For small company computer networks located in the state of South Dakota, Progent's Microsoft authorized technicians can deliver remote phone assistance and troubleshooting to fix your network systems problems quickly and affordably. Progent has developed enterprise-level expertise, sophisticated tools, and support databases to diagnose and fix network problems while avoiding the expense and time delays normally associated with on-site service calls.

If your South Dakota small business is situated beyond the larger urban areas such as Sioux Falls, Rapid City, or Aberdeen, your local network systems support choices may be limited in skills, or unavailable during urgent situations. This results in a office network that is unpredictable or causing efficiency loss due to technical problems going unresolved for too long. Progent’s staff of expert network consultants average more than twelve years of real-world IT industry experience, in the trenches of network systems support, performing a extensive variety of technical tasks for a diverse range of clients. This means you get not just the technical expertise needed for the job, but a professional with proven methods for applying those skills to assist with cost effective network solutions.

MySQL Software Development and Database Administration Services
Progent's MySQL software programmers, database architects, and database administrators can provide cost-effective online DBA or software programming support and can assist organizations of all sizes to configure and maintain MySQL in a dependable network infrastructure that offers advanced speed, scalability, and protection. Progent also has experience assisting businesses migrate databases from Oracle to MySQL.

Common Examples of Online Consulting Services Available from Progent for Cisco Routers
Some of the common online Cisco router consulting services offered by Progent include setting up hostname, IP addressing, routing maps, logging, security logon banner and user accounts; setting up HSRP, aggregation, static to EIGRP redistribution, and ECN gateways; troubleshooting NAT configurations, routing configuration, line settings and BGP peering arrangements; updating router's IOS image; setting up and confirming router failover; resolving VPN tunnel and routing problems; creating a network diagram and documenting configuration; plus security and availability planning.

Planning and Support Expertise for SCVMM 2012
Progent's SCVMM 2012 consulting experts can assist businesses of any size to follow leading practices to configure SCVMM 2012 hosts and host groups, fabric, storage, and library resources; design, implement, and administer private clouds, virtual machines, and VMM services in SCVMM 2012; and integrate SCVMM 2012 with SCOM 2012 for comprehensive reporting. Progent can assist your company to upgrade from a legacy version of System Center Virtual Machine Manager or from a third-party management system, and Progent can assist you to enhance and repair your existing SCVMM 2012 environment so you realize the highest possible return on investment. Progent also offers Virtual Machine Manager 2016 migration consulting to help your organization to plan and implement a smooth migration from SCVMM 2012 to Virtual Machine Manager 2016 in order to take advantage of new assurance features, more affordable VMM storage fabric, and other enhancements.

NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Discovery Solutions
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery software suite that combines failover storage clustering along with continual replication to deliver rapid, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between sites that are up to 185 miles away from one another. Progent can provide online or on-premises access to a certified NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can assist your business to design, configure, manage, upgrade, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery system based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your functional needs and IT budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to best practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by providing guidance with tasks like assigning shelf IDs, arranging aggregate and plexes layout, provisioning NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, installing Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a configuration replication network between your storage clusters, and testing your DR solution to show compliance with industry standards and regulatory mandates.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is a low-cost service built around a brief interview with a Progent information assurance expert. The fact-finding interview is designed to help assess your company's ability either to block or recover rapidly after a ransomware incident. Progent will consult with you personally to gather information about your current antivirus tools and backup platform, and Progent will then produce a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report document describing how you can apply best practices to create a cost-effective AV and backup environment that aligns with your business needs. For more information, visit Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.

BI Reporting and Analytics Consulting and Development
Progent’s business information reporting consultants offer online and on premises expertise to assist you with any aspect of business intelligence reporting ranging from troubleshooting or enhancing applications to planning and deploying a comprehensive business intelligence environment. Progent's management reporting experts can help you to maintain your existing reporting environment, help you to upgrade databases and applications from an outdated reporting platform to a current solution, and deliver custom online mentoring to meet your specific requirements. Progent’s business reporting professionals offer expertise in all popular business analytics reporting tools such as Microsoft's SQL Server business intelligence stack (Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services), Management Reporter/FRx, Office Access, Crystal Reports, Power BI, Excel business analytics tools including Power Pivot and Power View, and Report Designer.

ProSight Network Audits for Evaluating Network Health
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a quick and affordable alternative for small and mid-size businesses to obtain an objective assessment of the health of their IT system. Powered by some of the leading remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools available, and overseen by Progent's certified group of information technology professionals, ProSight Network Audits help you see how well the deployment of your core infrastructure devices conform to best practices. The Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are available at a low, one-time cost and deliver instant ROI like a more manageable and safer AD implementation. Both versions also offer the long-term benefits of cutting-edge remote network monitoring and management technology. These benefits can include easier network management, improved compliance with data security standards, more efficient utilization of network assets, faster troubleshooting, more dependable backup and recovery, and higher availability. For details about ProSight Network Audits and to see sample reports, go to ProSight Network Audits.

VMware NSX Network Virtualization
VMware's NSX virtual network platform allows you to build complete logical networks in software. NSX permits virtual networks to be provisioned in minutes and managed with a high degree of automation independent of the hardware making up the underlying IP network. VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) supports automated disaster recovery, application mobility, plus transparent site migration, failback and re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also enables non-disruptive testing for disaster recovery, upgrades and patches and can produce reports to confirm full service recovery, validate SLAs and demonstrate DR compliance. When integrated with VMware's NSX virtual network technology, VMware Site Recovery Manager can quickly recover the entire logical network topology at the secondary site. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware NSX consulting expert and VMware Site Recovery Manager system architect to assist your organization to design, deploy, test and manage a DR system powered by VMware SRM and VMware NSX.

Office 365 Integration with On-premises Exchange
Microsoft supports seamless hybrid ecosystems that combine Office 365 Exchange Online and local installations of Exchange. This permits you to have certain mailboxes located on your on-premises datacenter or private cloud and other mailboxes hosted by Office 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you with any facet of planning, integrating and troubleshooting your hybrid Exchange network. Progent's Exchange specialists can deliver as-needed support to help you through stubborn technical problems and also offer comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to ensure your hybrid Office 365/Exchange solution is completed on time and on budget. For more information about Progent's online consulting expertise for integrating Office 365 and on-premises Exchange systems, refer to Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange.

ProSight WAN Watch Network Infrastructure Monitoring and Management
Progent’s ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure management service makes it simple and affordable for smaller organizations to diagram, monitor, reconfigure and troubleshoot their connectivity hardware like routers and switches, firewalls, and access points as well as servers, printers, client computers and other networked devices. Incorporating cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management technology, WAN Watch makes sure that network maps are always updated, copies and manages the configuration of virtually all devices on your network, monitors performance, and generates alerts when problems are detected. By automating complex network management activities, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off common chores such as network mapping, reconfiguring your network, finding appliances that require critical software patches, or isolating performance issues. Read about Progent's entire ProSight series of value-priced managed services for small and mid-size businesses.

64-bit Computing Upgrade Support Services
Progent’s 64-bit upgrade specialists can help you to update your application servers and desktop PCs affordably from 32 bits to 64 bits. Progent can help you to calculate the risks and advantages of migrating to 64-bit computing, plan an economical migration strategy that reduces business interruptions, and offer timely online support to assist your organization to configure 64-bit software and applications on your existing hardware. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help you to integrate the 64-bit editions of Microsoft products such as Windows Server, SQL Server, Windows 10, and Office Excel.

Talk to a Progent Network Consultant
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