Progent's experienced Cisco IT security consulting professionals offer expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services covering infrastructure design, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and safe access services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home offices to modular enterprise-grade appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of security, performance, and high reliability for network environments of all sizes. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed operating system, minimizing common OS-specific security gaps.
Progent can help your business in any and all facets of your migration to Exchange 2016 such as designing high availability architecture for an on-premises, cloud-based or hybrid deployment; licensing compliance for Exchange Server and Windows Server 2012 R2+; migrating mailboxes; Hyper-V virtualization strategy; determining mass storage requirements for your VMs, databases and log files; setting up HLB for fault-tolerant client access services; planning, setting up and validating Exchange and Windows Servers and Database Availability Groups (DAGs); integration with SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online; updating the firewall; creating SSL certs; providing client integration with Office desktop or Microsoft 365; and setting up Outlook on the web.
Progent's CISSP-certified cybersecurity experts can help organizations of all sizes with any aspect of IT security. Progent can help implement efficient cybersecurity systems that guard a small office against modern threats or Progent can design, deploy, and manage a comprehensive security environment for hybrid enterprise networks that accommodate onsite, remote, and mobile users accessing network resources spread across multiple physical datacenters and various clouds.
Progent can help your business to understand the wealth of subscription plans available with Microsoft 365, formerly branded Office 365, and integrate your network with Microsoft 365 so you realize top business value. Progent supports multi-platform environments that incorporate Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. Progent can also help your business to create and maintain hybrid ecosystems that seamlessly integrate on-premises and cloud-based products and services.
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's disaster recovery specialists can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to recover your critical data.
Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals can help you to assess the benefits of Windows Server 2012 R2 for your organization, create test systems and migration strategies, optimize your network for local, multi-site, private or public cloud-based, and hybrid environments, train your IT management staff, develop a corporate-wide security plan, automate IT management, help with creating applications, and generate and validate a disaster recovery/business continuity plan.
Progent's software experts have worked for 20 years with .NET technologies and the Visual Studio development environment and can build or update .NET apps quickly and at low cost.
Progent's Mac experts can support the creative facets of Mac environments by offering consulting services and education in graphics, audio, and video. Progent's support professionals offer expertise in a range of Mac applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Apple Logic, MOTU Digital Performer, Digidesign Pro Tools, Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, and Adobe After Effects. Progent can also assist you with specific jobs such as capturing or digitizing audio or video or setting up an audio/video post production studio.
Progent's UNIX family support services offer small and mid-size companies and developers help with managing and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris systems that coexist with Microsoft-based networks. Progent can give your organization contact with UNIX consultants, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISM certification. This wide range of expertise provides you with a convenient single consulting firm to help you create and manage a protected and reliable cross-platform network and communications environment that supports UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by integrating Microsoft Windows with major variants of UNIX including Apple Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX Open UNIX, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, BSD, SCO, and Silicon Graphics IRIX or major Linux platforms including RedHat, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux, PCLinuxOS, fedora Linux, Gentoo, Mandriva Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware.
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a fast and affordable alternative for small and medium-size businesses to obtain an objective assessment of the overall health of their information system. Powered by some of the top remote monitoring and management platforms in the industry, and overseen by Progent's certified team of IT professionals, ProSight Network Audits help you see how well the deployment of your core network devices conform to best practices. The Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are available at a low, one-time cost and deliver immediate ROI such as a cleaner and safer AD environment. Both versions also provide the long-term advantages of advanced remote network monitoring and management (RMM) technology. These benefits can include easier management, better compliance with information security regulations, higher utilization of network resources, faster problem resolution, more dependable backup and recovery, and increased uptime.
Cisco's PIX Series firewalls have reached end of life and Cisco might not support these legacy devices. Progent still provides consulting support for Cisco's PIX firewalls to help you with maintenance and Progent can in addition help you assess if you should migrate to the latest firewall products available from Cisco. Progent's Cisco technology specialists can help your company plan and carry out an efficient migration to Cisco ASA 5500-X Series firewalls based on leading practices.
If you have a company information system with 10 to 50 network clients, Progent's computer outsourcing services save your business from over-reliance on an individual independent consultant while giving you affordable and reliable access to high-quality network expertise. By delivering network consulting help when you require it, providing specialized knowledge for critical applications, delivering unique support such as automated network monitoring, and billing only for services you receive, Progent gives you an economical way for optimizing the business value of your small business information system. Progent is the intelligent way for small businesses to create and support a reliable and secure IT network and to have fast access to the experienced help typically restricted to enterprises who are able to afford a sizeable in-house IT group.
