Progent’s Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity specialists offer in-depth experience assisting small businesses to minimize network downtime by providing cost-effective remote consulting for disaster recovery/business continuity planning, fault-tolerant network design, backup/restore solutions, and non-disruptive maintenance. Progent’s business continuity consultants can help you to plan and test a sensible business continuity strategy that aligns with your business needs and IT budget. Progent’s disaster recovery engineers can help you to design, implement, and maintain fault-tolerant technologies such as non-stop Internet connectivity, virtualization, fail-over clustering, network load balancing, transparent off-site backup, and geographically dispersed data centers.
Progent's Microsoft-certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server consulting experts have extensive backgrounds developing Microsoft ISA Server-based security installations for IT networks with many sites, mobile workers, and mission-critical eCommerce applications. Progent's Microsoft Firewall experts are available to help your small business in planning and deploying an installation of ISA Server 2000 or ISA Server 2004 that meets your information protection requirements without adversely restricting your IT system productivity. Progent's consultants can help you upgrade from Microsoft Proxy Server from ISA 2000 Server to ISA 2006 Enterprise Edition Server or ISA 2006 Standard Edition Server.
Remote 24x7 monitoring, automated alerts, and actionable reports are vital to preserving the health of your network and eliminating preventable and expensive disruptions. Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) technology has progressed so far that businesses of all sizes can get a degree of network stability that was once limited to enterprises. Progent can provide a variety Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solutions delivered as low-cost services designed to assist you to identify and resolve a an array of network problems before they get big enough to impact productivity.
Progent's Microsoft certified engineers can assist your company to test Microsoft Windows 7 to verify application compatibility and to determine its speed and reliability operating with your applications. Progent's consultants can also show you how to assess the likely strategic advantages of moving to Microsoft Windows 7. If you decide that Microsoft Windows 7 fits your business, Progent can assist you to design and implement a smooth upgrade to Windows 7 from a previous release of Windows.
Progent offers network support for medium size businesses with 100 to 250 system users. The mid-size business or office has typically been an underserved part of the market for IT consulting services. The cost structures and support access models of large outside service firms make them excessively expensive for the typical mid-size business or small medium business (SMB), which commonly has a minimal information technology budget with which to support an information system whose complexity and sophistication are often similar to the networks of much larger enterprises. Progent's service delivery model, which takes great advantage of remote service, virtual office infrastructure and proactive network monitoring, dramatically reduces the network support costs of an SMB while offering the mid-size company with enterprise-level support from professional, IT consultants with background in a wide range of small business network solutions. If your medium size organization or small business is looking for the quality of IT support needed by a medium size office without paying big-company prices, you need Progent.
Progent's Cisco CCIE Wi-Fi network experts can provide online or on-premises integration and debugging services to help your organization to design, configure, update, optimize, manage and troubleshoot Aironet wireless AP deployments of any size 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 a seamless enterprise connectivity foundation that is easy to manage and scale. Progent also offers affordable wireless site surveys to assist you to determine the most appropriate selection, placement and setup of Aironet Wi-Fi access points to work with your unique workplace layout, building structure, and anticipated workloads.
Progent's Juniper-certified network engineers can help you utilize Junos OS and the Junos platform of network management applications to configure, administer, and monitor Junos-powered devices; migrate to the Junos OS operating system from other Juniper software platforms such as ScreenOS; and upgrade your Juniper routers, switches, and gateways to the latest version of Junos OS.
Progent is structured to deliver in-depth online support for all technical areas associated with today’s small company IT systems and allows you to outsource a variety of vital, on-demand support services such as a temporary Chief Information Officer to offer senior-level planning and budgeting capability, a Technical Response Center for help desk services, proactive server monitoring, spam and email-borne virus filtering as a managed service, project management help for critical projects like site moves orOS upgrades, connectivity consultants for building and maintaining high-performance and reliable network infrastructure, certified security specialists to verify data protection and regulatory compliance, disaster recovery experts to create business continuity plans, and software programmers to create, enhance, or troubleshoot business applications.
