Windows Server 2008 is a major step forward in making IT networks more secure and fault tolerant, simpler to virtualize and administer, faster, and able to offer a better environment for web publishing. Progent can assist your company benefit fully from the enhancements incorporated into Microsoft Windows Server 2008 by providing consulting, support, education, staffing, network monitoring, and security engineering services.
Progent provides national online help and consulting services for businesses who run environments powered by versions of Linux or whose information systems include a mix of Linux platforms/Linux and Microsoft products. Online technical support offers maximum return for your IT budget by protecting user productivity and shortening the time charged for network analysis and repair. Sophisticated remote access utilities and experienced technicians and engineers allow Progent to solve the majority of IT problems without squandering time and money by traveling to your site. In most of situations your IT problems can be dealt with by telephone or through a mix of phone support and online network analysis. Progent can make available Cisco CCIE infrastructure experts and CISA and CISM premier security specialists to help with the most challenging network problems.
Progent's team of Microsoft and Cisco Premier Certified experts average more than a decade of hands-on professional background, at the forefront of network service, executing a wide range of IT tasks for a large array of customers. Every Progent consultant shares a proven collection of personal best practices which are combined into shared leading practices standards that Progent teaches its support team. This ensures that you get not only expert technical capability, but also a support engineer with proven approaches for using technical knowledge to solve real-world IT problems efficiently.
Stealth intrusion testing is a key component of any overall IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can perform extensive intrusion tests without the awareness of your organization's in-house network support resources. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event history analysis are correctly set up and consistently monitored. Progent can implement continuous automatic PEN testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, overlooked patches, and unsound IT product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-vector attacks typical of the latest strains of ransomware.
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a seasoned ransomware recovery expert who can help you to halt the progress of an ongoing ransomware attack. Call 800-462-8800
Barracuda's budget-friendly CloudGen Firewall devices offer web filtering, safe remote access, SSL VPN, secure SD-WAN, and modern Zero-Trust support with centrally managed and monitored services encompassing your whole enterprise including on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid deployment models. Public clouds supported include Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform. Progent has the expertise to serve as your one-stop resource for network support, maintenance, education, and security consulting.
Progent's fault tolerant system experts provide non-stop computing support, disaster recovery services, system load balancing, 24x7 interoffice access, non-stop Internet interface design, 24x7 data center support, and other 24x7 operations consulting to help your organization create a 24x7 environment for strategic applications. Progent possesses the knowledge and experience to design affordable, 24x7 systems by deploying the evolving suite of Microsoft Windows Cluster servers including Windows Cluster Server 2003, SQL Cluster Server, and Exchange Cluster. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified engineers can show you how to you design a fault tolerant mutli-location network with a completely mirrored Internet interface and intelligent system load balancing.
Progent's Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi consultants can assist your business to design, install, enhance, manage and troubleshoot a Wi-Fi solution optimized for your building. Progent offers remote or onsite expertise for Ekahau Pro for predictive Wi-Fi design and Ekahau Sidekick for on-premises RF signal measurement.
Cisco's Firepower Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) provide a significant performance improvement over Cisco's previous-generation ASA 5500-X security appliances and offer unified control of advanced cybersecurity features such as application visibility and control, next-generation intrusion protection with risk prioritization, advanced malware protection (AMP), DDoS mitigation, and sandboxing. Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified firewall experts can help your organization to plan and carry out a smooth migration to Cisco Firepower firewalls from Cisco's legacy ASA 5500-X, ASA 5500, or PIX firewalls and show you how to integrate Firepower firewalls with Cisco's subscription-based security services to build and centrally manage IT environments that span branch offices, data centers, and cloud resources.
Progent is organized provide in-depth remote consulting for all major technologies common to today's small business information networks and allows you to outsource an array of vital, as-needed services such as a part-time CIO to offer advanced planning and budgeting capability, a Technical Response Center for help desk support, 24x7 server monitoring, spam/virus protection as a managed service, best-practices project management help for critical projects like site moves oroperating system upgrades, connectivity experts for designing high-performance and reliable network infrastructure, certified security specialists to verify data protection and regulatory compliance, disaster recovery specialists to create business continuity strategies, and software programmers to create, enhance, or troubleshoot business applications.
