Fast Remote Help for Durham Networks
Urgent Online Support for Durham NetworksFor companies in Durham or anywhere in North Carolina, Progent provides online support for information systems powered by Microsoft, Cisco, Apple macOS and OS X, or Linux/UNIX technology. Progent's Microsoft Certified professionals have provided remote troubleshooting to companies in every state in the United States. (See recommendations from Progent's customers.) In addition, Progent can furnish the consultation services of Cisco CCIE-certified network specialists to solve complex networking issues, plus the services of CISA and CISSP-accredited cybersecurity experts to help with high-level security architecture and troubleshooting jobs.

Progent's remote technical support experts provide exceptional value because they have the real-world background and have access to the advanced tools needed to solve most information system problems quickly. This reduces direct expenses since solutions require fewer chargeable consulting minutes. Online support also avoids the cost of dispatching an engineer to your site. Your company saves even more with incidental costs by minimizing or eliminating network outages and related costs stemming from business discontinuity, disgruntled clients, idle workers, and distracted executives. Progent's extensive online consulting experience is especially valuable for organizations that rely on public clouds for vital infrastructure or applications like Azure, Amazon AWA, or Office 365 Exchange Online, where onsite IT support may not be an alternative.

Progent's billing model for remote help is structured to leverage your IT service dollar. Progent charges per minute for telephone-based consulting, so you are billed just for the support that you receive. In contrast to typical remote support companies, Progent requires no initialization fee or minimum job duration. Progent's per-minute billing unit and clean policy for billing prevent scenarios where speedy. minor solutions manage to end up as large bills. Progent's skill at dealing with problems efficiently means your business spends less money.

Progent's Remote Consulting and Technical Support Expertise
Through years of experience, Progent has refined a collection of optimized tools and field-tested processes that promote the highest degree of efficiency for online consulting and repair for information networks of any size. Progent provides secure Virtual Private Network support for VPN gateways from a variety of popular vendors including Microsoft, Cisco, SonicWall and WatchGuard. Protected VPN connectivity allows the staff of Progent's online support team to communicate with your system remotely without compromising network security.

Progent's proven customer support reporting system includes comprehensive histories for the support that Progent's clients have received. Progent's staff service personnel have access to the details of support provided to each client by any engineer. This history of anomalies and solutions is structured as a quickly exploitable internal knowledge base that permits Progent's remote support experts to communicate their experiences company-wide to make sure that the efficiency of Progent's technical support improves daily. Progent's advanced certifications and close associations with major industry leaders such as Cisco and Microsoft make available additional vast technical support knowledge bases and allow fast access to vendors' in-house product engineers so Progent's online service experts can determine the most efficient resolutions quickly.

Remote technical services available from Progent to businesses in Durham and throughout the state of North Carolina include:

ProSight Flat-rate Managed Services for Small and Medium Size Organizations
Progent offers a family of budget-friendly, flat-rate services designed to allow small and medium-size organizations to utilize the same advanced IT solutions used by some of the world's top corporations. Progent's ProSight line of outsourced network management services covers all critical aspects of modern networking including email content filtering, threat defense based on machine leaning, automated backup/recovery, network infrastructure health monitoring, VM cloud hosting, and network asset documentation management. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

  • ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
    ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including blocking, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

  • ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Exchange Email Filtering
    Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

  • ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
    ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast recovery of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as 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 backup and recovery specialists can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

  • ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
    ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

  • ProSight WAN Watch: Network Infrastructure Management
    ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure management service that makes it easy and inexpensive for small and mid-sized businesses to diagram, monitor, reconfigure and troubleshoot their connectivity hardware like routers and switches, firewalls, and wireless controllers as well as servers, printers, endpoints and other networked devices. Using cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) technology, ProSight WAN Watch ensures that network diagrams are always updated, captures and displays the configuration information of almost all devices on your network, monitors performance, and sends notices when potential issues are detected. By automating complex management and troubleshooting activities, WAN Watch can knock hours off common tasks like network mapping, reconfiguring your network, locating appliances that require important software patches, or resolving performance issues. Learn more about ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure monitoring and management services.

  • ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Remote Monitoring
    ProSight LAN Watch is Progent’s server and desktop monitoring managed service that uses state-of-the-art remote monitoring and management (RMM) technology to keep your network running efficiently by checking the health of vital computers that power your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers an issue, an alert is transmitted immediately to your designated IT personnel and your Progent consultant so that any looming issues can be addressed before they have a chance to impact your network Find out more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring services.

  • ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
    With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

  • ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
    Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require when you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a quick and low-cost way for small and mid-size businesses to get an unbiased evaluation of the overall health of their information system. Based on a selection of the top remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools in the industry, and supervised by Progent's certified team of IT professionals, ProSight Network Audits show you how well the deployment of your essential network assets adhere to leading practices. The Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are offered at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and deliver immediate ROI such as a more manageable Active Directory (AD) system. Both versions also include one year of cutting-edge remote network monitoring and management. Benefits can include simpler network management, better compliance with information security standards, higher utilization of network resources, faster troubleshooting, more dependable backup and recovery, and increased uptime. See more about Progent's ProSight Network Audits IT infrastructure review.

The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an affordable service centered on a phone interview with a Progent backup/recovery consultant. The fact-finding interview is intended to help assess your company's preparedness either to stop or recover quickly after an attack by a ransomware variant such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. Progent will consult with you directly to collect information about your current AV defense and backup/recovery platform, and Progent will then deliver a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report describing how you can apply industry best practices to create a cost-effective AV and backup/recovery environment that aligns with your business requirements. For details, visit The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report.

