Microsoft Windows Server 2008 represents an important step forward in making information systems more protected and fault tolerant, easier to virtualize and administer, faster, and able to provide an improved platform for web publishing. Progent can assist your company get the most from the enhancements built into Microsoft Windows Server 2008 by providing Microsoft-certified consulting, support, training, staffing, network monitoring, and security services.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you plan, document, implement, manage, and repair a system-wide migration to 64-bit server and desktop operating systems and applications. Progent can help you test your 64-bit environment to make sure it handles all of the key 32-bit applications that you intend to keep plus the new 64-bit versions of software you plan to run.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter.
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services provide substantially more performance than Cisco's legacy firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for new deployments. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can assist your company to maintain your current PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances and migrate efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also assist your company to design, configure, tune, administer and debug firewall environments built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services.
Years of background providing Microsoft expertise and Cisco network consulting has enabled Progent to build a unique capability for serving branch offices that need network help with the responsiveness associated with with small firms but which includes effective communications, complete documentation, and adherence to enterprise IT protocols. If your enterprise has a branch office located anywhere in California or any area covered by Progent's engineers, Progent can offer a broad array of on-premises and off-site IT support services and system design assistance.
Progent's non-stop interoffice connectivity and fault tolerant network infrastructure engineers can help small organizations create fault tolerant Interoffice connectivity via fully redundant system architectures featuring transparent failover. Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts can plan and deploy ultra-reliable Inter-office networks based on non-stop EIGRP routers or fault tolerant OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how redundant connections and automatic fail-over can provide economical 24x7 interoffice networking.
Barracuda Backup is a low-cost, subscription backup and disaster recovery service for small and mid-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup solution can incorporate a custom-designed hardware storage device built by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar functionality but which utilizes your own storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup protects critical business data produced locally, at one or more remote sites, or in the cloud. For disaster recovery, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), or to any site with a Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consulting experts can provide a wide range of consulting support services to help you to design, integrate, operate and troubleshoot a BDR solution based on Barracuda Backup.
Progent's Technical Response Center provides nationwide remote support for Windows and Cisco-based small business information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified support professionals provide phone support and online direct network access to isolate and repair network problems rapidly and economically. The scope of technical experience represented by Progent's staff of country-wide service professionals makes it possible to escalate even the most difficult network issues to qualified specialists as required.
Progent's expert application designers and programmers can help your company to create customizations to Microsoft Dynamics GP that address the special needs of your organization without losing the advantages of Windows integration and connectivity. Progent can also offer expertise with a selection of software development tools that can be used to build integrations with Microsoft GP/Great Plains. These tools include Microsoft Dexterity, Modifier, Visual Studio Tools for Dynamics, Continuum, eConnect, Web Services for Dynamics GP, and Integration Manager.
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service combines proven virtualization architecture, a world-class data center facility, and the technical expertise of Progent's Microsoft-certified engineering team to provide small and midsize businesses with a complete information technology outsourcing solution that improves network availability and protection, eliminates management distraction, and cuts costs. With Progent's Private Cloud Hosting, a smaller business can have each of its operating system platforms and critical business application servers hosted in a secure and fault tolerant facility on a high-performance, non-stop virtual machine set up and maintained by Progent's computer service experts.
Progent can assist your business to evaluate the wealth of subscription options available with Microsoft 365, previously branded Office 365, and integrate your information network with Microsoft 365 so you derive maximum business value. Progent supports cross-platform environments that incorporate Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. Progent can also assist you to create and manage hybrid ecosystems that seamlessly integrate local and cloud-based resources.
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified wireless infrastructure experts offer online or on-premises configuration and debugging services to assist your organization to design, configure, upgrade, optimize, manage and troubleshoot Aironet Wi-Fi access point deployments of any size or topology. Progent's Cisco wireless controller consultants can also assist you to integrate your Wi-Fi ecosystem with your wired network infrastructure and cloud-based resources to build a seamless enterprise connectivity foundation that is easy to manage and scale. Progent also can provide affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to assist you to decide the most efficient selection, placement and configuration of Aironet Wi-Fi access points to work with your specific workplace layout, building structure, and expected network traffic.
VMware's market leading Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is an extension to VMware vCenter that allows you to specify, automate and verify a repeatable workflow for restoring services quickly after an outage. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally managed and automated recovery, application mobility, plus transparent site relocation, failback and re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also enables transparent testing for site recovery, updates and patches and can produce reports to confirm full service restoration, validate SLAs and prove disaster recovery compliance. Progent offers the skills of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to assist you to plan, configure, test and manage a disaster recovery solution powered by VMware Site Recovery Manager.