The new Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially more value than Cisco's earlier PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for all new installations. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can help you to manage your existing PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls or migrate to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also assist your organization to plan, configure, tune, manage and troubleshoot firewall solutions based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist organizations of any size to follow best practices to set up System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager hosts and host groups, networking, storage, and library resources; design, deploy, and manage private clouds, virtual machines, and services in SCVMM 2012; and combine SCVMM with System Center 2012 Operations Manager for enterprise-class reporting. Progent can assist you to upgrade from an earlier version of System Center Virtual Machine Manager or from another management platform, and Progent can show you how you to optimize and repair your current SCVMM ecosystem to make sure you realize maximum business value.
Progent's data protection experts can help you to create, install and manage a backupup/restore plan built around MSP360 Backup software to protect your assets hosted on any leading public cloud. Progent can provide monitoring and remote management to protect against data loss caused by user mistakes, software errors, ill-intentioned insiders, and malware attacks like ransomware.
Progent can help your organization to plan a migration to Teams from Skype for Business and install, manage, and debug a cloud or hybrid implementation of Teams. Progent can help you to integrate Teams with Microsoft 365 apps, Exchange, SharePoint, and your PSTN gateway.
Progent can provide the services of CISM Premier security professionals. The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) organization defines the basic capabilities and international standards of skill that information security managers are expected to learn. CISM provides executive management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM credential have the experience and capability to deliver efficient security administration and consulting consulting.
Progent's Meraki Wi-Fi AP consultants provide online and on-premises support to assist organizations of any size to plan, deploy, maintain, expand or repair Wi-Fi networks that utilize Cisco Meraki APs. Progent can help your business to configure and manage Cisco's Meraki-based wireless infrastructure for sites that can range from a telecommuter's home or a remote office to a campus or a multi-site enterprise. Progent can also assist you to integrate other Cisco technology including switches, ASR routers and firewalls to build a cohesive ecosystem that provides the same access, responsiveness, security, ease of management and uptime for wired and wireless clients irrespective of their mobility or device.
Progent's seasoned ransomware recovery experts can help you to restore an IT network victimized by a ransomware attack such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, LockBit or Egregor.
Cisco's Catalyst line of Wi-Fi controllers simplify the administration of Wi-Fi networks by unifying the provisioning and control of wireless access points, tuning wireless throughput by reducing the effect of radio frequency congestion, enhancing wireless uptime with rapid auto-failover, and strengthening data security by detecting cyber threats and filtering network traffic based on user class and locale. Progent can assist you to deploy Cisco wireless LAN controllers to manage and monitor wireless networks of any size. Progent can help you to maintain and debug your existing Cisco-based Wi-Fi environment or carry out a smooth upgrade to Cisco's modern Wi-Fi controller solutions.
Colocation sites make it possible for businesses to share world-class data centers for housing network hardware that supports vital applications. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco premier IT experts can assist your company with all facets of your colocation strategy including choosing and moving to a colo facility, designing network architecture, specifying hardware, on-site and remote troubleshooting, establishing remote network administration, and training your support staff.
Progent's Shared Help Desk service makes it possible for your business to share responsibilities for Help Desk support transparently between your IT team and Progent's nationwide pool of veteran desktop support technicians and subject matter experts (SMEs). Progent's Help Desk Co-management service is an advanced service desk solution based on ConnectWise Manage, the top shared PSA platform for handling end-user service requests, ticket lifecycle, responsibility, progress tracking, and reporting.
If your office network combines Solaris technology with Microsoft Windows, Progent can show you how to incorporate your servers into a unified network that permits all your OS platforms to coexist for easy administration, seamless information exchange, high availability, superior performance, and tight protection. Progent's Sun Solaris and MS Windows coexistence support offerings include network infrastructure configuration and service, consulting for Microsoft Windows services for UNIX (SFU), online network monitoring and administration, remote network support and repair, on-site technical support, and Contact Center support.
Progent's data protection experts can assist you to design, deploy and manage a backupup/restore plan built around MSP360 Backup software to protect your IT resources hosted on any major public cloud. Progent can provide end-to-end monitoring and management to prevent data loss caused by user mistakes, software flaws, malicious insiders, and malware attacks such as ransomware.
