IT Connection Newsletter: Number 6
Progent's Certified Experts Offer
Workplace Recovery Planning Services
In the post 911 world, regulators, auditors, customers and prospects of larger enterprises are demanding to see a tested business continuity plan. CIOs who are unable to produce one can hurt their company's ability to compete. Progent offers high-level online consulting for business continuity planning to help you prepare for disasters, reduce downtime for your most critical IT operations, and comply with examiners' letters and agency requirements..
In the post 911 world, regulators, auditors, customers and prospects of larger enterprises are demanding to see a tested business continuity plan. CIOs who are unable to produce one can hurt their company's ability to compete. Progent offers high-level online consulting for business continuity planning to help you prepare for disasters, reduce downtime for your most critical IT operations, and comply with examiners' letters and agency requirements.
Although the terms are often used interchangeably, "business continuity planning" and "disaster recovery planning" are distinct but overlapping disciplines. Business continuity planning takes an all-encompassing view of a business to determine what personnel, physical resources, and processes are needed to sustain business operations at a minimally acceptable level after a catastrophe and how to restore normal operations promptly. Business continuity planning requires a broad perspective and obviously accounts for IT issues, which are crucial for all businesses, but also looks at areas outside computing. Will your business require temporary office space? Substitute vehicles? Alternate vendors? Replacement staff? Do you have a tested emergency notification system in place to alert workers and other stakeholders? Are you mandated submit regulatory reports or contact your insurers? Do you need access to emergency funding? Progent can provide the services of senior consultants who can help you follow leading practices to create and document a business continuity plan that deals with these vital issues and provides a cohesive game plan to follow in case of a disaster.
Continuity planning services available from Progent include:
- Perform risk and business impact analysis
- Identify dependencies
- Identify key human and physical resources
- Prioritize business-critical IT functions
- Qualify colocation centers and hot backup sites
- Verify remote access capability for key workers
- Plan and test an emergency notification system
- Document a comprehensive recovery and test plan
- Train management, technical staff, and other key people
Contact Progent About Business Continuity Planning Consulting
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Microsoft Office System Consultant
Microsoft Office System Small Business IT Consulting Company
Progent's IT outsourcing services offer economical network support for small companies. Whether it includes designing network infrastructure, creating an internal Help Desk or using an outside one, rolling out an updated email platform, monitoring your system, or creating an on-line eCommerce solution, outsourcing your IT engineering services can reduce costs and minimize risks, permitting IT service expenses to grow in a more linear and controlled fashion than is possible by building up a large, knowledgeable in-house network support staff. Progent's Outsourcing White Paper and datasheets show how Progent can help you create a protected and highly available system architecture for your critical applications powered by Windows.
PEN Testing Network Security Testing
24-Hour PEN Testing Cybersecurity Group
Stealth penetration testing is a key component of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent's security experts can perform extensive intrusion tests without the knowledge of your organization's in-house IT staff. Stealth penetration testing shows whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event log analysis are correctly set up and actively monitored. Progent can implement ongoing automatic PEN testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, harvested credentials, uninstalled patches, and unsound IT product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-front attacks typical of the latest versions of ransomware.
Cisco and Microsoft Certified Experts Designer Amazon MWS
Contract Programming Amazon MWS integration training
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is an integrated collection of APIs that allows Amazon sellers to improve the efficiency of their business processes by automating key sales activities including listings, orders, payments, inbound and outbound fulfillment, and finances. By leveraging Amazon's extensive online selling environment and automating their sales processes, merchants can broaden their reach, lower their operating costs, improve reaction time to customers, and add to their bottom line. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) developers can collaborate with your development staff and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and mentoring to help you shorten development time and speed up your return on investment.
Integration Services 802.11ax wireless controller
Wi-Fi 6 wireless controller Technology Consulting
Cisco's Catalyst family of wireless controllers streamline the administration of Wi-Fi networks by unifying the configuration and management of Wi-Fi APs, optimizing Wi-Fi performance by limiting the effect of radio frequency congestion, improving wireless uptime with fast failover, and strengthening security by identifying threats and analyzing network traffic according to user type and location. Progent can help you to deploy Cisco wireless LAN controllers to manage Wi-Fi networks of any size. Progent can help you to administer and troubleshoot your current Cisco-based Wi-Fi environment or carry out an efficient transition to Cisco's latest wireless controller technology.
VMware VCDX Consultant
VMware VCDX certified Consultant Services
VMware's NSX network virtualization technology allows you to build entire networks in software. NSX allows virtual networks to be deployed instantly and managed with a high level of automation independent of the physical components making up the underlying IP network. VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) allows programmatic recovery, application mobility, plus non-intrusive site migration, failback and re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also enables non-intrusive testing for disaster recovery, updates and fixes and can generate reports to verify complete service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and prove compliance. When used with VMware's NSX virtual network platform, VMware SRM can quickly restore the entire virtualized network topology at the secondary site. Progent can provide the support of a VCDX certified VMware NSX consultant and VMware SRM integration specialist to help you to plan, configure, test and manage a DR solution powered by VMware SRM and VMware NSX.
