Progent can help companies of all sizes to migrate any part of their computing infrastructure to the Microsoft Azure cloud. This can simplify IT administration and lower equipment investments. Microsoft Azure offers a wealth of cloud services and Progent can help you to understand the advantages and limitations of different cloud computing architectures you can use with Azure. Progent can show you how to manage cloud-based or hybrid cloud and on-premises applications and network infrastructure and ensure that you avoid the common mistakes small companies make when migrating to a public cloud. Progent can help you to set up cloud servers on Azure Virtual Machines, use cloud storage with Azure Storage, manage authentication with Azure Active Directory, and build transparent backup mechanisms with Azure Backup. Progent can also help you to configure firewalls and IPsec VPN tunnels and to manage iPhones and iPads and Google Android smartphones and tablets.
Exchange Server 2013 includes significant enhancements to the capabilities of its predecessor Exchange Server 2010 and introduces important innovations plus a redesigned structure. These improvements favorably impact key IT areas such as manageability, availability, security and compliance, cost of ownership, teamwork, scalability, performance, cross-version interoperability, and the user experience. Progent's certified Exchange 2013 consulting experts can help you evaluate the potential business benefits of upgrading to Exchange 2013, design a cost-effective test and rollout strategy, and educate your IT team to manage your Exchange Server 2013 environment. Progent can also provide ongoing online support and management for Microsoft Exchange 2013.
Progent's Microsoft-certified failover clustering experts can assist you to assess the benefits of adopting Windows Server 2012 clustering technology to build a powerful fault-tolerant/disaster recovery solution, help your organization to plan and deploy a Windows Server 2012 system, provide online and on-premises consulting expertise and engineering support for failover clusters that include physical servers or virtual ones, and show you how to centralize the management of failover clusters.
If your business operates a UNIX or Linux environment or a multi-OS IT environment, Progent's CISM, CISSP and ISSAP-certified consultants can help your whole enterprise in a wide array of security topics such as security administration practices, security architecture and strategies, connection management products and methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, telecommunications, infrastructure and web security, and business continuity planning. CISA and CISSP stipulate the core skills and worldwide standards of knowledge that information security professionals are required to possess. These certification offer IT management the confidence that those who have achieved their CISM, CISSP or ISSAP qualification have the experience and knowledge to deliver effective security management and engineering services.
Progent's certified Windows Server 2022 consultants can help your company to design and carry out an efficient migration to Windows Server 2022 using an on-premises deployment architecture or a hybrid model that integrates cloud-hosted Windows Server on Azure with an on-prem implementation of Windows Server 2022.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts have more than a decade of background planning, implementing, enhancing and fixing System Center Operations Manager environments and can provide organizations of all sizes advanced remote or onsite consulting support for Microsoft SCOM 2012. Progent can assist your company to design a topology for System Center 2012 Operations Manager servers that delivers the performance and resilience required to monitor your datacenter efficiently, whether your datacenters are onsite, cloud-based, or a mixed environment. Progent's SCOM consultants can also help you to import and set up System Center 2012 Operations Manager management packs based on best practices for monitoring network fabric as well as both Microsoft and third-party apps and services. In addition, Progent can provide fast remote or on-premises troubleshooting to help you to fix serious issues detected by System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
Progent delivered a wireless integration solution that enabled a school to improve productivity and avoid the ongoing costs of a dedicated link. Progent proposed a Proxim Tsunami wireless 60Mbps bridge. The low-cost building-to-building Proxim wireless bridge is designed for connecting separate sites up to 2.5 miles apart and can extend to even greater distances. This wireless alternative offered improved bandwidth and reliability than recourse to amplifying the 802.11b wireless network, and since it uses the 5.8Ghz band it provided protection against outside interference.
ProSight WAN Watch is an infrastructure management service that makes it easy and affordable for small and mid-sized businesses to map out, track, enhance and debug their connectivity appliances such as routers and switches, firewalls, and wireless controllers plus servers, endpoints and other networked devices. Incorporating cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management technology, ProSight WAN Watch ensures that network maps are always current, copies and manages the configuration information of almost all devices connected to your network, tracks performance, and generates alerts when problems are discovered. By automating complex network management activities, WAN Watch can cut hours off common tasks like network mapping, expanding your network, finding appliances that require important software patches, or isolating performance bottlenecks.
Progent's certified Microsoft Windows 2000 consultants can help you enhance the capability of your existing Windows 2000 Servers and can streamline network administration, provide technical support and troubleshooting, and enhance security. Progent can also help you design, justify, and implement a strategy to upgrade from Windows Server 2K to Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Progent is experienced in designing test installations to eliminate the technical risk associated with moving to Windows 2003 Server by uncovering potential hardware and software compatibility issues.