Progent can provide small businesses with an information management professional who can function as a part-time CIO. This part-time CIO can offer long-term direction to help you integrate sensible IT products to improve business processes so they match better with your corporate objectives. Your business can create and implement a well conceived information technology plan without incurring the expense of a full-time senior IT executive.
Progent’s computer outsourcing services for small businesses feature planning Server 2003, Microsoft .NET Server, and Microsoft BackOffice environments, managing migrations XP, Windows Server 2003, Active Directory, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Help Desk Call Center, online and in-person troubleshooting, fixing chronic IT issues, and producing a company-wide security strategy. Progent can show you how to maximize network reliability and throughput via zero-downtime configuration, resilient network architecture, and proactive network monitoring. Progent also offers special project help for major migrations and can assist with needs assessment, product inventory, BOM development, vendor selection, purchasing coordination, and professional documentation. Progent’s computer outsourcing help also includes education for office productivity software such as Office XP.
Progent is one of the most expert information technology support firms for creating e-mail systems based on Exchange 2000. Progent specializes in helping small and mid-size businesses derive all the benefits of Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 for typical situations including upgrading from Microsoft Exchange 5.5, migration from an ISP-managed or POP3 e-mail system, and using managed services for your Microsoft Exchange 2000 support.
Progent's Power BI experts can help you to plan, deploy, manage, update or troubleshoot your Power BI environment. Progent's database experts can assist you to prepare your target data for Power BI reports and dashboards. Progent can assist you implement and manage an on-premises, cloud, or hybrid architecture to run Power BI.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have over a decade of background planning, implementing, optimizing and fixing SCOM solutions and offer companies of any size expert online or onsite consulting services for Microsoft SCOM 2012. Progent can assist you to plan a topology for SCOM 2012 servers that provides the performance and resilience needed to watch over your IT resources effectively, whether your datacenters are onsite, cloud-based, or a hybrid environment. Progent's SCOM consultants can also help you to import and customize SCOM 2012 management packs according to best practices for tracking network infrastructure as well as both Microsoft and 3rd-party apps and services. Also, Progent can provide responsive online or onsite troubleshooting to assist you to remediate critical problems detected by System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
Progent's Check Point Software consultants can help you choose and deploy Check Point Firewall and VPN utilities and appliances based on Check Point's technology to provide an affordable and efficient security solution for your business network. Progent can also show you how to integrate other Check Point technologies including Check Point ZoneAlarm and Check Point Series 80 appliances with security products from other vendors and provide a central stop for continuing technical support, administration, education, and consulting expertise.
Progent's Microsoft Certified professionals can provide world-class consulting for major deployments of Microsoft Exchange 2007. Progent's consultants can show you how to plan multi-location Exchange Server 2007 installations or upgrades and can supply onsite technicians to assist enterprises with installations of Microsoft Exchange in the or any region covered by Progent's consultants.
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware.
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription backup/restore platform for small and mid-size organizations. A Barracuda Backup solution can incorporate a purpose-built physical storage device manufactured by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with similar functionality but which uses your own storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup safeguards vital company data produced on-premises, at one or multiple remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster preparedness, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), or to any site with a Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants can provide a broad range of consulting support services to assist you to design, integrate, manage and troubleshoot a BDR system built on Barracuda Backup.
Progent can assist your business in any and all facets of your migration to Exchange Server 2016 including planning high availability infrastructure for a local, Microsoft cloud connected or hybrid deployment; server and CAL licensing compliance for Exchange 2016 Server and Windows Server 2012 R2 or later; migrating mailboxes; Hyper-V design; specifying mass storage requirements for your VMs, mailbox databases and logs; configuring hardware load balancing for fault-tolerant CAS services; planning, setting up and validating Exchange and Windows Servers and Database Availability Groups (DAGs); integration with SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online; preparing the firewall; creating SSL certs; performing client integration with Office desktop or Microsoft Office 365; and configuring Outlook on the web.
