System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM 2016) is a component of Microsoft's System Center 2016 suite of network management products and is designed to provide a centralized mechanism for deploying and administering virtualized datacenters across hybrid environments that can incorporate private clouds and Azure publics cloud services. Progent's Virtual Machine Manager 2016 consulting experts can assist businesses of any size with any aspect of designing, deploying, and maintaining a SCVMM 2016 solution. Progent can assess your virtualization topology, help you upgrade efficiently from older releases of Virtual Machine Manager, design processes for creating and deploying virtual machines and VM hosts, implement fault-tolerant scale-out clusters, integrate your private cloud infrastructure with public clouds, set up virtual switches and load balancers, develop and debug PowerShell scripts, and help you assess the strategic advantages of new technologies such as Storage Replica and Host Guardian Service. Progent's certified virtualization professionals offer world-class Hyper-V consulting and VMware vSphere support.
Progent offers enterprise customers the help of a NetApp-certified consultant for online or on-premises expertise for NetApp's entire family of SAN storage products including Data ONTAP and Clustered Data ONTAP (CDOT) data management, MetroCluster, FlexPod cloud infrastructure, SnapMirror, SnapVault and OSSV incremental D2D backup, Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere, MultiStore for storage partitioning, OnCommand Reporting and Insight analytics, plus NetApp's All-Flash, Hybrid Flash, V-Series and N-Series hardware products. Areas of NetApp SAN technology supported by Progent include system dsign, hybrid-cloud deployment, virtualization, migrations, non-disruptive patching, storage management, information assurance, high availability, and remediation. Progent can provide Tier 3 support to help you to take care of problems with NetApp SAN environments quickly and affordably based on best practices.
Progent offers access to a senior consultant with years of experience configuring, maintaining, and upgrading telepresence systems from top-tier vendors including Cisco, TANDBERG, Polycom, and LifeSize. Progent can work with your in-house network support team, your Internet Service Provider, and your telepresence platform vendor to assist your organization maximize the business value of your video conferencing solution.
If you want to revamp your production web site, build internal websites for purposes such as human resources or employee training, design a powerful web presence for a new venture, or write enterprise-class, data-driven specialized web applications, Progent can supply talented and experienced web designers. Progent's experts can also help you build and maintain a secure, fault-tolerant server and communications infrastructure, including off-site and wireless connectivity, to support your web solutions.
Progent can assist small and mid-size companies to configure unified remote endpoint management systems for maintaining devices operated by at-home workers.
Cisco's wireless IP phones are industrial-grade Wi-Fi handsets intended for professionals who are on the move within campus, hospitality, retail or other environments where IT management requires user endpoints that offer more administrative control, data security and durability than is achievable with the Bring-Your-Own-Device mode of mobile communications. Integration of Cisco's wireless VoIP phones typically demands that you configure and fine tune numerous key pieces of your wireless environment including APs, switches, Cisco wireless LAN controllers, and network management software. Progent's certified experts can provide online and on-premises assistance to help you build and maintain a Cisco wireless IP phone deployment by delivering services that range from troubleshooting the set up of a wireless VoIP phone or AP to providing comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing services for modernizing the Wi-Fi architecture of an entire campus.
Progent's Linux support experts provide small and mid-size businesses and software developers assistance with managing and maintaining Linux computers that run with Microsoft-powered technology. Progent offers your business access to Linux experts, consulting professionals premier by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISM certification. This wide range of experience provides you with a convenient one-stop consulting firm to help you build and maintain a secure and reliable mixed-platform network and communications infrastructure that supports Linux and Microsoft interoperability by integrating Microsoft Windows with major Linux platforms including RedHat, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux, PCLOS, fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake, Debian-GNU, and Slackware Linux.
Secure Application Publishing with Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 allows more control over intranet applications while enabling enhanced efficiency by making these applications accessible to authorized remote or mobile users. Internet Security and Acceleration Server can protect business applications, services, and information across all network components with stateful packet inspection and powerful publishing tools. Progent's Microsoft-certified ISA Server 2006 experts can show you how to design, install, configure, and maintain Internet Security and Acceleration Server on your system so that your business benefits from a smart and affordable balance of protection, convenience, and speed.
