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SQL Server Consultants
SQL Server Replication Consult
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 offers powerful, familiar tools to IT experts and network users, reducing the complexity of designing, deploying, managing, and accessing company information and database programs on platforms ranging from handheld devices to enterprise data networks. The complexity and interconnectivity demands of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 call for a network consulting firm with real-world expertise and broad knowledge in designing and building information-based, comprehensive business IT solutions. The knowledge and experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with an average of over 10 years of professional work supporting Microsoft technology, ensures you success in planning, configuring and supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2005 solutions that are well integrated with the Microsoft .NET environment.
VMware NSX Design Specialists
Best VMware NSX and SRM Disaster Recovery Services
VMware's NSX virtual network platform allows you to build entire networks in software. NSX permits virtual networks to be deployed in minutes and administered with a high level of automation regardless of the physical components used by the basic network infrastructure. VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) supports automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site migration, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also enables non-disruptive testing for disaster recovery, updates and fixes and can generate reports to confirm full service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate compliance. When used with VMware's NSX network virtualization technology, VMware SRM can rapidly recover the entire logical network topology at the recovery site. Progent offers the skills of a VCDX certified VMware NSX consultant and VMware SRM system architect to assist your organization to plan, configure, test and maintain a DR solution based on VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware NSX.
Dynamics GP/Great Plains Support and Help
Dynamics GP Great Plains Software Remote Support
Microsoft Dynamics GP allows you to grow and control your business more efficiently by offering deep access to decision-driving data and a rapid ROI. Dynamics GP offers important business benefits including its ability to expand the reach of your company, manage your financials, computerize financial operations, standardize processes across your company, improve inventory control, enhance order accuracy, grow sales and shorten lead-time, and maximize cash flow. Progent can help you configure and maintain a robust, secure server and network infrastructure to support Great Plains, and can provide expert Microsoft Dynamics GP support professionals to help you derive the full benefits of your Dynamics GP/Great Plains business management system.
Professionals Citrix Virtualization
Consultants Citrix Virtualization
Progent's Citrix-accredited engineers can help you to understand the business advantages of XenServer as well as other Citrix platforms, and can help your IT organization to plan, test, execute, troubleshoot, and maintain a XenServer installation. Progent can in addition assess your current XenServer deployment and show you how to enhance resource utilization, responsiveness, security and compliance, uptime, and disaster recovery.
Urgent Google Cloud integration Professional
Google Cloud Access Management Consult
Progent can provide cost-effective remote and on-premises support to assist companies of any size to move any portion of their core IT infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform services. This can save time and equipment costs and enable access to Google's cutting edge AI and machine learning technology. Progent can help you with every phase of Google Cloud Platform migration and troubleshooting including requirements analysis, preparedness evaluation, system design and review, pilot testing, deployment, centralized administration, performance tuning, software license management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security strategies.
Online Technical Support Datacenter Monitoring
SCOM 2012 Microsoft Azure Monitoring Remote Troubleshooting
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts have more than 10 years of background planning, deploying, optimizing and repairing System Center Operations Manager environments and offer organizations of all sizes advanced online or onsite consulting services for System Center 2012 Operations Manager. Progent can assist your company to design a topology for SCOM 2012 servers that delivers the responsiveness and availability needed to monitor your IT resources efficiently, whether your datacenters are onsite, in the cloud, or a hybrid solution. Progent's SCOM consultants can also help you to import and customize SCOM 2012 management packs based on best practices for monitoring network fabric and Microsoft and third-party apps and services. In addition, Progent can provide fast online or on-premises technical support to assist you to remediate serious problems uncovered by System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
wireless VoIP phone integration Technology Consulting Services
802.11x Wireless Engineer
Progent's Cisco-certified Wi-Fi integration consulting experts can help organizations to configure, administer, and debug Cisco wireless products such as Cisco's Aironet and Meraki 802.11ac Wi-Fi access points plus Cisco's Wireless Network Controllers.
Private Cloud Hosting for Virtual Data Centers Consulting
ProSight Virtual Machine Hosting Services
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting and Management service provides complete hosting of a small or mid-size company's production servers in a solution that gives the maximum degree of availability and expandability and is also easy to transfer to another host. ProSight Virtual Hosting services are built upon mature virtualization techniques that allow small companies with multi- platform environments to economize dramatically on the costs of capital equipment, system support, and IT management while benefiting from world-class reliability and an unmatched level of vendor independence.
