Expanding your telecommuter workforce may have a significant effect on network architecture, security/compliance, and company culture. Progent has 20 years of background helping SMBs to plan, configure, administer, optimize, and debug IT environments that support a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Chicago company to select the appropriate tools and adhere to best practices in building and maintaining a secure virtual solution for telecommuters that promotes teamwork and delivers top value. Progent offers services ranging from as-needed guidance for getting you past challenging IT roadblocks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can help Chicago, Illinois organizations to succeed with any aspect of creating a high-performing work-at-home ecosystem by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, helpdesk augmentation, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Data Protection for Teleworkers
The field of Data Protection covers backing up and recovering vital data in order to prevent data loss and reduce restoration time and effort in the event of storage system problems due to hardware issues, programming glitches, human mistakes, malware, or other causes. Dependable data protection strategies can be particularly challenging to architect and maintain in hybrid environments that incorporate local data centers, cloud resources, and at-home workers.

  • Backup/Restore solutions for at-home workers must address multiple kinds of user-owned endpoint devices. Progent can provide fast online access to experts knowledgeable about a broad range of platforms for protection Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac and Linux/UNIX powered servers and desktops as well as laptops, iOS and Android tablets and smartphones. Popular backup/recovery products supported by Progent's backup/recovery experts include Barracuda Backup, Azure Backup, Symantec Backup Exec, CrashPlan, Retrospect, and Time Machine. To back up resources distributed across a hybrid network, Progent offers ProSight Data Protection Services, a backup/recovery service that uses cloud storage and features granular recovery and centralized management.
  • Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity (DR/BC) strategies commonly anticipate scenarios that require a quick changeover to an at-home workforce. Progent's senior disaster recovery preparedness experts and business continuity planning consultants can assist your company to develop, document and test a DR/BC strategy that addresses the logistics of moving to an at-home workforce.

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about building and managing a productive work-from-home solution for your Chicago, Illinois company, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.