For small company networks located throughout the state of Oregon, Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified technical experts can deliver online help and troubleshooting to resolve your network problems fast and affordably. Progent has developed world-class skills, software utilities, and support knowledge bases to identify and fix IT problems while avoiding the expense and delays normally associated with onsite technical service dispatches.

If your Oregon company is situated beyond the larger metro areas such as Portland, Salem, Eugene, Gresham, or Beaverton, your local network support options may be limited in technical expertise, or not available during urgent situations. This results in a office network that is unpredictable or causing productivity loss due to technical issues going unresolved for too long. Progent’s team of seasoned network consultants average more than 10 years of real-world computer industry experience, in the trenches of computer network support, performing a large variety of technical projects for a varied range of clients. This means you get not just the technical competency needed for the job, but an expert with proven methods for applying that expertise to provide affordable network solutions.

Consulting and Support Expertise for System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM 2016)
System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager is a component of Microsoft's System Center 2016 suite of network monitoring and management products and is designed to offer a unified solution for deploying and administering virtualized datacenters across hybrid networks that can include private clouds and Microsoft Azure services. Progent's SCVMM 2016 consultants can help organizations of all sizes with all facets of building, implementing, and maintaining a SCVMM 2016 ecosystem. Progent can assess your virtualization topology, show you how to migrate efficiently from legacy versions of Virtual Machine Manager, develop processes for building and deploying virtual machines and hosts, design fault-tolerant scale-out clusters, connect your private cloud infrastructure with public clouds, configure virtual switches, write and debug PowerShell scripts, and assist you to assess the strategic business benefits of the latest technologies like Storage Spaces Direct and Shielded VMs. Progent's certified hypervisor experts can provide advanced Windows Hyper-V consulting and VMware vSphere support.

Network Consulting Services for Small Governments and School Districts
Progent has extensive experience delivering a full-spectrum of online network support and urgent repair services to local governments and school districts throughout the U.S. Progent is one of the pioneers in providing expert online IT consulting and has delivered network solutions to organizations in all 50 states. Progent's online IT support for local governments eliminates travel expenses and solves problems more quickly than onsite support.

Oracle DBA Support and Application Programming
Progent offers online access to an Oracle expert for Oracle database administration support or an Oracle application programmer. Progent can help you to create efficient solutions for key Oracle DBA activities such as performance tuning, backup/recovery strategies, and information security, or train your IT staff to follow industry leading practices for simplifying major management tasks. Progent can also offer the support of a PL/SQL programmer to help you to design, tune, troubleshoot, or port Oracle programs that can vary from business reports to data-driven web sites. Progent has experience with Oracle SQL Developer, SQL *Plus, and JDeveloper and can assist you to optimize existing SQL code using Oracle's SQL Tuning Advisor.

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Progent accepts VISA, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover CardsProgent's easy payment alternatives for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning Consulting Support
Progent can provide advanced online consulting for disaster recovery/business continuity planning, validation, and education to help you to respond to possible catastrophes, reduce downtime for your essential IT operations, avoid lost information, and comply with regulatory mandates and contractual requirements. Progent's business continuity experts can work closely with your management and network support group to perform risk and business impact evaluation, identify dependencies, identify human and physical resources needed to operate your business, prioritize business-critical IT functions and specify acceptable restoration times, select colocation sites, configure safe remote access capability for key employees, implement notification mechanisms and define responsibilities for personnel, write a comprehensive recovery plan, and train key people to carry your agreed upon plan. Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consultants can help you to design and build a cost-effective disaster recovery/business continuity solution for multi-site or hybrid cloud deployments utilizing failover cluster technology proven in Microsoft's massive Azure public cloud.

NetApp MetroCluster High-Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that uses failover storage clustering with synchronous replication to provide rapid, zero RPO disaster recovery (DR) between sites located as far as 185 miles apart from each other. Progent offers access to a certified NetApp MetroCluster expert who can help you to design, deploy, administer, upgrade, test and repair a disaster recovery system built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to select a topology for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your functional requirements and budget. Progent can make sure you follow leading practices for configuring your MetroCluster environment by delivering guidance with tasks such as assigning disk pools, arranging plexes layout, provisioning NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker, setting up a configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and testing your disaster recovery system to show adherence with information assurance standards and regulatory mandates.