Windows 11 Pilot Testing Network Consultants
Award Winning Windows 11 Compatibility Testing Small Business Outsourcing
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows 11 experts can provide a variety of services to support Windows 11 including Microsoft 365 integration, mobile management and synchronization, telecommuter connectivity, security and compliance, centralized deployment, and Help Desk services.
After Hours WatchGuard XTM Firewall Cybersecurity Organizations
Cybersecurity Consultancies WatchGuard Firebox M590 Firewall
Progent provides support expertise for WatchGuard Firewall security appliances such as the WatchGuard Firebox and XTM lines of Firewalls and the Firebox SSL Core VPN Gateway. Progent's WatchGuard professionals can help you choose, configure, and maintain a WatchGuard Firewall appliance that aligns with your network security requirements and budget. Progent can help you to maintain legacy WatchGuard firewall appliances or upgrade efficiently to modern WatchGuard firewall solutions.
ProSight DPS ECHO Backup and Recovery Services Technical Support
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO Consultant
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows fast restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical data.
Debian Linux Support and Integration
Slackware Linux Services
Progent's Linux support services provide small and mid-size companies and software developers help with administering and supporting Linux computers that run with Microsoft-based networks. Progent offers your organization contact with Linux consultants, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISSP certification. This broad array of experience provides you with an easy single consulting firm to help you create and maintain a protected and reliable cross-platform connectivity and communications solution that supports Linux and Microsoft interoperability by combining MS Windows with leading Linux platforms such as RedHat Linux, SUSE Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, PCLOS, fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Microsoft SBS 2011 IT Consultant
On-site Support Small Business Server 2008
Microsoft Small Business Server is a low-cost collection of server products that offers the basis for a feature-rich but easy-to-manage IT network. The IT sophistication of the Microsoft .NET components included with Small Business Server requires a computer support expert with hands-on experience planning and building seamless, comprehensive business technology environments. Progent's Microsoft Small Business Server consultants have an average of more than a decade of experience integrating business networks powered by Microsoft platforms. This expertise ensures you results in deploying, administering, and repairing network solutions that incorporate the Small Business Server suite of servers and applications.
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Internet Security and Acceleration Server Remote Troubleshooting
Help and Support Microsoft Proxy Server
Progent's Microsoft-certified ISA Server consultants have extensive backgrounds developing Microsoft ISA Server-based security solutions for IT networks with multiple sites, mobile workers, and line-of-business web applications. Progent's Microsoft Firewall experts can assist your small business in planning and deploying an installation of ISA Server 2000 or ISA 2004 Server that meets your network protection requirements without overly limiting your IT system productivity. Progent's consultants can help you upgrade from Microsoft Proxy Server from Microsoft ISA 2000 to Microsoft ISA 2006 Enterprise Edition Server or Microsoft ISA 2006 Standard Edition Server.
Windows and Solaris Network Engineer
Windows, UNIX, Solaris Network Consulting
Progent's UNIX family support services provide small companies and developers help with managing and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris systems that coexist with Microsoft-powered technology. Progent offers your business access to UNIX experts, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISSP certification. This broad array of expertise provides you with a convenient single consulting firm to help you create and maintain a protected and robust cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that supports UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by integrating Windows with major variants of UNIX including Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, BSD, SCO and SGI/Irix or major Linux platforms such as RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian-GNU and Slackware.
Network Security Test Barracuda Networks F18B Series Firewalls
Barracuda Networks SD-WAN Forensics Services
Barracuda's affordable CloudGen Firewall devices combine web filtering, safe remote connectivity, SSL VPN, secure SD-WAN, and modern Zero-Trust support along with centrally managed and monitored services throughout your complete enterprise including on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid network architectures. Public clouds supported include Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform. Progent can deliver the skill to serve as your go-to source for technical guidance, maintenance, education, and security expertise.