Progent's compensation model is built on revenue sharing, so similar to being an independent consultant, your earnings are directly tied to your generated revenue. Some of our support staff focus on lifestyle issues and choose to consult at an easy pace, using our self-determined calendar to follow individual pursuits such as mountain biking, motorcycle racing, skiing, surfing, vacations, or spending private time with family and acquaintances. Other consultants take advantage of the opportunity to earn major bucks through lots of work and extended days. Progent completely supports either side of the spectrum plus everything in the middle.
Progent can provide the expertise of Microsoft-certified consultants and seasoned database application developers, database administrators, project management experts, network infrastructure architects, business continuity planning specialists, and data security consultants to help your business to evaluate the likely advantages of SQL Server 2012 for your organization, install test systems at your site or at Progent's lab, design and execute out an efficient migration to SQL Server 2012 from earlier releases of SQL Server or from legacy RDBMS solutions, and define an efficient and safe network infrastructure that lets you maximize the business benefit of SQL Server 2012.
System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager provides automatic backup and easy restore capabilities for Microsoft environment. SCDPM 2016 offers application-sensitive backup for key platforms like SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint Server, backs up Windows and Linux virtual machines, works with virtual machines running on Hyper-V as well as VMware, and integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Azure for cloud-based backup and recovery. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help organizations of all sizes to design, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot an enterprise-wide backup/restore system powered by System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager. Progent can help you to migrate from an older release of DPM or from a legacy solution, and Progent can optimize your SCDPM 2016 ecosystem for on local, hosted, cloud or hybrid deployments. Progent offers remote or onsite consulting expertise and can deliver as-needed guidance to help you through challenging issues or provide comprehensive project management or co-management support to help you complete your Data Protection Manager 2016 deployment on time and within your budget.
SSL VPN makes it possible to establish a secure Internet connection between an enterprise network and virtually any remote computer without the need for pre-installed client software. Progent's Juniper-certified consultants can help you design, manage, and troubleshoot SSL VPN solutions based on Juniper's AS Series of remote access appliances.
Progent's Duo service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices.
Progent can assist businesses of any size to migrate all or part of their network infrastructure to the Microsoft Azure cloud. This can streamline network administration and lower equipment expense. Azure includes a wealth of cloud services and Progent can help you to evaluate the benefits and restrictions of various cloud networking architectures you can use with Azure. Progent can help you administer cloud-based or hybrid cloud and on-premises apps and network infrastructure and make sure that you avoid the common mistakes small companies make when migrating to the cloud. Progent can help you to configure VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, utilize VHD storage with Azure Storage, manage authentication with Azure Active Directory, and create backup-and-recovery mechanisms with Azure Backup. Progent can also help you to prepare firewalls and VPN tunnels and to manage Apple iOS devices and Google Android smartphones and tablets.
Progent can provide cost-effective remote consulting to assist businesses to access Amazon AWS cloud services including Amazon EC2 for virtual machine hosting, Amazon S3, and Amazon Glacier. Progent can assist your IT team with every aspect of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, preparedness evaluation, architectural design, testing, deployment, centralized administration, performance tuning, licensing management, backup/restore mechanisms, and security and compliance.
Progent's Microsoft consultants offer affordable online support and programming services to assist your business to design, implement, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft SharePoint 2010 installations that can feature web sites able to function as portals, extranets, document management tools, blogs, data marts, business analytics, enterprise search, Visio-driven workflows, and other tools to promote and enhance teamwork. Progent can show you how to integrate SharePoint 2010 with Microsoft SQL Server and with other databases and with Microsoft's popular office productivity applications like Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio. Progent can help you to migrate from previous versions of SharePoint or adapt a mix of web technologies into a consolidated and easy-to-manage SharePoint 2010 environment.
Progent's consultants can assist you with any stage of Azure cloud integration including requirements analysis, prerequisites evaluation, system architecture, pilot testing, implementation, centralized administration, performance tuning, license controls, disaster recovery strategies, security policy enforcement, and compliance validation. Progent can assist you to set up and troubleshoot firewall appliances and VPN tunnels so your clients can safely access to Azure resources, and Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you integrate key Microsoft technologies to run in Azure including Windows Server, Exchange, SQL Server and Skype for Business. Progent can also assist your organization to create a hybrid cloud ecosystem that seamlessly integrates on-premises datacenters with Azure-based resources.