Progent provided a wireless networking environment that allowed a school to increase efficiency and avoid the ongoing costs of a dedicated link. Progent proposed a Proxim Tsunami wireless 60Mbps bridge. The low-cost building-to-building Proxim bridge is intended for connecting remote locations up to 2.5 miles apart and can reach even longer ranges. This wireless alternative provided better bandwidth and reliability than recourse to amplifying the 802.11b network, and because it uses the 5.8Ghz spectrum it provided protection against outside interference.
The Helpdesk support delivery structure used by Progent's Technical Response Center offers small and midsize businesses an affordable option to reliance on freelance consultants by offering broad expertise accessible to numerous engineering groups, optional 24x7 access to urgent help, fast escalation to world-class engineers for handling the most complex problems, service consistency and dependability, quick follow through overseen by veteran support managers, a choice of convenient mechanisms for initiating service jobs, plus a high level of process visibility made possible by trouble ticket tracking and available through a web-based portal.
Progent can assist your organization in any phase of your upgrade to Exchange 2019 such as configuring Windows Server 2019 Core for hosting Exchange; planning high availability infrastructure for an on-premises, cloud-based or hybrid environment; migrating mailboxes; planning and implementing Windows Hyper-V; configuring hardware load balancing (HLB); building Database Availability Groups (DAGs) with MCDB solid-state caching; integrating with Skype for Business 2019 for voicemail; integration with SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online; preparing firewalls; integration with O365; and setting up Outlook.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the technology of leading information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall.
Progent's Microsoft certified support team can help you define and implement a smooth in-place Exchange Server 2007 upgrade plan that minimizes network downtime, simplifies ongoing support demands, and makes your Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 easy to administer. For complicated multiple server or multi-site migrations, Progent has the background to complete your move quickly and economically. Progent's Exchange Server 2007 support, repair, and design services include expertise with the integration of outside vendor enhancements of Exchange Server 2007 that are best aligned to your business needs.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is an integrated collection of APIs that enables Amazon sellers to improve the efficiency of their business processes by automating crucial sales functions such as listings, orders, payments, inbound and outbound fulfillment, and reports. By tapping into Amazon's extensive online selling environment and automating their sales, vendors can expand their market, lower their operating costs, improve reaction time to customers, and add to their bottom line. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service consultants can work with your development staff and provide programming, workflow integration, project management support, and mentoring so you can shorten development time and get to market quickly.
Progent offers nationwide remote technical support and troubleshooting services for companies that run environments based on versions of Linux or whose information systems feature a mix of Linux platforms/Linux and Microsoft Windows technology. Remote technical support offers maximum return for your IT dollar by preserving client efficiency and shortening the time billed for computer analysis and repair. Sophisticated remote support tools and experienced service specialists and engineers allow Progent to handle most network problems without squandering time and money by going to your location. In most of situations your network issues can be dealt with by telephone or through a combination of phone support and online network analysis. Progent can put you in touch with Cisco CCIE infrastructure engineers and CISA premier security specialists to assist you with the most challenging network issues.
Years of experience delivering Microsoft expertise and Cisco technology consulting has enabled Progent to develop a unique ability for serving branch offices that need network help with the flexibility associated with with small firms but which includes effective client interaction, complete documentation, and adherence to enterprise IT standards. If your corporation has a sales office located anywhere in California or any area covered by Progent's consultants, Progent can provide a broad array of onsite and off-site IT consulting services and network architecture expertise.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 offers powerful, standardized tools to IT experts as well as to network users, reducing the complexity of creating, integrating, managing, and using enterprise information and analytical programs in environments ranging from mobile devices to enterprise information networks. The complexity and interconnectivity demands of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 require an IT consulting firm with hands-on expertise and wide knowledge in designing and building data-driven, comprehensive business technology solutions. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with an average of over 10 years of background supporting Microsoft integration, assures you success in designing, configuring and managing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 applications that are seamlessly integrated with the Microsoft .NET platform.
