Columbus Remote Workers Integration Consulting Company
Network Infrastructure Setup Consulting Experts
Expanding your at-home workforce may have a major impact on network architecture, security, and corporate processes. Progent has two decades of background assisting SMBs to plan, deploy, manage, tune, and debug IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can assist your Columbus organization to pick the appropriate technologies and follow leading practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual office solution for teleworkers that facilitates collaboration and delivers top business value. Progent can provide support services ranging from on demand expertise for helping you past occasional IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical initiatives.
Progent's consultants can assist Columbus, Ohio organizations to with any facet of building a high-functioning work-from-home ecosystem by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud connectivity, Help Desk augmentation, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.
Network Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Integrating the network infrastructure needed for an at-home workforce can be particularly challenging if you have to accommodate a combination of worker-owned equipment such as desktop computers and notebooks, Internet routers, and wireless appliances from various manufacturers and with a variety of OS software and firmware levels. Progent's experience providing online help for both legacy and current technologies in virtual office solutions enables you to make cost-effective use of your available infrastructure and provides you with ready access to top-tire consultants for implement necessary upgrades. Services offered by Progent to assist your company to create a high-functioning telecommuting ecosystem include:
- VPN connectivity makes it possible to create a safe tunnel for authenticated at-home employees to access IT resources situated at your corporate datacenter or in a public cloud. Progent's consultants can assist you to configure and maintain VPN connections between your teleworkers and your key IT resources by providing online VPN integration support. For organizations with Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco ASA Firewall experts can help your telecommuters to set up Cisco's popular AnyConnect software to provide safe VPN connections for a broad range of devices such as Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux, and Android.
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platforms allow a teleworker to see and interact with a data center computer's desktop. This provides network managers more control over the digital environment of at-home employees and offers them a familiar experience. Progent's VDI services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI solutions.
- Routers attach home computer networks to the Internet and support VPN tunnels, local wireless networks, and firewall services. Progent can provide top-tier remote consulting for integrating home routers from all major vendors. See router configuration support from Cisco-certified consultants.
- Home Wireless networks, often shared by the whole family and visitors, are commonly used by at-home employees to connect to their router for work. This can create throughput as well as security problems. Progent can assist businesses to mitigate these issues by providing services that include Cisco Aironet configuration expertise, Cisco-certified Meraki wireless installation consulting, and Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi AP integration help.
- Internet access solutions impact the performance and reliability of connections between telecommuters and the corporate data center. Business-critical applications might demand backup Internet access in case the normal connection breaks. Progent offers guidance for identifying ISPs, picking appropriate service packages, and integrating fault-tolerant Internet connections. See Internet connectivity solutions.
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Microsoft Certified Partner Migration Consultants Exchange 2000
Exchange Server 2000 Upgrade Technology Consulting Services
Progent is one of the most qualified information technology support companies for creating e-mail solutions based on Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Progent specializes in helping small companies derive all the benefits of Exchange 2000 for typical situations such as upgrading from Exchange 5.5 Server, moving from an ISP-based or POP3 e-mail environment, and using managed services for your Exchange 2000 Server administration.
After Hours Cisco Firepower 1000 Series Firewalls Technical Consultant
ASA with Firepower Integration
Cisco's Firepower NGFWs Firewalls provide a major performance improvement over Cisco's previous-generation ASA 5500-X firewalls and include centralized management of advanced security capabilities such as application visibility, next-generation intrusion protection with risk prioritization, advanced malware protection (AMP), DDoS mitigation, and sandboxing. Progent's Cisco CCIE firewall consultants can assist your organization to design and execute an efficient migration to Firepower Series firewalls from Cisco's legacy ASA 5500-X, ASA 5500, or PIX appliances and help you enhance Firepower firewalls with Cisco's cloud-based services to create and centrally control IT ecosystems that include local offices, data centers, and cloud resources.
Microsoft Certified Expert Azure hybrid cloud solutions Consulting
Consultants Azure Stack integration
Progent can assist small companies to migrate all or part of their computing infrastructure to the Microsoft Azure cloud. This can streamline IT administration and lower equipment investments. Microsoft Azure offers a comprehensive library of public cloud services and Progent can help you to evaluate the benefits and limitations of different cloud computing architectures you can use with Azure. Progent can show you how to manage cloud-based or hybrid cloud and local apps and network infrastructure and ensure that you avoid the common errors small companies make when moving to a public cloud. Progent can assist you to set up cloud servers on Azure Virtual Machines, use cloud storage with Azure Storage, manage user identity with Azure Active Directory, and automate transparent backup mechanisms with Azure Backup. Progent can also show you how to prepare perimeter firewalls and VPN connections and to integrate Apple iOS devices and Android handhelds.
