent does not impose a higher rate for after-hours or urgent support, and inside California or in areas where Progent offers in-person service, Progent does not bill for travel time except for urgent support where on-site work is less than four hours. In addition, Progent imposes no service activation charge and asks no retainer for support services provided during normal business hours. Many service organizations impose large minimum fees or charge for each fifteen minutes or longer. Progent's one-minute granularity eliminates big invoices for fast solutions so you will not be forced to allow simple problems to stay unaddressed.
- Full Documentation of IT Services
Progent has developed a sophisticated service reporting system that records and organizes detailed documentation for all billed services. Unlike some freelance consultants or small service firms who offer minimal documentation or details of tasks performed, each service delivered by Progent is tracked by full documentation. Each Progent staff member has access to the support documentation sent by every staff member to each customer. The discipline of documenting and archiving support activity allows more effective support and avoids a slew of typical misfortunes such as when a support customer is effectively held captive to a consultant who refuses to let go of the keys to the kingdom.
- 24x7 Server Monitoring with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
Progent is one of the only IT service firms to provide round-the-clock network monitoring services based on MS Operations Manager. Microsoft System Center Operations Manager allows your network maintenance to be anticipatory instead of reactive. By anticipating potential problems before they result in downtime, network monitoring can save your IT network from painful and costly availability disruptions.
How Does Our Company Start Receiving Online Computer Support from Progent?
To get started with Progent's online help offerings or to learn more about Progent's online support options, call Progent at 1-866-PROGENT (866-776-4368) or go to Contact Progent. If you have an urgent requirement for IT support, go to Immediate Online Support.