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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the California Central Valley, and the Monterey Peninsula.

Progent's IT consulting clients in the Palo Alto area include law firms, software development companies, venture capital firms, startups and startup-related support industries. Progent's most popular services in this area include acting as outside CIO, recommending software and hardware, sharing best practices, knowledge transfer to in-house IT staff, remote network monitoring, and upgrading email systems to the latest versions of Microsoft Exchange.

Restricted budgets and a fiercely competitive business environment make it necessary for companies on the San Francisco Peninsula to build solid, scalable IT foundations and to have access to professional and affordable outsourced support. 15 years of experience integrating Microsoft Windows networks makes Progent the right choice.

Your Microsoft and Cisco Certified Information Technology Consulting Experts
For over two decades, Progent's network service engineers have been the premiere providers of budget-friendly Microsoft Windows consulting, Cisco network integration and IT consulting services for businesses in the and the California Central Valley. If your company requires urgent technical support from a seasoned expert, a system consultant, or an application programmer, Progent is your most reliable source for IT support services such as email help, network security assessment and design, Helpdesk outsourcing, specialized application design, server virtualization architecture, live online classes for Microsoft Office applications, and high availability system engineering.

As a Microsoft-qualified network consulting company, Progent provides companies in Palo Alto enterprise-class IT consulting expertise as well as online or onsite troubleshooting support for environments powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco platforms. Practice areas offered by Progent cover Windows Server 2019 upgrade expertise, Windows Server 2016 hybrid cloud solutions, Windows Server 2012 R2 design and configuration support and Windows Server 2008 upgrade support to create a firm foundation for your IT network, Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 migration, Exchange 2013 consulting and Exchange 2010 support to establish an advanced email solution, SharePoint assistance to improve information sharing, MS SQL Server 2017 consulting, SQL Server 2016 integration support, and Microsoft SQL 2014 consulting to manage your key corporate data, Dynamics GP/Great Plains software programming for timely financial reporting, and System Center 2012 Operations Manager (SCOM 2012) expertise and Operations Manager 2016 consulting services for 24x7 monitoring the health of your information system. Progent can in addition provide Cisco Premier network consultants to help you maximize and maintain your connectivity architecture.

Other on-premises and online information technology consulting provided by Progent to businesses in Palo Alto include senior project management expertise, iPhone and iPad integration, Google Android smartphone integration, Blackberry support and Microsoft Windows handhelds integration, site surveys for Wi-Fi installation, database management and application development support from certified SQL Server experts, Oracle DBAs and developers, and MySQL consultants, virtualization expertise from certified Hyper-V integrators, VMware vSphere and vCloud deployment, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) application continuity planning, VMware NSX virtual network design and management, and Citrix XenServer consultants, plus disaster recovery/business continuity planning and testing.

Progent's ProSight Fixed-price Managed IT Services for Small and Mid-size Organizations
Progent offers a family of affordable, fixed-price services designed to allow small and mid-size organizations to benefit from the same cutting-edge technology used by many of the world's top enterprises. Progent's ProSight suite of network management outsourcing services covers all critical facets of information technology including email content filtering, threat defense based on machine leaning, cloud-based backup and disaster recovery, infrastructure management, VM cloud hosting, and network resources documentation management. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

• ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
  Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes next generation behavior analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

• ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Exchange Filtering
  Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

• ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
  ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast recovery of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

• ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
  ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security companies to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

• ProSight WAN Watch: Network Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
  ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure monitoring and management service that makes it simple and affordable for small and mid-sized businesses to map, monitor, enhance and debug their networking hardware like routers and switches, firewalls, and access points plus servers, printers, endpoints and other networked devices. Using cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) technology, ProSight WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology diagrams are kept updated, copies and manages the configuration of almost all devices connected to your network, tracks performance, and sends alerts when issues are detected. By automating tedious management processes, ProSight WAN Watch can knock hours off common tasks like making network diagrams, reconfiguring your network, finding devices that require important updates, or identifying the cause of performance bottlenecks. Learn more details about ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure monitoring and management services.

• ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Monitoring Services
  ProSight LAN Watch is Progent’s server and desktop monitoring managed service that incorporates advanced remote monitoring and management (RMM) techniques to keep your IT system running at peak levels by checking the state of critical computers that drive your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers an issue, an alarm is transmitted automatically to your designated IT management staff and your assigned Progent engineering consultant so any looming issues can be resolved before they can disrupt your network Find out more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop remote monitoring consulting.

• ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
  With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

• ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
  ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, find and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time wasted trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an affordable service centered on a phone discussion with a Progent backup/recovery consultant. The interview is intended to help assess your organization's ability either to stop or recover rapidly after an attack by a ransomware variant like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Hermes. Progent will consult with you personally to collect information about your current AV defense and backup/recovery system, and Progent will then produce a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how you can follow industry best practices to build an efficient AV and backup system that aligns with your company's needs. For additional information, visit Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.

Cloud Solutions
Progent offers advanced remote consulting support to help companies of all sizes integrate their networks with popular public clouds such as Azure and Amazon Web Services. Progent can help your it team to plan and administer cost-effective environments that can include Windows and Linux operating systems and applications in either cloud-centric systems or in hybrid topologies that combine on-premises resources along with cloud services. To assist you to incorporate public clouds with physical datacenters, Progent offers a variety of public cloud integration services that include Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure hybrid cloud design and integration consulting, Amazon AWS cloud integration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service development and troubleshooting. Progent has more than 15 years of experience delivering high-level consulting support remotely, and Progent can help you complete your cloud migration projects quickly and within your budget.

On-premises Consulting and Support Services Offered at the QTS Sacramento Colocation Center
The QTS Data Center, formerly the Herakles Data Center, is situated in the seismically-stable Natomas area of Sacramento, CA. If you are now utilizing the QTS Data Center as a colocation facility or if you are considering migrating your primary or disaster recovery equipment to the QTS Sacramento Colocation Center, Progent can provide a range of cost-effective services such as data center migration, system installation and upgrades, infrastructure improvements, project management, virtualization expertise, offsite monitoring, centralized network administration, software programming, disaster recovery solutions, data security evaluation, and the use of Progent's Test Lab. For more details, refer to Progent's onsite consulting support at the QTS Data Center.

The Progent Test and Design Lab is a room at the QTS Data Center with a variety of advanced computers and network support infrastructure that can be utilized remotely or on premises to accommodate system testing, evaluations, capacity modeling, repair, disaster recovery simulation, education, and other purposes to help Progent's clients successfully carry out large-scale IT initiatives. For more information, see Progent's Test and Training Lab at the QTS Colocation Center.

24x7 In Person Support Options
Progent can provide optional around-the-clock remote or on-site computer support and IT outsourcing services in these cities in your area:

• Palo Alto
• Redwood City
• Menlo Park
• East Palo Alto
• Atherton

If your small business is in Palo Alto or anywhere in the San Francisco Peninsula area and you are looking for technical support, IT outsourcing, or advanced expertise from a certified Progent consultant, call 650-543-0400 or visit Contact Progent.

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