Fast and Affordable Online Technical Support for Walnut Creek California Information Networks
Fast Phone Technical Support for Walnut Creek SystemsFor companies in Walnut Creek California, Progent provides online support for information systems based on Microsoft, Cisco, macOS and OS, or Linux platforms. Progent's Microsoft Premier consulting experts have provided online support to businesses in every state in the United States. (Check out recommendations from Progent's customers.) In addition, Progent offers the consultation services of Cisco CCIE engineers to solve complex infrastructure problems, plus the assistance of CISSP-certified security consultants to help with advanced security design and troubleshooting jobs.

Progent's online technical support engineers provide exceptional value because they have the real-world experience and have access to the advanced tools needed to resolve the majority of network issues rapidly. Efficient support reduces direct expenses because service calls require fewer billable minutes. Remote help also eliminates the cost of dispatching a consultant to your office. Your organization benefits even more with indirect costs by reducing or avoiding network outages and associated costs resulting from business disruption, upset clients, unproductive workers, and de-focused management. Progent's advanced remote consulting expertise is particularly important for businesses that rely on public clouds for vital infrastructure or software such as Azure, Exchange Online, Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or where onsite tech support may not be an alternative.

Progent's pricing model for online help is designed to leverage your network support investment. Progent bills per minute for phone consulting, so you are billed exclusively for the support that you receive. In contrast to many remote service companies, Progent imposes no startup charge or minimum payments. Progent's per-minute billing unit and clean policy for pricing prevent situations where quick solutions manage to turn into major invoices. Progent's penchant for dealing with problems quickly means you spends less money.

Progent's Online Consulting and Technical Support Services
Over time, Progent has mastered an array of customized tools and field-tested methodologies that ensure the highest degree of efficiency for online technical support and repair for information networks of any size. Progent's online support team can interface to your computer system without breaching network security.

Progent's powerful customer support database system includes thorough records describing the service that Progent's clients have been provided. Progent's authorized consultants have access to the history of all help rendered to each customer by every Progent engineer. This history of issues and responses is stored as a conveniently exploitable support knowledge base that permits Progent's online technical experts to communicate their experiences with the whole team to make sure that the value of Progent's technical support grows over time. Progent's extensive list of accreditations and working relationships with major vendors such as Cisco and Microsoft make available other extensive support knowledge bases and permit quick response from vendors' internal product engineers with the result that Progent's online service experts are able to determine the best resolutions promptly.

Online services provided by Progent to companies in Walnut Creek California include:

ProSight Subscription-based Services for Small and Medium Size Businesses
Progent provides a selection of affordable, subscription-based managed services intended to enable small and medium-size organizations to benefit from the same advanced technology deployed by many of the industry's top enterprises. Progent's ProSight line of outsourced network management services addresses all key facets of information technology such as email protection, behavioral-based threat defense, cloud-based backup/recovery, network infrastructure monitoring and management, virtual server cloud hosting, and network resources documentation management. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