Colocation data centers make it possible for businesses to share world-class data centers for hosting network hardware that supports critical applications and services. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco premier IT experts can assist your small business with all facets of your colocation strategy including selecting and moving to a colo facility, creating system architecture, specifying required equipment, on-premises and on-line troubleshooting, setting up remote network administration, and training your IT staff.
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows 2000 Server experts can provide network help and information technology consulting services for the entire family of .NET Servers, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows Server 2003. Progent's Windows 2000 Server configuration, update, and support offerings include system planning, deployment, documentation, local and remote technical support, Help Desk outsourcing, expert security consulting, full service outsourcing, and economical co-sourcing.
Cisco offers a full product line of routers including appliances designed to provide the protection, performance, and availability required by organizations ranging from small offices to global enterprises and ISPs. Cisco routers feature support for redundancy, transparent failthrough, and backup power for improved reliability and system availability. Progent can show you how to choose and integrate Cisco routers to establish a reliable foundation for your IT system and to make it economical to grow as you add new users, open new offices, install new services, extend your network to clients and partners, and manage a more mobile workforce. Progent offers help with a range of routers based on the Cisco IOS platform, including Cisco's 800 series of small business VPN routers, Cisco 1800 and 3800 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco 1900 and 4000 G2 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 Aggregation Services Routers for wide area network edge environments, Cisco CRS Carrier Routing System for core Networks, as well as legacy 1700 and 2600 Series Routers.
E-Mail Guard is Progent's economical spam filtering and virus protection solution that gives small businesses world-class defense from spam, viruses, DHA attacks, and other forms of e-mail-based assaults on computer networks. E-Mail Guard is built on Postini's perimeter management technology, a sophisticated library of web-based anti-spam and virus defense services that ward off email attacks before they can penetrate the company firewall. Perimeter Manager also lets administrators track and control their email application, regardless of server platform, hardware technology, or geographic location.
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service combines proven virtual server architecture, a world-class data center facility, and the technical support services of Progent's Microsoft-certified engineering team to provide small companies with a comprehensive information technology outsourcing alternative that improves network availability and security, eliminates management distraction, and saves money. With Private Cloud Hosting, a smaller company can have each of its software platforms and key business application servers hosted in a secure and fault tolerant facility on a fast, high-availability virtual machine set up and supported by Progent's computer support experts.
Progent's Private Cloud Hosting and Management service provides comprehensive hosting of a small or mid-size company's production servers in a solution that gives the highest level of dependability and scalability and is in addition easy to migrate to another host. Progent's Private Cloud Hosting services are based on proven virtualization techniques that allow small and midsize companies with mixed- platform environments to economize dramatically on the costs of capital equipment, infrastructure maintenance, and network management while benefiting from world-class fault tolerance and an unprecedented level of vendor flexibility.
Progent’s IT outsourcing packages provide budget-friendly computer support for small organizations. Whether it includes planning system infrastructure, creating an internal Help Desk or outsourcing a one, rolling out a new email platform, monitoring your network, or building an on-line eCommerce application, outsourcing your IT engineering services can contain costs and eliminate risks, allowing IT service expenses to increase in a more linear and controlled fashion than is feasible by assembling a large, all-purpose in-house network support staff. Progent’s Outsourcing White Paper and flyers tell you how Progent can enable you to create a secure and highly available system architecture for your critical business software based on Microsoft Windows such as Office XP, Office 2003, and Microsoft Office 2000.
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 offers major improvements in performance, capacity, security and compliance, availability, mobile computing support, and integrated analytics and reporting. New features include PolyBase for handling SQL and NoSQ databases in one appliance for data warehousing, R language support, Dynamic Data Masking, Mobile Reports, and seamless management of local and cloud-resident resources. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can deliver online and onsite expertise to help organizations of all sizes to deploy, manage or troubleshoot any version of SQL Server 2016. Progent can also assist you to integrate SQL Server 2016 with all key Microsoft platforms including Windows Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and GP, Skype for Business, and SCOM.