For companies with a combination of Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows computers, there are two basic alternatives for running Microsoft Windows-only software on an Apple Mac: an external connection to an actual Windows PC or local simulation of a Microsoft Windows operating system on a computer. Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection Client for Apple Mac allows you to attach an Apple Mac to a networked Microsoft Windows-based PC to run Windows software and share system resources. Virtual PC for Mac simulates Windows on a Mac system so you are able to use Microsoft Windows applications directly. Progent's Mac technology consultants can assist your organization to maintain these solutions for using Microsoft Windows applications on your Apple Macs and can in addition assist your business to assess and configure other solutions for Microsoft Windows platform emulation.
Progent's Meraki Wi-Fi AP consultants provide online and onsite support to assist organizations of any size to design, install, maintain, upgrade or repair Wi-Fi networks that utilize Cisco Meraki wireless access points. Progent can assist your business to configure and support Cisco's Meraki-based Wi-Fi networks for sites that range from a teleworker's home or a branch office to a campus or a multi-site enterprise. Progent can also help you to integrate additional Cisco technology such as switches, routers and firewalls to create a seamless network infrastructure that delivers identical access, responsiveness, security, ease of management and uptime for wired and Wi-Fi clients regardless of their mobility or computing device.
Progent can assist you to design and carry out an efficient migration from on-premises Active Directory to cloud-hosted Microsoft Entra ID (formerly called Azure Actve Directory) or to a hybrid system that deploys Microsoft Entra Domain Services and Microsoft Entra Connect to unify identity and access services for both on-premises and Azure resources.
Progent's consultants can provide remote and on-premises expertise for organizations of all sizes to evaluate the costs/benefits of upgrading to Skype for Business from any release of Lync Server or Microsoft Office Communications Server. Progent can help your business to plan a local, cloud-based or hybrid topology; integrate Skype for Business with Microsoft SQL Server,Exchange Server, SharePoint and Office or Microsoft 365; set up HA mechanisms; interface Skype for Business with your PSTN gateway; and integrate third-party communication platforms like Cisco UC. Progent's certified network security experts can help you create and verify a security strategy for your Skype for Business deployment that is compliant with regulatory standards.
Microsoft Mac Office allows Mac users to receive the benefits of the world's most popular business applications. Progent's Apple-certified Macintosh consultants can show you how to configure Mac Office on a mixed-platform network combining Apple OS X and Windows-powered computers so that Macintosh users can access the latest capabilities of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage for Mac in order to share data and system resources with colleagues who run Windows. Progent's consultants have expertise with both Mac and Windows platforms and can provide service for environments that combine Apple Macintosh with Windows computers with complete resource sharing, or networks which carefully restrict sharing between Apple Mac and Windows systems.
System Center Configuration Manager 2016 automates application and device deployment at scale, streamlines security and compliance settings control, keeps track of network assets, protects against corporate data leakage, provides health reporting, enables safe self service, and offers a single control mechanism for managing multi-OS ecosystems based on on-premises, cloud-centric, or hybrid deployment architectures. Progent's Microsoft-certified SCCM 2016 consultants and Microsoft Azure cloud specialists can assist businesses of any size with any aspect of designing, installing, operating and troubleshooting a SCCM 2016 solution for local, cloud, or hybrid environments.
Years of background delivering Microsoft expertise and Cisco network consulting has allowed Progent to develop a unique ability for supporting branch offices that need network service with the responsiveness common to with small companies but which offers professional client interaction, complete documentation, and compliance with corporate IT protocols. If your corporation has a sales office located anywhere in California or any region covered by Progent's engineers, Progent can provide a broad range of in-person and off-site IT consulting services and network design expertise.
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Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any comprehensive IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can perform thorough penetration tests without the knowledge of your company's in-house IT staff. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are properly set up and actively monitored. Progent can provide continuous automatic penetration testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, harvested credentials, overlooked patches, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks typical of the latest strains of ransomware.
If your company computer system combines UNIX, Linux or Sun Solaris technology with MS Windows, Progent can show you how to integrate your computers into a unified network that permits all your operating systems to run side by side for simple management, transparent dataflow, high dependability, superior throughput, and strong security. Progent's UNIX and Windows coexistence assistance offerings include IT infrastructure integration and service, consulting for Microsoft Windows services for UNIX (SFU), remote network monitoring and management, remote network help and troubleshooting, in-person technical support, and Help Desk Call Center support.
Progent can assist your business to design a migration to Microsoft Teams from Skype for Business Online and configure, manage, and debug a cloud or hybrid deployment of Microsoft Teams. Progent can assist you to connect Teams with Office and Microsoft 365 apps, Exchange Online, SharePoint, and your phone system.
Nagios and MRTG are useful, free monitoring tools that run under the Linux OS and can be deployed to analyze UNIX networks, Microsoft Windows networks, or mixed-platform situations where the Linux OS and Microsoft Windows run side by side. The Nagios monitor lets system managers to monitor network services including SMTP, HTTP, FTP, and NNTP. MRTG allows you to track the bandwidth in and out of SNMP network appliances such as servers, routers, and switches. Progent's network integration consultants can show you how to use both these programs to tune and repair your computer network.