Email Guard Data Loss Prevention Specialists
Email Block Lists Technology Professional
Progent's ProSight Email Guard solution uses the technology of leading data security vendors to provide centralized control and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter.
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Engineer
Computer Consultants SQL Server 2016
Progent's Microsoft certified professionals can provide small and medium size companies expert Microsoft SQL Server help. Microsoft SQL Server is a complete, web-ready database and data analysis platform that opens the door to the speedy creation of enterprise-class business programs that offer your company a competitive advantage. SQL Server provides core support for XML and can query across the Internet and outside the firewall. In addition to offering consulting, maintenance and troubleshooting services, Progent's SQL experts can help you get the most out of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence to enhance the profitability of your IT system. Progent can also help you upgrade from older editions of SQL Server to Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
Microsoft Lync for Mac Consultant
Microsoft Outlook for Mac Consulting
Microsoft Office for Mac allows Apple Macintosh users to receive the benefits of the world's most familiar office productivity applications. Progent's Apple-certified Mac consultants can show you how to set up Mac Office on a multi-vendor environment that incorporates Apple OS X and Windows computers so that Macintosh users can take advantage of the new capabilities of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage in order to share data and system resources with co-workers who use Windows. Progent's engineers have expertise with both Apple Macintosh and Windows technology and can provide service for environments that combine Mac with Windows computers with complete resource sharing, or networks which carefully limit sharing between Apple Mac and Windows users.
Email Virus Signature Specialist
Consultants ProSight Email Guard Outbound Email Encryption
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall.
IT Technical Support Company Certified Microsoft Partner
Microsoft Certified IT Consulting Group
Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner with special competencies such as Advanced Infrastructure Solutions. Microsoft Certified Partners represent the elite organizations who earn the top customer endorsement and are afforded the closest working relationship with Microsoft. The knowledge, skills, and commitment required to earn the level of Microsoft Certified Partner pays dividends to Progent's customers by enabling Progent to provide your business more complete solutions for your IT system.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Migration Consultants
Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 Upgrade Engineers
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can help your organization to assess the benefits of Exchange Server 2010 for your company and can help your IT staff to design and implement a smooth migration to Microsoft Exchange 2010 from Microsoft Exchange 2003 or Microsoft Exchange 2007 that will offer fast ROI by improving your workers' efficiency, cutting the expense of equipment and service, simplifying administration, and consolidating your vital communications technologies.
Largest Barracuda Backup Virtual Appliance Information Technology Consulting
Support Services Barracuda Backup Deduplication
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription backup/restore platform for small and mid-size organizations. A Barracuda Backup solution can incorporate a purpose-built hardware storage device built by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar functionality but which uses your own storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup protects vital company data produced on-premises, at one or multiple remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any location with a Barracuda appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts offer a broad range of consulting services to help your business to plan, integrate, manage and repair a backup and disaster recovery solution based on Barracuda Backup.
24 Hour Computer Consulting Services Microsoft Mac and Linux Desktop
Immediate Desktop Technology Server Administration
Progent can deliver a broad range of affordable support services to assist your business to install, integrate, repair, and manage workstations and laptops powered by Windows, macOS and OS X, or popular editions of Linux. Progent can offer onsite or online assistance for individual computers or notebooks or work with your business to plan and carry out a large-scale migration to new or updated operating system software and applications. Progent can also supply consultants and technical workers to help your company to plan for and complete a company move or consolidation designed to produce minimal interruption to your business.
Microsoft Mac and Linux Desktop IT Support
Desktop Technology Implementation Services
Progent can deliver a variety of affordable remote and onsite support services to help you to install, manage, and debug desktops and mobile devices powered by Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS/OS X, iOS, Android, or Linux.
Integration Services Microsoft LCS Server Instant Messaging
Top Microsoft LCS Server IM Outsourcing
Microsoft Communications Server delivers IM and Real Presence as part of a scalable, enterprise-grade solution featuring advanced protection, seamless compatibility with other Microsoft products, an extendable, standards-based development environment, and support for regulatory mandates such as HIPAA, SOX, and GLB. Communications Server allows cost savings and elevated business efficiencies, enhanced individual output, and better intellectual property protection. MS Office Communications Server 2007 has been superseded by Lync, which in turn has been revamped and renamed Skype for Business. Progent's Microsoft-certified IM and Presence consultants offer remote and onsite configuration support and mediation services for your Office Communications Server 2007 deployment and can assist you to evaluate the advantages of upgrading to Microsoft's Skype for Business. Progent can also help you to plan and execute a smooth migration that will add business value to your IT system
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