Progent's Sun Solaris platform support experts offer small and mid-size businesses and developers help with managing and maintaining Solaris environments that operate with Microsoft-powered technology. Progent can give your business contact with Solaris consultants, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISA certification. This broad range of expertise offers you an easy single source to help you create and manage a protected and robust mixed-platform connectivity and communications solution that supports Solaris and Microsoft interoperability by integrating MS Windows with major variants of UNIX including Apple Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX UNIX from IBM, HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO, and Silicon Graphics IRIX or leading Linux variations including RedHat Linux, SUSE Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, PCLOS, fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Debian-GNU, and Slackware Linux.
Small to middle size companies can now get all the advantages of System Center Operations Manager 2007 and also have quick access to Progent’s Microsoft Certified network support experts. With Progent's economically priced IT service programs, small businesses can choose a basic Operations Manager-based co-sourcing service program with network monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and online troubleshooting or a complete 24x7 outsourcing solution. Progent offers expertise in Operations Manager to offer small company networks world-class reliability, protection, and productivity.
Progent provides consulting for security analysis utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer for performing a variety of programmed system testing scans to identify possible security gaps. Progent has broad knowledge of security analysis tools and can show you how to make sense of audit reports and react effectively. Progent can help you design protection into your business processes, configure scanning applications, define and deploy a protected system environment, and recommend policies to optimize the security of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you configure a firewall, design safe remote access to email and data, and install virtual private network. Progent's qualified security consultants can also test the protection of web-based software and can conduct comprehensive information security evaluations of company-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important international security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO.
Progent's pricing model is to bill for remote service and in-person help per minute. As a result, you are invoiced only for received services. Progent does not impose a more expensive rate for after-hours or urgent service, and inside California or in regions where Progent provides on-site service, Progent does not bill for travel time except for emergency support where on-site time is less than four hours. In addition, Progent imposes no minimum charge and asks no retainer for support services delivered during normal business hours. Many service organizations demand substantial minimum payments or charge for each fifteen minutes or longer. Progent's small granularity avoids large bills for fast solutions so you won't be forced to allow minor problems to fester.
Progent can help you to utilize Cisco's infrastructure technology to create a robust foundation for your onsite, cloud-centric, or hybrid data center and streamline operations in key areas such as compute and storage utilization, security and compliance, manageability, reliability, and recoverability.
Progent can help businesses of any size to migrate all or part of their computing infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. This can streamline network management and lower equipment investments. Azure offers a comprehensive library of cloud services and Progent can assist you to understand the benefits and restrictions of various cloud computing architectures you can use with Azure. Progent can help you manage cloud-resident or hybrid cloud and on-premises applications and network infrastructure and make sure you avoid the common errors small companies make when moving to the cloud. Progent can help you to set up VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, utilize cloud storage with Azure Storage, manage user identity with Azure Active Directory, and build transparent backup mechanisms with Azure Backup. Progent can also assist you to prepare firewalls and IPsec VPN connections and to manage iPhones and iPads and Android smartphones and tablets.
Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants provide a range of consulting services for Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains. Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains is a Microsoft financial platform and corporate management solution built, like all Microsoft financial solutions, on the scalable and popular platform of Windows technology. Dynamics GP/Great Plains 2010, the most recent version of Microsoft accounting products in the Microsoft Dynamics GP line, offers an affordable tool for controlling and integrating finances, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, field service, customer relationships, and human resources. Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains is easy to install and configure, and with its modular design you are able to purchase only the capability you currently require, with the option to add users and enlarge functionality in the future. Progent’s Dynamics GP/Great Plains Software support experts can help you deploy, configure and manage Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 as well as earlier editions of Dynamics GP/Great Plains.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard solution uses the services and infrastructure of leading data security companies to provide web-based control and world-class security for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter.
NetDocuments (NetDocs) is a leading cloud-based document management system (DMS) built for the legal profession. Progent offers remote guidance from NetDocuments consultants who can help your law firm to design, configure, manage, tune, or troubleshoot a document management system (DMS) solution based on NetDocs.
Progent’s computer outsourcing services for small businesses include designing Windows XP, .NET Server, and Microsoft BackOffice environments, coordinating upgrades to Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Active Directory, and Exchange 2003 Server, Help Desk Call Center, online and in-person troubleshooting, resolving stubborn IT issues, and producing a comprehensive security strategy. Progent can help you enhance network reliability and throughput with fault-tolerant technologies, resilient network topology, and proactive server monitoring. Progent also offers project management help for major upgrades and can help with requirements assessment, product identification, BOM production, vendor selection, purchasing coordination, and complete documentation. Progent’s IT outsourcing service also includes training for office productivity products such as Office XP.
