IT Technology News and Progent IT Solutions
Cisco Announces New Network Solutions for Small Businesses
Cisco introduced new solutions intended specifically for small company networks and designed to deliver exceptional security and collaboration for an affordable price. Products announced by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest version of Cisco's SBCS.
The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a purpose-built spam, virus, and phishing filter security device that virtually eliminates email-based attacks as shipped. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint network-attached storage devices that offer protection for important information and allow workers to exchange files easily. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications system that seamlessly interconnects sites, workers, and clients anywhere. The current version incorporates the industry's debut of a wireless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth capabilities. To view Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Introduces Connectivity and Collaboration Solutions for Small Companies.
Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker
The Spam Blocker protects small organizations by offering extensive defense against spam, viruses and worms as well as other email-borne threats to secure your network and business information while at the same time improve efficiency. Since the appliance blocks spam with minimal set up and updates automatically, it eliminates the cost and hassle associated setup and continuing and administration. By filtering out spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the throughput of network connections, servers, and computers. The Spam and Virus Blocker represents an end-to-end defense against email threats by featuring a physical appliance, intelligent software, continuous updates, and technical support in a unified package.
Key features of Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance include:
- Precision: Helps to make sure that email-borne threats and junk mail are caught and business email is allowed through.
- Ongoing automatic patches: Constant interaction with SenderBase security, an online database of email safety threats, ensures that your Spam & Virus Blocker installs the latest updates to safequard your business email.
- Easy installation and operation: Easy-to-use browser-based setup tools allow you to install Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance in almost any environment within 15 minutes, delivering instant protection for your network.
- Streamlined administration: From the moment your company installs the Cisco's Spam Blocker, you benefit from junk mail and virus filtering with no additional hassle demanded of your IT group.
Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
The NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems provide the robust protection and advanced data backup features that your business needs, at a price small organizations can handle. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 supports up to four terabytes of data and up to 15 simultaneous users on each enclosure, provides the optimal solution for storing, sharing, and archiving your mission-critical business information. Unlike ordinary network-attached storage alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the advanced backup, cryptography, user authentication, and service continuity your business needs.
The NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure supports any certified hard disk drive. It provides a range of features in a desktop system designed for small companies. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage Chassis also provides you the flexibility to deploy the product without any connected hard disk drives, to reconfigure it at any time, and to chain multiple chassis together, offering a solution that can smoothly grow with your company.
Your company can utilize the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or 3000 Network Storage Systems to:
- Automatically copy vital information from each workstation and application server on your network
- Provide unified storage and sharing of key information
- Employ Continuous Data Protection to back up automatically each revision of each file archived by employees, permitting your business to restore data with ease
- Record and save video from your company's video security system
Smart Business Communications System
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and comprehensive collaboration and communications system that permits small businesses to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and employees in disparate locations to enhance their ability to collaborate with customers and colleagues. In Release 1.4, the affordable system has improved wireless features including the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP handset with built-in Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G wireless IP device, which enables companies to grow cost-effectively by adding phones in locations where traditional phone lines or Ethernet wiring is missing or cannot easily be added.
Other new pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System 1.4 version are:
- Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router to help protect the company's infrastructure and give employees secure access to the Internet and key business information from either side of the firewall
- The Cisco Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to allow stakeholders to streamline the configuration and deployment of solutions created custom for individual companies
How Progent's Consulting Professionals Can Assist You to Get the Most Out of Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco-qualified consultants and CCIE accredited network engineers can assist your company to assess the latest Cisco technologies to understand their usefulness for your IT system, configure Cisco solutions to enhance the security and efficiency of your network, and provide tech support for Cisco devices both in person and online to keep your network operating smoothly. Progent's consulting experts can provide a range of affordable services to enhance the reliability, protection, performance, and maintainability of your information system:
Quick Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Network Engineers
Progent offers easy, immediate, and economical help from registered CCIE support professionals. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are elite networking gurus who are awarded this top-level accreditation only after exhaustive examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to tackle the most sophisticated issues encountered with network design, deployment, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Progent's CCIE consultants work intimately with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS platform and finding fixes or acquiring patches to resolve anomalies. Progent can provide immediate contact with a CCIE by phone so that you can receive instant assistance for complex network problems that are impacting business efficiency but are outside the scope of your usual IT service resources. Progent's CCIE support professionals can link to your environment using advanced off-site connectivity technology to provide fast and affordable analysis and repair of critical infrastructure problems.
Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to integrate, maintain, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide expertise for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the latest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also help your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly branded CallManager, or with Unified CM Express (CME) to build a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent's consultants can deliver support with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, resolving QoS, configuring SIP trunking, installing ISR routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and designing Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) solutions for survivability. For additional details concerning Progent's expertise for Cisco's Unified Communications technology, visit Cisco Voice over IP and Unified Communications Consulting Services.
Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), formerly known as CallManager, functions as the foundation of Cisco's collaboration platform. Unified CM and Cisco Unified CM Express offer a location-independent IP-PBX solution by integrating tightly with unified messaging apps that include Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Express for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for creating an advanced customer contact center. Progent's CCIE-certified CUCM experts can help with any facet of CUCM support and debugging in areas such as integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop video phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN calling, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, creating Cisco UCS server failover systems for high availability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server and Skype for Business.
Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting Expertise
Progent's experienced Cisco network security consultants provide high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support including architecture, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-level appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of protection, performance, and high reliability for IT systems of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed operating system, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps.
Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC, CISA and CISM-premier security consultants can deliver a range of budget-friendly security Inventory service packages and security evaluation service bundles created to give businesses of any size an opportunity to receive an independent look at the effectiveness of their protection profile. These packages vary from low-cost external network security scan and internal network security scan options for small companies up to a high-level security evaluation package for institutions who need comply with security levels required by government regulators or by vendors. For each security inventory or evaluation package, engineers with high-level security accreditations analyze and summarize collected data and make recommendations for efficient improvements.
SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk consultants and Cisco CUBE configuration experts can help organizations of any size to plan, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE-based IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers affordable remote or on-premises support to assist companies to migrate efficiently to a productive communications ecosystem that offers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications experts can help you to configure interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media applications like Skype for Business and Lync for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.
Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Solutions
Progent can give you access to a certified CCIE or certified CCNP to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a wide array of wireless products and technologies and offers the identical security, expandability, and manageability you demand from a wired network. Progent can assist you to achieve transparent interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless devices and software from third-party suppliers to give your company the features you need plus the most protected, dependable, and cost-effective wireless networking solution possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security specialists can show you how to design protection into your wireless network and your business operations.
Simplified Administration Tools for Cisco-powered IT Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network consultants can provide help with Cisco's network management tools alongside a variety of specialized third-party products to create a complete network management strategy to keep your environment running reliably, conserve expensive resources, protect your information, recover rapidly from hardware breakdown or malicious attacks, and allow you to add or reassign valuable components intelligently and affordably as your company evolves.
To learn additional details concerning Progent's support for Cisco networking and security technology, call
An index of content::
ProSight IT asset documentation management Engineer
ProSight IP address management Consultancy
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of the time wasted trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need the instant you need it.
Apple macOS and OS X Remote Support Services
Remote Apple OS X and macOS IT Consultant
Progent's experts can provide Apple macOS and OS X users a variety of services including workstation support, Apple macOS and OS X expertise, Apple Mac co-existence with Windows networks, Microsoft Entourage and Exchange Server help, network protection services, and custom training. Progent can assist clients to migrate to macOS from Mac OS X or other earlier editions of Apple Mac OS X and Progent can offer help with macOS and Mac OS X applications. Progent's specialists in Apple technology can also assist your business with iPhone integration and iPad management, or migrating to Apple's iCloud. For computer environments based solely on Mac OS X or for systems incorporating a combination of Mac, Linux and Windows based servers and desktops, Progent's Apple, Cisco, and Microsoft professionals have the experience and depth to deal with the difficulty of planning, integrating and maintaining a network environment that is available, safe, fast and aligned with your company's objectives.
WiFi 6/6E System Design Consulting Services
Wi-Fi Support
Progent can help you plan, deploy, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot a viable Wi-Fi network architecture, recommend appropriate technology, and configure wireless access points, bridges, antennas, wireless controllers, and various wireless accessories. Progent can also show you how to create a complete wireless network security plan that is well aligned with the security plan for your overall business network.
Consulting Services Ryuk ransomware hot line
24/7/365 Netwalker ransomware hot line Consult
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a experienced ransomware recovery expert who can help your business to halt the spread of an active ransomware attack. Call 800-462-8800
24-7 Professional UNIX, Windows
UNIX, Windows Engineers
If your business operates a UNIX or Linux environment or a mixed-platform network, Progent's CISM and CISSP-certified consultants can assist your whole organization in a wide range of security areas such as security management practices, security architecture and strategies, access management products and techniques, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, communications, infrastructure and Internet security, and business continuity preparedness. CISM and ISSAP stipulate the core skills and international standards of performance that network security professionals are expected to possess. These accreditations offer executive management the confidence that consultants who have achieved their CISM or ISSAP certification have demonstrated the experience and knowledge to offer effective security support and engineering help.
Select Topic: