For office network systems located within the state of Alabama, Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified technical experts can provide online support and remote troubleshooting to repair your network systems troubles quickly and affordably. Progent has acquired top-notch skills, software tools, and support knowledge bases to troubleshoot and repair IT problems while avoiding the cost and time delays associated with onsite service dispatches. In case your Alabama company is located outside of the larger metropolitan areas such as Birmingham, Birmingham, Mobile, or Huntsville, your nearby network support choices may be limited in technical expertise, or not available during an emergency. This can result in a office network that is unstable or causing productivity loss due to technical problems persisting for too long. Progent's staff of seasoned network engineers average more than 10 years of real-world industry experience, in the trenches of IT support, performing a extensive range of technical tasks for a varied range of clients. This means you obtain not only the technical skills needed for the task, but a consultant with proven methods for applying those skills to assist with affordable network solutions.

5 Core Cybersecurity Practices on a Limited IT Budget
Your organization does not require a monster budget to guard you against cyber attacks. With a few essential decisions and by following leading practices, you can dramatically upgrade your network security defenses without going broke doing it. Progent has compiled a compact playbook that describes five essential and budget-friendly cybersecurity solutions that can defend your organization against today's most pervasive cyber attacks. By concentrating on these core areas, you can protect your data, systems, and reputation, even without enterprise-class resources. See five critical and affordable network security practices.

Progent's Test and Design Lab at the Herakles/QTS Internet Data Center
Progent's Test and Training Lab at the QTS Data Center in Sacramento can be used for piloting line-of-business applications, creating cost-effective migration methodologies, assessing and tuning performance, designing or validating disaster recovery solutions, mitigating compatibility problems, and building training systems for the latest technologies. For Progent customers without adequate internal resources to configure proper pilot systems, the lab reduces capital costs and engineering risk and helps keep critical network initiatives on schedule.

ERP Consulting Expertise for SyteLine/Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Infor CloudSuite Industrial, previously branded SyteLine, is an ERP platform that incorporates more than 25 years of background helping manufacturing, distribution and service companies to simplify complex supply chains and streamline critical business processes to bring products to market quickly and adhere to customer commitments consistently. Progent can provide the skills of an ERP consultant with over 20 years of background working with the SyteLine/CloudSuite Industrial platform. Progent can provide remote or onsite consulting that can range from as-needed guidance to comprehensive solution planning and project management outsourcing or co-sourcing. Sample services offered by Progent for CloudSuite Industrial/SyteLine include installation, upgrades, business analysis, customization, CPQ, web site integration, technical support, ETL, Excel and SQL integration, disaster recovery planning, and database administration. To find out more, refer to SyteLine/Infor CloudSuite Industrial ERP Expertise.

NetWare vSphere and vCloud Integration and Troubleshooting
Progent can provide the support of a certified VMware VCDX expert to help your organization design, deploy, administer and repair VMware vSphere-based virtualization solution for on-premises networks, cloud environments, or hybrid cloud deployments. Progent's VMware vSphere and vCloud consulting team can provide advanced knowledge for deploying and configuring VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware's NSX virtual network system for disaster recovery and business continuity. Progent has in-depth understanding of VMware vCloud Director, vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) and vCloud used for administering private and public cloud and hybrid cloud environments that provide maximum availability, data security, and application mobility.

Patch Management Consultants
Patch management includes applying software updates to operating systems and apps, servers and endpoint devices, peripherals such as printers, network infrastructure appliances such as routers and wireless access points, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices such as alarms and health monitors. Prompt and correctly managed updating optimizes cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, uptime, and functionality. Sporadic software update management can result in security vulnerabilities, compatibility problems, sluggish or inconsistent responsiveness, needless offline stretches, or loss of important features. Progent's support services for patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and affordable option for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information network. To find out more, see Progent's software update management services.

Eliminate Reliance on Freelance Consultants
By creating a partnership with a full-service computer consulting and support organization such as Progent rather than with an individual freelance consultant, you are ensured fast availability of knowledgeable professionals whenever you require them. You no longer have to be concerned that sickness, classes, time off, or conflicting priorities with other clients will cause you to be with no support when you have an emergency.

NetApp MetroCluster High-Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that uses array-based storage clustering with replication to provide rapid, zero RPO disaster recovery between sites located as far as 185 miles (300km) apart. Progent offers the skills of a NetApp MetroCluster consultant who can help your business to design, deploy, administer, upgrade, test and repair a disaster recovery system built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to choose a topology for your MetroCluster environment that aligns with your technical needs and IT budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to best practices for installing your MetroCluster environment by delivering help with tasks like assigning disk pools, determining aggregate layout, setting up NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, setting up a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your MetroCluster DR system to prove adherence with information assurance standards and government mandates.

Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Planning and Integration Support
Windows Server 2022 expands on the architecture of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 and related software and services to provide improvements in critical areas that include multi-layer security, native support in Microsoft Azure for major Windows Server workloads, unified administration for hybrid on-prem and multiple-cloud deployments, plus greater availability for Azure-based VMs. Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server 2022 experts can assist your organization to design and implement an efficient migration to Microsoft Windows Server 2022 using your current network model or a new on-premises, cloud-hosted, or hybrid environment. Progent's consultants can assist you to evaluate the strategic benefits of moving to Microsoft Windows Server 2022 and can show you how to implement Microsoft Windows Server 2022's innovative technologies like Hotpatching, DNS-over-HTTPS security, and Storage bus cache. For details, see Microsoft Windows Server 2022 solution design and integration services.

Failover Clustering Support for Windows Server
The failover cluster feature set incorporated into the most recent releases of Windows Server is dramatically redesigned to streamline the installation, configuration, and management of server clusters and to offer greater levels of network availability, protection, efficiency, and versatility. New or enhanced features include automated cluster verification, easier configuration and installation, improved cluster administration, new cluster architecture for increased availability, hardened security and quorum structure, elimination of failure points, more storage and RAM capacity, enhancements for multi-site clusters, and live migration support for Hyper-V virtual machines. Progent's Microsoft-certified failover cluster consultants can assist your company evaluate the advantages of Windows clustering, plan and implement an installation, educate your network support personnel to manage your cluster environment, provide ongoing consulting and support services, and create and validate a workplace recovery plan. Progent's Windows Server 2019 high availability (HA) cluster consultants and Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery/business continuity consultants can show you how you to plan and deploy a cost-effective disaster recovery solution for hybrid cloud deployments utilizing failover cluster tools field-tested in Microsoft's Azure cloud.

System Center 2016 Integration
System Center 2016 delivers major enhancements in the management of hybrid cloud networks through advanced support for Windows Server 2016, Windows 10; unified management of heterogeneous networks that include various Linux distributions, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware; and expanded public and private cloud support such as tighter integration with Microsoft Intune for iPhone and Android smartphone management plus built-in integration with Microsoft Operations Management Suite for cloud-enhanced analytics. Progent's System Center 2016 consultants offer advanced online and onsite support for all components of System Center 2016 including Operations Manager, Configuration Manager (SCCM), Virtual Machine Manager, Data Protection Manager, Orchestrator, and Service Manager (SCSM). Progent can assist organizations of any size to plan and install a new deployment of Microsoft System Center 2016, extend or tune your current one, migrate smoothly from a prior version of System Center, or debug your System Center environment.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall and Firepower Services Consulting
The ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services deliver significantly more value than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for all new installations. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network consultants can assist you to maintain your legacy PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls and upgrade to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your organization to plan, configure, tune, administer and troubleshoot firewall environments based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services.

Microsoft 365 Integration with On-premises Exchange
Microsoft supports seamless hybrid environments that combine Office 365 and local Exchange deployments. This permits you to have certain mailboxes hosted on your physical datacenter or private cloud and other mailboxes hosted by Office 365. Progent's certified Exchange consultants can help you with any facet of designing, implementing and troubleshooting your hybrid Office 365/Exchange solution. Progent's Exchange specialists can provide occasional support to help you resolve stubborn technical issues and also can provide extensive project management outsourcing to ensure your hybrid Office 365 initiative is carried out on time and on budget. To find out more about Progent's online consulting support for hybrid Office 365 and on-premises Exchange systems, visit Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange.

Apple macOS and OS X Consulting
Progent's engineers offer Mac users a variety of IT services such as online Mac desktop help, expertise with Mac applications, Outlook for Mac and MS Exchange integration, Apple macOS and OS X protection and network infrastructure engineering, integration between Apple macOS and OS X and Windows networks, and one-on-one training. For computer networks built solely on Apple macOS and OS X or for systems incorporating a combination of Apple macOS and OS X, Linux, and Windows-powered servers and workstations, Progent has the experience and knowledge to handle the challenge of designing, installing, and maintaining a network infrastructure that is dependable, protected, fast, and supportive of your business goals.

Check Point Next Generation Firewall Configuration Consulting
Progent's Check Point Software firewall experts can help you design, deploy, and administer firewall environments built around Check Point NGFW firewall appliances and Check Point's subscription-based SandBlast security services. To learn more about Progent's consulting and support services for Check Point security gateways, see Check Point Software firewall configuration consulting.

SentinelOne Product Sales and Integration Support
Progent is a reseller and consulting firm for SentinelOne's Singularity XDR product line, a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat management solution that incorporates machine learning technology and advanced services to deliver comprehensive endpoint detection and response (EDR) and extended detection and response (XDR) for protecting against ransomware and other malware. Learn more about Progent's SentinelOne Singularity product sales and consulting support.

Talk to a Progent Network Support Expert
To see how you can contact a Progent computer support expert for remote or onsite expertise, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Network Support.

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