Progent's Cisco-certified wireless consultants can assist businesses of any size to plan, deploy, administer and repair Cisco Aironet wireless AP solutions to achieve the performance, range, capacity, expandability, security and ease of management required for seamless access between Wi-Fi and wired networks. Progent offers affordable remote and onsite consulting services for both end-of-life and current 802.11ac Aironet access points and Progent can help your business plan and maintain deployments of indoor and outdoor/industrial Aironet Wi-Fi access points.
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants offer small and medium sized businesses consulting services for Microsoft Forefront TMG and ISA Servers. Microsoft's Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Servers include an advanced application-layer aware firewall that can secure your IT system from attack by outside and inside sources. Forefront TMG and ISA Server provide thorough inspection of Internet protocols such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which enables these security platforms to uncover many threats that can elude ordinary firewalls. The integrated firewall and VPN structure of Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Server support stateful filtering and monitoring of all VPN streams. ISA Servers are the mainstay of Microsoft's network security strategy, and Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers and CISSP, CISA and CISM certified security consultants can help you strengthen your IT protection through expert planning and integration of Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Servers. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to configure Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010, manage and troubleshoot any version of ISA Server, or upgrade from ISA Server to Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway.
Progent's Cisco Catalyst 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E Access Point experts can provide affordable online and onsite support for Catalyst Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E wireless access points.
Ubiquiti's UniFi family of Wi-Fi infrastructure appliances includes a wide selection of Wave 2 Wi-Fi access points (APs), security gateways, and managed switches. Ubiquiti UniFi appliances running on multiple sites with thousands of APs can be remotely provisioned and administered using free UniFi Controller software, which centralizes and simplifies deployment, discovery, administration, optimization, debugging, monitoring, and reporting. Progent offers the skills of veteran Wi-Fi consultants who can help your organization to assess the benefits of Ubiquiti's UniFi products for your business and assist you to plan, install, administer, and troubleshoot your UniFi solution.
Progent's network consultants can help you to streamline desktop update and patch management by providing expertise with administration tools that include System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Systems Management Server 2003, and WSUS.
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services deliver significantly more value than Cisco's earlier firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new installations. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can assist your company to maintain your existing PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 security appliances and migrate efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also help you to design, deploy, optimize, manage and debug firewall solutions based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services.
Fortinet next-generation firewalls are leaders in delivering best-in-class performance for encrypted data inspection. Progent's Fortinet FortiGate firewall experts can assist you to integrate your Fortinet FortiGate firewalls to safeguard your IT resources at the network perimeter, within the data center, at branch locations, and in the cloud.
Small to mid-sized businesses can now get all the benefits of Operations Manager 2007 and also have quick access to Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified IT support professionals. With Progent's affordably priced network service programs, mid-size organizations can select a basic co-sourcing package built around Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 with server monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and remote troubleshooting or a comprehensive round-the-clock outsourcing package. Progent offers expertise in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 to offer small and midsize company information systems world-class availability, security and productivity.
Progent can assist you to design, deploy and administer a backup solution based on MSP360 Backup software to protect your assets residing on any leading public cloud. Progent offers monitoring and remote management to protect against data loss caused by user mistakes, computer glitches, ill-intentioned insiders, and external assaults such as ransomware.
Progent's Cisco-certified wireless technology consultants can help you to configure, administer, and debug Cisco Small Business Wireless Access Points.
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If your organization does not need emergency remote support but expects to need assistance with your information system soon, you can save time and expenses and guarantee that the right IT skill will be ready when you want it by getting in touch with a Progent sales specialist and signing up as a customer. For more information, call 800-993-9400 or send email to information@progent.com.
Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains allows you to expand and control your company better by offering easy availability of decision-driving data and a rapid ROI. Dynamics GP/Great Plains offers major productivity benefits such as its ability to extend the reach of your company, handle your financials, computerize financial processes, unify processes across your business, improve inventory control, increase order accuracy, grow sales and shorten turnaround time, and increase free cash flow. Progent can help you set up and maintain a reliable, secure server and network foundation to support Great Plains, and can provide expert Microsoft Dynamics GP support professionals to help you reap the full advantages of your Dynamics GP business management system.
