VMware's NSX virtual network platform allows you to create entire networks in software. NSX permits virtual networks to be provisioned in minutes and managed with a high level of automation regardless of the physical components making up the basic IP network. VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) supports automated disaster recovery, application mobility, and transparent site relocation, failback and site re-protect. SRM also enables non-intrusive testing for disaster recovery, upgrades and patches and can generate audit reports to confirm complete service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate DR compliance. When used with VMware's NSX network virtualization platform, VMware SRM can quickly restore the entire virtualized network topology at the recovery site. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware NSX consultant and VMware Site Recovery Manager integration specialist to assist you to plan, deploy, test and manage a disaster recovery system powered by VMware SRM and VMware NSX.
Progent’s Wireless Consulting Services provide a convenient, economical option for businesses of any size to integrate, manage and repair cutting edge wireless connectivity solutions. For 802.11n and the latest 802.11ac wireless networks, Progent can show you how to design and install appliances like Cisco's Aironet and Meraki wireless access points and wireless controllers. For mobile messaging and web-based business applications, Progent can help with Apple IOS iPhones, Apple iPads, Google Androids, and Windows phones and tablets.
Small to middle size businesses can now enjoy all the benefits of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and in addition have quick access to Progent’s Microsoft and Cisco Premier IT support professionals. With Progent's affordably priced IT support packages, small and midsize organizations can select a basic Operations Manager 2007-based co-sourcing service program with network monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and online troubleshooting or a comprehensive 24x7 outsourcing package. Progent offers expertise in System Center Operations Manager to offer small company networks enterprise-class availability, protection, and productivity.
Progent's certified TMG 2010 and Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 experts can help you to plan, deploy, and support an implementation of Forefront TMG or Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 on your information system that provides the firewall security, speed and ease-of-use that your business requires.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting engineers can assist you to assess the value of Microsoft Exchange 2010 for your company and can assist you to plan and implement a smooth migration to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2003 or Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server that will provide quick payback by improving your workers' efficiency, cutting the cost of hardware and support, simplifying management, and integrating your key communications platforms.
Progent is a pioneer in economically providing world-class network support to small businesses. Progent's success in handling the network service requirements of the chronically underserviced small company market is the combined outcome of key technical and process breakthroughs that have eliminated much of the traditional expenses out of administering IT support, added unmatched professional expertise into the support mechanism, and significantly accelerated the repair cycle.
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Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified network engineers offer advanced help with a broad range of products and technologies and can deliver that expertise remotely anywhere in the U.S. or in person in select cities across the country and anywhere in . Progent provides remote help for information systems based on Windows, UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Apple ac, or for systems that incorporate a combination of Windows and UNIX-family platforms. Progent also offers the help of Cisco CCIE infrastructure specialists for complex network problems, plus the assistance of CISA and CISM-qualified security engineers to assist with high-level security planning and troubleshooting. Progent has delivered online troubleshooting to businesses in every state in the United States.
Progent's Cisco Jabber consultants can provide online or onsite support to help organizations of all sizes to plan, implement, maintain, upgrade or debug Cisco Jabber environments and Cisco Unified Communications Manager infrastructure. Progent can provide advanced support for all the products, technologies and services that make up building an end-to-end Cisco Jabber collaboration solution such as Cisco network devices and management tools, Microsoft 365 applications, Windows and Mac desktops, iOS and Google Android smartphones and tablets, SIP interfaces, Wi-Fi networks, security and compliance, cloud computing, immersive telepresence systems, PBX products, disaster recovery preparedness, and the many other components of a cohesive collaboration solution.
Progent's background delivering Microsoft .NET services and SQL Server help, and Progent's programming experience with VBasic, XML, and additional developer platforms make it possible to design custom mission-critical applications and eCommerce solutions that operate seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics GP Software. Progent's Dynamics GP reporting services can show you how to design reports that let you analyze your business more thoroughly, turning uncooked data into valuable insights into your business.
Progent’s Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to update your application servers or desktops from 32 to 64 bits. Progent can assist your company to understand the costs and benefits of moving to 64-bit computing, plan an affordable upgrade strategy that minimizes operational disruptions, and offer economical, expert remote support to assist your organization to configure 64-bit operating systems and application programs on your existing computers.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have 20 years of experience providing electronic messaging and integrated telecommunications/email solutions for companies. Progent provides affordable Microsoft Exchange Server consulting services to enhance email security and virus protection, achieve fault tolerant email, and implement remote and mobile email connectivity. Progent’s Microsoft Exchange help and support services can aid you in designing and implementing a Microsoft Exchange upgrade or a migration from a legacy SMPT server or older Microsoft Email product such as Exchange 5.5 to Exchange Server 2010.
