Specialist IT Consultancy

We offer design, integration and deployment services for the following environments:

• UNIX & GNU/Linux Operating Environments
  • Sun's Solaris Operating Environment
    The leading UNIX operating environment in use today. Offering the highest levels of reliability and performance. Let us demonstrate how combining Sun's Resource Manager with Zones, the powerful new feature available in Solaris 10 can dramatically improve utilisation of your processing infrastructure. Many companies are now looking to save thousands of dollars on software licensing fees without compromising their processing capabilities. It's easy if you know how.
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux AS/ES (ES for servers with up to 2 CPUs)
    The number one Linux server distribution backed by major vendors Sun, IBM, Dell, HP, Oracle, SAP.
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
    The alternative Linux server distribution by Novell. Also backed by major vendors including Oracle.
• UNIX & GNU/Linux Server Administration
  • Basic & advanced administration
  • TCP/IP Administration, Network Services & Network Security
  • Resource Management
  • Solaris Zones
  • Volume Manager
  • Databases - Oracle 9i & 10g
  • Development - Environments for C, C++, & Java
  • File servers - FTP, NFS, and Samba (CIFS)
  • Mail server - Sendmail, IMAP/POP, Qmail, Postfix
  • Networking - Network servers and firewalls
  • Printing - CUPS & lpd printing systems
  • Web server - Apache / Tomcat server with mod/php plugins & Sun Java System Web Server ( supports SSL v2 & v3, Transport Layer Support (TLS) 1.0, and X.509 digital certificates )
  Oracle Database
  The world's number one database evaluated on any criteria.
  Certified solutions are available for Oracle versions 9.2 and 10g on the following environments:
  • Sun's Solaris
  • IBM's AIX
  • HP-UX
  • GNU/Linux
    We only deal with certified solutions, so for GNU/Linux deployments including Oracle database, we use Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES or SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server. Innovative solutions are available on a range of quality hardware platforms. Oracle RAC solutions can be designed to suit your specific needs - you'll be impressed with the reliability and the very competitive pricing.
• Oracle Database Administration
  • Interpret designs and plan to optimise the utilisation of the available hardware resources including storage layout, memory utilisation and backup infrastructure.
  • Software installation, patching and upgrades
  • Planning of database installation
  • Database and tablespace creation
  • Implementation of backups using RMAN (Oracle's recovery manager)
  • Creation of roles and user accounts
  • Export & import utilities to move existing data between databases
  • Oracle Net Configuration
  • Tune database performance
• Data Security
  We understand your prime concern to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your valuable commercial information. You probably want to ensure that communications are secret, that data storage is secure and that users are authenticated with granular access controls. We can set all of that up and show your support personnel how to maintain it. You don't have a choice, your information systems must pass that security audit !