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Microsoft Releases Windows 7
During a talk at the 2009 CES Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft's head Steve Ballmer announced the beta version of the
Microsoft Windows 7 includes quicker initialization, shut down, and resumption from standby; easier networking and file and printer sharing; centralized device administration; as well as sophisticated multitouch technology. To see Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft's Steve Balmer Introduces Windows 7 Beta
How Progent's Microsoft-certified Experts Can Help Your Company to Plan for Windows 7
Progent's certified engineers can help your company to test the beta version of
Progent's consulting experts offer a variety of other low-cost services to enhance the productivity, dependability, security, speed, and maintainability of IT systems that incorporate workstations based on
Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support experts can deliver a broad array of cost-effective consulting and support services to assist you to install, configure, repair, and manage workstations and laptops powered by Windows. Progent can offer onsite or remote assistance for single computers or notebooks or work with your business to design and implement a company-wide migration to
Live Virtual Training for Workstation Programs
Progent provides online virtual education for an array of desktop applications and environments including Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, Visio, Acrobat Writer, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Windows XP and Vista. Virtual training offers all the benefits of traditional classroom seminars, including immediate communication between clients and teachers, but avoids the expenses of travel and the hassle of trying to accommodate the schedules of multiple trainees. Available to individuals or groups of any size, live online training permits the teacher to run the seminar from an online facility while the students can be spread across an office or all over the country. Virtual learning utilizes proven teaching mechanisms such as broadcast white boards, electronic hand-raising, and collaborative desktops. Sessions can be brief and targeted for specific subjects or extended in duration and wider in scope. Instructors and clients can work through problems individually or as a class.
64-bit Transitioning Support for Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Servers
Microsoft Windows 7 is offered in a 64-bit edition that represents a new standard for desktop reliability and performance. However, for the majority of businesses the transition to 64-bit computing is problematic because of the need to perform a clean installation on every PC. This entails reconfiguring programs, saving and recovering data files, and running new device drivers. Though businesses typically are already using 64-bit workstations, the work required to benefit fully from this resource can seem too time-consuming. Yet since Windows 7 usually calls for a from-scratch installation, it can be a good opportunity to upgrade to 64-bit performance, which you can do with little if any additional effort. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers have in-depth backgrounds designing and implementing massive, minimally disruptive operating system migrations of in-place desktops and can assist your business leverage your network budget by executing the upgrade to Microsoft Windows 7 and to 64-bit technology simultaneously.
Change and Update Automation
Progent's network management experts can help you create a computer network based on Microsoft Windows 7 workstations that is simple to manage. Progent's consultants have extensive backgrounds providing small and midsize businesses SMS Server 2003 consulting to reduce IT management's workload, increase network protection, improve efficiency by ensuring that all patches and updates are current, police licensing adherence, and monitor patterns of application use to allow a more efficient purchasing plan. Also, Progent can assist you to carry out a non-disruptive upgrade to System Center Configuration Manager from Microsoft SMS Server for more complete administration automation and can help you to move to Microsoft Windows Server 2008.
Network Security Inventory Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's certified security engineers can deliver a selection of cost-effective security inventory service packages and enterprise network security assessment service bundles created to offer organizations of all sizes an opportunity to get an independent opinion about the quality of their protection environment. The packages vary from a low-cost external scan and assessment package for small businesses up to a high-end package for corporations who need to meet security standards demanded by government regulators or by vendors. For every security inventory or evaluation bundle, consultants with top security credentials evaluate and summarize scanned information and provide suggestions for effective improvements.
Fault-tolerant System Design
Progent’s consulting professionals can help you to implement a fault-tolerant system architecture with features such as Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V clustering, auto-failover Internet access, network load balancing, and strategic data centers. Progent provides access to Microsoft and Cisco-Premier network engineers who can show you how to utilize virtual machines to improve availability. Progent can also help you define a complete disaster recovery plan that incorporates periodic disaster recovery preparedness audits and testing.
Call Center Support and Expertise
Progent is a Microsoft and Cisco Authorized Partner and Progent's online Help Desk support team of trained technical professionals gives your clients easy access to a dependable support resource with extensive experience delivering telephone assistance and online repair for IT systems powered by Microsoft and Cisco technology. Progent's focus is on earning the Help Desk a positive image as a key contributor to company productivity. Progent's target is to fix rather than simply report problems. Progent can deliver comprehensive Helpdesk support or transparently supplement your current Helpdesk. Progent can in addition assist your company to select and deploy the most advanced technology for building or enhancing your internal Help Desk.