Progent's Cisco CCIE Wi-Fi network consultants can provide online or on-premises configuration and debugging services to assist you to plan, configure, upgrade, tune, manage and troubleshoot Aironet wireless AP deployments of any scale or architecture. Progent's Cisco wireless controller experts can also help you to integrate your wireless ecosystem with your wired network and cloud-hosted resources to build an enterprise-wide connectivity solution that is easy to administer and expand. Progent also can provide affordable wireless site surveys to assist you to determine the most appropriate selection, location and configuration of Aironet wireless APs to work with your specific workplace layout, construction, and expected network traffic.
Progent's consultants can assist you to plan and implement an efficient move from onsite Active Directory to cloud-based Microsoft Entra ID (formerly called Azure Actve Directory) or to a hybrid solution that deploys Microsoft Entra Domain Services and Microsoft Entra Connect to centralize identity and access services across on-premises and cloud assets.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (previously, formerly} branded Dynamics NAV and Navision) offers SMBs a single platform for financials, inventory, operations control, capacity planning, purchasing, sales and marketing, demand forecasting, and business analytics. Progent's Dynamics Business Central consultants can assist company to manage your legacy Dynamics NAV system or migrate smoothly to a cloud-hosted, onsite, or hybrid deployment.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the technology of leading data security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays within your security perimeter.
Progent's Cisco-certified Wi-Fi networking consultants offer remote and on-premises consulting and troubleshooting services to help your organization to design, install, administer, tune, and debug Wi-Fi networks that utilize Cisco's Meraki APs. Progent can also assist you to design and deploy hybrid networks that combine on-premises and cloud-hosted resources and that deliver seamless connectivity, advanced protection, unified management, and consistent performance for all your mobile and desktop endpoints.
Progent's wireless site survey and predictive modeling make it easy to plan, deploy and troubleshoot a Wi-Fi network customized for your environment, providing you a WLAN that has the coverage, speed, density, Quality of Service, security, and hand-off ability your business needs. Wi-Fi survey services from Progent include online predictive analysis for designing a Wi-Fi network and onsite site survey services for confirming, optimizing, and troubleshooting a functioning wireless LAN.
Progent's certified Windows Server 2019 experts can assist your organization to plan and implement an efficient migration to Windows Server 2019 using existing deployment architecture or a new cloud-based or hybrid deployment model. Windows Server 2019 delivers significant improvements in scale, performance, ease of management, virtualization, security and compliance, hybrid on-prem plus cloud deployments, availability, and Linux support.
Progent's data protection experts can assist your company to create, implement and troubleshoot a backup plan built around MSP360 software. MSP360 enables file/folder or image-based backup/restore for virtual machines and physical machines, works with all leading public clouds, and permits you to create a backup ecosystem with a low Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a granular RPO. With ProSight DPS 360 Backup, Progent can provide end-to-end monitoring and remote management of your backup system to protect against data loss resulting from human miscues, computer glitches, ill-intentioned users, and malware assaults such as ransomware. For more information, visit ProSight DPS 360 Backup solutions.
Progent can assist your business to understand the many subscription options offered with Microsoft 365, formerly called Office 365, and configure your information network with Microsoft 365 so you derive top business value. Progent supports multi-vendor environments that incorporate Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. Progent can also assist you to create and manage hybrid ecosystems that seamlessly integrate on-premises and cloud products and services.
Progent can help your business in any and all facets of your upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2016 including designing high availability (HA) architecture for a local, Microsoft cloud connected or hybrid environment; licensing compliance for Exchange 2016 and Windows Server 2012 R2+; migrating mailboxes; Hyper-V strategy; determining mass storage capacity required for your virtual machines (VMs), databases and logs; configuring hardware load balancing (HLB) for fault-tolerant client access services; planning, building and validating Exchange Servers and Windows Servers and DAG groups; setting up collaboration with SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online; preparing your firewall; resolving SSL issues; providing client remediation with Office 2010 or greater or Microsoft 365; and setting up Outlook on the web (formerly Outlook Web App).
Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2019 consultants can help you to evaluate the business case for upgrading to SQL Server 2019 and can deliver fast online or onsite access to experts in solution design and deployment, software development, SQL Server management, and network security.
Progent can assist you to create, implement and administer a backupup/restore solution based on MSP360 Backup technology to protect your IT resources hosted on any major public cloud. Progent can provide end-to-end monitoring and management to protect against data loss caused by user miscues, system glitches, malicious insiders, and malware attacks such as ransomware.