Special Consulting Services Offered by Progent
Progent can provide the services of world-class online consulting experts for special IT programs. Progent's rates for longer-term consulting tasks are set according to the qualifications of the engineers required. Progent's experience with these special areas of information technology enables clients to execute critical projects economically and on time. Progent's special remote engineering solutions include:

  • Help Desk Services
    Progent's Help Desk service options for organizations with environments based on Microsoft Windows, Cisco, macOS and OS X, UNIX, or Linux technology include comprehensive Call Center services, shared Helpdesk support services, and Call Center operations consulting. Progent's Standard Help Desk Services offer smaller businesses an end-to-end solution that handles all aspects of online desktop technical support from service requests through ticketing, screen sharing, progress tracking, problem solving, and reporting. Progent offers service desk support at a significant discount from Progent's regular desktop service rates, and Progent can provide the option of rapid on-demand escalation to Level 2 and Level 3 experts to resolve complex issues.

    Progent’s shared Help Desk services make it possible for your IT organization to share responsibilities for Help Desk services transparently between your IT staff and Progent's large roster of certified desktop support engineers and subject matter experts. Progent’s Help Desk Co-management service is an advanced service desk solution built around the top professional services automation platform for managing service requests, ticket lifecycle, ownership, progress tracking, and metrics.

    Progent's Call Center team of veteran network professionals gives your computer users in Durham or anywhere in the state of North Carolina instant assistance from an effective support resource with substantial experience providing phone consulting and remote diagnostics for networks based on Microsoft Windows, Cisco, macOS and OS X, UNIX, or Linux technology. Progent's mission is to earn the Help Desk the reputation as a major contributor to business productivity, and Progent's intent is to fix instead of merely document IT issues.

  • Applications Services: Training, Custom Development, and Integration
    Progent's Applications Consulting staff provides phone-based professional consulting support and training in special application fields that include ERP, MRP, custom programming for accounting packages, and CRM. Progent also can provide consulting expertise, customization, and training for popular Microsoft applications including Microsoft CRM, Project, Microsoft Office 365 Word, and Microsoft Office 365 Excel. To learn more information concerning Progent's consulting, custom development, and education services, visit Progent's Applications Experts Group.

  • Unified and Automated Management of Hybrid Cloud Networks
    Microsoft System Center 2016 centralizes and automates the administration of hybrid cloud networks through comprehensive support for Windows Server 2016, Windows 10; seamless integration of heterogeneous networks that include various Linux distributions, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; and expanded public and private cloud support such as closer integration with Microsoft Intune for iPhone and Google Android smartphone management plus built-in integration with Microsoft Operations Management Suite for cloud-based analytics and reporting. Progent's System Center 2016 consulting experts offer world-class online and on-premises support for all elements of System Center 2016 including Operations Manager, Configuration Manager (SCCM), Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Data Protection Manager (SCDPM), Orchestrator, and Service Manager. Progent can help you to plan and install a new implementation of Microsoft System Center 2016, expand or optimize an existing one, migrate efficiently from a prior release of System Center, or debug your System Center solution.

  • Online IT Infrastructure Monitoring Services
    Progent can deliver organizations in Durham, or anywhere in the state of North Carolina, remote hybrid network monitoring and reporting by providing Microsoft System Center 2016 Operations Manager consulting services and System Center 2012 Operations Manager (SCOM 2012) support. Progent can customize Operations Manager to fit your business so that your computer support is proactive and automated. By spotting looming issues before they grow into crashes, automated monitoring can head off stressful and expensive information system failures. Progent can also deploy system monitoring products like Nagios and MRTG Graphical Traffic Load Monitor to analyze UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or macOS and OS X environments, Microsoft Windows networks, or networks that support a combination of operating systems.
How Your Durham Company Can Contact Progent's Remote Support Professionals
To contact Progent about urgent online help with Microsoft, Apple macOS and OS X, or Linux networks, visit Progent's Urgent Online Support, telephone 1-800-993-9400, or visit Contact Progent. For businesses and startups in Durham or throughout the state of North Carolina, Progent's phone-based network support specialists are ready to deliver effective and cost-effective system support whenever your company has to have it. More than 15 years of delivering online tech support has earned Microsoft Partner certification for Progent's team of engineers and has allowed Progent to develop high-end troubleshooting capability and to fine tune online access tools to solve IT problems quickly while eliminating the cost and lost time associated with on-site service calls.

Even if your Durham office works with a local freelance support technician or employs an in-house organization that can deal with typical network issues, Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants can offer an easy and transparent remote expansion of your on-site resources for situations when your usual service personnel either don't have the time or the expertise to resolve sudden network crises or particularly tough integration projects.

Details of Progent's Online Computer Support for Durham
Progent's phone support, remote troubleshooting, network security consulting, and network administration services give businesses in Durham or throughout the state of North Carolina unparalleled leverage for your support budget. Whether you need one-time phone support and Internet-based troubleshooting or ongoing Help Desk services and network administration, Progent's professionals can provide your office enterprise-level IT support while permitting you to avoid the cost and administration overhead of running a large in-house IT organization. Key features of Progent's National Remote Support program include:

What Makes Progent Unique from Other Support Organizations?
Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner consulting company and Progent's number of employees, breadth of IT experience, fine tuned remote support tools, and understanding of enterprise networking allow offices to avoid the limitations of exclusive reliance on smaller consulting organizations, independent freelance service providers, or limited in-house resources.

Progent stands out by providing:

How Does My Business Start Receiving Online Network Support from Progent?
To initiate Progent's online help services or to learn more about Progent's online support programs, call Progent at 1-866-PROGENT (866-776-4368) or refer to Contact Progent. If you have an urgent need for IT help, visit Immediate Online Support.