Progent's Microsoft-premier consultants can help you to enhance your application servers and/or workstations from 32 to 64 bits. Progent can assist you to understand the risks and advantages of upgrading to 64-bit processing, design an affordable upgrade process that minimizes business disruptions, and offer inexpensive, expert remote help to aid your organization to configure 64-bit operating systems and applications on your current computers.
Progent offers the support of an accredited engineer with expertise integrating technology from the major video conferencing/telepresence vendors such as Cisco, Polycom, and LifeSize and can assist your company to plan, configure, expand, or troubleshoot a video conferencing environment that preserves your current investment and optimizes the strategic value of your IT network. Progent can also provide the services of network infrastructure engineers who can assist businesses of all sizes to build and maintain a communications network that delivers the speed, reliability, security, and expandability you need to support your telepresence environment.
Progent's IT outsourcing packages offer economical network consulting for mid-size organizations. Whether it involves designing network architecture, creating an internal Help Desk or outsourcing a one, deploying an updated e-mail system, monitoring your network, or creating an on-line business solution, outsourcing your network technical services can reduce expenses and eliminate risks, allowing network support budgets to increase in a more linear and controlled manner than is feasible by amassing a large, knowledgeable internal network support organization. Progent's Outsourcing White Paper and flyers show how Progent can enable you to create a secure and highly available network foundation for your vital Windows-powered business software including Windows 2008, Exchange Server 2007, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Progent's support services for patch management provide organizations of any size a versatile and cost-effective solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your servers, such as printers, network infrastructure appliances such as routers and Wi-Fi access points, and Internet-of-Things devices such as alarms and health monitors.
Progent is among the most qualified IT consulting companies for integrating email and messaging systems powered by Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Progent specializes in helping small businesses get all the advantages of Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 under typical scenarios including upgrading from Microsoft Exchange 5.5, migration from an ISP-based or POP3 e-mail environment, and jobbing out your Exchange 2000 Server management.
Years of background providing Microsoft expertise and Cisco network consulting has allowed Progent to develop a unique capability for supporting branch offices that require IT service with the responsiveness associated with with small companies but which offers effective client interaction, complete documentation, and adherence to enterprise IT standards. If your corporation maintains a sales office situated anywhere in California or any region served by Progent's engineers, Progent can provide a wide array of on-premises and on-line IT support services and network design expertise.
Progent offers small businesses two specially designed network security inventory scanning packages that provide, for a set price, remotely administered scans of your security profile which are analyzed by expert information security specialists who interpret the data collected by the scan, present objective summaries of your current network security, and make recommendations for improvements. Progent offers two non-overlapping security inventory scanning packages for external and internal security testing that are priced to fit the budgets of small businesses while offering enterprise-class evaluations of your network's vulnerability to assault.
Barracuda's value-priced CloudGen Firewall devices combine web filtering, remote access, SSL tunnel VPN, high-security SD-WAN, and modern Zero-Trust protection along with centralized management throughout your entire enterprise including on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid network architectures. Public clouds supported include Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. Progent can deliver the depth of skill to be your one-stop source for network support, maintenance, education, and security consulting.
Application Publishing with Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 allows more control over intranet applications while supporting enhanced productivity by making these resources available to authorized remote or mobile users. ISA Server helps protect corporate applications, services, and data across all network components with application-layer filtering and comprehensive publishing wizards. Progent's Microsoft-expert ISA Server consultants can help you design, deploy, configure, and support Internet Security and Acceleration Server on your network so your business benefits from a smart and affordable combination of security, convenience, and speed.
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can provide small and mid-sized companies expert Microsoft SQL Server help. Microsoft SQL Server is a complete, Web-enabled database and data analysis platform that opens the door to the rapid creation of advanced business programs that offer your company a competitive advantage. SQL Server provides built-in support for XML and can query over the Internet and outside the corporate firewall. In addition to offering expertise, maintenance and problem solving services, Progent's SQL experts can help you use Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence to enhance the business value of your information system. Progent can also help you migrate from older editions of Microsoft SQL Server to Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
Microsoft allows you to create seamless hybrid ecosystems that combine Microsoft 365 and local Exchange deployments. This allows you to have specific Exchange mailboxes hosted on your physical datacenter or private cloud and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can assist you with any phase of planning, integrating and debugging your hybrid Exchange Online solution. Progent's Exchange consultants can deliver as-needed support to help you through stubborn technical bottlenecks and also can provide extensive project management outsourcing to ensure your hybrid Exchange initiative is carried out on time and within budget.
