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Microsoft Releases Windows 7
In an address at the 2009 CES Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the beta availability of the
Windows 7 features faster startup, shut down, and recovery from sleep mode; no-hassle networking and file and printer sharing; consolidated peripherals administration; plus multiple finger multitouch technology. To see Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft Introduces Windows 7 Beta
How Progent's Consulting Engineers Can Assist Your Company to Assess Windows 7
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can help your company to test the beta edition of
Progent's consultants can provide a range of other affordable services to improve the productivity, reliability, protection, speed, and manageability of information networks that include workstations powered by
PC Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support experts can deliver a broad array of affordable services to assist your company to deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and manage workstations and notebooks powered by Windows. Progent can provide on-premises or online help for single computers or notebooks or help your business to plan and implement a company-wide migration to
Live Virtual Education for Workstation Programs
Progent provides live virtual learning for a range of desktop programs and operating systems including Microsoft Excel, Word, Publisher, Outlook, Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Windows Vista and Windows 7. Live online education offers the advantages of conventional in-person sessions, such as instant interaction between clients and trainers, but avoids the costs of travel and the hassle of trying to accommodate the availability of many trainees. Offered to single students or classes of all sizes, virtual instruction permits the trainer to run the seminar from a remote facility and the students can be dispersed throughout an office or all over the country. Live online instruction utilizes powerful teaching tools like broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and shared desktops. Classes can be brief and personalized for specific subjects or longer in time and broader in scope. Teachers and clients can go through problems one-on-one or as a group.
64-bit Transitioning Help for Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Servers
Windows 7 is available in a 64-bit version that represents a new benchmark for desktop reliability and performance. However, for most businesses the migration to 64-bit computing is problematic due to the need to perform a new setup on each desktop. This requires reconfiguring applications, backing up and restoring data files, and installing new drivers. Although companies typically already have 64-bit PCs, the work required to take full advantage of this untapped potential can seem too difficult. Yet since Microsoft Windows 7 usually requires a clean installation, it represents a great time to upgrade to 64-bit computing, which is possible with little more work. Progent's Microsoft consulting experts have in-depth experience planning and performing major, efficient OS upgrades of in-place desktops and can assist your company get the most out of your network dollars by executing the migration to Windows 7 and to 64-bit computing simultaneously.
Change and Update Management Automation
Progent's network administration professionals can show you how to create an information system built on Windows 7 PCs that is easy to manage. Progent's consultants have in-depth backgrounds delivering small and midsize businesses SMS Server 2003 consulting to reduce network administration's workload, increase network protection, improve efficiency by making sure that all patches and updates are current, enforce licensing adherence, and track characteristics of software use to allow smarter purchasing strategy. Also, Progent can help you to carry out a smooth migration to System Center Configuration Manager 2007 from SMS Server for more comprehensive administration automation and can help you to upgrade to Windows Server 2008.
Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's premier security engineers can provide a variety of cost-effective small business security inventory packages and enterprise security evaluation packages created to offer organizations of any size a chance to get an impartial look at the strength of their protection profile. These packages vary from an ultra-affordable external scan and evaluation package for small and midsize companies up to a high-end solution for corporations who need to meet security standards demanded by government regulators or by customers. For each security assessment package, engineers with high-level security accreditations analyze and summarize collected information and provide recommendations for effective improvements.
Fault-tolerant System Infrastructure
Progent’s consulting experts can assist your company to configure a fault-tolerant system architecture with features such as Windows Hyper-V failover clustering, auto-failover Internet connections, system load balancing, and dispersed collocation sites. Progent offers access to Microsoft and Cisco-Certified consulting professionals who can show you how to benefit from virtualization to enhance fault tolerance. Progent can also show you how to define a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that incorporates scheduled disaster response preparedness audits and testing.
Helpdesk Support and Expertise
Progent is a Microsoft and Cisco Authorized Partner and Progent's online Help Desk services team of certified technical experts gives your clients convenient access to a reliable technical resource with years of experience providing telephone support and online troubleshooting for IT systems based on Microsoft and Cisco products. Progent's concentration is on earning the Helpdesk a respected image as a solid contributor to company performance. Progent's goal is to resolve and not merely record problems. Progent can deliver full Help Desk outsourcing or seamlessly supplement your current Helpdesk. Progent can in addition help you to select and implement the latest solutions for building or enhancing your in-house Helpdesk.