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macOS Online Troubleshooting Professional
Configuration OS X
Progent provides national online phone support and troubleshooting services for businesses who operate Apple Mac OS X networks or whose information systems include a combination of macOS and Mac OS X with Microsoft Windows products. Progent's consultants can provide macOS and Mac OS X clients a variety of IT services including desktop assistance, migration to the current version of OS X from earlier editions of Apple macOS and Mac OS X, plus expertise with Apple macOS and OS X application software. Progent can also help your business with iPhone and Apple iPad synchronization and troubleshooting, or moving to iCloud. Remote IT help provides optimum return for your IT dollar by preserving user efficiency and shortening the time charged for network analysis and repair. Sophisticated online support utilities and experienced service specialists and consultants combine to enable Progent to solve most IT problems without squandering time and expense by traveling to your location. In the vast majority of cases your IT issues can be remediated by telephone or through a mix of telephone help and online network analysis. Progent can put you in touch with Cisco CCIE network engineers and CISA premier security professionals to assist with the most difficult network issues.
VMware vSphere Hypervisor Consult
VMware vRealize Automation vRA Consultants
Progent offers the assistance of a certified VMware VCDX consultant to help your organization plan, deploy, administer and repair VMware vSphere and vCloud-powered virtualization solution for local datacenters, private and public clouds, or hybrid cloud deployments. Progent offers advanced expertise for deploying and integrating VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware's NSX network virtualization system for disaster recovery and application continuity. Progent offers in-depth experience of VMware vCloud Director, vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) and vCloud Suite used for administering private and hybrid cloud solutions that deliver maximum availability, fault tolerance, and application mobility.
Microsoft Windows Small Business Network Consulting Services
Computer Networking Microsoft Office XP
Progent’s IT outsourcing services offer economical computer consulting for small businesses. Whether it includes designing network infrastructure, creating an in-house Help Desk or outsourcing a one, deploying an updated e-mail system, monitoring your network, or building a web-based business application, outsourcing your network technical services can reduce expenses and minimize risks, allowing IT support expenses to grow in a more linear and manageable manner than is possible by assembling a large, knowledgeable in-house network support staff. Progent’s Outsourcing White Paper and datasheets tell you how Progent can enable you to create a protected and robust system architecture for your critical applications based on Windows including Office XP, Microsoft Office 2003, and Office 2000.
Check Point Newxt Ceneration Firewalls Security Consultant
CheckPoint FireWalls Technical Support
Progent's Check Point Software firewall consultants can help you design, integrate, and administer firewall environments that rely on Check Point Software NGFW security gateways and Check Point's cloud-based security services. Progent can also assist you maintain legacy Check Point firewalls or upgrade smoothly to Check Point's modern security gateways.
Work from Home Infrastructure Outsourcing
Top Ranked At Home Workers Network Infrastructure Remote Consulting
Progent can assist small and mid-size companies to plan, deploy and troubleshoot the network infrastructure for work-from-home employees.
24 Hour Private Cloud Virtual Datacenter Hosting Consultants
Consult Private Cloud Integration
Progent's Private Cloud Hosting service provides complete hosting of a small or mid-size company's servers in an environment that delivers the highest level of dependability and scalability and is in addition easy to transfer to another host. Progent's Private Cloud Hosting and Management services are based upon proven virtualization technologies that enable small companies with multi- platform IT systems to save dramatically on the costs of capital equipment, system support, and IT administration while benefiting from world-class reliability and an unmatched level of vendor independence.
Consulting Services ProSight Managed Services
ProSight Remote Managed IT Services Consult
Progent's ProSight portfolio of managed IT services are designed to offer organizations who have small in-house IT administration and support teams with affordable access to world-class management tools and consulting expertise. Benefits of Progent's ProSight catalog of managed IT services include predictable network management expenses, smart automation of routine administrative tasks, ongoing adoption of new information technology, smooth transition from legacy systems to modern solutions, improved fit between computer technology with business objectives, access to seasoned network consultants, and freeing up management to concentrate on business issues rather than fast-evolving information technology.
Network Consultants At Home Workforce Endpoint Security
Support Remote Employees Endpoint Security
Progent can help small and mid-size companies to configure security protection solutions and provide response services for at-home workers.
