Expanding your telecommuter workforce can have a major impact on network infrastructure, security/compliance, and company workflows. Progent has two decades of background assisting SMBs to plan, deploy, manage, tune, and debug IT networks that support work-from-home employees. Progent can assist your Akron company to select the right technologies and adhere to leading practices in building and operating a safe virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and delivers top business value. Progent can provide services ranging from on demand guidance for getting you past challenging IT roadblocks to full project management to help you carry out mission-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can help Akron, Ohio businesses to succeed with any aspect of building a high-performing work-at-home environment by providing infrastructure configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, Call Desk augmentation, endpoint security, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Data Protection for Teleworkers
The field of Data Protection covers backing up and restoring critical information so as to prevent data loss and minimize recovery time in case of storage system failures due to equipment issues, programming glitches, operator error, cyber attack, or other causes. Dependable data protection strategies can be especially challenging to architect and maintain in hybrid networks that incorporate private data centers, public clouds, and an at-home workforce.

  • Backup/Recovery solutions for remote workers must cover multiple types of user-owned endpoints. Progent can provide quick remote help from consultants knowledgeable about a wide range of platforms for protection Windows, Apple and Linux/UNIX servers and desktops as well as notebooks, iPads and handhelds. Popular backup/restore solutions supported by Progent's data protection consultants include Barracuda Backup, Azure Backup, Symantec Backup Exec, CrashPlan, Retrospect, and Time Machine. To back up data spread across a wide area network, Progent can provide ProSight Data Protection Services, a backup/recovery service that uses cloud storage and features granular recovery and unified management.
  • Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity (DR/BC) plans commonly envision scenarios that call for a rapid changeover to an at-home workforce. Progent's expert disaster recovery preparedness consultants and business continuity consultants can help you to produce, document and test a DR/BC strategy that includes the logistics of switching to an at-home workforce.

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about creating and managing an efficient work-from-home environment for your Akron, Ohio organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.