Houston Consulting Experts
Short Term IT Staffing for Network Service Teams
In addition to offering rapid contact with high-level IT professionals and subject matter experts (SMEs) to assist Houston, Texas businesses to resolve discrete technical issues or longer-term projects, Progent can provide short-term staffing to deal with more generalized assistance such as desktop help, network administration, and Help Desk call center services. Short-term staffing can help businesses to respond to anticipated or unplanned increases in the need for IT services, which may be caused by scenarios like mergers and acquisitions, data center relocation, platform upgrades, paradigm shifts like work-from-home, disaster response, busy seasons, or new compliance requirements. Short-term supplemental staffing can also cover voids caused by the loss of in-house staff members because of scheduled vacations, health issues, termination, etc.
Benefits of Progent's Temporary Staff Augmentation Services Progent's temporary staff augmentation services give businesses the ability to react to increases in demand for IT personnel without being saddled with the costs and delays associated with reviewing and recruiting professional IT personnel and without the risk of increasing your full-time head count.
Key features of Progent's short-term supplemental staffing services include:
- Fast access to proven network pros
- Easy engagement, termination, and resumption of services
- Transparent extension of your full-time IT team
- Full reporting of all services performed
- Optional escalation from Tier 1 up to Tier 3 support so even the most challenging problems get resolved promptly
- Strong working relationship with a top-level, full-spectrum source for IT support
Progent's shared Help Desk Call Center program is a specialized on-going staff augmentation alternative that enables IT organizations to divide the responsibilities of Help Desk Call Center support seamlessly between their internal network personnel and Progent's extensive team of technical support specialists. Acting as a seamless supplement of your full-time Help Desk, Progent's co-managed Call Center program is a collaborative service solution powered by the industry's leading shared professional services (PSA) platform for streamlining, service calls, ticketing, assigning ownership, tracking progress, and producing management reports.
Why Choose Progent?
Progent has 20 years of background delivering remote and on-premises network expertise for businesses across the U.S. Progent's engineers have earned top certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, Apple, VMware, Juniper, IBM, and other leading vendors. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned advanced certifications including CISSP-ISSAP, CISM, and CRISC. Find out more about Progent's technology certifications.
Progent's Practice Areas for Houston, Texas Companies
Progent's nationwide roster of certified consultants and technical experts can deliver Houston, Texas organizations a broad array of remote technical guidance and troubleshooting services. Practice areas covered under Progent's reseller program for network service providers include:
- Exchange Server 2019 Consulting
- Microsoft Exchange 2016 Migration
- Microsoft Windows Server 2022 solution design
- Windows Server 2019 Integration
- Windows Server 2016 Migration
- Windows 11 Upgrade Support Services
- Windows 10 Configuration
- Windows 8.1 Consulting
- SharePoint Integration
- SQL Server Consulting
- Active Directory and Azure AD Integration
- Microsoft 365 Configuration
- Dynamics GP (Great Plains) Expertise
- Azure, AWS, Google Cloud
- Remote IT Troubleshooting
- Telecommuter Integration
- Cisco Network Infrastructure
- Juniper Technology
- Cisco Routers Experts
- Cybersecurity Consultants
- Pentesting with NodeZero
- Business Continuity Preparedness
- Stealth Penetration Testing
- Firewall Configuration
- Call Center Outsourcing
- Desktop Tech Support
- Data Center Solutions
- Operations Manager Monitoring
- System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Expertise
- Microsoft Access Consulting
- Virtual Server Management
- Rapid, Low-cost .NET Application Development.
- Windows Hyper-V Setup
- VMware vSphere Integration
- Citrix XenServer Integration
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager/CallManager
- Apple macOS and iOS Expertise
- Smartphone Management
- iPhone Support
- Google Android Phone Support
- Ransomware Defense and Recovery
- Data Backup/Recovery Expertise
- Cisco VoIP Technology and Telepresence
- Skype for Business Support
- Microsoft Teams Migration
- Wi-Fi 6/6E AP Configuration
- Wi-Fi Predictive and On-premises Assessments
Contact Progent for Temporary Staffing Services for Houston, Texas Businesses
To learn more about Progent's short-term supplemental staffing services for Houston, Texas companies, call
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Internal Network Security Inventory Professional
External Cybersecurity Scan Specialists
Progent provides small organizations two low-cost security inventory packages that provide, at a set price, remotely managed inventory scans of your security profile which are evaluated by expert information security engineers who interpret the results of the remote scan, present unbiased evaluations of your existing network security, and make suggestions for enhancements. Progent offers two non-overlapping security evaluation packages for external and internal security testing that are priced to fit the budgetary realities of small companies while offering enterprise-quality evaluations of your network's exposure to assault.