Progent's experts can provide Mac users a variety of services including workstation support, Apple macOS and OS X consulting, Mac integration with Windows networks, Entourage and Exchange Server help, security services, and one-on-one training. Progent can help businesses to migrate to macOS from Mac OS X or earlier versions of Apple Mac OS X and Progent can provide help with macOS and Mac OS X application software. Progent can also assist you with iPhone support and iPad synchronization, or moving to Apple's iCloud. For computer environments built exclusively on macOS or OS X or for networks with a combination of Mac, Linux and Windows powered servers and desktops, Progent's Apple, Cisco, and Microsoft professionals have the background and depth to deal with the complexity of planning, configuring and maintaining a network environment that is reliable, safe, fast and aligned with your company's business goals.
Ubiquiti's UniFi family of Wi-Fi network devices includes a wide selection of Wave 2 802.11ax Wi-Fi access points (APs), security gateways, and switches. Ubiquiti UniFi devices running across multiple venues with any number of APs can be remotely configured and managed using Ubiquiti's free UniFi Controller software, which centralizes and simplifies deployment, discovery, administration, optimization, troubleshooting, monitoring, and reporting. Progent offers the expertise of seasoned Wi-Fi consultants who can help your organization to assess the benefits of Ubiquiti’s UniFi technology for your environment and help you to design, deploy, manage, and maintain your UniFi solution.
Progent offers access to the affordable services of remote Internet connectivity consultants to assist your organization to assess or enhance your ISP services so your Internet access solution aligns with your business requirements. Support services provided by Progent's engineers include evaluation of your existing bandwidth use, vendor and service plan analysis and selection, network provisioning, and overseeing a smooth switchover to a new carrier and/or service plan. Provisioning can include optimizing existing routers and switches and configuring additional ones, setting up firewalls, and upgrading dependable BGP configurations.
Progent offers live remote instruction for a range of desktop apps and operating systems including Office and Office 365 Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook plus Acrobat Writer, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows 10 and 8.1. Remote training provides the benefits of conventional in-person seminars, including immediate interaction between clients and teachers, but eliminates the expenses of travel and the challenge of attempting to synchronize the availability of many workers. Available to individuals or classes of all sizes, Progent's live online training allows the trainer to run the class from an online office and the students can be spread across a campus or all over the country. Live online learning supports powerful teaching tools such as broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative applications. Sessions can be brief and targeted to specific topics or extended in duration and wider in coverage.
Progent's SonicWall firewall consultants can show you how to integrate, maintain, and update SonicWall firewall devices including the newer SonicWall TZ and NSa families of appliances and the legacy SonicWall PRO 1260 Secure Switch devices. Progent's CISM and GIAC-certified cybersecurity experts can help you incorporate SonicWall firewalls into an end-to-end security plan and design security into your business practices.
Progent can help businesses of any size to move all or part of their network infrastructure to the Microsoft Azure cloud. This can simplify IT management and reduce hardware investments. Microsoft Azure offers a comprehensive library of cloud services and Progent can assist you to understand the benefits and limitations of various cloud networking models supported by Azure. Progent can help you administer cloud-based or hybrid cloud and local applications and network infrastructure and make sure you avoid the typical errors small organizations make when migrating to the cloud. Progent can show you how to configure cloud servers on Azure Virtual Machines, utilize cloud storage with Azure Storage, manage authentication with Azure Active Directory, and create transparent backup mechanisms with Azure Backup. Progent can also help you to prepare perimeter firewalls and VPN tunnels and to integrate iPhones and iPads and Android smartphones and tablets.
Microsoft WSUS enables IT administrators to deploy and monitor the latest Microsoft patches and security updates to Microsoft Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP platforms. By using Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, IT staff can fully and effortlessly manage the distribution of patches that are released through Microsoft Update to servers and workstations in a company. Progent can help you with complex details of the initial setup of Microsoft Windows Server Update Services such as designing the Microsoft SUS deployment, configuring client's workstations, defining the Group Policy settings, and making sure your Microsoft Windows Server Update Services GPO is linked to an Active Directory container appropriate for your network environment.