  • ProSight Managed Service Plans: for Small to Mid-size Businesses
    Progent's ProSight Managed IT Service Plans make it feasible for small and mid-size businesses to utilize Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solutions to create leading-edge network resilience. Progent takes care of the necessary monitoring and maintenance for you, so your system expands smoothly without holding you back. For an affordable and predictable monthly subscription, Progent's full-service IT group can be your complete technology safety net. Entry-level plans include RMM, security, automatic monthly patching, and reporting. As your needs expand, you can add low-cost subscriptions to advanced options like as SaaS M365/Google Workspace backup and restore, Multi-Factor Authentication, or WiFi management.
  • ProSight LAN Watch: Network, Server, and Endpoint Monitoring Services
    ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's network, server and endpoint remote monitoring service that uses advanced remote monitoring and management technology to keep your IT system running efficiently by checking the state of critical assets that power your business network. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers a problem, an alarm is sent automatically to your designated IT management staff and your Progent consultant so that any looming problems can be addressed before they can impact your network. Learn more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring services.
  • ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM: Unified RMM Solution for Networks, Servers, and Workstations
    ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM software offers a centralized, cloud-driven solution for managing your network, server, and desktop devices by providing an environment for streamlining common tedious tasks. These include health checking, patch management, automated repairs, endpoint setup, backup and restore, anti-virus response, secure remote access, built-in and custom scripts, resource inventory, endpoint profile reporting, and troubleshooting assistance. If ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM spots a serious incident, it transmits an alert to your specified IT staff and your assigned Progent technical consultant so that emerging issues can be fixed before they interfere with productivity. Learn more details about ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM server and desktop remote monitoring services.
  • ProSight WAN Watch: Network Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
    ProSight WAN Watch is an infrastructure monitoring and management service that makes it simple and affordable for smaller organizations to map out, track, reconfigure and debug their networking hardware like routers, firewalls, and load balancers plus servers, client computers and other devices. Incorporating cutting-edge RMM technology, WAN Watch ensures that network diagrams are always updated, captures and manages the configuration information of virtually all devices connected to your network, tracks performance, and sends notices when issues are discovered. By automating complex network management activities, WAN Watch can cut hours off ordinary chores such as making network diagrams, reconfiguring your network, finding devices that need critical software patches, or resolving performance bottlenecks. Learn more about ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure management services.

  • ProSight Reporting: Real-time Reporting for Ticketing and Network Monitoring Platforms
    ProSight Reporting is an expanding suite of real-time and in-depth management reporting utilities designed to work with the top ticketing and network monitoring applications such as ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting uses Microsoft Graph and features color coding to highlight and contextualize critical issues like inconsistent support follow-through or machines with missing patches. By identifying ticketing or network health concerns concisely and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting enhances network value, reduces management overhead, and saves money. For more information, see ProSight Reporting for ticketing and network monitoring applications.

  • ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS): Managed Backup and Recovery
    Progent has worked with leading backup/restore product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of subscription-based management outsourcing plans that provide backup-as-a-service. ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your backup processes and enable transparent backup and fast restoration of critical files/folders, applications, images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS lets you protect against data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural disasters, fire, malware such as ransomware, user error, malicious insiders, or software bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine which of these fully managed services are best suited for your network.

  • ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
    ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security vendors to deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

  • ProSight Multi-Factor Authentication with Duo: Access Security, Endpoint Remediation, and Secure Single Sign-on
    Progent's Duo authentication managed services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you log into a secured application and enter your password you are requested to verify your identity on a device that only you have and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this second means of authentication such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate several validation devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication services.

  • ProSight Co-Managed Call Desk: Outsourced and Co-managed Help Center Services
    Progent's Co-managed Service Desk offers a smooth supplement to your in-house support organization. End user access to the Help Desk, delivery of support, problem escalation, trouble ticket generation and tracking, performance measurement, and maintenance of the support database are cohesive whether incidents are taken care of by your in-house IT support resources, by Progent's team, or both. You have complete flexibility to extend or reduce your part of technical support activity as circumstances demand. Progent provides initial deployment and onboarding of the professional services PSA software plus workflow documentation, validation and training. For details about ProSight Shared Call Desk, see ProSight Shared Support.

  • ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
    Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint security and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

  • ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Endpoint Security and Exchange Filtering
    Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

  • Patch Management: Patch Management Services
    Progent's support services for patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and cost-effective solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving information system. In addition to optimizing the protection and functionality of your IT network, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your in-house IT staff to focus on line-of-business projects and activities that derive maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

  • ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
    With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware environment without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

  • ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management Services
    Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to 50% of time thrown away looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a fast and affordable alternative for small and medium-size businesses to obtain an objective assessment of the overall health of their IT system. Based on a selection of the leading remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools in the industry, and overseen by Progent's certified team of information technology professionals, ProSight Network Audits help you see how well the configuration of your core network devices conform to industry best practices. Both the Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are offered at a low, one-time cost and provide instant ROI like a more manageable Active Directory (AD) environment. Both also include one year of advanced remote network monitoring and management. Benefits can include simpler management, improved compliance with government and industry security standards, higher utilization of network assets, faster problem resolution, more dependable backup and recovery, and higher availability. Learn more information about Progent's ProSight Network Audits IT infrastructure assessment.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is an affordable service centered on a brief discussion with a Progent information assurance expert. The fact-finding interview is designed to evaluate your organization's preparedness to stop or recover quickly following an attack by a ransomware variant like Ryuk, WannaCry, MongoLock, or Hermes. Progent will consult with you directly to gather information concerning your existing antivirus tools and backup system, and Progent will then produce a written Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how you can apply industry best practices to build an efficient security and backup/recovery system that aligns with your company's requirements. For more information, refer to The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.