City Government Exchange Services
Award Winning County Government Exchange Consultancy
Progent has a long background providing a broad range of remote IT consulting and urgent repair services to local governments and schools throughout the United States. Progent is one of the pioneers in providing expert remote IT consulting and has provided IT support to organizations in every state. Online support eliminates travel costs and solves problems faster than on-premises service calls.
Online Troubleshooting Wireless Bridge
Integration Services Proxim Tsunami
Progent's wireless engineers can help small businesses design, select, evaluate, install and support secure building-to-building wireless bridges that integrate seamlessly into your existing network while providing a level of security that equals or excels wired interfaces. Progent provides experience in wireless LAN technology from Cisco Aironet and Meraki, Proxim, and other small business wireless providers and can help you select and deploy the wireless link technology that match your company needs.
Microsoft Experts SCCM 2007 Application Deployment Network Engineer
Specialists System Center 2007 Configuration Manager
Progent can assist your organization to support Microsoft System Center 2007 Configuration Manager to simplify administration, enhance security, and increase worker output by making sure that operating systems and applications stay current, tracking licensing, and reporting usage profiles to help you make smart buying decisions. Once you are set to upgrade your SCCM 2007 configuration management ecosystem, Progent can help you to prepare for and carry out a smooth move to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.
Altaro VM Backup Verification Technical Support Services
Support Services Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup Integration
Altaro VM Backup software from Hornetsecurity provides small organizations a dependable and budget-friendly solution for backing up and restoring Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware-powered VMs. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, remote, distributed, and cloud-hosted architectures and also supports low-cost backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup protects against ransomware attacks via Immutable Cloud Storage. This creates tamper-proof backup data that cannot be modified by any user including administrators or root users. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can provide a wide array of online or onsite consulting services to help you to design, install, manage and debug a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery system powered by Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a fully managed backup/recovery service powered by on Altaro VM Backup.
Helpdesk for at Home Workforce Information Technology Consulting
Remote Workers Consulting
Progent has 20 years of experience assisting small and medium-size companies to design, deploy, optimize, administer, and troubleshoot computer networks that support telecommuters.
Microsoft ISA Server Online Support
24-Hour ISA 2004 Firewall Computer Consulting
Progent's Microsoft-certified TMG 2010 and ISA Server 2006 consultants can help you to plan, deploy, and manage a configuration of Forefront Threat Management Server 2010 or Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 on your information system that delivers the firewall security, speed and ease-of-use that your company needs.
Open Now Protect Juniper Junos CLI
Security Auditor Juniper Junos CLI
Progent's Juniper-authorized network engineer can help your company to plan and deploy Juniper Firewall/VPN technology, enhance and support your infrastructure, and upgrade efficiently from discontinued devices to the latest versions. Progent's Junos OS engineers can provide expertise with Juniper's flagship network operating system to help your business to streamline the administration and strengthen the security of your Juniper VPN appliances firewalls, and routers. Progent also has broad experience maintaining Juniper's NetScreen OS and ScreenOS operating system platforms and can assist organizations manage environments that incorporate a combination of Juniper's OS platforms.
Ubiquiti UniFi WiFi 7 access points Consulting
Ubiquiti UniFi U7 WiFi access points Consultancy
Progent can provide fast access to the expertise of veteran Wi-Fi consultants who can help you to assess the advantages of Ubiquiti UniFi Wi-Fi access points for your company and assist you to design, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot your UniFi wireless network. Progent can also carry out a Wi-Fi site survey to assist you to select, configure, and position Ubiquiti UniFi Wi-Fi access points for your required signal coverage and performance.
SharePoint 2019 Hybrid Remote Troubleshooting
Emergency SharePoint 2019 and SQL Server Specialists
Progent's certified SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Online consultants offer economical remote and on-premises expertise, software development, and technical support services for organizations of all sizes who intend to migrate to SharePoint Server 2019 or SharePoint Online from older releases of SharePoint. Progent can assist customers plan and execute a cost-effective migration to SharePoint 2019 on prem, SharePoint Online, or a hybrid network model that combines onsite and cloud infrastructure into a seamless intranet solution.