System Center 2016 Operations Manager helps to ensure top performance and dependable uptime for critical workloads by offering unified, mixed-platform monitoring of IT resources deployed across on-premises systems and cloud environments. Progent's consulting group offers world-class online and onsite expertise to help businesses of all sizes to design, integrate, tune, update and repair Operations Manager 2016 deployments. Progent can assist your company to move to SCOM 2016 from earlier versions of Operations Manager or from other monitoring products, or combine multiple monitoring systems into a cohesive infrastructure management ecosystem. Progent can also show you how to extend your Operations Manager 2016 environment to incorporate infrastructure hosted on public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
Progent's Microsoft Office and Office 365 experts can help businesses of any size to integrate Microsoft Office desktop and Microsoft Office 365 apps including Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Visio and OneNote into a seamless solution that provides fast return on investment and enables better business outcomes. Progent can assist your company to interface Microsoft Office or Office 365 applications with one another and with additional core Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server deployed on-premises or hosted in the cloud. Progent's consultants can also help you to fix compatibility issues with various versions of Office and offers customized online training to individuals and groups.
Progent's ProSight Virtual hosting services offer small businesses a range of advantages including lower capital expenditures, reductions in operational costs, better management focus, enterprise-class protection, enhanced fault tolerance, and business continuity.
Progent can provide affordable remote consulting to assist companies to access Amazon AWS cloud services including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for virtual machine hosting, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Glacier. Progent can assist your IT team with every phase of Amazon AWS integration including needs analysis, readiness evaluation, architectural design and review, pilot testing, deployment, centralized administration, performance tuning, software license management, backup/restore mechanisms, and security strategies.
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity experts can assist your organization to plan and deploy a disaster recovery solution built around Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies such as Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class network-attached storage using low-cost hardware, VM Load Balancing for improving the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while minimizing TCO and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for fast, economical deployment of a stretch cluster quorum witness.
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware.
Progent's Power BI experts can assist you to plan, deploy, manage, enhance or troubleshoot your Power BI business analytics solution. Progent can also assist you to prep your source data for Power BI reports and dashboards. Progent can assist you implement and administer an onsite, cloud based, or hybrid environment to run Power BI.
Remote continuous network monitoring, proactive alerts, and periodic reports are crucial to maintaining the health of your IT system and eliminating unnecessary and expensive downtime. Remote Monitoring and Management technology has progressed to the point that businesses of any size can get a degree of network stability that was once reserved for large enterprises. Progent can provide a variety Remote Monitoring and Management options delivered as low-cost services created to help you to identify and resolve a most IT network problems before they can hurt productivity.
Cisco has developed a full array of routers that includes routers built to deliver the security, bandwidth, and reliability required by customers ranging from branch offices to worldwide enterprises and ISPs. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, automatic failover, and redundant power for improved fault tolerance and network availability. Progent can help you choose and configure Cisco routers to build a solid foundation for your network and to make it easy to expand as you add new users, start new offices, install new services, open your network to clients and partners, and support an increasingly mobile workforce. Progent offers expertise in a range of routers based on the Cisco IOS platform, such as Cisco's 800 series of small business VPN routers, Cisco 2800 and 3800 ISR routers, Cisco 1900 and 2900 G2 ISR routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 Aggregation Services Routers for WAN edge environments, Cisco CRS Carrier Routing System for core Networks, as well as older 1700 and 2600 Routers.
Progent's CCIE-certified networking consultants offer advanced support for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (formerly CallManager). Progent can assist you to integrate VoIP phones, design dial plans, configure SIP trunking and PSTN connections, deploy Cisco ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, and deploy UCS server high availability solutions.
Progent can provide cost-effective remote consulting services for all editions of Microsoft Office Access including desktop and browser-based versions and can provide advanced help for application development, database conversion, performance optimization, BI reporting, and maintenance. Progent also can provide custom online classes for Access application development and DBA services.