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NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that combines array-based storage clustering along with continual replication to provide rapid, zero RPO disaster recovery between sites located up to 300km apart from each other. Progent's team of veteran network consultants can assist you to design, configure, manage, upgrade, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to choose a topology for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your functional requirements and budget. Progent can ensure you follow leading practices for configuring your MetroCluster solution by delivering help with procedures such as assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, arranging aggregate layout, provisioning NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, installing Cisco and Brocade switches, implementing a tiebreaker mechanism, setting up a configuration replication network between your storage clusters, and verifying your disaster recovery system to show adherence with industry standards and regulatory mandates.
Progent can provide cost-effective remote consulting to assist businesses to integrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for virtual server hosting, Amazon S3 for scalable cloud storage, and Glacier for value-priced long-term archiving. Progent can assist your IT team with every phase of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, preparedness assessment, architectural design, testing, configuration, administration, performance optimization, software license management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security. Progent can provide advanced expertise with firewall configuration and VPN access and can help you create all-cloud or hybrid cloud networking models that efficiently incorporate Amazon AWS services. Progent offers as-needed expertise to assist you to resolve complex technical issues or Progent can deliver project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to help you migrate to the Amazon AWS platform on schedule and within budget.
For medium-size businesses who need IT consulting services, Progent offers a variety of options such as local service, on-line support, phone-based Call Center, 24x7 support with remote system monitoring, temporary staff augmentation, site relocation services, application development, and expert consulting. For midsize companies in California or other regions serviced by Progent's onsite consultants, Progent provides professional onsite help for fixing network problems rapidly and economically.
Progent’s Cisco Security/VPN professionals and CCIE and CCNP certified experts can help your small or medium sized business integrate and support Cisco’s security and VPN technology including routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN access concentrators. Cisco VPN solutions include both remote access and site-to-site VPNs with Cisco IOS Software and Advanced Integrated Module hardware encryption cards, and hardware appliances, such as a VPN concentrator, router, Cisco PIX Firewall, or task-specific VPN server for dial-up services. Cisco VPN products are easy to manage and offer the flexibility to evolve with your changing business requirements. Progent’s Cisco-Certified network experts support Cisco’s comprehensive line of hardware and software targeted at preventing data pilfering, virus and worm assaults, Denial of Service attacks, and other threats to your information system. Progent can help you deploy Cisco products to achieve safe connectivity, intrusion protection, and full Identity services based on Cisco Access Control Server using RADIUS security and TACACS to establish a central client access control framework for user certification, permissions, and tracking from a graphical Web interface.
Progent can provide fast and affordable online access to a certified Oracle DBA expert or an Oracle application developer. Progent can provide comprehensive database administration services for all versions of Oracle's RDBMS platform and can also assist you to plan, create, enhance, or fix Oracle database applications written with SQL and PL/SQL stored procedure programming language. Progent also provides consulting for Data Guard replication technologies and Oracle Database Resource Manage.
E-Mail Guard is Progent's affordable anti-spam and antivirus solution that gives small companies enterprise-quality protection against spam, viruses, directory harvesting, and other types of email-borne attacks on computer networks. E-Mail Guard is built on Postini's perimeter management technology, a full library of web-based spam filtering and anti-virus services that stop email attacks before they can breech the company firewall. Perimeter Manager also allows administrators track and control their email application, irrespective of server vendor, hardware technology, or data center location.
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Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management helps mid-market businesses build profitable client relationships. Built-in Sales and Customer Service components enable in-house staff to share information to help improve selling success and deliver consistent, effective customer service. Progent can set up the most sensible network infrastructure, including local and offsite wireless connectivity, to support MS CRM, and Progent's Experts Team can provide your company with a certified MS CRM professional who can show you how to combine Microsoft Dynamics CRM with your marketing or customer service databases.
Cisco's Firepower Next Generation Firewalls deliver a major performance boost over Cisco's popular ASA 5500-X security appliances and include centralized management and automation of advanced cybersecurity capabilities such as application visibility, next-generation intrusion protection with risk prioritization, advanced malware protection (AMP), DDoS mitigation, and multi-node sandboxing. Progent's Cisco CCIE firewall experts can help you to design and carry out a smooth migration to Cisco Firepower Series firewalls from Cisco's from ASA 5500-X, ASA 5500, or PIX firewalls and help you enhance Firepower firewalls with Cisco's security services to build and centrally control network ecosystems that span local offices, data centers, and cloud resources.