Dynamics GP/Great Plains allows you to grow and manage your company better by delivering deep availability of strategic information and a fast return on investment. Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains offers major business benefits such as its ability to extend the reach of your organization, handle your accounting, automate financial processes, standardize processes across your business, improve inventory control, increase order accuracy, grow sales and shorten lead-time, and maximize free cash flow. Progent can help you configure and manage a reliable, secure server and network infrastructure to support Great Plains, and can provide expert Dynamics GP/Great Plains consultants to help you derive the full advantages of your Dynamics GP/Great Plains business management system.
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior machine learning tools by SentinelOne to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire threat progression including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks.
Altaro VM Backup software from Hornetsecurity offers small and mid-size organizations a reliable and affordable solution for backing up and restoring Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware-powered VMs. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, remote, multi-site, and cloud environments and also enables low-cost cloud backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup protects against ransomware attacks via Immutable Cloud Storage. This produces tamper-proof backup data that cannot be modified by anyone including root users. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers a wide array of remote or on-premises consulting services to help you to design, deploy, optimize and troubleshoot a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution powered by Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a fully managed backup/restore service powered by on Altaro VM Backup software.
System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager (SCDPM 2016) provides near-continuous backup and easy restore functions for Microsoft networks. Data Protection Manager 2016 offers application-sensitive protection for critical platforms like SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint Server, protects Windows and Linux virtual machines, supports VMs hosted by Windows Hyper-V and VMware, and integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Azure for easy-to-manage cloud backup and recovery. Progent's Microsoft-certified experts can help organizations of all sizes to plan, implement, administer, and repair an enterprise-wide backup/restore solution powered by SCDPM 2016. Progent can help you to migrate from an older release of Data Protection Manager or from an outdated system, and Progent can tune your DPM 2016 environment for on local, colocated, cloud-based or hybrid deployments. Progent can provide remote or onsite support and can deliver as-needed guidance to resolve challenging issues or deliver comprehensive project management or co-management support to make sure you complete your Data Protection Manager 2016 deployment on time and within your budget.
Lync 2013, renamed Skype for Business, allows businesses of all sizes to create a centrally managed and protected communications ecosystem that supports a Bring-Your-Own-Device computing model with instant messaging, real-time presence, audio/video and web conferencing with application sharing and whiteboard, and both IP and PSTN calling across a wide assortment of desktop and mobile devices. Progent's Microsoft-certified Lync Server 2013 experts and network architects can help you to assess the advantages of Lync Server 2013, design an on-premises, cloud-based (via Lync Online) or mixed model appropriate for your present and long-term goals, deploy Lync Server 2013 so as to speed up your ROI, and deliver live online and onsite training to your IT team and end users. Progent offers expertise in critical components of a Lync 2013 deployment that include Windows Server, SQL Server and Exchange, and Progent can assist you to integrate Lync Server 2013 with popular Office and Microsoft 365 applications including Outlook clients and PowerPoint.
Progent can help you to design and manage hybrid environments that can include Windows and Linux systems and apps in either cloud-centric systems or in hybrid topologies that utilize local IT assets as well as one or more cloud services. To help you to integrate cloud services with physical datacenters, Progent offers a range of cloud integration services such as Azure hybrid cloud planning and integration services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud migration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service programming and troubleshooting. Progent has 20 years of experience delivering advanced consulting expertise online, and Progent can help you complete your cloud integration initiatives on schedule and affordably.
Cisco's security and offsite access solutions for small to mid-size companies represent a complete array of easy-to-administer protection products to let you safeguard your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and Virtual Private Network access concentrators. Progent's expert consulting staff includes experienced specialists with Cisco CCIE and CCNP certifications who can help your company to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your corporate goals.
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a experienced ransomware recovery consultant who can assist you to contain the progress of an ongoing ransomware breach. Call 800-462-8800
Progent's ransomware experts can assist you to evaluate your ransomware defenses, remotely monitor and protect your IT environment, assist with negotiating a settlement with a threat actor, and restore a network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, LockBit or Egregor.
Progent's Private Cloud Hosting service provides comprehensive hosting of a small organization's production servers in a solution that gives the highest degree of availability and expandability and is also simple to transfer to any data center. Progent's Private Cloud Hosting services are built upon mature virtualization technologies that enable small businesses with mixed- platform environments to economize significantly on the costs of capital investments, system maintenance, and network administration while benefiting from world-class fault tolerance and an unprecedented degree of vendor flexibility.
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis technology from SentinelOne to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to address the entire malware attack progression including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats.