Design and Deployment Support for Meraki Cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs
Progent's Meraki wireless AP consultants offer remote and onsite support to help organizations of any size to plan, deploy, maintain, upgrade or debug Wi-Fi systems that include Cisco Meraki wireless access points. Progent can assist you to configure and manage Cisco's Meraki-based wireless networks for environments that can range from a teleworker's home or a branch office all the way to a large campus or a nationwide enterprise. Progent can also assist you to configure additional Cisco technology including Catalyst, Nexus and Meraki switches, routers and firewalls to build a cohesive ecosystem that delivers the same access, performance, security compliance, ease of management and uptime for wired and Wi-Fi clients regardless of their location or computing device. (See Meraki switches consulting and troubleshooting services.)

NetWare vSphere and vCloud Integration and Troubleshooting
Progent can provide the support of a certified VMware VCDX consultant to help you design, configure, administer and troubleshoot VMware vSphere-powered virtualization solution for local networks, private and public clouds, or hybrid cloud deployments. Progent's VMware vSphere consulting team can provide advanced knowledge for deploying and integrating VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and VMware's NSX network virtualization platform for disaster recovery and application continuity. Progent has in-depth experience of VMware vCloud Director (vCD), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) and vCloud Suite used for managing private and hybrid cloud solutions that deliver maximum uptime, fault tolerance, and application mobility.

SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Session Border Controller Integration
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP infrastructure consultants and Cisco CUBE configuration experts can help organizations of any size to design, integrate, manage, debug and enhance Cisco's SIP infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers affordable remote or onsite expertise to assist companies to migrate smoothly to an advanced unified communications network that offers fast ROI. Progent's certified Microsoft unified communications consultants can assist you to configure interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's rich media platforms like Skype for Business or Lync Server for connectivity to a SIP PSTN trunk.

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Progent has provided online or onsite technical consulting assistance to businesses in each state in the country. Many of these clients have shown their appreciation to Progent via testimonials to the excellence of Progent's service personnel. Check out Progent's client testimonials to see what people say about the high level of Progent's consulting services

Deployment Consulting for Microsoft Lync Server 2013
Microsoft Lync Server 2013, renamed Skype for Business, enables businesses of all sizes to create a centrally managed and protected communications environment that permits a BYOD computing style with instant messaging (IM), presence, audio/video and web meetings with app sharing and whiteboard, and both IP-based and PSTN calling enabled for a broad assortment of desktop and mobile clients. Progent's certified Lync 2013 experts can assist your company to evaluate the business benefits of Lync Server 2013, design an in-house, cloud-based (with Microsoft Lync Online) or mixed model suitable for your current and long-term goals, deploy Lync 2013 so as to speed up your return on investment, and provide custom webinar and on-premises training to your management team and end users. Progent has expertise in critical components of a Lync 2013 deployment including Windows Server, SQL Server Express and Exchange Server, and Progent can help your organization to combine Lync 2013 with popular Office and Office 365 apps such as Outlook clients, Word and PowerPoint. Progent's Microsoft Skype for Business Server experts can also help your organization to design and carry out an efficient migration to Skype for Business.

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Disaster Recovery Solutions
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is a component of VMware vCenter that lets you define, automate and verify a consistent process for recovering services rapidly following a breakdown. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally controlled and automated recovery, application mobility, and non-intrusive site migration, failback and re-protect. SRM also supports non-intrusive testing for disaster recovery, updates and fixes and can generate audit reports to confirm full service recovery, validate SLAs and demonstrate compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware SRM consultant to help you to plan, configure, test and maintain a DR system powered by VMware SRM.

Migration Support for Microsoft Skype for Business
Progent's Skype for Business integrators can provide online and on-premises consulting services for organizations of any size to evaluate the costs/benefits of migrating to Microsoft Skype for Business or Skype for Business Online from any release of Microsoft Lync Server or Office Communications Server. Progent can assist you to design an on-premises, cloud-based or hybrid topology; interface Skype for Business with SQL Server,Exchange, SharePoint and Office or Office 365; configure HA mechanisms; connect Skype for Business with your PBX system and PSTN gateway; and integrate other communication systems like Cisco Video Interop Server. Progent's certified information security consultants can help you create and validate a security environment for your Skype for Business deployment that meets regulatory standards.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent can also assist you to install and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

Spam and Virus Filtering Services and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of leading data security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. Learn about Progent's entire ProSight family of value-priced outsourced network management services for small businesses.

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