Altaro VM Backup Cloud Management IT Consultant
Altaro VM Backup Encryption IT Services
Altaro VM Backup software offers small and mid-size businesses a dependable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, offsite, multi-site, and cloud-hosted architectures and also enables low-cost backup to Azure storage. Headline capabilities include state-of-the-art inline deduplication to reduce backup storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup spacing as little as five minutes for reducing your exposure to data loss, advanced encryption, item-level restore capability for individual files and emails, support for Windows CSV and for vCenter for managing large-scale environments, and support for Microsoft VSS technology to back up online virtual machines without downtime. Progent is an Altaro partner and offers a wide range of services to assist you to plan, install, optimize and troubleshoot a backup and disaster recovery solution based on Altaro VM Backup.
Cisco SIP Integration Integration Services
Cisco CUBE and SIP Trunks Specialists
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure consultants can assist organizations of any size to design, integrate, maintain, debug and enhance Cisco's SIP infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based SIP trunks and can provide affordable remote or onsite support to assist companies to move smoothly to an advanced unified communications ecosystem that delivers accelerated return on investment. Progent's certified Microsoft unified communications experts can help you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications like Skype for Business Server and Lync Server for access to a SIP PSTN trunk.
Telecommuter Jobs Q and A about Recruiter Cisco Consultant
Telecommute Job FAQ about Cisco Consulting
To see answers to frequent enquiries about becoming a consultant at Progent, see Employment at Progent FAQs.
Professional Network Security Assessment
Cybersecurity Security Evaluation Consultant Services
Progent offers special network security packages intended to deliver larger institutions an objective and comprehensive security evaluation from a team of premier security engineers. All Progent's security evaluation packages incorporate a collection of services like network scans from inside and from beyond your corporate firewall, professional analysis of scan results by certified security engineers, creation of a report explaining the results, plus an interactive concise executive summary and a detailed live review for in-house IT engineers.
Top Ranked 802.11x Wi-Fi Site Survey Network Consultant
Remote Wireless Site Survey Support and Integration
Progent’s Wireless Site Survey makes it easy to design and implement a wireless LAN customized for your environment, providing your business a WLAN that delivers the coverage, performance, capacity, Quality of Service, data protection, and hand-off capability your company needs. Progent's Wireless Site Survey services are available either as an economical remote service or as a more comprehensive onsite service.
Information Technology Consulting Tracking Service Costs
Service Reporting Specialist
Progent uses an enterprise-class support reporting system that stores and organizes complete documentation for all delivered services. Unlike many independent consultants or small service organizations who offer minimal documentation or specifics of services done, every service delivered by Progent is accompanied by full documentation. Every Progent staff member has use of the support reports transmitted by each consultant to each customer. The practice of documenting and organizing support activity results in more efficient support and avoids a variety of common problems such as when a service customer is virtually held captive to a consultant who won’t let go of the keys to the kingdom.
Consulting Firms Consultant Hourly Rate
24-Hour Network Consultant Consulting Rates
Progent's pricing model is to charge for online support and on-site visits by the minute. As a result, you owe exclusively for delivered support. Progent does not demand a higher rate for after-hours or urgent support, and within California or in regions where Progent provides on-premises support, Progent does not charge for travel time except for urgent support where on-site work is less than four hours. Also, Progent imposes no initialization charge and asks no retainer for services provided during normal working hours. Many support firms demand large minimum fees or charge for every fifteen minutes or longer. Progent's one-minute granularity eliminates big bills for fast fixes so you will not be forced to allow minor problems to fester.
UC560 Online Technical Support
8800-EX Wireless IP Phone Online Consulting
Progent's Cisco-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can help you to integrate, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy VoIP devices to the newest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally named CallManager, or with Unified CM Express (CME) to build a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can also help you to configure Cisco Unified CM applications like Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Jabber, Cisco Unity Connection for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for building an advanced customer contact solution. Progent's consultants can deliver support with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking, installing ISR routers with CUBE internetworking support, and designing Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for high availability.
Biggest Microsoft Windows 7 Consult
Top Rated Microsoft Windows 7 Evaluation Professional
Progent's Microsoft certified engineers can provide remote and onsite consulting services to help your company to administer, maintain, and troubleshoot PCs based on Microsoft Windows 7 and also offers assistance with migrating to Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 from Windows 7. Progent offers expertise with management automation, network security, backup and restore, remote connectivity, smartphone and tablet integration, Wi-Fi network design, and remote system monitoring.
Fortinet 100 Series Firewalls Consultant
Online Support Services Fortinet 800 Series Firewalls
Fortinet FortiGate next-generation firewalls are leaders in offering top performance for encrypted data inspection. Progent's Fortinet FortiGate firewall consultants can help you to integrate your Fortinet security appliances to protect all your IT assets at the network perimeter, within the data center core, at branch locations, and in the cloud.
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