Enlarging your at-home workforce may have a major impact on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company culture. Progent has 20 years of background assisting businesses of all sizes to design, deploy, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Chicago company to select the right technologies and adhere to best practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual office solution for teleworkers that promotes collaboration and delivers maximum business value. Progent can provide services that go from as-needed expertise for helping you past occasional IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can assist Chicago, Illinois companies to with any aspect of creating a high-performing work-at-home environment by providing network infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud integration, helpdesk augmentation, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Data Protection Solutions for Telecommuters
Data Protection covers saving and restoring vital data so as to prevent data loss and minimize recovery time and effort in case of storage problems due to hardware issues, software hiccups, user error, malware, or other causes. Reliable data protection strategies can be particularly difficult to design and maintain in hybrid networks that combine local data centers, public clouds, and at-home workers.

  • Backup/Recovery solutions for an at-home workforce must address multiple kinds of personally owned endpoint devices. Progent can provide fast online help from experts familiar with a broad array of platforms for backing up Windows, Apple Mac and Linux/UNIX powered servers and desktop computers as well as laptops, iOS and Android tablets and smartphones. Leading backup/restore products supported by Progent's backup/recovery consultants include Barracuda Backup, Microsoft Azure Backup, Symantec Backup Exec, CrashPlan, Mozy, and Time Machine. To back up data spread throughout a wide area network, Progent offers ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a managed backup/recovery service that utilizes cloud storage and includes granular recovery and unified management.
  • Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity (DR/BC) plans often anticipate circumstances that call for a rapid changeover to telecommuting. Progent's senior disaster recovery planning experts and business continuity planning specialists can assist your business to produce, document and test a DR/BC plan that addresses the logistics of moving to an at-home workforce.

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about building and managing an efficient telecommuter environment for your Chicago, Illinois company, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.