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Progent makes use of the Flexential Tampa data center primarily to provide private cloud hosting. Progent has a team of IT experts based in the vicinity of Tampa, and Progent can also provide online support from Progent's nationwide roster of Microsoft-certified consultants, Cisco-certified CCIE network infrastructure engineers, ISSIP-CISSP-certified security consultants, Hyper-V and VMware virtualization specialists, and veteran disaster recovery/business continuity planning experts. Progent can also help your business to design and implement a move to the Flexential data center by providing services like designing solution architecture, recommending hardware, system setup and validation, troubleshooting, streamlining online network management, and educating your IT support team.
Cisco's Catalyst line of Wi-Fi controllers simplify the administration of wireless networks by unifying the configuration and management of wireless APs, tuning Wi-Fi performance by reducing the impact of radio frequency congestion, improving wireless uptime with rapid failover, and hardening security by detecting cyber threats and analyzing traffic content based on user class and location. Progent's Wi-Fi consultants can assist your business to deploy Cisco Wi-Fi controllers to manage and monitor wireless LANs of any size. Progent can assist you to administer and troubleshoot your existing Cisco-based Wi-Fi environment or implement a smooth upgrade to Cisco's modern wireless controller technology.
Altaro VM Backup from Hornetsecurity offers small and mid-size businesses a dependable and affordable platform for backing up and restoring Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, offsite, multi-site, and cloud architectures and also enables cost-effective cloud backup to Microsoft Azure storage. Altaro VM Backup protects against ransomware attacks by leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage. This produces tamper-proof backup data that cannot be erased or modified by any user including administrators or root users. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers a wide range of remote or on-premises consulting services to assist you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot a modern backup/restore system based on Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a fully managed backup/restore service powered by on Altaro VM Backup.
Les Kent has a 35-year history of effective technology integration, corporate administration, marketing, and operations. He has shown a knack for developing sophisticated IT solutions during his time as as a system designer, software developer, project manager, implementation consultant, and troubleshooter for small businesses, start-ups, and global corporations.
Progent offers the support of a senior consultant with extensive hands-on experience installing, managing, and enhancing video conferencing systems from top-tier vendors including Cisco, TANDBERG, Polycom, and LifeSize. Progent's consultants can coordinate with your internal network support group, your Internet Service Provider, and your video conferencing technology supplier to help your company maximize the business value of your video conferencing solution.
Microsoft has made a strong effort to enable transparent hybrid networks that combine Microsoft 365 and on-premises Exchange deployments. This allows you to have specific mailboxes located at your on-premises datacenter or private cloud and other mailboxes resident on Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange consulting team can assist you with any facet of planning, implementing and debugging your hybrid Exchange network. Progent's Exchange specialists can deliver occasional support to help you through challenging technical issues and also can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing to make sure your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange initiative is successfully completed on time and on budget.
Progent can help small and mid-size organizations to implement and troubleshoot conferencing platforms to enable their teleworkers to collaborate productively with teammates and customers.
Progent can provide cost-effective online consulting to help businesses of any size to access Amazon AWS cloud services such as Amazon EC2 for virtual machine hosting, Amazon S3, and Glacier. Progent can help you with every phase of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including requirements analysis, preparedness assessment, architectural design, testing, deployment, administration, performance optimization, software license management, disaster recovery solutions, and security strategies.
Progent's ransomware experts can assist you to assess your ransomware defenses, monitor and guard your IT environment, assist with negotiating a settlement with a hacker, and reconstruct an information system damaged by a ransomware variant like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, Conti or Egregor.
Progent can assist you to plan and administer hybrid environments that support Windows and Linux operating systems and apps in either cloud-centric systems or in hybrid network models that utilize on-premises IT assets along with one or more public clouds. To help you to integrate public clouds with physical datacenters, Progent offers a variety of public cloud migration services such as Azure hybrid cloud planning and integration services, Amazon AWS cloud integration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service (WMS) programming and troubleshooting. Progent has 20 years of background providing high-level consulting services online, and Progent can help you successfully carry out your cloud migration projects on schedule and within your budget.
System Center Configuration Manager 2016 automates application and device provisioning at scale, centralizes security and compliance settings management, keeps track of network assets, guards against company data leakage, provides health monitoring, enables safe end-user self service, and delivers a common control mechanism for managing multi-operating system ecosystems based on on-premises, cloud-centric, or hybrid deployment models. Progent's Microsoft-certified Configuration Manager 2016 consultants and Microsoft Azure cloud experts can assist businesses of any size with any facet of designing, implementing, using and troubleshooting a SCCM 2016 solution for local, cloud-based, or hybrid networks.