Altaro VM Backup from Hornetsecurity offers small organizations a dependable and affordable solution for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, offsite, multi-site, and cloud environments and also supports cost-effective cloud backup to Azure storage. Altaro VM Backup protects against ransomware by leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage. This produces tamper-proof backup data that cannot be modified by anyone including root users. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can provide a wide array of remote or on-premises consulting services to help you to design, install, manage and troubleshoot a modern backup and disaster recovery system powered by Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a managed backup/restore service powered by on Altaro VM Backup software.
Progent can deliver a broad range of cost-effective services to assist your company to deploy, integrate, troubleshoot, and administer desktop PCs and laptops powered by Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and OS X, or popular versions of Linux. Progent can offer onsite or online technical support for individual computers or notebooks or work with you to design and carry out a large-scale migration to new or updated OS platforms and applications. Progent can also provide consultants and technicians to help you to plan for and implement a company relocation or consolidation organized to produce the least possible disruption of your business.
Application Publishing with ISA Server 2006 allows greater control over intranet resources while enabling enhanced efficiency by making these applications accessible to authorized remote or mobile users. Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 helps protect corporate applications, services, and information throughout all network layers with application-layer filtering and powerful publishing wizards. Progent's Microsoft-expert Internet Security and Acceleration Server consultants can show you how to design, install, set up, and maintain ISA Server on your network so that your business achieves a highly functional and economical balance of security, productivity, and speed.
VMware's popular Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to specify, automate and verify a repeatable runbook for restoring applications and services rapidly after a breakdown. SRM supports centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, plus transparent site relocation, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also enables non-disruptive testing for site recovery, upgrades and patches and can generate reports to confirm complete service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and prove DR compliance. Progent can provide the support of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to assist your organization to design, deploy, test and manage a disaster recovery system powered by VMware SRM.
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a proven ransomware recovery expert who can assist you to halt the spread of an ongoing ransomware breach. Call 800-462-8800
Progent's ransomware experts can help you to evaluate your ransomware vulnerability, remotely monitor and protect your network, help with negotiating a settlement with a hacker, and reconstruct a network victimized by a ransomware variant such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Conti or Egregor.
Dynamics GP can help you expand and control your company better by offering easy availability of strategic information and a fast return on investment. Microsoft Dynamics GP confers major productivity benefits such as its ability to expand the presence of your company, handle your financials, computerize financial operations, unify procedures throughout your company, improve inventory control, enhance order accuracy, expand sales and shorten lead-time, and maximize free cash flow. Progent can help you configure and maintain a robust, safe server and network foundation to support Great Plains, and can offer experienced Microsoft Dynamics GP support professionals to help you reap the full benefits of your Dynamics GP business management system.
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription-based backup/restore platform for small and mid-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup deployment can include a purpose-built hardware appliance manufactured by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with comparable functionality but which utilizes your own storage hardware. Barracuda Backup safeguards critical company data generated locally, at one or more remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any location with a Barracuda appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants offer a broad range of consulting support services to assist your business to plan, configure, operate and repair a backup and disaster recovery system based on Barracuda technology.
Progent's Technical Response Center provides national remote troubleshooting for Windows and Cisco-based small business information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified support engineers provide telephone support and online secure network connection to isolate and repair network problems quickly and economically. The scope of technical experience available from Progent's staff of country-wide support engineers makes it possible to escalate even the most difficult network issues to qualified specialists as required.
SQL Server 2005 delivers powerful, standardized tools to computer experts as well as to information workers, lessening the difficulty of designing, integrating, administering, and accessing company data and database applications on platforms ranging from handheld devices to enterprise data networks. The sophistication and interconnectivity demands of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 call for an IT consultant with hands-on expertise and broad knowledge in planning and building data-driven, comprehensive business IT applications. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with an average of over 10 years of background involving Microsoft integration, ensures you success in planning, deploying and managing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 applications that are well integrated with the Microsoft .NET platform.
Progent's UNIX family consulting services provide small companies and developers assistance with managing and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris systems that coexist with Microsoft-powered networks. Progent offers your organization access to UNIX experts, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISSP certification. This broad array of experience offers you a convenient one-stop consulting firm to show you how to create and manage a protected and robust mixed-platform network and communications infrastructure that supports UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by combining Windows with popular variants of UNIX including Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UNIX), BSD, SCO and Silicon Graphics IRIX or major Linux platforms such as RedHat, SuSE Linux, Debian-GNU and Mandrake.
Progent is an authorized Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can design, configure, and manage a deployment of 365 Total Backup to protect your Microsoft 365 user and group mailboxes, files stored within your organization's OneDrive Accounts and SharePoint sites, user and group Teams Chats, plus files on Windows-powered laptops and desktops.
Progent's certified SQL Server 2017 experts can help your organization to plan and carry out an efficient upgrade from your existing SQL Server environment to SQL Server 2017.