Progent's Cisco-Certified technology experts provide experienced PIX Firewall consulting services covering architecture, implementation and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The Cisco PIX 500 Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls offers strong user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector threat protection, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small offices and home offices to modular gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX firewalls provide a sensible level of security, speed and reliability for information networks of all sizes. PIX firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed operating system, PIX OS, minimizing possible OS-specific security vulnerabilities. The Cisco PIX Firewall has been awarded ICSA Firewall and IPsec certification plus Common Criteria EAL4 evaluation status. PIX firewalls provide an array of integrated security and networking services, including powerful application-aware firewall services, VoIP and multimedia security, site-to-site and remote-access IPsec VPN connectivity, intelligent access services, and flexible administrative tools. Progent's network experts can show you how to choose and integrate any Cisco PIX 500 Series firewalls including the Cisco PIX 501 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506E, PIX 515 Firewalls, the PIX 515E Firewall, the Cisco PIX 520 Firewall, Cisco PIX 525 Firewalls and the Cisco PIX 535.
Dynamics 365 Business Central (previously, formerly} branded Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Navision) offers small and midsize businesses a unified platform for financials, inventory control, operations control, capacity planning, procurement, sales and marketing, supply chain, and business reporting. Progent's Dynamics Business Central consultants can help company to maintain your legacy Dynamics NAV system or migrate efficiently to a cloud-hosted, local, or hybrid deployment model.
Progent's Microsoft-authorized consultants can show you how to evaluate the business case for deploying Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, advise you on the most sensible version of Microsoft SharePoint for your application, provide configuration and deployment services, help you to set up MS SQL Server as a supporting DBM, improve your network integrity, integrate your standard and customized application programs to work with SharePoint Server 2007, develop a comprehensive security strategy that includes portal solutions, and provide troubleshooting and Help Desk services.
Progent's Symantec experts can help you support legacy Symantec firewall and VPN appliances including the Symantec Raptor and Symantec VelociRaptor family or show you how to upgrade to current firewall/VPN technology. Progent can also help you create and implement a comprehensive security strategy that can include firewall and VPN devices and utilities, outsourced security and virus defense services, system monitoring products, and documented policies and enforcement procedures. Progent has the expertise to be your single resource for on-going network support, administration, training, and security consulting.
SQL Server 2005 delivers powerful, standardized tools to IT professionals as well as to information workers, reducing the difficulty of designing, integrating, managing, and using enterprise data and analytical applications on platforms ranging from handheld devices to enterprise data networks. The sophistication and integration demands of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 call for a network consultant with real-world expertise and broad knowledge in planning and building information-based, comprehensive business technology solutions. The knowledge and experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified engineering staff, with an average of more than 10 years of background supporting Microsoft integration, ensures you success in planning, deploying and managing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 applications that are well integrated with the Microsoft .NET platform.
Progent's wireless site survey services help you to plan, implement and troubleshoot a Wi-Fi LAN adapted to your facilities, offering you a wireless solution that delivers the coverage, speed, capacity, data protection, and roaming capability your company needs.
The cluster technology incorporated into the Datacenter and Enterprise versions of Windows Server 2008 is dramatically re-engineered to streamline the deployment, configuration, and administration of clusters that provide greater levels of network availability, protection, performance, and flexibility. New or enhanced capabilities include cluster verification, easier setup and installation, unified cluster administration, new cluster infrastructure for maximum uptime, hardened protection and quorum structure, fewer failure points, greater storage and memory capacity, and improvements for geographically dispersed clusters. Progent's consultants can assist you assess the advantages of Windows clustering, design and execute a deployment, educate your network support personnel to administer your failover clusters, provide continuing consulting and technical help services, and create and test a disaster recovery plan.
Progent's company culture will make you a more capable consultant by enhancing your technical skills and boosting the loyalty of your clients. Progent delivers this commitment by attracting the best consulting talent for you to operate with, providing an advanced system architecture, running proprietary software tools to enable the highest level of support, and by streamlining proven business models for attracting and retaining customers.
Cisco's Catalyst line of Wi-Fi controllers streamline the management of wireless LANs by unifying the provisioning and control of Wi-Fi access points, optimizing Wi-Fi performance by reducing the effect of RF congestion, enhancing Wi-Fi uptime with fast failover, and hardening data security by detecting threats and filtering traffic content according to user type and location. Progent's Wi-Fi consultants can assist your business to deploy Cisco wireless LAN controllers to manage wireless networks of all sizes. Progent can assist you to administer and troubleshoot your current Cisco Wi-Fi environment or carry out an efficient transition to Cisco's latest wireless controller solutions.
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's server and endpoint remote monitoring managed service that incorporates state-of-the-art remote monitoring and management (RMM) technology to keep your network running at peak levels by checking the state of critical devices that power your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers a problem, an alarm is sent automatically to your designated IT personnel and your assigned Progent consultant so that any looming issues can be resolved before they have a chance to impact productivity.