Consultant Services ProSight Hosting for Virtual Servers
ProSight Virtual Hosting Consultants
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting outsourcing provides comprehensive hosting of a small company's production servers in an environment that gives the maximum level of availability and expandability and is in addition easy to transfer to any data center. ProSight Virtual Hosting options are based on mature virtualization architectures that allow small and midsize businesses with mixed- platform environments to economize dramatically on the expense of capital investments, infrastructure support, and network administration while achieving world-class fault tolerance and an unmatched level of vendor independence.
Apple OS X Technology Consulting
Open Now OS X On-site Technical Support
Progent's experts offer Apple macOS and Mac OS X users a range of services including desktop support, Apple macOS and OS X expertise, Mac co-existence with Windows environments, Microsoft Entourage and Exchange Server help, security services, and one-on-one education. Progent can help businesses to upgrade to macOS from Mac OS X or earlier versions of Apple OS X and Progent can provide help with macOS and Mac OS X application software. Progent can also help you with iPhone integration and Apple iPad synchronization, or migrating to Apple's iCloud. For business environments based exclusively on macOS or OS X or for systems incorporating a combination of Mac, Linux and Windows based servers and workstations, Progent's Apple, Cisco, and Microsoft consultants have the background and depth to handle the complexity of designing, integrating and maintaining a network infrastructure that is available, safe, efficient and able to achieve your company's business goals.
Consulting Services ProSight Virtual Server Private Cloud Hosting
Private Cloud Solutions Specialist
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting outsourcing provides complete hosting of a small company's servers in a solution that delivers the highest level of dependability and expandability and is in addition easy to move to another host. ProSight Virtual Hosting and management options are built upon mature virtualization architectures that enable small companies with multi- platform environments to economize dramatically on the expense of capital investments, system maintenance, and network administration while achieving world-class reliability and an unprecedented level of vendor flexibility.
Sun Solaris Security Audit Services
UNIX Protect
If your business runs a Solaris environment or a mixed-platform computer system, Progent's CISM, CISSP and ISSAP-certified consultants can assist your entire organization in a broad array of security topics such as security management procedures, security design and models, connection control products and techniques, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, telecommunications, infrastructure and web security, and disaster recovery preparedness. CISM and ISSAP define the core skills and worldwide standards of performance that information security managers are required to master. These accreditations offer executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM or ISSAP certification have demonstrated the background and knowledge to offer world-class security support and engineering services.
SCCM Azure Integration Support Outsourcing
SCCM Software Inventory Information Technology Consulting
Configuration Manager automates software deployment across multiple sites, streamlines compliance settings control, keeps track of network assets, guards against corporate data leakage, performs health monitoring, enables safe self service, and offers a common control mechanism for managing mixed-operating system ecosystems based on on-prem, cloud, or hybrid deployment architectures. Progent's Microsoft-certified SCCM consultants and Microsoft Azure cloud integration specialists can help businesses of any size with any aspect of planning, implementing, operating and repairing a SCCM solution for on-premises, cloud, or hybrid networks.
Flexential Data Center Technology Professional
Flexential Data Center Tampa Services
Progent makes use of the Flexential Tampa data center primarily to provide private cloud hosting. Progent maintains a group of network experts based in the vicinity of Tampa, and Progent can also provide remote support from Progent's nationwide roster of Microsoft-certified experts, Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers, ISSIP-CISSP-certified security experts, Hyper-V and VMware virtualization specialists, and veteran disaster recovery/business continuity planning consultants. Progent can also assist you to design and execute a move to the Flexential facility by providing services such as designing system configuration, recommending hardware, system configuration and validation, debugging, setting up remote management, and educating your network support team.
Windows Server 2022 Hotpatching Integration Support
Windows Server 2022 Container Image Specialists
Progent's certified Windows Server 2022 experts can help your organization to design and implement an efficient upgrade to Windows Server 2022 that features high availability and that uses an on-premises system model or a hybrid model that integrates cloud-based Windows Server Online with a datacenter-based installation of Windows Server 2022.
Anti-Spam Consulting
Postini Setup and Support
Email Guard from Postini offers constantly updated spam and virus blocking, content filtering, and security from email-based DHA attacks and denial of service attacks. Progent is a Postini partner and support firm. If your organization is too small to purchase for a regular Postini license, you can still get the use of Postini's Perimeter Manager services via Progent's E-Mail Guard anti-spam and anti-virus service program. Progent's certified e-mail security consultants can help you devise an email protection plan that features antispam and virus protection technologies and processes.
