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Les Kent has a 35-year track record of effective technology integration, corporate administration, sales, and operations. He has shown a talent for developing sophisticated information technology solutions while working as a network designer, application developer, project manager, deployment consultant, and troubleshooter for small businesses, new ventures, and major enterprises.
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Progent is a dealer and consulting firm for SentinelOne's Singularity product family, a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat management platform that includes AI software and advanced services to deliver comprehensive endpoint detection and response (EDR).
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security experts. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance specialists offer support for any of the network security services covered within GIAC accreditation such as evaluating infrastructure security mechanisms, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.
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Hyper-V 2016 utilizes core features initially developed for and proven on Azure, among the world's biggest public clouds. This significantly improves the ability of the Windows Server platform to support private cloud and hybrid cloud/on-premises environments by improving security, availability, expandability, manageability, reliability and disaster recovery. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to evaluate the benefits of Hyper-V 2016 for your organization, configure test systems to confirm the ability of Hyper-V 2016 to run your critical applications, plan an efficient network topology for a cloud-based or hybrid deployment, develop and carry out a smooth upgrade strategy, educate your IT management and support personnel, and provide as-needed consulting and debugging services to make sure that your Hyper-V 2016 investment gives you the highest possible business benefit.
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Progent can assist your organization in any facet of your upgrade to Exchange Server 2019 including deploying Windows Server 2019 Core for hosting Exchange; planning high availability infrastructure for a local, cloud-based or hybrid deployment; moving mailboxes; planning and implementing Hyper-V virtualization; configuring HLB; configuring DAG groups with MCDB solid-state caching; integrating with Skype for Business 2019 for voicemail; integration with SharePoint; updating firewalls; integration with Microsoft 365; and setting up Outlook clients.
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Progent can assist small and mid-size companies to set up and debug video conferencing solutions to allow their at-home employees to communicate effectively with teammates and clients.
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Progent's wireless professionals can help small organizations design, choose, test, install and maintain protected building-to-building wireless bridging products that integrate transparently into your existing network while providing a level of protection that equals or exceeds wired interfaces. Progent provides expertise in wireless LAN/WAN products from Cisco Aironet and Meraki, Proxim, and other small business wireless vendors and can show you how to identify and deploy the wireless link technology that fit best with your business requirements.
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Progent's professionals offer experience in a variety of technologies relevant to mobile networking such as system topology, Activesync, wireless security, mobile email, Windows Mobile, Research in Motion Blackberry, and mobile software development. Progent's certified consultants can save your business time and money by using their wireless experience to show you how to select and integrate wireless connectivity solutions that fit the needs of your company. Progent can also optimize your network architecture so that mobile handhelds perform better.
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Progent can assist you in any phase of your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 including deploying Windows Server 2019 as a host for Exchange; planning HA architecture for an on-premises, cloud-based or hybrid deployment; migrating mailboxes; planning and configuring Hyper-V virtualization; setting up hardware load balancing (HLB); building Database Availability Groups (DAGs) with MCDB caching; integrating with Skype for Business 2019 for voicemail services; integration with SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online; updating firewalls; integration with Microsoft 365 and setting up Outlook clients.
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Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can design, configure, and manage an implementation of 365 Total Backup to back up and restore your Microsoft 365 mailboxes, files stored within your company's OneDrive Accounts and SharePoint sites, user and group Teams Chats, plus files on Windows endpoints.
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Progent's certified failover clustering experts can help businesses to evaluate the benefits of deploying Microsoft Windows Server 2012 failover clustering technology to build a powerful high-availability/disaster recovery strategy, help you to design and deploy a Windows Server 2012 environment, deliver online and on-premises consulting expertise and technical support for failover clusters that include physical servers or virtual machines, and show you how to streamline the administration of failover clusters.
ISA 2006 is a multi-functional edge gateway that provides a powerful application layer firewall, virtual private network (VPN), and web caching solution for securing the Internet-facing applications of any organization against a wide range of attacks. Progent's certified ISA Server engineers can help you plan, rationalize, pilot, install, customize and manage the Standard or Enterprise version of ISA Server on your information system.
Progent's Apple Mac experts can support the creative facets of Mac environments by offering help services and training in imaging, sound, and video. Progent's consultants offer expertise in a variety of Apple Mac applications such as Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe 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 projects such as scanning or digitizing audio or video or configuring an audio/video production facility.
Progent's Microsoft certified support team can help you define and deploy a smooth in-place Exchange Server 2003 migration strategy that minimizes network downtime, simplifies long-term service requirements, and makes your Exchange Server 2003 easy to manage. For complex multi-server or multi-location migrations, Progent has the background to finish your move quickly and economically. Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2003 support, repair, and design offerings include expertise with the configuration of outside vendor add-ons to Exchange 2003 Server that are best aligned to your business goals.
Cisco's Firepower Next Generation Firewalls deliver a major performance improvement compared to Cisco's previous-generation ASA 5500-X security appliances and offer centralized management and automation of modern security features like application visibility and control (AVC), next-generation intrusion protection (NGIPS) with intelligent prioritization of risks, advanced malware protection (AMP), DDoS mitigation, and multi-node sandboxing. Progent's Cisco CCIE firewall consultants can assist you to design and carry out an efficient migration to Cisco Firepower Series firewalls from Cisco's from ASA 5500-X, ASA 5500, or PIX firewalls and show you how to integrate Firepower firewalls with Cisco's cloud-based services to create and centrally manage network environments that span branch offices, data centers, private clouds and public clouds.
Microsoft allows you to create seamless hybrid ecosystems that combine Microsoft 365 and on-premises Exchange deployments. This permits you to have some mailboxes hosted at your corporate datacenter and other mailboxes resident on Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange consulting team can help your organization with any phase of planning, integrating and troubleshooting your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online deployment. Progent's Exchange specialists can provide occasional expertise to help you resolve stubborn technical bottlenecks and also can provide extensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to ensure your hybrid Exchange solution is successfully completed on schedule and on budget.
Progent's Windows consulting experts can assist businesses of all sizes to evaluate Windows 10 or to upgrade to Windows 10 from any older version of Windows. Online and on-premises evaluation and upgrade services for Windows 10 offered by Progent's experts include Return on Investment estimates, project supervision, application compatibility testing, test lab systems, Hyper-V virtualization strategies, Cloud and hybrid solutions, mobile device management and synchronization, teleworker connectivity, security and compliance, automated provisioning and administration, infrastructure optimization, wired/wireless convergence, business continuity planning, custom training for IT support staff and users, and post-migration consulting support.