Expanding your remote workforce may have a significant effect on IT architecture, security, and corporate workflows. Progent has 20 years of experience helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, configure, manage, optimize, and debug IT environments that support work-from-home employees. Progent can assist your Chicago organization to select the appropriate tools and follow best practices in creating and operating a secure virtual solution for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and delivers maximum business value. Progent offers support services ranging from on demand guidance for getting you over occasional technical roadblocks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out mission-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can assist Chicago, Illinois organizations to succeed with any facet of creating a high-performing work-from-home environment by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud connectivity, Help Desk outsourcing, security and compliance, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.

Data Protection Solutions for Telecommuters
The field of Data Protection involves saving and recovering critical data so as to avoid data loss and minimize recovery time in case of storage failures resulting from hardware issues, programming glitches, operator error, cyber attack, or any other reason. Reliable data protection strategies can be especially difficult to design and manage in hybrid networks that combine private data centers, public clouds, and an at-home workforce.

  • Backup/Restore strategies for an at-home workforce must address multiple kinds of personally owned endpoint devices. Progent offers fast remote access to experts knowledgeable about a wide range of products for backing up Windows, Apple Mac and Linux/UNIX powered servers and desktops as well as notebooks, iOS and Android tablets and smartphones. Leading backup/restore solutions supported by Progent's backup/recovery consultants include Barracuda Backup, Azure Backup, DoubleTake Software, CrashPlan, Retrospect, and Time Machine. To protect data distributed throughout a hybrid network, Progent can provide ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a backup/recovery subscription service that utilizes cloud storage and includes fine-grained restore and centralized management capabilities.
  • Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity plans typically envision circumstances that require a quick switch to a work-at-home environment. Progent's expert disaster recovery planning consultants and business continuity specialists can assist you to produce, document and validate a DR/BC plan that includes the process of switching to an at-home workforce.

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about creating and maintaining a productive telecommuter environment for your Chicago, Illinois company, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.