Progent can assist you to evaluate the wealth of subscription plans available with Office 365 and integrate your network with Office 365 so you realize top business value. Progent supports multi-platform environments that incorporate Windows, macOS or OS X, and Linux operating systems. Progent can also assist your business to build and maintain hybrid ecosystems that transparently combine local and cloud-based resources.
Progent can help small and medium-size organizations to configure endpoint device security defense solutions and deliver cleanup expertise needed to support offsite workers.
Progent's work environment will allow you to become a better consultant by enhancing your information technology skills and boosting the loyalty of your clients. Progent makes good on this commitment by attracting the top consulting experts for you to work with, providing a state-of-the-art network and communications architecture, running proprietary software tools to deliver the maximum level of service, and by optimizing proven operational structures for finding and retaining clients.
Microsoft System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager is part of Microsoft's System Center 2016 suite of network monitoring and management tools and is designed to offer a centralized solution for configuring and administering virtualized fabric and services across hybrid networks that can incorporate private clouds and Azure publics cloud services. Progent's SCVMM 2016 consulting experts can help organizations of all sizes with all facets of building, deploying, and maintaining a SCVMM 2016 solution. Progent can review your virtualization topology, help you upgrade efficiently from older versions of VMM, develop processes for building and installing VMs and hosts, implement high-availability compute and storage clusters, connect your datacenter infrastructure with public clouds, set up virtual switches and load balancers, develop and refine PowerShell scripts, and assist you to evaluate the potential advantages of new technologies like Storage Replica and Shielded VMs. Progent's hypervisor experts offer world-class Hyper-V consulting and VMware vSphere support.
Progent's Cisco-certified wireless integration consulting experts can assist you to deploy, administer, and debug Cisco Small Business 100/300/500 Wireless Access Points.
Progent can provide the support of Microsoft-certified engineers as well as experienced software programmers, database administrators, project managers, network infrastructure architects, disaster recovery/business continuity specialists, and certified security consultants to help you to assess the potential advantages of SQL Server 2012 for your organization, set up test environments at your datacenter or at Progent's test lab, design and execute out an efficient transition to SQL Server 2012 from earlier versions of SQL Server or from legacy RDBMS solutions, and configure a cost-effective and secure network infrastructure that helps you maximize the business benefit of Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
Progent's certified Microsoft Office and Office 365 consultants can help companies to incorporate Office desktop and Office 365 applications such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Access, Visio and Publisher into a seamless productivity solution that offers quick return on investment and promotes improved business results. Progent can help your company to interface Office or Office 365 applications with one another and with other key Microsoft technologies including SharePoint Server, Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server running locally or hosted in the cloud. Progent can also assist you to fix compatibility issues between different releases of Microsoft Office desktop and can provide customized online training to individual users or teams.
Progent can assist small and medium-size organizations to set up VoIP solutions to provide their at-home workers the advantage of transparent extensions of the company phone network.
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 builds on the proven security technologies of Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 and provides a centrally managed Internet gateway that delivers a single-server platform for a variety of security features such as an application and network layer firewall, URL monitoring and filtering, antimalware, IPS, application proxy, VPN control, plus HTTP/HTTPS inspection. Forefront TMG 2010 includes comprehensive web security reporting capabilities, allows custom reports generated by Microsoft SQL Server, integrates with Active Directory to streamline policy enforcement, and can be operated as a virtual server to lower costs and enhance recoverability. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your company to design and execute pilot and production deployments; integrate Forefront Threat Management Gateway with Windows 2008 R2, Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, and SharePoint; set up Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 to run on a virtual server with Windows Hyper-V; and provide continuing consulting and repair services. Progent can also assist you to migrate smoothly to Forefront TMG 2010 from Microsoft ISA Server 2006 or 2004.
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can help you design and implement an efficient in-place Microsoft Exchange 2003 upgrade plan that minimizes network downtime, reduces long-term service demands, and makes your Exchange Server 2003 easy to administer. For complex multiple server or multi-location upgrades, Progent has the knowledge and experience to finish your project rapidly and economically. Progent's Exchange 2003 help, troubleshooting, and design offerings include assistance with the integration of outside vendor add-ons to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 that are best aligned to your business needs.