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 Consulting Helpdesk for Telecommuters
Telecommuter Integration Remote Support
Progent has 20 years of background assisting small and mid-size businesses to design, implement, optimize, manage, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate at-home workers.
Network Consultant wireless controller
24x7 wireless LAN controller Computer Engineer
Cisco's Catalyst line of wireless controllers streamline the administration of Wi-Fi networks by unifying the provisioning and control of Wi-Fi access points, optimizing wireless performance by reducing the impact of RF congestion, improving wireless uptime with rapid auto-failover, and strengthening security by detecting cyber threats and analyzing network traffic based on user type and location. Progent can help your business to configure Cisco Wi-Fi controllers to manage and monitor Wi-Fi LANs of any size. Progent can assist you to maintain and troubleshoot your current Cisco Wi-Fi solution or carry out a smooth upgrade to Cisco's modern wireless controller solutions.
Services VMware vCloud Suite
VMware vRealize Orchestrator vRO Consult
VMware's popular Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is an extension to VMware vCenter that allows you to orchestrate, automate and test a consistent runbook for restoring applications and services quickly after an outage. SRM provides centrally managed and automated recovery, application mobility, plus non-disruptive site migration, failback and site re-protect. SRM also supports non-disruptive testing for site recovery, updates and fixes and can produce audit reports to verify full service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate DR compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to assist you to plan, configure, test and manage a DR solution powered by VMware SRM.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Remote Consulting
Microsoft SQL Server Online Support Services
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can provide small and mid-sized businesses expert Microsoft SQL Server help. Microsoft SQL Server is a comprehensive, Web-enabled database and data analysis platform that enables the rapid development of enterprise-class business programs that can give your company a competitive edge. SQL Server provides built-in support for XML and can query across the Internet and beyond the corporate firewall. In addition to offering consulting, support and troubleshooting services, Progent's SQL consultants can help you use Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence to increase the profitability of your IT system. Progent can also help you migrate from older editions of Microsoft SQL Server to SQL Server 2005.
Network Engineering Employment
Remote Recruiter Cisco Consultant Full-Time Jobs
Progent wants to hire staff-level, results-driven Microsoft accredited engineers with MCSE credentials; Cisco certified network consultants who have Cisco CCDP or CCIE certification; security consultants with CISSP or CISM or comparable security credentials; and advanced system architecture experts with a background in mobile solutions, wireless networking, high availability, business continuity, data protection, and VMware. Progent also seeks professionals who can work on our team of desktop service technicians and off-site troubleshooting experts. In addition, Progent is hiring talented administrators able to operate effectively in our fast-paced, virtual office environment.
QTS/Herakles Data Center Specialist
Consult QTS/Herakles Sacramento Colocation Center
The QTS Internet Data Center facility is located in the seismically-stable Natomas neighborhood of Sacramento, CA. If your business is now utilizing the QTS data center as a colocation site or if your company is planning on moving your primary or offsite backup system to the Herakles data center, Progent can provide a variety of budget-friendly services that include colocation relocation, system deployment and upgrades, infrastructure optimization, project management services, virtualization configuration, remote network monitoring, automated system management, application development, business continuity planning and testing, security assessment, and the use of the Progent Test Lab.
Biggest Hornetsecurity Altaro M365 OneDrive Backup Network Consulting
Hornetsecurity Altaro 365 Total Backup Consulting Services
Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can design, configure, and manage an implementation of 365 Total Backup to back up and restore your Microsoft 365 mailboxes, files residing within your organization's OneDrive Accounts and SharePoint sites, Teams Chats, plus files on Windows endpoints.
Juniper SSG5 Router Network Security Audit
Juniper SSG520M Router Cybersecurity Contractors
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.
Duo MFA and Single Sign-on (SSO) Technology Consulting Services
MFA and Single Sign-on (SSO) Consulting
Progent's Duo services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity verification with iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices.
24 Hour Automated Desktop Management Computer Engineer
Automated Server Management On-site Support
ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM is Progent's network, server and endpoint monitoring managed service that uses state-of-the-art 24x7 remote monitoring and management (RMM) technology to keep your IT system running at peak levels by checking the state of vital devices.
VMware NSX Private Cloud Consultant
VMware NSX Topology Professional
VMware's NSX network virtualization technology allows you to build complete logical networks in software. NSX allows virtual networks to be provisioned in minutes and managed with a high level of automation regardless of the physical components used by the basic IP network. VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) supports automated disaster recovery, application mobility, plus transparent site relocation, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also permits transparent testing for disaster recovery, updates and patches and can produce reports to confirm complete service restoration, validate SLAs and demonstrate compliance. When used with VMware's NSX network virtualization technology, VMware Site Recovery Manager can quickly recover the entire virtualized network topology at the recovery datacenter. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware NSX consultant and VMware SRM integration specialist to assist your organization to design, configure, test and manage a disaster recovery solution based on VMware SRM and VMware NSX.
XenMotion Consulting
Xen Hypervisor Remote Support Services
Progent's Citrix-accredited consultants can assist your company to evaluate the business advantages of XenServer as well as additional Citrix products, and can assist you to design, test, implement, troubleshoot, and support a XenServer solution. Progent can in addition assess your existing Citrix technology deployment and help you to optimize consolidation, responsiveness, security and compliance, uptime, and disaster recovery.
Professional Dynamics GP Analysis Cubes for Excel
Dynamics GP Report Writer Engineers
Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains software includes analysis and reporting features that allow you to monitor all operations, revenues and expenses, and sales patterns with integrated drill-down, query, and reporting functions. Progent's Dynamics GP reporting support expertise can enable you to create reports that allow you to analyze your business more completely, converting uncooked data into useful business information. Progent can improve your reporting and business analysis by offering Crystal Reports expertise, FRx support, and Microsoft Excel programming. In addition to offering reporting consulting, Progent can supply Microsoft .NET consulting, Microsoft SQL Server help, and application design with VBasic, XML and other tools in order to offer custom line-of-business application development and web commerce applications that work seamlessly with Dynamics GP/Great Plains.
Cisco ASA Firewall URL Filtering Technical Support Services
ASA 5500-X Firewall Remote Support Services
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Series of firewalls with Firepower Services provide significantly more bang for the buck than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for new installations. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network consultants can help you to maintain your existing PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances or migrate to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also assist your business to plan, configure, optimize, manage and debug firewall solutions built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services.
Computer Consulting Remote Workforce Video Conferencing
Configuration Teleworker Video Conferencing
Progent can help small and medium-size organizations to set up and debug teleconferencing platforms to enable their at-home workforce to communicate effectively with teammates and clients.
Call Desk for at Home Workforce Onsite Technical Support
At Home Workers IT Consulting
Progent has two decades of experience assisting small and medium-size companies to plan, implement, tune, administer, and debug IT networks that incorporate a remote workforce.
Compensation for Telecommuting Network Consultants Work From Home Job
Compensation for Telecommuting Microsoft Consultant Home Based Virtual Office
Our compensation structure is based on contribution, so just like being an independent contractor, your income is directly tied to your work effort. Some Progent support staff stress quality of life and choose to work at an easy pace, using our self-determined calendar to follow personal enthusiasms such as mountain biking, motorcycle racing, snow boarding, surfing, travel, or spending private time with family and acquaintances. Other consultants take advantage of the chance to make major bucks through hard work and extended hours. Progent fully supports both ends of the spectrum and everything in between.
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