Cisco's PIX Series firewalls have been discontinued and Cisco might not offer support these devices. Progent still provides technical assistance for Cisco's PIX Series firewalls to help you with management and troubleshooting and Progent can also help you determine whether to move up to next generation firewall technology available from Cisco. Progent's Cisco-certified specialists can help your company plan and implement an efficient upgrade to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls based on industry best practices.
Progent’s IT outsourcing packages offer economical computer consulting for small organizations. Whether it includes planning network architecture, creating an in-house Help Desk or using an outside one, rolling out a new email system, monitoring your system, or building a web-based business application, outsourcing your network technical services can reduce costs and eliminate risks, permitting IT service budgets to increase in a more linear and manageable fashion than is feasible by assembling a large, all-purpose in-house network support staff. Progent’s Outsourcing White Paper and flyers tell you how Progent can help you build a protected and highly available network foundation for your vital applications powered by Windows including Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, and Microsoft Office 2000.
Progent's Microsoft-Certified SQL Server consultants offer a range of support services to help small and midsize businesses to design, configure, manage, and repair SQL 2008 solutions so that they receive the optimum business benefit from Microsoft's state-of-the-art information management platform. Also, Progent can provide expertise for system architecture, enterprise-wide security, and application programming to increase the strategic benefit of your computer network.
The latest generation of ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer significantly more bang for the buck than Cisco's earlier PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for all new installations. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can help your company to manage your current PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances or upgrade to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also help your company to plan, configure, optimize, administer and troubleshoot firewall solutions built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services.
Progent's data protection experts can assist your company to design, implement and debug a backup/restore solution based on MSP360 software. MSP360 offers file/folder or image-based backup/recovery for virtual machines and physical machines, supports all popular public clouds, and permits you to create a backup solution with a minimum Recovery Time Objective and a granular Recovery Point Objective. With ProSight DPS 360 Backup, Progent can provide end-to-end monitoring and remote management of your backup system to protect against data loss caused by user mistakes, computer glitches, malicious users, and malware attacks like ransomware. For more information, go to ProSight DPS 360 Backup solutions.
Progent's CISSP-premier network security consultants can assist organizations of any size with any aspect of information system security. Progent can create cost-effective cybersecurity systems that protect a small office from advanced threats or Progent can design, configure, and monitor a comprehensive security environment for hybrid networks that support onsite, remote, and mobile users accessing IT resources distributed over multiple physical sites and public and private clouds.
Progent can assist small companies to move all or part of their network infrastructure to the Microsoft Azure cloud. This can simplify IT administration and reduce hardware investments. Microsoft Azure includes a wealth of cloud services and Progent can help you to evaluate the advantages and restrictions of various cloud computing models you can use with Azure. Progent can show you how to administer cloud-based or hybrid cloud and on-premises apps and network infrastructure and ensure you sidestep the typical mistakes small organizations make when moving to the cloud. Progent can assist you to set up VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, use cloud storage with Azure Storage, manage authentication with Azure Active Directory, and build transparent backup services with Azure Backup. Progent can also help you to configure firewalls and VPN tunnels and to integrate Apple iOS devices and Android handhelds.
Progent can assist you in any and all phases of your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 such as planning high availability system topology for an on-premises, cloud-based or hybrid environment; licensing compliance for Exchange Server and Windows Server 2012 R2 or later; moving mailboxes; Hyper-V virtualization design; specifying mass storage requirements for your virtual machines, databases and logs; configuring HLB for high-availability CAS services; planning, configuring and validating Exchange and Windows Servers and Database Availability Groups (DAGs); integration with SharePoint; updating your firewall; creating SSL certs; providing client integration with Office desktop or Microsoft 365; and setting up Outlook on the web (formerly Outlook Web App).