Progent offers affordable online consulting services for all releases of Microsoft Office Access including Access desktop and Access Web App and offers advanced support for Access application programming, database migration, performance tuning, BI reporting, and troubleshooting. Progent also can provide tailored webinar training for Office Access development and database administration.
Progent’s IT outsourcing services offer budget-friendly computer support for small organizations. Whether it includes planning system infrastructure, setting up an in-house Help Desk or using an outside one, deploying a new e-mail platform, monitoring your system, or creating an on-line business solution, outsourcing your IT engineering services can reduce expenses and eliminate uncertainties, allowing IT support expenses to increase in a more moderate and manageable fashion than is feasible by assembling a bulky, all-purpose in-house network support staff. Progent’s Outsourcing White Paper and flyers explain how Progent can enable you to build a secure and robust system architecture for your critical applications based on Microsoft Windows such as Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2003, and Office 2000.
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified Windows Server 2022 experts can help your organization to plan and carry out a cost-effective migration to Windows Server 2022 using a self-hosted network architecture or a hybrid model that integrates cloud-based Windows Server Online with a datacenter-based implementation of Windows Server 2022.
Progent can deliver a variety of low-cost online and onsite consulting services to assist you to deploy, manage, and debug workstations and handhelds powered by Windows, Apple macOS/OS X, Apple iOS, Android, or Linux.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have 20 years of background planning, installing, and supporting email solutions for businesses in the and throughout the U.S. Progent provides affordable Microsoft Exchange Servers consulting support to ensure that your email environment features compliance, high uptime, easy connectivity for off-site and mobile users, time-saving administrative utilities, and seamless integration with telephony. Progent provides expertise and support services for Exchange 2016, Microsoft Exchange 2013, Exchange 2010 Server, MS Exchange 2007 Server, Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server, and MS Exchange 20000 Server. Progent can also help small or mid-size companies to upgrade to MS Exchange 2016 Server or MS Exchange 2013.
Colocation sites allow companies to share enterprise-class facilities for hosting network equipment that runs mission-critical applications. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco premier IT experts can help your company with all facets of your colocation program including selecting and migrating to a colocation facility, designing network architecture, specifying required equipment, on-site and on-line troubleshooting, setting up online system administration, and training your IT staff.
By using virtual servers, businesses can run multiple virtual servers on one actual server. Virtualization technology enables companies to enjoy all the advantages of server isolation, while avoiding the expense that goes with buying extra server equipment. Virtualization is the enabling technology behind private clouds, which offer major advantages including reducing the costs of hardware, datacenter facilities, and management while enhancing data security, system availability, and recoverability. Other useful server management options are network monitoring software, Microsoft WSUS, and remote system management hardware. Progent's professional server management specialists can help you with all aspects of server virtualization and administration to allow your company to cut costs and conserve time.
Progent's support services for software/firmware update management provide organizations of any size a flexible and cost-effective alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your servers, endpoints printers and scanners, infrastructure appliances like routers and wireless access points, and IoT devices like alarms and health monitors.
Progent's remote connectivity and wireless synchronization specialists can help your business to design and deploy secure access solutions for off-site desktop PCs, notebooks, and wireless handhelds so they integrate tightly with your information network, allowing your business to optimize the productivity of your off-site workers.
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management consultants can assist you to run Cisco's management utilities alongside a selection of specialized third-party applications to build a complete network management solution to keep your network running reliably, fully utilize limited resources, protect your data, revive quickly from device failure or malicious attacks, and enable you to expand or reassign network resources intelligently and economically as your business evolves.
Lync 2013, rebranded Skype for Business, allows businesses of any size to create a manageable and protected communications ecosystem that permits a BYOD computing model with instant messaging (IM), real-time presence, web meetings with app sharing and whiteboard, and both IP and PSTN calling across a broad range of stationary PCs and mobile endpoints. Progent's certified Lync 2013 consultants and network architects can assist you to evaluate the business benefits of Lync Server 2013, create an on-premises, cloud-based (with Microsoft Lync Online) or hybrid model appropriate for your current and long-term plans, implement Lync Server 2013 in a way that expedites your ROI, and provide live online and on-premises training to your IT staff and end users. Progent offers expertise in critical components of a Lync Server 2013 solution including Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server and Exchange Server, and Progent can assist you to combine Lync Server 2013 with key Office and Microsoft 365 apps such as Outlook and PowerPoint.
