Systems Consulting
General Consultation
You have questions. Hire us to spend a few days with you, talking
through your system. We will then write a detailed report on our
discoveries and recommendations.
Security Process / System Hardening
We can analyze your current vulnerabilities, and work with you to
create a security process that exactly matches your circumstances. We
can show you how to build scalable monitoring systems that grow with
your business.
Network Attached Storage
We can help you understand the ever growing array of NAS solutions.
We can design and deploy the storage solution thats exactly right for
you.
Clustering for High Availability and/or Load Balancing
You have a service that simply can't ever stop -- email is a good
example these days -- or a service that one system alone can't handle
-- such as a SQL server that takes on complex queries. We can design
and build a cluster for you that will keep you going no matter what.
Server Virtualization
When Linux comes in, it comes in fast and in quantity. Many data
centers wind up with lots of underutilized single-service systems.
There are huge savings to be had in consolidating the services of
underutilized hardware into a virtual server architecture. The
technologies to do this on Intel hardware with Linux (Xen, LVM2, etc.)
are now ready for production. We can show you how to save a lot on
hardware and increase security and availability with server
virtualization.
Disaster Recovery Planning
Having a Disaster Recovery plan is an extremely important part of most
IT operations. But it is most difficult to plan for those things you
hope never happen. It can help a lot to bring in outside help to
insure your plans are sound.
Platforms
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