Progent’s certified consultants provide small and medium size companies enterprise-level consulting services for Systems Management Server 2003 and System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Microsoft's solutions for update and deployment management. System Center Configuration Manager is Microsoft's new title for the update management solution previously called SMS Server. System Center Configuration Manager provides a variety of enhancements to Microsoft Systems Management Server including full automation, built-in Vista Windows Server 2008 awareness, NAP security support, and device driver management. Progent’s certified engineers can help you use SMS 2003 or Configuration Manager economically for streamlined operating system and application deployment, security patch administration, software tracking, and licensing reconciliation. Progent's engineers can also help your company to move smoothly from Microsoft Systems Management Server to Configuration Manager 2007.
Cisco offers an extensive product line of routers including appliances designed to provide the protection, bandwidth, and reliability demanded by organizations from small offices to global enterprises and service providers. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, transparent failover, and backup power for improved fault tolerance and system uptime. Progent can help you choose and configure Cisco routers to establish a reliable foundation for your IT system and to make it economical to grow as you add new users, start new offices, deploy new services, open your network to clients and partners, and manage an increasingly mobile workforce. Progent offers expertise in a range of routers powered by the Cisco IOS platform, including Cisco's 800 family of small business VPN routers, Cisco 1800 and 3800 ISR routers, Cisco 2900 and 3900 G2 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 routers for WAN edge applications, CRS Carrier Routing System for the network core, as well as older 1700 and 2600 Routers.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist businesses of all sizes to evaluate Windows 10 or to migrate to Windows 10 from any earlier release of Windows. Online and onsite assessment and upgrade services for Windows 10 offered by Progent include Return on Investment analysis, project management, application compatibility testing, test lab systems, Hyper-V virtualization architecture, Cloud and hybrid integration, mobile device management and synchronization, telecommuter connectivity, security and compliance, automated provisioning and administration, infrastructure optimization, Wi-Fi support, business continuity planning, custom training for IT support staff and users, and post-migration consulting support.
Progent can help small and mid-size businesses to deploy and troubleshoot conferencing applications to allow their at-home workforce to interact productively with teammates and customers.
Progent's Sun Solaris family support experts provide small and mid-size companies and software developers help with managing and supporting Sun Solaris systems that coexist with Microsoft-based networks. Progent can give your organization contact with Sun Solaris experts, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISA credentials. This wide array of expertise provides you with a convenient one-stop source to show you how to create and manage a protected and robust cross-platform connectivity and communications solution that allows Sun Solaris and Microsoft coexistence by combining Microsoft Windows with popular versions of UNIX including Apple Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, AIX UNIX from IBM, HP-UX, BSD, SCO UNIX, and Silicon Graphics IRIX (SGI/IRIX or leading Linux derivatives such as RedHat Linux, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva Linux, Debian-GNU, and Slackware.
Forefront TMG 2010 builds on the powerful security technologies of Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server and provides a easily administered Internet gateway that acts as a single-server platform for an array of security features including an application layer and network layer firewall, URL monitoring and filtering, antimalware, intrusion protection, reputation services, VPN control, plus HTTP/HTTPS inspection. Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway includes comprehensive web security reporting capabilities, allows customized reporting generated by SQL Server, integrates with Active Directory to streamline authentication and policy enforcement, and can be operated as a virtual server to lower costs and enhance recoverability. Progent's Microsoft consultants can help your company to plan and execute test and production implementations; integrate Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 with Windows Server 2008, AD, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and Microsoft SharePoint; install Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010 to operate on a virtual machine with Windows Hyper-V; and deliver continuing consulting and repair services. Progent can also help your organization to migrate smoothly to Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway from any version of ISA Server.