Firewall Security Cybersecurity Firm
Firewall and VPN Cybersecurity Consultancies
Progent provides small and medium size organizations expert support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN solutions from major firewall and VPN security vendors including Check Point Software, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can help you create a comprehensive security plan and select appropriate products from a variety of vendors to support your security objectives while sticking within your spending restraints.
Virtualization Professional
Virtual Server Consulting
Server growth puts pressure on network budgets and administrative resources. Server reduction via a virtual infrastructure promises lower total cost of ownership of hardware and quicker return on investment, more efficient utilization of servers, simplified operations, increased system availability, and easier management. Common uses for virtual servers are hardware consolidation, economical platforms for line-of-business legacy software based on obsolete operating systems, and affordable quarantine of program development or pilot testing systems from production systems.
Altaro VM Backup Testing Computer Consultant
Altaro VM Backup Boot from Backup Technical Support Services
Altaro VM Backup offers small and mid-size organizations a dependable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, remote, distributed, and cloud architectures and also supports cost-effective cloud backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Top capabilities include industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to reduce backup storage needs, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup intervals as little as five minutes for minimizing your Recovery Point Objective, military-grade encryption, granular restore options for specific files and emails, extensive support for Windows Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and VMware vCenter for handling larger deployments, and the ability to leverage Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to back up online VMs with zero downtime. Progent is a certified Altaro partner and offers a broad array of services to assist you to design, install, manage and troubleshoot a backup/restore solution powered by Altaro VM Backup.
24x7 Integration Services SCCM 2012 Patch Management
SCCM 2012 Device Management Consultant
Progent can help your organization to prepare for, deploy, and administer System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. Progent can help you to migrate smoothly to SCCM 2012 from an older device and application management solution or assist you to modify your existing SCCM 2012 ecosystem to accommodate your changing business needs. Also, Progent can assist you to create a software foundation that extracts the most value from SCCM 2012 by delivering expertise with associated Microsoft platforms including Active Directory Domain Services, Microsoft SQL SSRS, and Internet Information Services (IIS).
Onsite Support Online Support
Specialists Remote Network Support
For medium-size companies who need network consulting services, Progent offers an array of alternatives such as local help, remote support, off-site Help Desk, 24x7 support with automatic system monitoring, emergency staff augmentation, site relocation support, software development, and professional consulting. For midsize businesses in California or other areas serviced by Progent's field engineers, Progent provides professional in-person support for solving network issues rapidly and economically.
IT Consulting Services Ohio
Delaware Repair Installation
Progent’s Technical Response Center (TRC) offers low-cost national after-hours online help for networks based on Windows and Cisco products and technologies. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified service experts offer 24x7 phone support and online secure network access to troubleshoot and repair technical problems quickly and economically.
Windows, UNIX, Solaris Computer Consultants
UNIX, Windows Consulting
Progent's UNIX platform support services provide small businesses and software developers support for managing and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris environments that coexist with Microsoft-based technology. Progent offers your organization contact with UNIX consultants, support professionals premier by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISA and CISSP credentials. This wide array of expertise offers you an easy single source to help you create and maintain a secure and robust cross-platform connectivity and communications infrastructure that allows UNIX and Microsoft interoperability by integrating Windows with major variants of UNIX including Mac OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX Open UNIX, HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO UNIX, and Silicon Graphics IRIX or major Linux platforms including RedHat, SUSE Linux, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake/Mandriva, Debian-GNU, and Slackware Linux.
Immediate Microsoft Virtual Server Administration Specialists
Remote Microsoft Virtual Machines Configuration
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, hosted on the Microsoft Windows Server platform and based on software originally produced by Connectix, provides the performance needed to carry out hardware reduction, software upgrade, and server isolation tasks via virtualization technology in an enterprise-ready computing network with high scalability, manageability, and reliability. Microsoft has targeted Virtual Server 2005 at businesses who want to enhance operational efficiency in application development and piloting, upgrading from legacy line-of-business applications, and hardware consolidation. Progent's professional Virtual Server consultants can help your IT staff to evaluate and deploy Microsoft Virtual Server.