Sun Solaris Migration Consultant
UNIX Upgrade Help
Progent can help your company to design and implement an efficient transition from a Sun Solaris-based IT system to a network powered by Microsoft Windows and suited for supporting Microsoft's familiar office productivity products, business applications, and developer platforms. Progent's Solaris, Windows and Cisco engineers and application experts can help you preserve your information and minimize productivity disruption by designing an effective migration strategy that protects your current investments in Sun Solaris software and infrastructure. UNIX-to-Windows transition consulting expertise available from Progent include analysis of current infrastructure, transition strategy and testing, Microsoft Exchange migration expertise, data and application software migration, and processor and storage transition and economization.
Microsoft Entra Exchange Consultancy
Azure migration Developer Firm
Progent's consultants can help you to plan and implement an efficient move from onsite Active Directory to cloud-hosted Microsoft Entra ID (formerly called Azure Actve Directory) or to a hybrid solution that deploys Microsoft Entra Domain Services and Microsoft Entra Connect to centralize identity services across onsite and cloud resources.
Citrix for Hyper-V Consultancy
Citrix Hyper-V Management Specialist
Progent's Citrix-certified consultants can assist you to evaluate the potential business value of the available editions of Essentials for Hyper-V, help you to integrate Citrix administration tools with your Hyper-V network, and demonstrate to you how you can use Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V to improve the performance, availability, consistency, and recoverability of your virtual network while reducing the cost of resources and support and streamlining management processes.
Microsoft CRM Network Consultant
ERP, MRP, Accounting System Programming Company
Progent's team of application experts can provide advanced consulting, custom programming, integration help, and online training for popular applications that address vital areas including ERP and MRP, general accounting, management analytics, web commerce application design, and the MS Office suite of business productivity solutions. As a Microsoft Partner with decades of background providing advanced consulting support remotely, Progent can assist clients throughout the U.S. to eliminate the lost productivity and fees related to travel and on-site activity without sacrificing the effectiveness of consulting services.
Migrations Microsoft Office 2003
Outsourcing Firm Microsoft Office XP
Progent's IT outsourcing packages offer affordable computer support for small companies. Whether it includes planning network infrastructure, creating an in-house Help Desk or using an outside one, rolling out a new e-mail system, monitoring your system, or developing a web-based eCommerce application, outsourcing your IT technical services can contain costs and eliminate risks, permitting IT support budgets to increase in a more moderate and controlled manner than is possible by assembling a bulky, all-purpose internal IT staff. Progent's Outsourcing White Paper and flyers explain how Progent can enable you to create a secure and robust network foundation for your critical applications powered by Microsoft Windows.
Ekahau Wi-Fi RF Coverage Maps Technology Consulting
Remote Consulting Ekahau Wi-Fi Network Management
Progent's Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi experts can help your business to design, install, optimize, manage and debug a Wi-Fi solution adapted to your facilities. Progent offers online or onsite expertise for Ekahau Pro for predictive Wi-Fi design and Ekahau Sidekick for onsite RF analysis.
Microsoft Certified System Center Operations Manager Engineer
Server Monitoring Remote Technical Support
Remote continuous network monitoring, proactive alarms, and actionable analytical reporting are vital to preserving the proper operation of your IT system and avoiding unnecessary and costly downtime. Remote Monitoring and Management solutions have advanced so far that companies of any size can afford a level of protection that was previously reserved for enterprises. Progent can provide a variety Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solutions available as low-cost service packages created to help you to detect and fix a an array of IT network issues before they can disrupt your business.
Microsoft Expert Support SQL Server 2008
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Computer Consultants
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers indispensable, familiar tools to IT experts as well as to network users, lessening the complexity of creating, deploying, administering, and using enterprise information and database programs on platforms ranging from mobile devices to enterprise data systems. The complexity and integration demands of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 call for an IT consultant with real-world experience and broad knowledge in planning and building information-based, comprehensive business IT solutions. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with an average of more than 10 years of professional work involving Microsoft integration, assures you success in planning, configuring and supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2008 solutions that are well integrated with the Microsoft .NET platform.
