Systems
A sample of the range of services we provide for systems engineering and administration is shown below.
| Architect & Design |
Deploy & Manage |
Review & Audit |
- Appliance design (e.g. small footprint OS images, high-availability synchronization, custom OS images)
- Data center planning
- Virtualization planning & design
- Custom cluster design (high-availability and high-performance computing clusters)
- Database architecture (including non-traditional ‘database’ solutions)
- Specialized scripting/application glue (e.g. automated deployment or build tools; Perl, Ruby, Java)
- Customization of imaging/network-based OS installation tools (e.g. SystemImager, partimage, ADS, Kickstart, Jumpstart, RIS)
- Design operational controls for application components
- Disaster recovery planning & architecture
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- Development & QA lab build outs & management
- Change control & management processes
- Database performance analysis & tuning (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server)
- Remote management & troubleshooting
- Monitoring systems (e.g. Nagios, Cacti, MRTG, Openview, SiteScope)
- Application performance and profiling
- Complete outsourced corporate infrastructure solutions
- Incident response & post mortem analysis
- Operational management of labs and clustered environments
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- Machine virtualization use review & audit
- End-to-end system & application audits; application flow diagrams
- SAS 70 Type I & II preparation (e.g. help in defining proper control objectives)
- Disaster recovery testing & auditing
- Trending & historical analysis tools
- Migration planning and datacenter moves
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