Microsoft Project Server 2013 Technical Support Services
Integration Services Microsoft Project Server 2013
Progent's Microsoft engineers offer in-depth support in deploying, managing and debugging any edition of Project Server and can deliver a wide variety of cost-effective remote support services based on industry best practices to help businesses of all sizes to get all the advantages of this leading platform. Consulting support offered by Progent include system design, installation and upgrades, setting up safe file and status sharing among local and remote or mobile users, network optimization, and customized webinar training.
Professionals Microsoft Financial Software
Microsoft Financial Software Setup and Support
Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains allows you to expand and manage your company better by delivering deep availability of strategic information and a rapid ROI. Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains offers major productivity benefits including its ability to expand the presence of your organization, handle your financials, automate financial operations, unify procedures across your business, refine inventory control, enhance order accuracy, grow sales and minimize turnaround time, and maximize free cash flow. Progent can help you set up and maintain a reliable, secure server and network infrastructure to support Great Plains, and can offer expert Dynamics GP/Great Plains consultants to make sure you reap all the benefits of your Dynamics GP/Great Plains business management system.
Remote Exchange 2013 Migration Consulting Services
Exchange 2013 VoIP On-site Support
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 incorporates significant improvements to the capabilities of Exchange 2010 and delivers important innovations plus a redesigned architecture. These enhancements favorably impact key areas like manageability, availability, security, operational costs, collaboration, extensibility, performance, cross-version interoperability, and productivity. Progent's certified Exchange 2013 consulting professionals can assist your organization to understand the potential advantages of migrating to Exchange 2013, create a cost-effective validation and deployment strategy, and educate your IT team to maintain your Exchange 2013 solution. Progent also offers ongoing remote consulting and support and management for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013.
Fault Tolerant Data Center Technical Consultant
Cisco Fault-tolerant Data Centers Engineer
Progent's Data Center engineers can help you find high availability data centers that match the particular needs of your business. High availability off-site data centers are particularly attractive to small businesses because of their affordability and simplified logistics in comparison to taking a do-it-yourself strategy. Attempting to design an in-house data center that offers even a basic degree of fault tolerance is too costly for typical small businesses. Progent is ready to help you reap all the benefits of non-stop data centers and fault tolerant colo sites by offering a full array of consulting and support services.
Online Technical Support Exchange Server 2000 Upgrade
Consultant Exchange 2000 Server Upgrade
Progent is one of the most expert network support firms for integrating email and messaging solutions based on Exchange 2000. Progent specializes in helping small companies derive all the advantages of Microsoft Exchange 2000 under common scenarios including updating from Microsoft Exchange 5.5, migration from an ISP-managed or POP3 e-mail system, and using managed services for your Exchange 2000 support.
Information Technology Consulting Exchange 2019 Mailbox Server
Exchange 2019 Disaster Recovery Consultants
Progent can assist you in any phase of your upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2019 including configuring Windows Server 2019 as a host for Exchange; designing high availability architecture for a local, Microsoft cloud connected or hybrid environment; moving mailboxes; planning and implementing Hyper-V; setting up hardware load balancing (HLB); configuring DAG groups with MCDB caching; setting up Skype for Business 2019 for voicemail services; setting up collaboration with SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online; updating firewalls; integration with Microsoft 365 and configuring Outlook.
Offsite Workforce Security Network Consultant
Configuration Remote Employees Cybersecurity
Progent can assist small and medium-size businesses to install security protection systems and deliver cleanup services for offsite workers.
Consultant Services System Center 2016 Endpoint Protection
System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager Professional
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have more than 10 years of experience designing, implementing, optimizing and troubleshooting Microsoft SCOM solutions and can provide companies of all sizes expert remote or on-premises consulting support for System Center 2012 Operations Manager. Progent can help your company to design a topology for SCOM 2012 servers that provides the performance and resilience needed to watch over your datacenter efficiently, whether your datacenters are onsite, in the cloud, or a mixed solution. Progent's SCOM consultants can also help you to install and set up SCOM 2012 management packs based on best practices for tracking network fabric as well as Microsoft and 3rd-party applications and services. In addition, Progent can provide fast remote or onsite technical support to assist you to remediate critical issues uncovered by System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
24/7 Microsoft Teams topology Specialist
Microsoft Teams and iPad Consultant Services
Progent can assist your business to plan a migration to Microsoft Teams from Skype for Business and configure, administer, and debug a cloud or hybrid deployment of Teams. Progent can assist you to connect Teams with Office and Microsoft 365 apps, Exchange Online, SharePoint, and your phone infrastructure.
