IT Connection Newsletter: Issue 4
Progent's Certified Experts Offer
Disaster Recovery Soltutions for Small Businesses
The latest technologies for Disaster Recovery cost less, do more, and are easier to manage. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants show you how to create and implement a business continuity plan that is both effective and affordable.
For businesses of any size, network downtime is costly whether it is due to unexpected breakdowns or scheduled maintenance. Enterprise networks have for a long time utilized processes and technologies that minimize the chances of network failure, expedite the recovery process in case of a catastrophe, and eliminate maintenance-related downtime.
For small businesses, however, disaster recovery planning, fault tolerant network architecture, and non-disruptive maintenance solutions have all seemed too expensive to implement and too complex to manage. This has changed.
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified network engineers have in-depth experience helping small businesses avoid network downtime by offering affordable consulting support for business continuity planning, high-availability system design, and on-line maintenance. Progent's disaster recovery team can help you develop, implement, and validate a sensible business continuity plan that aligns with your business needs and IT budget. Progent's specialists in fault tolerance can assist you to implement and maintain high-availability technologies such as redundant Internet connectivity, clustering, load balancing, virtualization, and multi-location data centers. Progent's system management engineers can help you minimize or eliminate network downtime associated with routine maintenance.
Disaster Recovery Planning
Progent's business continuity engineers can help you design a disaster recovery plan so you can restore network operations in case of an IT system catastrophe. Progent can assist you to develop a complete disaster recovery strategy that includes scheduled disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized engineers can also help you build an affordable, fault-tolerant system architecture that takes into account reliability issues covering a wide range of network technologies and procedures.
Microsoft Server 2008 Failover Clustering
The server cluster technology built into the high-end editions of MS Windows Server 2008 is radically redesigned to simplify the installation, configuration, and maintenance of clusters that provide greater levels of network availability, security, efficiency, and versatility. New or improved capabilities include cluster verification, revamped setup and deployment, unified cluster management, redesigned cluster architecture for maximum availability, better protection and quorum models, minimization of failure points, greater disk and memory capacity, and improvements for multi-site clusters.
Non-stop Data Centers
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to identify fault-tolerant data centers that meet the particular needs of your business. High availability co-location sites are especially appealing to small companies because of their low cost and convenience in comparison to taking a do-it-yourself approach. Trying to design an on-site data center with even a basic level of fault tolerance is too expensive for typical small organizations. Progent can show you how to get all the benefits of high-availability data centers by providing a complete range of engineering and support services.
System Center Data Protection Manager
Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager is the first mainstream solution for continuous online backup to remote disk farms plus fast disaster recovery. Progent's expert DPM engineers can help you create an effective business continuity plan, design a cost-effective fault-tolerant IT infrastructure, deploy a Microsoft DPM-based backup and restore system, thoroughly test your system, or train your IT staff how to manage DPM.
Progent can also provide IT outsourcing services that include hosting of Microsoft DPM servers in Progent's secure data center facility (see Virtual Data Center Hosting Services).
Find Out More About Progent's Disaster Recovery Consulting Services
For more information about how Progent can help your business with continuity planning and fault-tolerant network design, call
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Remote Workforce Support and Help
Helpdesk for Remote Workforce Outsourcing
Progent has 20 years of background helping small and medium-size companies to design, implement, optimize, administer, and troubleshoot computer networks that incorporate telecommuters.
ProSight Email Directory Harvest Protection Engineer
ProSight Email Directory Harvest Protection Engineers
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of top data security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter.
Integration Companies Excel PivotTable
Office Excel 2016 Technology Professional
Progent's Microsoft-certified Excel and Office 365 Excel consultants offer a wide range of online services to assist your organization to design, develop, test, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot business applications based on any version of Microsoft Excel, including Excel 2016 and Office 365 Excel. Progent can assist your business to migrate your existing Excel applications to the newest releases of Excel, support Excel on iOS-based iPhones and iPads and Android phones and tablets, and fix compatibility problems between various versions of Excel. Progent can provide as-needed help to clients looking for a fast fix to a stubborn problem related to Excel and Progent also offers full project management services for migrating or developing mission-critical applications built on Excel. Progent's affordable online training classes for Excel can be customized to address the special requirements of individual users or groups.
Network Engineer Windows SharePoint Services
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2003 Support and Setup
Progent's Microsoft-authorized experts can help you evaluate the economic justification for deploying Microsoft SharePoint 2007, consult with you on the most appropriate version of SharePoint Server for your application, provide configuration and deployment services, help you to set up Microsoft SQL Server as a supporting database, optimize your network integrity, integrate your off-the-shelf and custom application programs to operate with SharePoint Portal Server 2007, develop a company-wide security plan that encompasses portal technology, and provide troubleshooting and Help Desk services.
Forefront Threat Management Gateway Support and Setup
Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010 Consultant Services
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 is based on the powerful security technologies of ISA Server 2006 and offers 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 filtering, malware inspection, IPS, application proxy, VPN management, plus HTTP and HTTPS inspection. Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 includes comprehensive web security logging and reporting capabilities, permits customized reporting generated by SQL Server, integrates with Active Directory to simplify authentication and policy enforcement, and can be deployed as a virtual machine to cut expenses and enhance availability. Progent's Microsoft consultants can assist your company to design and execute test and production implementations; interface Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 with Windows 2008 R2, AD, SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and Microsoft SharePoint 2010; install Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 to operate on a virtual server with Windows Hyper-V; and deliver ongoing support and troubleshooting. Progent can also help your organization to migrate smoothly to Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 from ISA Server.
Computer Security Specialist CRISC
Consultant Services CRISC Certified Risk and Information Systems Control Systems Engineer
Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified risk management expert to assist you to plan and deploy an enterprise risk management (ERM) strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines.
Service Reporting Consultants
Service Reports Support Outsourcing
Progent uses an enterprise-class service reporting system that stores and formats detailed documentation for all billed support activities. Unlike many freelance consultants or small support organizations who provide minimal documentation or specifics of tasks done, each service delivered by Progent is accompanied by full documentation. Every Progent consultant has use of the support documentation sent by each consultant to each customer. The discipline of documenting and organizing service records results in more efficient support and avoids a variety of common problems such as when a service client is effectively held captive to a consultant who won't let go of the keys to the kingdom.
Work from Home Helpdesk Professionals
Offsite Employees Helpdesk Services Network Consultant
Progent can provide small and mid-size businesses supplemental or comprehensive Help Desk services for at-home workers.
Questions about Computer Consultants Freelancing Jobs
FAQ about Cisco CCNA Openings
For answers to frequent enquiries concerning becoming employed by Progent, see Consulting at Progent Q&A.
Consultancy Online Microsoft Project Training
Online Microsoft Office Training Consulting
Progent offers customized remote instruction for popular client applications and operating systems including Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 Excel, Word, Publisher and Outlook plus Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows 10. Online instruction provides the benefits of traditional physical classroom seminars, including instant communication between clients and teachers, but avoids the costs of travel and the challenge of attempting to synchronize the availability of many workers. Offered to individuals or classes of all sizes, Progent's live online instruction permits the instructor to conduct the seminar from a remote office while the clients can be spread throughout an office or across the the U.S. Virtual training utilizes proven teaching tools such as broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative applications. Sessions can be short and personalized to specialized subjects or longer in duration and broader in scope.
ProSight Email Data Loss Protection Consultant Services
ProSight Spam Filtering Services Engineer
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the technology of top data security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall.
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