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
  • 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
  • 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