Microsoft and Mac Desktop Security Consulting
Microsoft Desktop Network Architect Firms
Progent offers a broad range of cost-effective support services to assist your company to deploy, integrate, repair, and administer workstations and notebooks powered by Microsoft Windows, macOS and OS X, or popular versions of Linux. Progent can offer onsite or remote assistance for single machines or notebooks or help you to plan and implement a company-wide rollout of new or updated OS platforms and applications. Progent can also supply consultants and technicians to assist your company to prepare for and complete an office relocation or merger organized to produce the least possible interruption to your productivity.
NetApp MetroCluster Troubleshooting Consulting Services
Biggest NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Specialist
Progent can provide enterprise clients the services of a certified NetApp consultant to deliver remote or on-premises support for NetApp's entire family of SAN software and hardware products including ONTAP and Clustered Data ONTAP (CDOT) data management, MetroCluster, FlexPod cloud infrastructure, SnapMirror, SnapVauly incremental backup, Virtual Storage Console (VSC) for VMware, MultiStore/vFiler for storage partitioning, OnCommand Unified Manager Core, plus NetApp's All-Flash, Hybrid Flash, V-Series and N-Series storage products. Components of NetApp SAN storage solutions supported by Progent include SAN architecture, hybrid-cloud integration, virtualization, migrations, transparent updates, storage management, information assurance, disaster recovery, and remediation. Progent offers Tier 3 support to help you to resolve issues with NetApp SAN environments efficiently following leading practices.
QTS Data Center Sacramento Engineers
QTS Sacramento Colocation Center Technology Professional
The QTS Internet Data Center facility is situated in the seismically-stable Natomas neighborhood of Sacramento, CA. If you are currently using the QTS Sacramento data center as a colocation facility or if your company is planning on migrating your primary or disaster recovery equipment to Herakles/QTS, Progent offers a variety of budget-friendly services that include data center migration, system installation and updates, infrastructure optimization, comprehensive project management services, virtual server configuration, offsite network monitoring, centralized system administration, application programming, business continuity solutions, data security assessment, and the use of Progent's Test Lab.
Immediate Windows Server 2012 R2 Multitenancy On-site Support
Windows Server 2012R2 Clustering IT Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals can assist you to evaluate the advantages of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 for your organization, create pilot environments and migration plans, tune your network for local, multi-site, private or public cloud-based, and hybrid environments, educate your IT management team, create a corporate-wide security strategy, streamline IT administration, assist with application development, and build and validate a disaster recovery/business continuity plan.
Whitepaper IT Outsourcing Model
White Papers IT Outsourcing and Co-sourcing
Progent's IT outsourcing packages offer budget-friendly network support for mid-size companies. Whether it includes designing system architecture, creating an in-house Help Desk or outsourcing a one, deploying an updated e-mail system, monitoring your system, or developing a web-based eCommerce application, outsourcing your network technical services can smooth out costs and minimize uncertainties, allowing network support expenses to grow in a more linear and manageable fashion than is possible by amassing a large, all-purpose internal network support organization. Progent's Outsourcing White Paper and flyers show how Progent can help you create a protected and highly available network foundation for your critical Windows-based business software such as Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Co-managed Support Desk Consultant
Microsoft Certified Partner Technical Support Extended Call Desk
Progent's Standard Help Desk Services offer a comprehensive service desk solution that handles all facets of online Level 1 desktop support from service requests through ticketing, screen sharing, progress tracking, problem resolution, and management reports. Support services are provided at a substantial discount from Progent's normal desktop support rates, and Progent can provide the option of fast on-demand escalation to subject matter experts to resolve the most issues.
Juniper SSG Firewall Cybersecurity Organization
Juniper SSG5 Router Cybersecurity Consultancy
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.
ProSight Email Content Filtering Policies Professional
Email Link Protection Engineer
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the technology of leading data security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service 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. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter.
Citrix XenMotion Specialist
Citrix Live Migration Technology Professional
Progent's Citrix-authorized engineers can assist you to evaluate the strategic advantages of XenServer as well as other Citrix platforms, and can assist you to design, validate, execute, troubleshoot, and support a XenServer installation. Progent can also assess your existing Citrix technology environment and help you to optimize resource utilization, responsiveness, protection, uptime, and disaster recovery.
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