Additional Support Services Available from Progent
Progent offers the skills of world-class remote consulting professionals for contract information technology programs. Billing rates for longer-term consulting projects are set based on the qualifications of the engineers required. Progent's background in these special areas of computer technology allows clients to complete major projects within budget and on schedule. Progent's project-based online consulting services include:

  • Call Center Expertise
    Progent's Call Center programs for companies with environments based on Windows, Cisco, macOS and OS X, UNIX, or Linux products include comprehensive Help Desk services, co-managed Help Desk support services, and Help Desk operations consulting. Progent's Standard Help Desk Services provide smaller businesses an end-to-end service desk solution that manages all aspects of online Level 1 desktop support from service requests through ticketing, remote desktop control, progress tracking, problem resolution, and management reports. Progent offers call desk services at a significant discount from Progent's regular Level 1 desktop support rates, and Progent offers the option of rapid as-needed escalation to Level 2 and Level 3 experts to resolve the most problems.

    Progent's shared Help Desk services allow your business to share responsibilities for Help Desk support transparently between your IT team and Progent's nationwide pool of certified technical support engineers and subject matter experts. Progent's Co-managed Help Desk service is an advanced support solution based on the leading professional services automation tool for managing end-user service requests, ticketing, responsibility, progress tracking, and metrics.

    Progent's Call Center team of experienced information technology professionals provides your customers in Walnut Creek California instant access to an efficient technical support group with extensive background providing telephone-based support and remote diagnostics for computer environments based on Microsoft, Cisco, macOS and OS X, UNIX, or Linux products. Progent's focus is to give the Help Desk the reputation as a solid enabler of company efficiency, and Progent's intent is to solve instead of just record technical problems.

  • Applications Support: Training, Programming, and Integration
    Progent's Applications Experts Team provides online and in-depth engineering support and training in key business application areas including ERP, MRP, custom financial systems, and Customer Relationship Management. Progent also can deliver consulting expertise, custom development, and training for Microsoft applications such as CRM, MS Office Project, Microsoft 365 Word, and Office Excel. To learn additional information concerning Progent's consulting, programming, and training offerings, go to Progent's Business Application Experts Team.

  • Centralized and Streamlined Administration of Hybrid Cloud Environments
    System Center unifies and automates the administration of hybrid cloud environments by offering advanced support for Windows Server 2022, Windows 10 and Windows 11; seamless management of mixed-OS environments that incorporate various Linux distributions, Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; and better cloud support such as tighter integration with Microsoft Intune for Apple iPhone and Android smartphone management plus native integration with Operations Management Suite (OSM) for cloud-based analytics. Progent's System Center consulting experts can provide world-class remote and onsite expertise for all elements of System Center2including Operations Manager (SCOM), Configuration Manager (SCCM), Virtual Machine Manager, Data Protection Manager (SCDPM), Orchestrator, and Service Manager (SCSM). Progent can help your business to design and install a new implementation of System Center2, extend or tune your current one, upgrade efficiently from a prior release of System Center, or debug your System Center solution.