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Progent's CISSP-premier cybersecurity experts can assist organizations of all sizes with any aspect of information system security. Progent can implement cost-effective security systems that guard a small office from advanced malware attacks or Progent can design, deploy, and manage a comprehensive security environment for hybrid networks that accommodate onsite, remote, and mobile clients accessing network resources distributed across a mix of physical sites and various clouds.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is a rich, web-aware database and data analysis solution that opens the door to the fast creation of a new generation of high-end applications that can provide your company a significant competitive edge. SQL Server provides core support for XML and the capability to communicate across the Internet and outside the firewall. The experience of Progent's certified SQL Server 2000 consultants, with an average of more than over 10 years of background supporting Microsoft integration, assures you success in planning, deploying and managing Microsoft SQL Server solutions that are seamlessly connected with other applications powered Microsoft's .NET platform.
Progent delivered a wireless integration environment that enabled a school to increase efficiency and avoid the ongoing costs of a dedicated link. Progent recommended a Proxim Tsunami high-speed wireless bridge. The economical building-to-building Proxim bridge is intended for connecting separate sites up to 2.5 miles apart and can reach even greater ranges. This wireless solution offered improved performance and dependability than simply amplifying the 802.11b network, and since it uses the 5.8Ghz band it offered protection against outside interference.
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified wireless network infrastructure consultants can provide online or onsite integration and debugging support to assist your organization to plan, configure, update, optimize, manage and troubleshoot Aironet wireless access point deployments of any scale or architecture. Progent's Cisco wireless controller experts can also assist you to integrate your Wi-Fi ecosystem with your wired network and cloud-hosted resources to build an enterprise connectivity foundation that is easy to administer and expand. Progent also offers affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to help you to determine the most efficient selection, location and setup of Aironet Wi-Fi access points to work with your unique workplace design, construction, and expected network traffic.
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Progent can provide economical online support for all releases of Office Access including Access desktop and Access Web App and can provide advanced help for Access application programming, database migration, performance optimization, BI reporting, and maintenance. Progent also offers custom webinar classes for Access development and database management.
Progent's certified Microsoft Windows 2000 consulting staff can show you how to enhance the functionality of your existing Windows 2K Servers and can streamline system administration, offer tech support and repair, and strengthen security. Progent can also help you design, rationalize, and implement a plan to migrate from Microsoft Windows Server 2K to Windows 2003 Server. Progent is experienced in setting up pilot installations to eliminate the obstacles associated with moving to Windows 2003 Server by uncovering potential hardware and software compatibility problems.
Progent's Cisco certified Wi-Fi consultants can provide economical remote and on-premises help for end-of-life and modern Wave 2 Aironet wireless APs and Progent can assist your business to design and maintain wireless solutions that include indoor and outdoor/industrial Aironet APs.
Progent's Standard Help Desk Services offer an end-to-end solution that handles all aspects of remote Level 1 desktop support from service requests through ticketing, remote desktop control, progress tracking, problem solving, and reporting. Support services are offered at a significant discount off Progent's normal desktop support rates, and Progent can provide the option of fast on-demand escalation to Level 2 and Level 3 experts to resolve the most issues.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer computer support and network consulting services for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Windows 2003 Server, and for the entire family of Microsoft Servers. Progent's migration, configuration, administration, and support services for Exchange 2003 Server include system design, deployment, documentation, onsite and remote technical support, Help Desk Call Center support, certified security consulting, and full-service IT outsourcing.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall.
Progent's Meraki wireless AP consultants provide remote and onsite support services to assist organizations of any size to plan, deploy, manage, upgrade or troubleshoot Wi-Fi networks that include Cisco Meraki APs. Progent can help you to configure and support Meraki-based Wi-Fi networks for sites that can range from a teleworker's home or a branch office to a campus or a nationwide enterprise. Progent can also assist you to configure other Cisco products including Catalyst and Nexus switches, routers and firewalls to create a cohesive ecosystem that provides the same access, performance, security, manageability and availability for wired and wireless clients irrespective of their mobility or device.