ProSight Email Virus Filtering Specialists
ProSight Email Security Professional
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter.
Hybrid cloud solutions Consultants
Amazon AWS hybrid cloud solutions Services
Progent can help you to plan and manage cost-effective ecosystems that support Windows and Linux systems and applications in either cloud-based solutions or in hybrid architectures that utilize on-premises IT assets as well as one or more public cloud services. To help you to incorporate public clouds with networks, Progent can provide a range of public cloud integration support services that include Azure enterprise hybrid cloud design and deployment consulting, Amazon AWS cloud integration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service (WMS) programming and debugging. Progent has two decades of experience providing advanced consulting expertise online, and Progent can make sure you successfully carry out your cloud migration initiatives on schedule and within your budget.
Meraki and Nexus Switch Configuration
Meraki Switch Upgrade Support Services
Cisco's Meraki MS line of access and distribution switches are designed for sites that go from small branches to campuses. Progent's Cisco-certified consultants offer cost-effective online consulting to help you to plan and deploy an efficient network architecture based on Meraki MS switches, streamline network monitoring and administration with Meraki's cloud-based management tools, set up policies to ensure security, create and test a disaster recovery plan, and troubleshoot issues related to any facet of your Meraki ecosystem. Progent can also assist you to connect Meraki switches with Cisco's Nexus or Catalyst data center switches and with Meraki wireless access points to build a unified networking infrastructure.
Specialists VMware NSX Security
Consultant Services VMware VCDX certified
VMware's NSX network virtualization platform allows you to build complete logical networks in software. NSX permits virtual networks to be provisioned instantly and managed with a high level of automation regardless of the physical components used by the basic network infrastructure. VMware Site Recovery Manager supports automated recovery, application mobility, plus transparent site migration, failback and site re-protect. SRM also permits transparent testing for disaster recovery, updates and patches and can produce audit reports to verify complete service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate DR compliance. When used with VMware's NSX virtual network platform, VMware SRM can quickly recover the complete logical network topology at the secondary datacenter. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware NSX consulting expert and VMware SRM system architect to help you to design, deploy, test and maintain a disaster recovery solution based on VMware SRM and VMware NSX.
Top Rated Cybersecurity Contractors Symantec Firewall
Symantec Raptor IT Services
Progent's Symantec experts can assist you to support legacy Symantec firewall and Symantec VPN appliances such as the Raptor and VelociRaptor family or show you how to migrate to more recent firewall solutions. Progent can also help you create and execute a complete security strategy that can incorporate firewall/VPN devices and utilities, outsourced security and network protection services, server and application monitoring products, and documented policies and processes. Progent has the skill to be your one-stop source for continuing network support, maintenance, training, and security consulting.
Open Now Engineers IT Outsourcing
Consultancy IT Outsourcing Services
Progent is organized deliver in-depth online support for all major technologies associated with small business information networks and allows you to outsource an array of vital, on-demand support services such as a temporary Chief Information Officer to provide senior-level IT design and negotiating capability, a Call Center for help desk support, 24x7 server monitoring, spam/virus protection as an outside-the-firewall service, best-practices project management help for major initiatives such as office relocations orOS upgrades, connectivity consultants for designing fast and reliable infrastructure, security engineers to verify information safety and regulatory compliance, disaster recovery specialists to design and document business continuity plans, and software programmers to create, customize, or repair business application programs.
Top Quality 64-bit Server IT Consultants
Specialists 64-bit Processing
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist your organization to enhance your servers or desktops from 32 bits to 64 bits. Progent can help your company to understand the risks and advantages of moving to 64-bit processing, plan an affordable migration strategy that reduces business disruptions, and provide economical, expert remote help to aid your organization to install 64-bit software and applications on your existing computers.
Wyoming System Consulting
Alaska Network Support Consultants
Progent's Technical Response Center provides low-cost national extended hours online support for IT networks powered by Windows and Cisco products and technologies. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier support professionals offer extended hours telephone help and online direct network access to isolate and resolve network problems rapidly and affordably.