The latest generation of ASA 5500-X Series of firewalls with Firepower Services deliver significantly more performance than Cisco's previous firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for new deployments. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network consultants can help you to maintain your existing PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 security appliances or upgrade efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also assist your business to plan, configure, optimize, manage and debug firewall environments built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services.
Progent offers Microsoft Windows 2003 Cluster Server expertise to help your organization implement zero-downtime server clusters that can deliver 100% operation. Clustered Windows servers for fault-tolerant networks include Windows Cluster Server, SQL Cluster, and Microsoft Exchange Cluster Server. By assisting you t design zero-downtime server clustering environments powered by Windows Server 2003 Cluster, Progent's Premier Windows engineers make sure that your fault-tolerant clustered servers are configured to optimize the strategic advantage of your information system.
Nagios and MRTG are powerful, Open Source monitoring utilities that operate under the Linux OS and can be used to monitor UNIX networks, Windows networks, or multi-platform systems in which Linux and MS Windows run side by side. The Nagios monitor allows network support engineers to track network services such as POP3, HTTP, SSH, and PING. Multi Router Traffic Grapher permits you to graph the bandwidth in and out of SNMP network devices including servers, routers, and switches. Progent's system monitoring experts can show you how to use both these programs to tune and repair your system.
Altaro VM Backup software from Hornetsecurity provides small and mid-size businesses a dependable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and restoring Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in on-premises, remote, distributed, and cloud architectures and also enables cost-effective cloud backup to Microsoft Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup protects against ransomware by leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage. This produces tamper-proof backup data that cannot be erased or modified by anyone including administrators or root users. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can provide a broad array of remote or on-premises consulting services to help you to plan, install, optimize and troubleshoot a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution powered by Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a fully managed backup/restore service based on Altaro VM Backup software.
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a seasoned ransomware recovery consultant who can assist you to halt the progress of an active ransomware attack. Call 800-462-8800
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Years of experience providing Microsoft expertise and Cisco technology consulting has enabled Progent to develop a unique capability for serving branch offices that require network help with the flexibility common to with small companies but which offers effective client interaction, thorough documentation, and compliance with corporate IT standards. If your corporation maintains a remote office situated anywhere in California or any area covered by Progent's engineers, Progent can provide a broad range of onsite and off-site network support services and network architecture expertise.
Fortinet FortiGate next-generation firewalls are leaders in offering best-in-class performance for encrypted data inspection. Progent's Fortinet FortiGate firewall experts can assist you to integrate your Fortinet FortiGate firewalls to safeguard all your IT resources at the network perimeter, within the data center, at branches, and at the cloud edge.
Les Kent has a 35-year track record of successful technology integration, business management, marketing, and operations. He has shown a knack for creating sophisticated IT solutions while working as a network architect, programmer, project manager, implementation consultant, and troubleshooter for small businesses, start-ups, and global enterprises.
Progent's seasoned team of IT consultants and subject matter specialists have extensive experience delivering remote and on-premises support for businesses of all sizes who want to integrate Android phones and tablets into their IT networks so that mobile clients can communicate and collaborate while on the go. Progent has the range of skills to resolve technical issues that involve multiple vendors and that represent a mix of older and up-to-date technology. Progent offers affordable remote technical support to assist you with any aspect of designing, configuring, managing and troubleshooting your BYOD environment. Progent can deliver occasional technical support to assist you to resolve particularly challenging IT problems, or Progent can provide outsourced or co-sourced project management support to help you finish major IT projects on schedule and within budget. Progent can assist with on-premises, cloud-centric, or hybrid network environments and offers support for all major operating systems, apps, management tools and network infrastructure. Progent also can provide customized group or one-on-one classes to help you manage and use Android phones and tablets efficiently.
Progent's expert support team can show you how to define and implement an efficient in-place Exchange Server 2007 migration plan that minimizes productivity disruption, reduces ongoing support requirements, and makes your Exchange 2007 Server easy to administer. For complex multiple server or multi-location migrations, Progent has the knowledge and experience to complete your move quickly and affordably. Progent's Exchange 2007 support, repair, and consulting services include assistance with the integration of outside vendor enhancements of Exchange Server 2007 that are in keeping with your business goals.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have two decades of background providing e-mail and unified email/telephony solutions for companies. Progent provides affordable Microsoft Exchange Server support services to strengthen email security and virus protection, provide fault tolerant email, and facilitate remote and wireless email access. Progent's Microsoft Exchange help and support services can aid you in designing and implementing a Microsoft Exchange upgrade or a migration from a legacy SMPT server or outdated Microsoft Exchange product such as Exchange 5.5 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.