Altaro VM Backup software from Hornetsecurity provides small and mid-size businesses a dependable and budget-friendly solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered VMs. Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, remote, multi-site, and cloud architectures and also enables cost-effective backup to Microsoft Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup protects against ransomware attacks via Immutable Cloud Storage. This produces tamper-proof backup data that cannot be modified by anyone including root users. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can provide a broad range of online or on-premises consulting services to assist you to plan, deploy, optimize and troubleshoot a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution powered by Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a managed backup/restore service based on Altaro VM Backup software.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 includes major improvements to the capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and introduces powerful innovations plus a redesigned architecture. These improvements favorably impact key IT areas including manageability, high availability (HA), security, cost of ownership, teamwork, expandability, performance, cross-version interoperability, and the user experience. Progent's certified Exchange 2013 consulting professionals can help you understand the potential advantages of upgrading to Exchange 2013, design a cost-effective test and deployment strategy, and train your IT team to manage your Exchange Server 2013 environment. Progent also offers ongoing online consulting and support and management services for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013.
Progent provides fault tolerant load balancing consulting covering system load balancing, load balanced program, network backbone routing, and content dispatching products including F5 Networks 3DNS. High availability load balancing technologies for which Progent can provide consulting expertise include Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Access Gateway, Cisco CSS, Cisco Distributed Director and ACNS, and F5 Networks BIG-IP.
Progent can help you in all facets of your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 such as planning high availability (HA) infrastructure for an on-premises, Microsoft cloud connected or hybrid deployment; server and CAL licensing requirements for Exchange 2016 Server and Windows Server 2012 R2; moving mailboxes; Hyper-V strategy; determining storage capacity required for your virtual machines, databases and logs; configuring hardware load balancing for fault-tolerant CAS services; designing, setting up and validating Exchange Servers and Windows Servers and Database Availability Groups (DAGs); integration with SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online; updating the firewall; creating SSL certs; performing client remediation with Office 2010 or greater or Microsoft 365; and configuring Outlook on the web.
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified networking experts offer advanced support services for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (previously 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 design UCS server failover solutions.
Progent's Wi-Fi IP phone configuration and troubleshooting consultants can provide remote and on-premises assistance to help you create and manage a Cisco Wi-Fi IP phone deployment by delivering integration services that can range from troubleshooting the configuration of a wireless IP phone or AP to providing comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing services for modernizing the wireless infrastructure of an entire campus.
Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains software offers analysis and reporting features that let you track all operations, sales and expenses, and sales patterns with integrated drill-down, query, and reporting functions. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains reporting consulting services can enable you to create reports that allow you to understand your business more thoroughly, turning uncooked data into useful business information. Progent is able to improve your reporting and business analysis by offering Crystal Reports expertise, FRx help, and Microsoft Excel programming. In addition to delivering reporting help, Progent can provide Microsoft .NET consulting, Microsoft SQL Server help, and application design with VBasic, XML and other development environments in order to offer custom line-of-business application development and web commerce solutions that integrate transparently with Microsoft Dynamics GP.
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Progent's ProSight Virtual hosting services offer small businesses a range of advantages such as reduced capital costs, savings on operational expense, better executive focus, world-class security, enhanced fault tolerance, and regulatory compliance.
Progent has over two decades of background deploying, and supporting the core components that make up Microsoft System Center and can assist your organization to design, deploy, support, and repair your System Center ecosystem to maximize the uptime and performance of your applications and infrastructure across multiple Windows and Linux/Unix operating systems and local and Cloud-based datacenters. Progent's consultants can assist your organization to migrate to the current version of System Center from an older release or from another IT management solution to provide the advantages of best-in-class provisioning, automation, security and compliance, plus datacenter and critical application performance monitoring.
Progent's Cisco Security/VPN professionals and CCIE and CCNP certified experts can help your small or medium sized business deploy and support Cisco's security and Virtual Private Network technology such as routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN access concentrators. Cisco VPN products include both remote access and site-to-site VPNs with Cisco IOS Software and Advanced Integrated Module hardware encryption cards, and hardware appliances, such as a VPN concentrator, router, Cisco PIX Firewall, or dedicated VPN server for dial-up services. Cisco VPN solutions are simple to administer and offer the flexibility to expand with your growing business needs. Progent's Cisco-Premier network consultants support Cisco's complete family of products aimed at preventing information theft, virus and worm outbreaks, Denial of Service attacks, and other security risks to your network. Progent can help you integrate Cisco technology to get secure access, intrusion protection, and comprehensive Identity services based on Cisco Access Control Server using RADIUS security and TACACS to create a central client access control framework for user authentication, permissions, and accounting from an easy-to-use Web interface.