Computer Consultants SharePoint 2013 Workflow Manager
SharePoint 2013 Online Support
Progent has been delivering SharePoint support since the initial product was published over 20 years ago, and Progent has the scope of IT know-how to help organizations of all sizes to plan and implement a SharePoint Server 2013 installation and develop SharePoint Server 2013 applications that add substantial business value to your information network. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can help you to assess the business advantages of upgrading to SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online from older releases of SharePoint or from another collaboration solution; decide whether an on-premises, online or hybrid configuration is most sensible for your organization; and pick the most appropriate version of SharePoint 2013 for your purposes. Progent can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing or can assist in individual tasks associated with your SharePoint 2013 migration.
Spora ransomware recovery Consultancy
ransomware removal and file restore Consult
Progent's ransomware consultants can help you to evaluate your ransomware defenses, monitor and protect your network, help with negotiating a settlement with a threat actor, and reconstruct an information system damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, Conti or Egregor.
Printer firmware patch management Consultant Services
Engineers Cisco switch patch management
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After Hours Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Network Consultant
Microsoft Forefront TMG Technical Support Services
Forefront Threat Management Gateway builds on the powerful security technologies of Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 and provides a easily managed Internet gateway that delivers a one-server solution for a variety of security features including an multi-layer firewall, URL monitoring and filtering, antimalware, intrusion protection, reputation services, VPN management, and HTTP/HTTPS inspection. Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway includes advanced web security reporting features, allows custom reports powered by SQL Server, works with Active Directory to simplify authentication, and can be operated as a virtual server to cut costs and improve availability. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help your company to plan and carry out test and production deployments; interface Forefront TMG 2010 with Windows 2008, AD, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and SharePoint; set up Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway to run on a virtual server with Windows Hyper-V; and provide continuing consulting and troubleshooting. Progent's consultants can also help your organization to upgrade economically to Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 from Microsoft ISA Server 2006 or 2004.
24 Hour SCDPM 2016 On-site Technical Support
System Center 2016 Orchestrator Support and Help
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts have over a decade of experience designing, deploying, optimizing and repairing Microsoft SCOM environments and offer companies of any size advanced online or onsite consulting support for SCOM 2012. Progent can help your company to design an architecture for Microsoft SCOM 2012 servers that provides the performance and resilience needed to monitor your IT resources efficiently, whether your datacenters are on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid solution. Progent can also help you to import and customize SCOM 2012 management packs based on industry best practices for tracking network fabric and Microsoft and 3rd-party applications and services. In addition, Progent can provide responsive remote or on-premises technical support to assist you to fix critical issues uncovered by SCOM 2012.
Small Offices Consultant Services
Small Business Security Consulting Firm
Progent provides the services of Microsoft and Cisco-Certified network support experts to offer customers affordable alternatives to help companies maximize the value of Microsoft and Cisco products. For environments that range from remote offices to large corporations, Progent's network consultants can show you how to improve your network's e-mail architecture, security, reliability, performance, and IT administration.
VMware Cross vCenter NSX Engineers
VMware Hy7brid Cloud Professionals
Progent can provide the support of a certified VMware VCDX consultant to help you plan, configure, administer and repair VMware vSphere-based virtualization ecosystem for on-premises datacenters, cloud environments, or hybrid cloud deployments. Progent can provide world-class knowledge for deploying and configuring VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware's NSX network virtualization platform for disaster recovery. Progent offers in-depth experience of VMware vCloud Director (vCD), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRO and vCloud Suite used for managing private and public cloud and hybrid cloud solutions that provide maximum uptime, fault tolerance, and application mobility.
Dynamics GP Great Plains Software Online Consulting
Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP Network Consultants
Progent's Microsoft certified experts provide a range of support services for Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains. Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains is a Microsoft accounting package and business management solution built, like all Microsoft accounting solutions, on the expandable and familiar platform of Microsoft Windows technology. Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010, the latest version of Microsoft financial products in the Microsoft Dynamics GP family, offers a cost-effective tool for managing and integrating finances, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, on-site support, customer relationships, and human resources. Dynamics GP is easy to install and integrate, and with its segmented design you are able to license only the functions you currently need, with the option to add users and increase functionality when necessary. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains Software support experts can show you how to deploy, configure and administer Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains 2010 and also earlier versions of Dynamics GP/Great Plains.
24x7x365 Professional Windows and UNIX
UNIX, Windows Consulting
Progent's UNIX platform consulting services offer small businesses and developers assistance with managing and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris environments that coexist with Microsoft-powered technology. Progent can give your organization access to UNIX consultants, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISSP certification. This wide range of expertise provides you with a convenient one-stop source to help you create and maintain a secure and robust cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that supports UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by combining Windows with popular versions of UNIX including macOS and OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, BSD, SCO and SGI/Irix or major Linux platforms including RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian-GNU and Slackware.
