Expanding your at-home workforce may have a major effect on IT infrastructure, security/compliance, and company culture. Progent has two decades of experience helping SMBs to design, deploy, administer, tune, and debug IT environments that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can assist your Clearwater company to pick the appropriate technologies and follow best practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and delivers top value. Progent offers services ranging from as-needed expertise for helping you past challenging IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can help Clearwater, Florida companies to with any facet of building a high-performing telecommuting ecosystem by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, helpdesk services, endpoint security, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.

Network Infrastructure for Telecommuters
Setting up the network infrastructure needed to support a remote work environment can be particularly complex if you must accommodate a combination of personal equipment like PCs and laptops, Internet routers, and wireless appliances from different vendors and with a variety of operating systems and firmware releases. Progent's background providing online support for both outdated and current technologies in virtual office venues enables you to make cost-effective use of your existing network infrastructure and provides you with fast access to top-tire consultants for making necessary upgrades. Support services available from Progent to assist your company to implement a productive telecommuting ecosystem include:

  • Virtual Private Network connectivity makes it possible to create a secure tunnel for authenticated at-home workers to access IT resources located at your corporate datacenter or in the cloud. Progent can help your company to configure and maintain VPN connections between your teleworkers and your key IT resources by providing online VPN integration consulting. For businesses using Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco-certified ASA consultants can help your at-home workers to set up Cisco's AnyConnect client software to provide secure VPN tunneling for a broad selection of devices such as Windows, macOS, Apple iOS, Linux, and Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platforms allow a telecommuter to view and use a remote computer's desktop. This provides network managers substantial control over the computing ecosystem of telecommuters and ensures remote users a consistent and more productive work experience. Progent's virtual desktop services include Windows Remote Desktop integration and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI consulting.
  • Routers attach at-home computer networks to the Internet and support VPN tunnels, home wireless networks, and firewall services. Progent offers top-tier remote support for setting up routers from a variety of manufacturers. See router configuration services from Cisco-certified experts.
  • Home Wireless networks, typically supporting the whole family and guests, are frequently utilized by at-home employees to connect to their Internet router for work. This can create performance as well as cybersecurity issues. Progent can assist you to resolve these issues by delivering services like Aironet integration expertise, Cisco Meraki wireless installation expertise, and Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi access point integration help.
  • Internet access methods impact the speed and reliability of connections between at-home workers and the corporate data center. Line-of-business processes might demand backup Internet access in case the normal connection fails. Progent offers expertise for selecting Internet service providers, selecting sensible service bundles, and setting up redundant Internet connections. See Internet connectivity integration services.

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Support Services
To contact Progent about building and managing a productive telecommuter solution for your Clearwater, Florida organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.