  • Remote Hybrid Network Monitoring and Reporting Services
    Progent can deliver businesses in Walnut Creek California remote hybrid network monitoring and reporting by providing System Center Operations Manager consulting services. Progent can customize Operations Manager for your environment so your network support is proactive rather than reactive. By anticipating possible problems before they result in network outages, automated monitoring can ward off inconvenient and expensive information system breakdowns. Progent can also use network monitoring tools like Nagios and MRTG to diagnose UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or macOS and OS X networks, Microsoft systems, or systems that support a variety of OS platforms.
How Your Walnut Creek Business Can Contact Progent's Online Service Professionals
To get in touch with Progent about urgent remote expertise with Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and OS X, or Linux networks, visit Progent's Nationwide Online Support, telephone 1-800-993-9400, or go to Contact Progent. For businesses and new businesses in Walnut Creek California, Progent's phone-based computer support engineers are ready to deliver effective and economical IT help whenever your organization requires it. More than two decades of delivering online tech support has earned Microsoft Partner certification for Progent's consulting experts and has helped Progent to develop high-end troubleshooting capability and to refine remote access tools to solve computer problems quickly while eliminating the expense and lost productivity that comes with in-person support calls.

Even if your Walnut Creek business relies on a regular freelance consultant or maintains an in-house organization that know how to deal with ordinary network issues, Progent's Microsoft certified engineers can offer an easy and seamless virtual expansion of your local resources for situations when your usual IT support personnel either lack the time or the knowledge to resolve unexpected system emergencies or particularly challenging integration problems.

Benefits of Progent's IT Support for Organizations in Walnut Creek California
Progent's online support services allow your Walnut Creek business to have the benefits of immediate, enterprise-grade network support without the expense of maintaining an in-house IT staff. Your information system will acquire added business value by becoming increasingly reliable, productive, and protected. Benefits to your company include:

  • Convenient remote extension of your local support resources
    For most offices in Walnut Creek California, local computer service providers, whether made up of freelance consultants or an internal IT staff, can resolve the majority of network issues. However, major troubles might strike when local resources are overstretched or absent, and some problems may be associated with technology that is unfamiliar to your usual service personnel. In these situations, Progent's on-call service professionals offer a convenient, fast, and affordable solution to augment your regular help and to convey useful knowledge to increase your ability to handle future problems in-house.

  • Less Dependence on Freelance Service Providers
    For network maintenance, smaller businesses commonly depend on independent freelance service providers. While independent service people have less internal costs than big consulting companies and can often charge lower rates, they are often overbooked, making it hard to respond quickly to crisis situations. If an independent consultant is busy with another client, ill, on vacation, or in training, the absence of fallback personnel may require your company to wait for help during an emergency. As your network expands, system unavailability and problems with vital applications become more expensive. The money you thought you were saving on an independent can be consumed fast by lost productivity. Progent offers a dependable source of reserve support experts to make sure your network stays available.

  • Create a Scalable Basis for Seamless Expansion
    Organizations typically start with an IT architecture implemented on a shoestring budget. Lacking a scalable infrastructure, slap-dash fixes can get piled on top of a shaky foundation. When a company grows, stability and expandability problems can impede the success of the business. Such poorly built systems require careful assessment, smart long-term planning, and extensive technical knowledge to evolve to a network architecture able to offer the stable foundation to meet vital business requirements and simplify downstream expansion.

  • Work with Solution Providers Rather Than Technology Vendors
    Smaller organizations require guidance and technical training to negotiate an increasingly complicated maze of technology alternatives capable of accelerating business success and improving efficiency. Businesses do not need a network engineer who is motivated to sell a certain vendor's technology. IT consulting and product sales can result in a situation where the recommended solution is built around a predetermined product rather than the genuine requirements of a client. Progent eliminates these conflicts by offering only services instead of products. This allows Progent to align IT expertise with the best interests of clients.

What Makes Progent Unique from Other Service Firms?
Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner consulting firm and Progent's head count, depth of technical experience, fine tuned remote support tools, and understanding of corporate IT allow businesses to avoid the limitations associated with excessive reliance on smaller service organizations, independent freelance service providers, or limited internal resources.

Progent adds value by offering:

How Does My Business Start Receiving Remote Network Help from Progent?
To initiate Progent's Nationwide Remote Support services or to find out more about Progent's phone support options, call Progent at 1-866-PROGENT (866-776-4368) or refer to Contact Progent. If you have an urgent need for IT support, visit Immediate Online Support.


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