Progent's Sun Solaris family consulting experts offer small and mid-size companies and developers assistance with managing and maintaining Solaris environments that coexist with Microsoft-based technology. Progent can give your organization access to Sun Solaris consultants, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM credentials. This wide array of experience offers you a convenient one-stop source to show you how to create and maintain a secure and reliable mixed-platform network and communications environment that allows Sun Solaris and Microsoft coexistence by combining Microsoft Windows with major versions of UNIX including Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO UNIX, and Silicon Graphics IRIX or leading Linux platforms such as RedHat, SUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu Linux, PCLinuxOS, fedora Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake/Mandriva, Debian-GNU, and Slackware Linux.
Progent's Microsoft consultants can assist you to evaluate the benefits of Microsoft Lync Server for your environment and can assist you to design and carry out an installation of Lync Server that consolidates the management of Instant Messaging and Presence and improves the productivity of your office employees, at-home workers, and smartphone users. Progent's consultant's can also assist you to perform an efficient migration to Microsoft Lync Server from Microsoft Office Communications Server or from Microsoft Live Communications Server, integrate Lync Server 2010 with Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint Server, and SQL Server, show you how to use Lync Server 2010 to improve the team-computing capabilities of MS Office applications, and offer webinar training and ongoing technical support for Microsoft Lync and other Microsoft technologies.
Catalyst family of wireless controllers streamline the management of Wi-Fi networks by unifying the configuration and management of Wi-Fi APs, optimizing Wi-Fi throughput by reducing the effect of radio frequency congestion, improving Wi-Fi uptime with fast auto-failover, and strengthening security by identifying threats and analyzing network traffic according to user type and locale. Progent can assist your business to configure Cisco wireless LAN controller appliances to manage wireless networks of any size. Progent can help you to administer and troubleshoot your existing Cisco Wi-Fi environment or implement a smooth migration to Cisco's latest wireless controller solutions.
Progent offers a wide range of cost-effective consulting and support services to help you to install, configure, troubleshoot, and administer workstations and laptops based on Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and OS X, or various versions of Linux. Progent can provide on-premises or online help for individual machines or laptops or help your business to design and implement a company-wide migration to new or updated operating system software and business applications. Progent can also supply engineers and technicians to assist you to plan for and implement a company relocation or merger designed to produce the least possible disruption of your productivity.
Exchange 2013 incorporates major improvements to the capabilities of Exchange 2010 and introduces important innovations plus a revamped architecture. These enhancements favorably impact vital areas including manageability, availability, security, cost of ownership, teamwork, expandability, performance, cross-version interoperability, and the user experience. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange Server 2013 consulting experts can assist your organization to evaluate the potential business benefits of migrating to Exchange 2013, design a cost-effective validation and rollout strategy, and train your IT team to maintain your Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 environment. Progent can also provide affordable remote consulting and management for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013.
If your company runs a UNIX or Linux environment or a mixed-platform IT environment, Progent's CISM and CISSP-certified consultants can help your entire organization in a wide array of security topics such as security administration practices, security design and strategies, access control products and techniques, applications development security, operations security, physical security, telecommunications, infrastructure and Internet security, and business continuity planning. CISM and CISSP define the fundamental skills and worldwide standards of performance that network security managers are required to possess. These certification give IT management the confidence that consultants who have achieved their CISM or CISSP certification have demonstrated the background and theory to deliver world-class security support and engineering services.
Microsoft Office Communications Server delivers Instant Messaging and Real Presence in an extensible, world-class solution featuring advanced security, transparent integration with other Microsoft software, an expandable, industry-standard development platform, and support for regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and GLB. Your enterprise can benefit from lower costs and improved operational efficiencies, enhanced worker productivity, and better intellectual property security with this simple-to-manage, highly available solution. Effective deployments of Office Communications Server call for careful planning and thought prior to roll out. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide the expertise necessary to realize all the advantages of Office Communications Server throughout your entire corporation.
Progent's Juniper-certified consultants can help your business plan the deployment of Juniper SSG integrated firewall/VPN products, configure security policies to match your operational requirements, set up network OS software to streamline management processes, migrate from legacy Juniper products, and troubleshoot infrastructure issues.