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity experts can help you to plan and deploy a disaster recovery system based on Microsoft's most advanced Failover Clustering technologies such as Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade for non-disruptive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class storage clusters using industry-standard hardware, VM Load Balancing for improving the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while reducing capital investment and operational expenses, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable deployment of a failover cluster quorum witness.
Progent’s team of Microsoft and Cisco Premier Certified experts average more than a decade of real-world industry background, at the front lines of network service, executing a wide range of IT projects for an extensive mix of customers. Every Progent support professional shares a proven set of personal best practices that are incorporated into shared leading practices training that Progent instills in its consulting personnel. This guarantees that you get not only world-class IT skills, but also a consultant with proven methods for using computer knowledge to resolve actual IT problems rapidly.
If you want to update your production web site, build internal websites for purposes such as human resources or worker education, design a high-impact web presence for a new business, or write enterprise-class, data-driven custom web applications, Progent can provide skilled and experienced web developers. Progent's experts can also help you build and maintain a secure, fault-tolerant server and communications infrastructure, including remote and wireless access, to support your web solutions.
Progent's ProSight family of managed IT services are geared to provide organizations who have minimal internal IT support teams with affordable help from enterprise-class management platforms and consulting expertise. Advantages of the ProSight line of managed IT services include predictable IT management expenses, smart automation of routine administrative tasks, continual absorption of the latest information technology, graceful transition from legacy technology to modern solutions, close alignment of information technology with strategic objectives, access to seasoned IT experts, and freeing up management to concentrate on business issues instead of ever-changing network technology.
Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2017 experts can help you to design and implement a cost-effective upgrade from your existing SQL Server deployment to SQL Server 2017.
For small companies interested in Progent's IT outsourcing, design expertise, or troubleshooting services, phone 800-993-9400 or send email to information@progent.com.
E-Mail Guard from Postini offers continually upgraded spam and virus filtering, content filtering, and security from e-mail-borne directory harvesting and DSA attacks. Progent is a Postini aggregator and support specialist. If your company is too small to purchase for a regular Postini license, you can still have the use of Postini’s Perimeter Manager services through Progent’s E-Mail Guard antispam and virus defense service offering. Progent’s expert email protection consultants can help you create an email safety strategy that incorporates antispam and anti-virus technologies and policies.
Progent can provide the part-time services of a seasoned Chief Information Officer who can provide strategic direction to help you select and maintain IT solutions to meet your present situation and that can be a solid basis for your future growth. Progent's part-time Chief Information Officer consulting services offer financial leverage to companies trying to maximize the impact of their IT investment but who are unable or unwilling to take on another executive-level position to their head count. Because Progent is vendor-agnostic, with a sizable staff of consultants certified to support all major operating systems and connectivity technologies plus a wide range and business software, Progent is in an ideal situation to offer objective recommendations as well as expert technical support for creating information solutions that match the special requirements of your business.
Progent believes that a carefully architected and executed information system can be a crucial piece for enabling any company's success, and Progent applies this credo in our own network environment. Progent has built a non-stop virtual office network that enables Progent's in-house engineers and certified contractors to deliver fast and effective support, cooperate closely on complex jobs, and experience professional and private growth from acting as part of an exciting business ethos of self motivation and freedom.
Progent's Check Point Software consultants can show you how to choose and configure Check Point Software Firewall and VPN utilities and appliances powered by Check Point's security platform to offer an economical and efficient security defense for your business network. Progent can also help you integrate other Check Point products including ZoneAlarm and Check Point Series 80 firewalls with security solutions from other suppliers and offer a single source for on-going technical support, administration, training, and consulting expertise.
Progent can help you in any and all phases of your upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2016 such as planning high availability system topology for a local, Microsoft cloud connected or hybrid environment; licensing compliance for Exchange 2016 Server and Windows Server 2012 R2; migrating mailboxes; Hyper-V virtualization strategy; determining storage requirements for your VMs, mailbox databases and log files; setting up hardware load balancing (HLB) for fault-tolerant client access services; designing, configuring and validating Exchange Servers and Windows Servers and Database Availability Groups (DAGs); integration with SharePoint; preparing the firewall; creating SSL certs; providing client remediation with Office 2010 or greater or Microsoft Office 365; and configuring Outlook on the web.
