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Service Delivery Alternatives Available for Richmond, California Companies
Progent offers a selection of alternatives for providing small businesses with cost-effective IT services for troubleshooting, consulting, and IT management. Progent's paradigm for providing computer support is based on the Help Desk Call Center structure familiar to larger IT support organizations. Progent's Help Desk Service Model promotes fast response, thorough service documentation, consistent follow-up, and strict expense monitoring for an array of IT support delivery options that include remote repairs, on-premises support, and high-end consulting.

• Remote Service
  Progent’s Technical Response Center (TRC) provides emergency and routine remote service for Windows, Linux, Apple Mac, and Cisco-based environments in the United States and worldwide. Progent's certified support experts can help customers to troubleshoot and fix network problems without the cost or time loss of in-person support visits. The background of Progent's IT engineers allows them to handle most network issues quickly. For the most challenging problems, Progent's depth of expertise makes it possible to escalate troubleshooting tasks to advanced subject matter experts. Progent provides a streamlined, web-based registration procedure for new customers to accommodate urgent situations and Progent bills per minute with zero startup charges or minimums, so you are invoiced only for the assistance you receive. Experts you can access remotely include Cisco-certified CCIEs, Microsoft-Certified MCSEs, and CISM-certified security professionals. Find out more information about Progent's remote computer troubleshooting expertise.

• Onsite Support
  Progent offers onsite technical assistance for signed-up clients in larger cities in the U.S. Progent's on-site service personnel can operate in conjunction with Progent's online support experts to give small companies the ideal combination: hands-on support technicians when you need them plus the on-line help of Progent's worldwide team of IT engineers, security specialists, and business software programmers. The wait time for on-site service calls is usually under 24 hours. There is no start-up or retainer charge for registering as a Progent client for on-premises support. Find out more about why to sign up for Progent's onsite network service.

• Help Desk
  Progent's Standard Help Desk Services offer small businesses an end-to-end solution that handles all facets of remote Level 1 desktop support from initial requests through trouble ticket generation, remote desktop control, progress tracking, problem resolution, and management reports. Progent offers help desk services at a significant discount off Progent's regular Level 1 desktop service rates, and Progent can provide the additional option of rapid as-needed escalation to Level 2 and Level 3 experts to resolve the most problems. for more information, visit Online Help Desk Services for Small Businesses.

• IT Consulting Expertise
  Progent offers small businesses budget-friendly access to world-class IT professionals who can provide help with vital products and technologies including
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019 migration consulting, Windows 2016 Hyper-V hybrid cloud/on-premises solutions, Microsoft Windows Server and application support, Cisco network architecture, company-wide network protection engineering, non-stop it system consulting, virtualization solutions, plus configuration, programming and support for small business software including accounting, operations, business analytics, sales automation, and office productivity packages. Progent can help with one-shot projects such as site moves and massive system migrations, extended projects like business reporting software programming and customization, relational database application development and DBA services, and web development, on-going support including System Center 2012 Operations Manager expertise and SCOM 2016 consulting for network monitoring and network administration, or emergency services such as data restoration and virus cleanup.

• Private Cloud Hosting
  Progent's Private Cloud hosting service offers full hosting for the entirety of a small organization's production servers in a setting that not only provides the top degree of fault-tolerance and extensibility but that is also easy for customers to transfer to a different support provider or to move internally whenever your business situation warrants it. Progent's Private Cloud hosting is founded on mature virtual server techniques that allow businesses with mixed networks to benefit significantly on the costs of hardware, infrastructure maintenance, and IT management while achieving enterprise-class reliability and an unparalleled degree of vendor flexibility. In contrast to conventional Software as a Service (SaaS) hosting offerings, Progent's Private Cloud Hosting covers all server-based software in one centrally managed service, can handle the mixed- platform and non- standardized environments typical of small businesses, and keeps control of the licenses in the customer's hands so that migrating to a new virtual system is fast, safe, and inexpensive. This eliminates ending up a prisoner of a specific hosting provider while still offering all the cost savings related to ASP and SaaS hosting services.

• Hybrid Cloud Planning and Integration Consulting
  Progent offers expert online consulting services to help companies of any size connect their information networks with leading public cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. Progent can assist your it team to plan and administer hybrid environments that can include Windows and Linux systems and applications in either cloud-only systems or in hybrid topologies that combine physical resources along with public cloud services. To help you to incorporate public clouds with networks, Progent can provide a range of public cloud integration services that include Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure planning and integration consulting, Amazon Web Services cloud integration support, Amazon Web Marketing Service (WMS) development and debugging, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise. Progent has more than 20 years of background providing high-level consulting services remotely, and Progent can help you complete your cloud migration initiatives quickly and affordably.

• ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
  Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

• ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
  Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer economical in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

• ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
  ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

• ProSight WAN Watch: Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
  Progent’s ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure management service that makes it simple and affordable for smaller organizations to diagram, track, reconfigure and debug their networking hardware such as switches, firewalls, and wireless controllers as well as servers, endpoints and other networked devices. Incorporating state-of-the-art RMM technology, ProSight WAN Watch makes sure that network maps are always updated, copies and displays the configuration of virtually all devices connected to your network, tracks performance, and sends notices when issues are detected. By automating tedious network management activities, ProSight WAN Watch can knock hours off common chores like making network diagrams, expanding your network, locating devices that need important updates, or isolating performance bottlenecks. Learn more details about ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure management consulting.

• ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
  ProSight Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption platform that incorporates the services and infrastructure of leading information security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. Find out more about Progent's Email Guard spam filtering, virus blocking, email content filtering and data leakage protection.

• ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Monitoring
  ProSight LAN Watch is Progent’s server and desktop remote monitoring managed service that uses state-of-the-art remote monitoring and management technology to help keep your IT system running at peak levels by tracking the health of critical assets that drive your business network. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers a problem, an alarm is sent immediately to your specified IT staff and your Progent consultant so that any looming issues can be addressed before they have a chance to impact productivity Find out more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop remote monitoring services.

• ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
  With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware environment without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

• ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
  Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and protect information about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need when you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is an affordable service based on a brief phone discussion with a Progent information assurance consultant. The fact-finding interview is intended to assess your organization's ability either to block or recover quickly following an assault by a ransomware variant such as Ryuk, WannaCry, MongoLock, or Locky. Progent will consult with you personally to gather information concerning your existing security profile and backup/recovery platform, and Progent will then deliver a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how you can apply industry best practices to create an efficient AV and backup environment that meets your company's needs. For additional information, visit The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.

Why Progent Is the Right Alternative for Richmond, California Small Businesses
Progent's size, breadth of technical skill, and familiarity with corporate network support allow small and midsize businesses to sidestep the problems associated with over reliance on thinly staffed support organizations or independent consultants.

Working with Progent enables your business to:

• Avoid Over Reliance on Freelance Consultants
  For network support, smaller companies often rely heavily on freelance engineers. Though individual support providers carry lower expenses than more substantial support organizations and can afford to charge apparently lower rates, freelancers are sometimes unable to react quickly to urgent problems. If an independent engineer is occupied with different client, ill, on vacation, or in training, the lack of replacement personnel may force your business to wait for help in case of a crisis. As your small business grows, network unavailability or problems with critical applications get more costly. The money you thought you were conserving on an independent consultant can be eaten up quickly because of lost output. Also, when independent engineers encounter new problems, the lack of a large consulting team to rely on for advice forces them to train in place while your organization winds up with the bill for their ongoing education.

• Have Access to Expertise in Sophisticated IT Solutions
  Many smaller service firms or independent engineers who concentrate on small company IT support may excel at delivering routine solutions but don't have the seasoning to work efficiently with complicated IT environments that have mixed platforms, numerous locations, VoIP implementations, mobile workforces, integrated financial and operational applications, data-driven web sites, and custom business applications. Progent's experience with global companies and Progent's large team of specialists can be valuable to your business because enterprise networks are inherently complex, integration issues require thorough understanding of in numerous technical disciplines, and reaching a high level of stability, reliability, and protection requires industry-tested best practices.

• Create a Firm Foundation for Growth
  Small companies often start with a network cobbled together on a tight budget. Lacking a solid architecture, a sequence of improvised fixes commonly get piled on top of a tenuous foundation. As a company evolves, reliability and scalability issues can undermine the success of the organization. Such environments need proper assessment, smart business analysis, and in-depth experience to upgrade to a network environment that can provide the reliable foundation to meet current business needs and ease future growth.

• Team with Solution Providers, Not Product Resellers
  Small businesses require guidance and education to work through an increasingly complicated array of technology alternatives available for accelerating business growth and improving efficiency. They do not need an IT consultant or support firm that tries to sell them a product. Progent eliminates conflicted motives by not selling any products. Progent offers consulting and services only. This permits Progent to match technical services with the real needs of clients. Mixing network consulting and product reselling can lead to a conflict where the recommended solution is based on a preselected vendor instead of being based on the actual requirements of a small business.

Get in Touch with Progent
If your Richmond, California business needs to get in touch with Progent for network outsourcing, consulting, or tech support services, phone 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

Fast Remote Technical Help
For fast online technical support, you can contact Progent's Technical Response Center toll-free at 1-866-PROGENT (866-776-4368).