Progent's Duo service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices.
Progent’s Microsoft certified professionals offer small and midsize companies consulting services for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Servers. Microsoft's Forefront Threat Management Gateway and Internet Security and Acceleration Servers include an advanced application-layer aware firewall that can protect your business system from attack by outside and inside threats. Forefront TMG and ISA Server provide deep inspection of Internet protocols such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which allows these security platforms to uncover many attacks that can elude ordinary firewalls. The combined firewall and VPN architecture of Forefront TMG and ISA Server permit stateful filtering and inspection of all VPN streams. ISA Servers are the centerpiece of Microsoft's network security strategy, and Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers and CISSP, CISA and CISM certified security professionals can help you enhance your IT security through experienced design and deployment of Forefront TMG and Microsoft ISA Servers. Progent's Microsoft consultants can help you to configure Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010, manage and troubleshoot all versions of ISA Server, or migrate smoothly from ISA Server to Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway.
Progent can provide cost-effective remote support to assist businesses to access Amazon AWS cloud services such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for virtual server hosting, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for expandable high-performance storage, and Glacier for low-cost archival storage. Progent can assist you with every phase of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, readiness assessment, architectural design, testing, configuration, administration, performance tuning, software license management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security. Progent offers advanced expertise with firewalls and VPN connections and can show you how to create cloud-centric or hybrid cloud environments that seamlessly incorporate Amazon AWS services. Progent can provide occasional expertise to help you to resolve complex technical issues or Progent can deliver comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to help you move to the Amazon AWS platform on schedule and on budget.
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 introduces major improvements in performance, scale, security, uptime, BOYD support, plus integrated analytics and reporting. New features include PolyBase for processing relational and non-relational files in one appliance for big data applications, Hadoop integration, Row-level Security, Mobile Reports, and centralized control over local and cloud resources. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can deliver online and onsite expertise to help businesses of all sizes to configure, administer or debug any edition of SQL Server 2016. Progent can also help you to interface SQL Server 2016 with all key Microsoft platforms including Windows Server and Hyper-V, Exchange, SharePoint Server, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and GP, Lync or Skype for Business, and System Center Operations Manager.
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your servers, endpoint devices printers, network appliances like switches and Wi-Fi access points, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices like sensors and health monitors.
Years of background providing Microsoft expertise and Cisco network consulting has enabled Progent to build a unique capability for serving branch offices that require network service with the flexibility associated with with small companies but which offers professional client interaction, complete documentation, and compliance with enterprise IT standards. If your corporation maintains a branch office situated anywhere in California or any area covered by Progent's consultants, Progent can provide a wide array of onsite and remote network support services and network architecture expertise.
Progent's certified Windows 2003 Server consultants can provide network help and expert consulting services for the complete line of Microsoft .NET Servers, Windows 2003 Server, and Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. Progent's Microsoft Windows 2003 migration, integration, update, and maintenance services include system planning, installation, project management, on-site and off-site technical support and repair, Call Center services, expert security consulting, turn-key outsourcing, and expert co-sourcing.
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to select high availability data centers that meet the specific needs of your business. Fault tolerant Internet Data Centers are particularly appealing to small companies because of their low cost and simplified logistics compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Trying to create an in-house data center that offers even a basic degree of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for most small businesses. Progent is ready to help you reap all the benefits of high availability data centers and 24x7 colo sites by providing a full range of engineering and maintenance services.
Progent can help businesses of all sizes to adhere to leading practices to configure SCVMM 2012 hosts and host groups, networking, storage, and libraries; design, integrate, and manage private clouds, VMs, and VMM services in SCVMM 2012; and integrate SCVMM with System Center 2012 Operations Manager for comprehensive monitoring and reporting. Progent can assist you to upgrade from an earlier release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager or from a third-party virtualization management system, and Progent can assist you to optimize and troubleshoot your existing SCVMM ecosystem to make sure you get maximum return on investment.