With virtual servers, companies are able to run many virtual servers on a single physical server. Virtualization technology enables companies to gain all the advantages of server segmentation, while avoiding the costs that goes with buying extra server equipment. Virtualization is also the critical technology behind private clouds, which provide major advantages such as reducing the costs of capital equipment, facilities, and management while enhancing information security, network reliability, and disaster recovery. Other key server management technologies are network monitoring software, Microsoft WSUS, and remote server management cards. Progent's certified server management specialists can assist you in all areas of server virtualization and management to enable your business to cut costs and save time.
Progent's certified consultants can assist your company to evaluate Microsoft Windows 7 to confirm application and driver compatibility and to check its performance and reliability operating with your applications. Progent's consultants can also help you to estimate the potential business benefits of adopting Microsoft Windows 7. If you decide that Microsoft Windows 7 fits your business strategy, Progent can help your IT organization to plan and carry out a non-disruptive deployment of Windows 7 from a an older release of Windows.
Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can assist you to set up, manage, upgrade and troubleshoot Cisco products. Progent offers Cisco, Meraki and Nexus switch expertise, ASA firewall expertise, Meraki and Aironet Wi-Fi access point expertise, Cisco IP phone support, and CUCM/CallManager software expertise.
Progent's consultants can provide remote and on-premises expertise for organizations of all sizes to evaluate the costs/benefits of migrating to Skype for Business or Skype for Business Online from any version of Lync Server or Office Communications Server. Progent can assist your business to design a local, cloud or mixed deployment; integrate Skype for Business with Microsoft SQL Server,Exchange Server, SharePoint and Office; set up HA solutions; connect Skype for Business with your PBX system and PSTN gateway; and integrate other collaboration systems like Cisco Video Interop Server. Progent's certified information security experts can assist you design and validate a security strategy for your Skype for Business solution that meets government and industry requirements.
Progent's Windows consultants can help businesses of any size to evaluate Windows 10 or to upgrade to Windows 10 from an older release of Microsoft Windows. Online and on-premises assessment and upgrade services for Microsoft Windows 10 available from Progent include ROI estimates, project management, application compatibility testing, test lab systems, Hyper-V virtualization strategies, Cloud integration, mobile device management and synchronization, telecommuter connectivity, data and identity security, automated provisioning and administration, infrastructure optimization, wired/wireless convergence, business continuity planning, custom training for network management staff and users, and post-migration consulting support.
Progent’s team of Microsoft and Cisco Premier experts average longer than a decade of hands-on industry experience, in the trenches of IT service, performing a wide variety of technical projects for a large array of clients. Each Progent consultant shares a proven set of individual best practices which are incorporated into company-wide leading practices training that Progent instills in its support staff. This ensures that you get not just world-class technical help, but also a support engineer with field-tested methods for applying technical knowledge to resolve real-world network problems efficiently.
If you have a small business network with 10 to 50 desktop users, Progent's computer outsourcing services free your organization from dependence on an individual independent consultant while giving you affordable and dependable access to enterprise-class network support. By providing IT consulting help when you require it, offering specialized knowledge for critical technologies, delivering unique services such as 24x7 server monitoring, and charging only for support you receive, Progent gives you an economical way for optimizing the business value of your small business network. Progent is the smart way for small businesses to build and maintain a robust and safe IT system and to benefit from quick access to the skilled consulting typically restricted to businesses who are able to afford a sizeable internal IT group.
Progent can provide the expertise of a senior specialist with extensive hands-on experience installing, maintaining, and upgrading telepresence platforms from top-tier suppliers such as Cisco/TANDBERG, Polycom, LifeSize, and Radvision. Progent's consultants can work with your in-house network management team, your ISP, and your video conferencing platform supplier to help your organization increase the strategic value of your telepresence ecosystem.