Progent offers live online instruction for a range of desktop apps and operating systems such as Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 Excel, Word, Publisher and Outlook plus Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows 10 and 8.1. Remote instruction provides the advantages of traditional physical classroom instruction, including immediate interaction between clients and trainers, but eliminates the costs of transportation and the hassle of attempting to accommodate the availability of many students. Available to single students or groups of any size, Progent's live online training allows the trainer to conduct the seminar from a remote facility and the students can be spread throughout an office or across the country. Virtual education deploys proven learning mechanisms such as virtual white boards, electronic hand-raising, and collaborative desktops. Classes can be short and targeted to specialized subjects or extended in time and wider in coverage.
For small and midsize businesses, network security and compliance can be excessively complex to master but too risky to ignore. The largest biggest institutions have been breached, and the leading cloud services have occasionally been taken down. It looks as though there's no place to hide. Progent has made it economical for small and midsize companies to implement critical IT security tasks effectively by providing the advantage of billable time to the closest minute without any minimum charge for remote help. You have the help of a world-class computer expert to deliver precisely the help you need when you need it. Progent’s CISA, CISM, GIAC, CISSP and ISSAP certified consultants can assist you with any level of network security including vulnerability assessments, virus defense and recovery, spam and email content filtering, email data loss and data leak protection, regulatory compliance reporting, and designing a comprehensive security strategy.
Cisco's Catalyst wireless controllers streamline the management of Wi-Fi networks by unifying the provisioning and control of Wi-Fi APs, tuning wireless throughput by reducing the impact of RF congestion, improving wireless availability with rapid auto-failover, and strengthening data security by identifying cyber threats and filtering traffic content based on user class and location. Progent can help you to configure Cisco Wi-Fi controllers to manage wireless LANs of all sizes. Progent can help you to maintain and troubleshoot your existing Cisco Wi-Fi solution or carry out an efficient migration to Cisco's modern Wi-Fi controller technology.
Progent's certified Windows Server 2022 experts can help your company to design and carry out a cost-effective migration to Windows Server 2022 using an on-premises system architecture or a hybrid model that combines cloud-hosted Windows Server on Azure with an on-prem installation of Windows Server 2022.
Microsoft Small Business Server is a low-cost suite of server products that offers the basis for a powerful but easy-to-manage information. The inter-connectivity demands of the Microsoft .NET components included with Microsoft Small Business Server calls for an IT expert with hands-on expertise and broad experience in planning and implementing effective end-to-end information technology systems. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have broad backgrounds with the technologies incorporated in SBS 2011 and Microsoft SBS 2008. This expertise ensures you success in deploying, administering, and servicing IT environments based on the Microsoft SBS line of servers and applications.
Progent can provide the services of a certified consultant with an extensive background deploying products from the leading telepresence providers including Cisco/Tandberg, Polycom, LifeSize and Radvision and can help you to plan, install, upgrade, or maintain a video conferencing environment that protects your current investment and optimizes the business value of your IT network. Progent can also provide the expertise of infrastructure consultants who can help companies of any size to create and troubleshoot a network that provides the performance, dependability, protection, and scalability you need to support your telepresence environment.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers indispensable, standardized tools to IT professionals as well as to information workers, reducing the difficulty of creating, integrating, administering, and accessing enterprise data and analytical programs in environments ranging from mobile devices to enterprise information networks. The sophistication and integration demands of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 require a network consulting firm with hands-on experience and wide knowledge in planning and deploying data-driven, end-to-end business IT solutions. The knowledge and experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with an average of more than 10 years of professional work involving Microsoft integration, ensures you success in designing, configuring and managing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 applications that are well integrated with the Microsoft .NET environment.
Progent's Microsoft-certified experts can provide a range of network consulting services to assist companies of any size to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot networks that include desktops, notebooks, tablets, or Windows phones powered by Windows 8.1. For enterprises, Progent's experienced project managers can assist to set up testing labs to assess Microsoft Windows 8.1 and plan and execute Windows 8.1 migration plans based on industry best practices.
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Progent’s IT outsourcing packages provide budget-friendly network support for small businesses. Whether it involves planning system architecture, creating an internal Help Desk or using an outside one, deploying an updated e-mail system, monitoring your system, or creating a web-based eCommerce application, outsourcing your network engineering services can contain costs and eliminate uncertainties, permitting IT service budgets to increase in a more moderate and controlled fashion than is possible by assembling a large, knowledgeable in-house IT organization. Progent’s Outsourcing White Paper and datasheets show how Progent can enable you to build a protected and robust system architecture for your vital business software powered by Microsoft Windows such as Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, and Microsoft Office 2000.