Microsoft Help and Support VMM 2016 Database
Microsoft VMM 2016 Online Technical Support
Microsoft System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM 2016) is a component of Microsoft's System Center 2016 family of IT infrastructure monitoring and management tools and is designed to provide a centralized mechanism for configuring and administering virtualized fabric and services across hybrid environments that can incorporate on-premises and hosted datacenters and Microsoft Azure services. Progent's SCVMM 2016 consulting experts can help organizations of all sizes with any aspect of building, implementing, and managing a SCVMM 2016 solution. Progent can assess your virtualization architecture, help you migrate smoothly from legacy releases of VMM, develop workflows for creating and deploying virtual machines and hosts, implement high-availability compute and storage clusters, connect your datacenter resources with public clouds, configure virtual switches, write and debug PowerShell scripts, and help you assess the potential advantages of the latest capabilities such as Storage Spaces Direct and Shielded VMs. Progent's hypervisor professionals offer world-class Hyper-V consulting and VMware ESXi support.
Nagios for Linux Consultant
Nagios IT Consultants
Network monitoring commonly entails tracking a system's resource usage to help uncover data traffic bottlenecks or fix hardware or software issues. Nagios and Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) are powerful, free monitoring utilities that run under Linux and can be deployed to monitor multi-OS environments where UNIX and Windows operate together. Progent's network support engineers can show you how to use both these programs to tune and troubleshoot your network. Progent's Linux consulting professionals offer small companies and developers help with managing and servicing UNIX and Linux networks that coexist with Windows-based technology.
Altaro VM Backup Cloud Management IT Consulting
Altaro VM Backup with Exchange Remote Consulting
Altaro VM Backup from Hornetsecurity offers small businesses a dependable and affordable solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, offsite, distributed, and cloud environments and also enables low-cost cloud backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup protects against ransomware by leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage. This creates tamper-proof backup data that cannot be erased or modified by anyone including root users. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers a wide range of remote or on-premises services to help you to plan, install, manage and debug a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery system based on Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a fully managed backup/restore service powered by on Altaro VM Backup software.
Wi-Fi Site Survey Specialist
Wi-Fi Site Survey IT Consultant
Progent's Wi-Fi site survey and predictive modeling make it easy to plan, install and debug a Wi-Fi network customized for your facilities, offering your business a WLAN that delivers the reception, speed, capacity, QoS, security, and roaming ability your company needs. Wireless site survey services from Progent include remote predictive modeling for designing a wireless LAN and onsite survey services for confirming, tuning, and debugging a functioning wireless network.
Remote Employees Infrastructure Specialist
Network Consultants Remote Employees Infrastructure
Progent can help small and mid-size companies to plan, set up and debug the infrastructure needed to support remote workers.
Lync Server 2013 and iPhone Consulting
Urgent Lync Server 2013 Support and Help
Lync 2010 provides Instant Messaging, Presence, audio and video conferencing, desktop collaboration, as well as IP-based and traditional public switched telephone network telephony. Microsoft Lync 2010 can enhance the capability of Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint and Office or Microsoft 365 and simplify administration through integration with Windows AD. Lync 2010 can also cut expenses by doing away with VoIP hardware and subscription fees, PBX gear, or conventional video conferencing technology. Progent's certified IM and Presence experts can provide online and onsite support services to assist you to manage and repair your current Lync 2010 deployment or evaluate the benefits of upgrading from Lync Server 2010 to Skype for Business, which is the renamed and revamped version of the product family. Progent can also assist you to plan and execute an efficient Skype for Business migration.
Applications Consultant Retail Management System
Support and Setup Microsoft Dynamics SL
Progent can provide you with programmers who can modify your Microsoft Business Solutions ERP, MRP, and accounting system packages to suit your particular company requirements. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer experience in Microsoft Dynamics Microsoft Axapta, Microsoft Dynamics NAV Business Management Software, Microsoft Dynamics SL 6.5 Accounting Software, and Microsoft Business Solutions Retail Management System. Progent also provides expert e-Commerce consulting services for safe, corporate-wide resource sharing plus interfacing with Customer Relationship Management programs.