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a proven ransomware recovery expert who can help you to halt the progress of an ongoing ransomware breach. Call 800-462-8800
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified wireless infrastructure experts can provide remote or onsite integration and troubleshooting services to assist you to design, implement, upgrade, tune, manage and debug Aironet wireless access point deployments of any size or architecture. Progent's Cisco wireless controller experts can also assist you to combine your Wi-Fi environment with your wired network infrastructure and cloud-hosted resources to build a seamless enterprise connectivity solution that is simple to administer and expand. Progent also can provide affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to assist you to determine the most efficient selection, location and setup of Aironet wireless access points to accommodate your unique workplace design, building structure, and expected network traffic.
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a proven ransomware recovery expert who can assist your business to halt the progress of an active ransomware breach. Call 800-462-8800
Progent offers fast access to the skills of veteran wireless consultants who can assist you to assess the value of Ubiquiti UniFi Wi-Fi access points for your company and assist you to plan, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your UniFi wireless network. Progent can also carry out a Wi-Fi site survey to help you to select, provision, and position UniFi wireless access points for optimal signal coverage and throughput.
Progent's Intune consultants can help you to assess the strategic value of adopting Microsoft Intune for configuring and managing your mobile computers including laptops, phones, and tablets based on Windows, Apple iOS, and Google Android. Progent's Intune consultants can assist you to define policies, plan and deploy pilot systems to confirm the benefits of Microsoft Intune for your network, deploy Intune throughout your enterprise, integrate Intune with System Center Configuration Manager for unified change management, and maintain your Microsoft Intune deployment.
Progent's UNIX family support services offer small businesses and developers help with administering and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris environments that coexist with Microsoft-powered networks. Progent can give your business access to UNIX consultants, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISSP certification. This wide range of experience provides you with a convenient single consulting firm to show you how to build and maintain a protected and robust mixed-platform network and communications environment that supports UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by combining Windows with major versions of UNIX including 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.
Progent's Duo services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices.
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For over 20 years, Progent has provided affordable IT planning, integration, troubleshooting, security services, and development for information networks of all sizes.
Cisco Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM), originally branded CallManager, operates as the foundation of Cisco's collaboration solution. Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) provide a modern IP-PBX by integrating tightly with apps such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Unity Express for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for creating a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified network consultants can deliver efficient and affordable online and onsite support to assist businesses of any size to create and maintain Unified CM deployments by providing Unified Communications Manager integration and technical support consulting services that add maximum business value. Progent can assist with any facet of CUCM support and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop Video phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP connections and PSTN calling, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, creating UCS server clustering systems for survivability, performance tuning, and integration with Exchange Server.
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified network experts can assist your organization to determine the benefits of Exchange Server 2010 for your company and can help your IT staff to design and carry out a smooth migration to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2003 or Exchange Server 2007 that will offer fast payback by improving your workers' efficiency, lowering the expense of equipment and support, streamlining administration, and integrating your vital communications technologies.
Progent's seasoned application designers and software developers can assist your business to build customizations to Microsoft GP/Great Plains that support the special requirement of your organization without losing the benefits of Windows integration. Progent can also offer help with a selection of software development technologies that can be utilized to create integrations with Microsoft GP. These integration tools include Microsoft Dexterity, Modifier, Visual Studio for Dynamics, Continuum, eConnect, Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP, and Integration Manager.
Progent's private cloud hosting service allows small and midsize organizations to run mission-critical applications such as Microsoft SQL and Exchange from a hardened Tier III data center facility on fault-tolerant hardware with geographically separate data backup. Progent utilizes Microsoft's Hyper-V platform for server virtualization and Data Protection Manager (DPM) for automatic backup and restoration. You can take advantage of Progent's private cloud hosting service to eliminate major capital costs for the purchase, upkeep, and management of computer equipment and data center facilities while achieving world-class levels of network reliability and security.
