Expanding your at-home workforce may have a major effect on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and corporate processes. Progent has 20 years of background assisting businesses of all sizes to design, configure, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can help your Sarasota company to select the right tools and follow leading practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual office solution for telecommuters that promotes teamwork and returns maximum business value. Progent can provide services that go from on demand guidance for helping you over occasional IT bottlenecks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can help Sarasota, Florida businesses to with any facet of creating a high-functioning work-from-home environment by providing infrastructure configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, helpdesk outsourcing, endpoint security, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.
Network Infrastructure for Telecommuters
Integrating the network infrastructure needed for a remote workforce can be especially complex if you must accommodate a mix of worker-owned equipment such as PCs and laptops, Internet routers, and wireless appliances from different manufacturers and with a variety of OS software and firmware levels. Progent's background providing online support for both legacy as well as current technologies in virtual office solutions allows you to make cost-effective use of your existing infrastructure and offers ready access to top-tire consultants for making necessary upgrades. Support services offered by Progent to assist you to implement a productive work-at-home ecosystem include:
- Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology makes it possible to establish a secure connection for authorized remote workers to use IT assets situated at your company data center or in a public cloud. Progent's consultants can assist your company to deploy and manage VPN connections between your teleworkers and your key IT resources by providing online VPN configuration consulting. For organizations using Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco-certified ASA experts can help your telecommuters to set up Cisco's popular AnyConnect software to provide safe VPN tunneling for a wide selection of devices such as Windows, macOS, Apple iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) products allow a teleworker to view and interact with a data center PC's desktop. This technology provides IT managers substantial control over the digital ecosystem of at-home employees and offers remote users a familiar work experience. Progent's virtual desktop services include Windows Remote Desktop integration and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI solutions.
- Routers attach at-home computer networks to the Internet and typically support VPN tunnels, home wireless connectivity, and firewall services. Progent can provide top-tier remote support for configuring routers from a variety of vendors. See router integration services from Cisco-certified experts.
- Home Wi-Fi networks, often supporting an entire household and guests, are frequently used by at-home employees to connect to their Internet router for work. This can create throughput and cybersecurity problems. Progent can assist you to resolve these issues by providing expertise that include Aironet configuration consulting, Cisco-certified Meraki WiFi installation consulting, and Ubiquiti WiFi AP integration assistance.
- Internet access methods impact the speed and reliability of connections between telecommuters and the company network. Vital applications may demand backup Internet access in case the normal connection breaks. Progent can provide expertise for identifying ISPs, picking appropriate bandwidth and data volume bundles, and integrating redundant Internet connections. Refer to Internet connectivity integration services.
Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about creating and maintaining a productive telecommuter environment for your Sarasota, Florida organization, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.