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CRISC Certified Security Group
CRISC Certified Risk and Information Systems Control Architect Consult
Progent can provide the guidance of a CRISC-certified risk management expert to help your company to plan and deploy an enterprise risk management solution based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget.
After Hours Security Firm Juniper Junos os
Juniper Junos Configuration Cybersecurity Organizations
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.
Remote Consulting Live Communications Server
24-7 Live Communications Server 2007 Consulting Services
Microsoft Communications Server delivers Instant Messaging and Real Presence in an extensible, enterprise-grade solution offering enhanced protection, seamless compatibility with popular Microsoft products, an expandable, industry-standard development platform, and support for regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Your enterprise can realize cost savings and improved business efficiencies, increased worker productivity, and stronger IP security with this simple-to-administer, fault-tolerant solution. Successful deployments of Microsoft Office Communications Server call for careful planning and thought prior to installation. Progent's Microsoft-authorized consultants can deliver the skill necessary to realize all the advantages of Office Communications Server across your entire corporation.
UNIX, Windows Engineer
24-7 Technical Consultant UNIX with Windows
Progent's UNIX family consulting services offer small businesses and software developers assistance with administering and maintaining UNIX, Linux or Solaris environments that operate with Microsoft-powered networks. Progent can give your business contact with UNIX consultants, consulting professionals premier by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISA credentials. This broad array of expertise offers you a convenient one-stop consulting firm to help you create and maintain a secure and robust cross-platform connectivity and communications environment that allows UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by integrating Windows with major variants of UNIX such as Mac OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO UNIX, and SGI/Irix or major Linux variations such as RedHat, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu, PCLOS, fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux, Mandriva Linux, Debian-GNU, and Slackware Linux.
Cisco VPN Remote Technical Support
VPN Support and Setup
Cisco's security and remote access solutions for small to mid-size companies offer a full array of easy-to-administer protection products to help safeguard your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's VPN product family includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and Virtual Private Network access concentrators. Progent's professional consulting staff includes experienced engineers with Cisco CCIE and CCNP qualifications who can help your company to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that align most closely with your corporate objectives.
Integration At Home Employees Endpoint Management
Offsite Workers Endpoint Management IT Services
Progent can assist small and mid-size organizations to install centralized remote endpoint management and monitoring platforms for maintaining endpoint devices used by work-from-home employees.
Urgent Services Web Application Security Assessment
Engineers Web Application Security Assessment
Progent offers special security service bundles designed to deliver larger enterprises a professional and thorough network security assessment from a group of premier security consultants. All Progent's security assessment bundles incorporate a collection of procedures including network scans from within and from outside your company security perimeter, professional analysis of scan results by accredited security engineers, creation of a report explaining the findings, plus a live concise executive summary and an in-depth live review for internal network engineers.
Security Consult
24-7 Engineers Wireless Security
Progent offers consulting for security evaluation products such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer for running a set of automatic network testing scans to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive knowledge of network auditing tools and can show you how to make sense of testing reports and respond effectively. Progent can help you design security into your company operations, configure auditing software, plan and implement a secure system environment, and recommend policies to maximize the security of your IT system. Progent's security professionals are available to show you how to configure a firewall, implement safe remote access to email and business applications, and install virtual private network. Progent's qualified security experts can also test the protection of web software and can provide comprehensive security audits of company-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with recognized international security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO.
After Hours Shared Help Desk Support Services
Troubleshooting Extended Helpdesk
Progent's Computer Help Desk Call Center Outsourcing Services for PC desktop support are designed specifically for small businesses who need immediate access to a Help Desk Call Center with professional telephone support and full escalation capability but who have to operate within a modest information technology budget. Key components of Progent's Help Desk Outsourcing Support Services are Help Desk Call Center Phone Support, Secure Remote Access Support, System Evaluation, Problem Escalation, Virtual Help Desk Call Center Services, Per Minute Billing, and Helpdesk Applications Recommendation and Deployment.
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