Cisco's Catalyst line of wireless controllers simplify the management of Wi-Fi networks by unifying the configuration and management of Wi-Fi access points, tuning Wi-Fi throughput by limiting the impact of radio frequency congestion, improving wireless availability with rapid auto-failover, and hardening data security by identifying threats and filtering network traffic based on user type and locale. Progent can assist you to configure Cisco Wi-Fi controller appliances to manage Wi-Fi LANs of all sizes. Progent can help you to maintain and troubleshoot your current Cisco Wi-Fi environment or implement an efficient transition to Cisco's latest wireless controller technology.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide remote or in-person expertise to help organizations of any size to plan, deploy, administer, and repair a backup solution based on System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager. Progent's consultants can help you to upgrade from earlier releases of SCDPM or from another backup system, and Progent can optimize your SCDPM 2012 deployment for onsite, cloud-based, or hybrid environments. Progent offers occasional help for fixing particularly challenging problems, or comprehensive project management support. Progent can also assist you to design SCDPM 2012 into a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is a library of APIs that allows Amazon sellers to streamline their business processes by automating crucial sales functions including listings, orders, payments, fulfillment, and reports. By tapping into Amazon's vast online selling environment and automating their sales, vendors can broaden their reach, reduce their cost of sales, accelerate reaction time to customers, and increase their profits. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service consultants can collaborate with your development staff and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training so you can shorten development time and get to market quickly.
SQL Server 2016 offers significant enhancements in performance, capacity, data security, availability, BOYD integration, plus integrated business intelligence. Innovations include PolyBase for processing structured and unstructured databases in one appliance for data warehousing, R language integration, Row-level Security, Mobile Report Publisher, and seamless control over local and cloud-based operations and services. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can provide remote and on-premises support to help businesses of all sizes to deploy, manage or troubleshoot any version of SQL Server 2016. Progent can also assist you to integrate SQL Server 2016 with all key Microsoft platforms including Windows Server, Exchange Server 2016, SharePoint Server, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Lync or Skype for Business, and SCOM.
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ProSight ECHO Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for cloud backup/disaster recovery. ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows rapid recovery of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises storage device, or to both. Progent's disaster recovery specialists can provide advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your critical data.
Progent's certified wireless consultants can assist businesses of any size to plan, implement, manage and repair Cisco Aironet wireless AP solutions to achieve the performance, range, density, expandability, security compliance and ease of management needed for transparent connectivity between Wi-Fi and wired network infrastructure. Progent can provide affordable remote and on-premises consulting services for both end-of-life and new-generation 802.11ac Aironet wireless access points and Progent can help you plan and maintain deployments of indoor and outdoor/industrial Aironet Wi-Fi APs.
Progent's Microsoft engineers offer in-depth expertise in deploying, managing and debugging all versions of Microsoft Project, Project Server, and Microsoft Project Online and can deliver a wide variety of affordable remote support services based on industry best practices to help organizations of all sizes to receive all the advantages of this powerful platform. Consulting support available from Progent include solution design, installation and migration, strategies for secure collaboration among onsite and remote or mobile users, network infrastructure optimization, and specialized online training classes.
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified networking consultants offer advanced support for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) (formerly CallManager). Progent can assist your organization to integrate VoIP phones, create dial plans, set up SIP trunking and PSTN support, deploy ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, and deploy UCS server failover solutions.
Progent's certified Windows Server 2022 consultants can assist your company to design and implement an efficient migration to Windows Server 2022 that features high availability and that is based on an on-premises network model or a hybrid deployment model that combines cloud-hosted Windows Server on Azure with an on-prem installation of Windows Server 2022.
A centerpiece of Progent's Network Operations Center is its powerful integration of NinjaOne RMM, a cutting-edge remote monitoring and management solution which enables automated alerting and streamlined incident response.
Small to mid-sized businesses can now enjoy all the benefits of System Center Operations Manager and also have quick access to Progent's Microsoft and Cisco Premier network consulting experts. With Progent's affordably priced IT service programs, small businesses can select a simple System Center Operations Manager 2007-based co-sourcing service program with network monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and online service or a complete 24x7 outsourcing solution. Progent offers expertise in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 to provide small business networks world-class reliability, protection, and productivity.
Progent's Microsoft certified professionals can provide small and mid-sized companies advanced Microsoft SQL Server help. Microsoft SQL Server is a complete, Web-enabled database and data analysis package that opens the door to the speedy creation of advanced business programs that offer your company a competitive advantage. SQL Server provides core support for XML and the ability to query over the Internet and outside the firewall. In addition to offering expertise, support and problem solving services, Progent's SQL consultants can help you use Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence to increase the productivity of your IT system. Progent can also help you upgrade from earlier editions of Microsoft SQL Server to Microsoft SQL Server 2005.