Progent delivered a wireless networking solution that enabled a school to improve productivity and avoid the ongoing expense of a dedicated link. Progent proposed a Proxim Tsunami high-speed wireless bridge. The low-cost building-to-building Proxim bridge is intended for interfacing separate locations up to 2.5 miles apart and can extend to even greater ranges. This wireless alternative offered better bandwidth and dependability than simply amplifying the 802.11b network, and because it utilizes the 5.8Ghz spectrum it offered protection against local interference.
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes next generation behavior analysis technology by SentinelOne to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks.
Progent's Duo managed services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity verification with iOS, Android, and other personal devices.
Progent can help your business to plan an upgrade to Teams from Skype for Business and install, administer, and debug a cloud or mixed deployment of Teams. Progent can assist you to integrate Teams with Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 apps, Exchange Online, SharePoint, and your phone infrastructure.
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Progent can assist you to plan and carry out a smooth move from onsite Active Directory to cloud-based Azure AD or to a hybrid system that uses Azure AD DS and AD Connect to unify identity management across onsite and Azure resources.
Progent’s Microsoft-certified consultants can provide small and midsize businesses IT consulting, support, and repair services for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is an enterprise portal platform for intelligently connecting people, teams and information. SharePoint Portal Server offers a common spot for your workers or clients to connect to, manage, share and manipulate relevant information, files, and software and to communicate with other people. It enables quicker and better decisions, more efficient sharing across groups and more streamlined business practices. The main objective of SharePoint Server is to bring together, in a relevant way, all of the diverse sources of information available within and outside an organization. Windows SharePoint Services connect workers, clients, teams and projects with the knowledge they’ve developed in a manner that makes data convenient to locate, download and re-use.
Progent's certified consultants can assist you to assess the benefits of Windows Server 2012 R2 for your organization, develop test systems and rollout strategies, tune your network for on-premises, multi-site, private or public cloud-based, and partial-cloud datacenters, educate your IT management team, develop an enterprise-wide security strategy, streamline network administration, assist with creating applications, and build and validate a disaster recovery/business continuity plan.
Dynamics GP/Great Plains accounting offers analysis and reporting features that allow you to track all operations, sales and expenses, and market patterns with integrated drill-down, inquiry, and reporting functions. Progent's Dynamics GP/Great Plains reporting consulting services can help you create reports that allow you to analyze your business more completely, converting uncooked data into valuable business information. Progent can improve your reporting and business analysis by providing Crystal Reports expertise, FRx help, and Microsoft Excel programming. In addition to offering reporting consulting, Progent can provide Microsoft .NET consulting, Microsoft SQL Server help, and programming experience with VBasic, XML and other development environments in order to offer custom business software development and web commerce solutions that integrate transparently with Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains.
Progent can help your business to evaluate the wealth of subscription plans available with Microsoft 365, previously branded Office 365, and integrate your network with Microsoft 365 so you derive top business value. Progent offers expertise with cross-platform environments that include Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. Progent can also help you to build and maintain hybrid networks that seamlessly combine on-premises and cloud-based products and services.
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Progent has 20 years of background helping small and mid-size businesses to design, install, optimize, administer, and troubleshoot IT networks that support telecommuters.
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service provides complete hosting of a small or mid-size company's production servers in a solution that delivers the highest level of dependability and scalability and is in addition easy to move to another host. ProSight Virtual Hosting and management options are based on mature virtualization technologies that enable small businesses with mixed- platform environments to save dramatically on the costs of capital investments, infrastructure support, and network management while achieving enterprise-class fault tolerance and an unprecedented level of vendor independence.
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior analysis tools from SentinelOne to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats.
Progent's Microsoft-certified SharePoint 2019 and SharePoint Online consultants can provide affordable online and onsite expertise, application development, and debugging services for organizations of all sizes who intend to upgrade to SharePoint 2019 or SharePoint Online from earlier releases of SharePoint. Progent can assist customers design and execute a cost-effective migration to SharePoint 2019 on prem, SharePoint Online, or a hybrid environment that combines local and cloud resources into a cohesive intranet solution.
Progent's Citrix experts can help your business to design, implement, administer, and troubleshoot a virtualized application delivery and management system based on Citrix XenApp. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can show you how to enhance your infrastructure for delivering server and client-side applications, and Progent's datacenter support consultants can help you to manage and support a remote datacenter that features high uptime, advanced protection, and fast recovery.
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consulting professionals offer high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support including infrastructure design, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-level appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of security, performance, and high reliability for network environments of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built platform, eliminating possible OS-specific security holes.