Progent's Microsoft-certified SharePoint consultants offer affordable online and on-premises consulting expertise, software development, and debugging services for businesses of all sizes who intend to migrate to SharePoint Server 2016 or SharePoint Online from earlier versions of SharePoint.
Cisco's PIX firewalls have been discontinued and Cisco may no longer support these devices. Progent still offers technical support for Cisco's PIX 500 firewalls to help you with maintenance and Progent can also help you assess whether to move up to more current firewall technology available from Cisco. Progent's Cisco-certified experts can help your company plan and implement a cost-effective migration to Cisco ASA 5500-X Series firewalls following leading practices.
Progent's Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi consultants can help your business to design, deploy, enhance, manage and troubleshoot a Wi-Fi solution customized for your facilities. Progent offers online or on-premises expertise for Ekahau Pro for predictive Wi-Fi planning and Ekahau Sidekick for on-premises RF measurement.
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery software suite that uses failover storage clustering along with continual replication to deliver rapid, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between datacenters located as far as 300km apart. Progent's team of veteran IT experts can help you to design, deploy, manage, upgrade, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery system built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to select a topology for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your technical needs and budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to best practices for installing your MetroCluster environment by providing guidance with procedures like assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, determining plexes layout, setting up NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning switches, implementing a tiebreaker, designing a configuration replication network between your storage clusters, and testing your DR solution to prove compliance with information assurance standards and regulatory requirements.
Progent wants to hire full-time, solutions-oriented Microsoft certified engineers with MCSE certification; Cisco accredited network engineers who have Cisco CCNP or CCIE certification; security consultants who have CISSP or CISA or equivalent security certification; and advanced network design experts with experience in mobile access, wireless networking, high availability, disaster recovery, data protection, and VMware. Progent also is hiring employees to join our staff of desktop service technicians and off-site support professionals. In addition, We are looking for experienced administrators who can operate productively in Progent's fast-paced, virtual office environment.
Progent offers nationwide remote help and consulting services for businesses who run environments based on variants of Linux or whose IT systems feature a mix of Linux platforms/Linux and Microsoft technology. Remote IT help offers maximum return for your information technology budget by extending client efficiency and limiting the time charged for network repair services. Sophisticated remote support technology and experienced technicians and engineers allow Progent to solve most network problems without squandering time and expense by going to your site. In the vast majority of cases your network issues can be remediated by telephone or through a combination of telephone support and remote connectivity. Progent can put you in touch with Cisco CCIE infrastructure engineers and CISM and CISSP certified security specialists to help with the most challenging system issues.
Progent offers onsite education designed for people who wish to expand their knowledge of the macOS and OS X operating system, Mac hardware, or Mac office software including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook for Mac. Progent also offers specialized group or individual online training for Mac application software.
Progent's Windows 11 consulting experts can provide a range of services to support Windows 11 such as cloud and hybrid solutions, mobile device management, teleworker connectivity, security and compliance, automated provisioning, and Call Center support.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to assess the business value of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 for your organization, develop pilot systems and rollout plans, tune your infrastructure for local, multi-site, cloud-based, and hybrid datacenters, educate your IT support staff, create a corporate-wide security strategy, automate IT management, assist with creating applications, and build and test a DR/BC plan.
Progent's expert support team can show you how to define and deploy a smooth in-place Exchange Server 2003 migration strategy that minimizes network downtime, simplifies long-term service requirements, and makes your Exchange 2003 Server easy to manage. For complex multi-server or multi-location migrations, Progent offers the background to finish your project rapidly and economically. Progent's Exchange 2003 support, troubleshooting, and consulting offerings include assistance with the integration of outside vendor enhancements of Exchange Server 2003 that are best aligned to your business goals.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard solution uses the services and infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall.
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a versatile and affordable solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your servers, such as printers, network appliances such as switches and Wi-Fi access points, and Internet-of-Things devices such as sensors and robotics.
Progent's Windows 11 consulting experts offer an array of services for Windows 11 such as cloud integration, mobile management, telecommuter access, security and compliance, centralized provisioning, and Call Center support services.
For assistance writing, improving, or repairing business aplications for Microsoft Windows, Linux, or for the Web, Progent's team of program developers, relational database architects, and project managers can ensure you get the project done on time and within your budget. Progent's experienced software developers can provide affordable and efficient online help for projects as small as creating VBA macros for Excel or as large as developing line-of-business RDBMS applications built on SQL Server ,Oracle, or MySQL.