Network Support Help Desk Consulting Services
24-Hour Help Desk Process IT Consulting
The Contact Center support model adopted by Progent's Technical Response Center gives small companies an dependable option to dependence on independent consultants by offering broad expertise shared by multiple engineering teams, optional 24x7 availability of emergency help, escalation capability to top-level engineers for solving even the most complex issues, support consistency and dependability, prompt follow-up overseen by seasoned support managers, a choice of convenient mechanisms for requesting service jobs, plus a high level of progress transparency enabled by ticket updates and accessible via a web-based portal.
Support Outsourcing System Center 2016 Amazon AWS Integration
System Center 2016 Business Continuity Technical Support Services
System Center 2016 provides important enhancements for managing hybrid cloud networks by offering comprehensive integration with Windows Server 2016, Windows 10; seamless integration of mixed-OS networks that incorporate various Linux distributions, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; and better public and private cloud support including closer integration with Microsoft Intune for iPhone and Google Android smartphone management plus built-in integration with Operations Management Suite for cloud-enhanced analytics and reporting. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team offers world-class remote and on-premises support for all components of System Center 2016 including Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Data Protection Manager, Orchestrator, and Service Manager (SCSM). Progent can assist you to plan and configure a new deployment of System Center 2016, expand or tune your current one, upgrade efficiently from a previous version of System Center, or debug your System Center solution.
Best VMware vCloud Director vCD Consultant
VMware VCDX certified Engineer
VMware's popular Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is an extension to VMware vCenter that allows you to specify, automate and verify a repeatable process for recovering applications and services quickly following a breakdown. Site Recovery Manager supports centrally managed and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and transparent site relocation, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also allows transparent testing for site recovery, upgrades and patches and can generate reports to confirm full service restoration, validate SLAs and prove DR compliance. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consultant to assist you to plan, configure, test and manage a disaster recovery system based on VMware Site Recovery Manager.
Cybersecurity Scan Professional
24/7 Internal Cybersecurity Scan Consult
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable service bundles designed to enable small companies to get an impartial network security evaluation from a certified security consultant. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security expert administers an extensive test of your network from outside your company firewall to uncover potential risks in the security posture you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer executes a network scan from an authorized machine within your firewall to evaluate vulnerabilities to inside assaults. Both security inventory services are set up and executed from a secured remote location.
Microsoft Certified Partner Online Office PowerPoint Instruction
Live Online Office Word Training Professional
Progent offers customized remote training for popular client apps and environments such as Office and Microsoft 365 Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Project plus Adobe Acrobat Writer, Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows 10 and 8.1. Remote instruction provides the advantages of traditional in-person seminars, such as immediate interaction between students and trainers, but avoids the expenses of transportation and the hassle of attempting to synchronize the availability of multiple students. Offered to individuals or classes of all sizes, Progent's virtual training allows the instructor to run the seminar from a remote office and the clients can be spread across a campus or across the country. Live online instruction utilizes proven teaching mechanisms like broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and shared applications. Sessions can be brief and targeted to specific topics or longer in time and broader in coverage.
SharePoint 2007 Consulting Services
SharePoint Server 2007 Online Help
Progent's Microsoft-authorized experts can show you how to rationalize the economic justification for implementing SharePoint 2007, advise you on the most appropriate version of SharePoint for your circumstances, offer setup and deployment services, help you to install Microsoft SQL Server as a back-end database manager, optimize your network integrity, integrate your standard and custom application software to work with SharePoint Server 2007, develop a comprehensive security strategy that incorporates portal solutions, and deliver maintenance and Help Desk support.
Knowledge Transfer Remote Support Services
Top Ranked IT Consultants Knowledge Transfer
Progent is committed to information transfer from Progent's consultants to customers. By teaching customers to deal with technical issues that are within their scope, Progent can concentrate on offering hard-to-find skills where Progent has few competitors. Small businesses who utilize familiar freelance consultants or who employ internal IT personnel benefit when Progent transfers information about new technology and proven processes to make their networks more robust, secure, and productive.
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