Systems Administration

Systems Administration

Your database is only as good as the server it resides on. Our team of dedicated systems administration specialists can help you get the most out of your hardware:

  • Hardware specifications and selection assistance
  • OS installation and configuration
  • Optimization for performance
  • Security audits
  • Regular patching schedules
  • Backups and DR planning
  • Clustering and High Availability
  • Upgrades and migrations
  • Storage layer configuration and optimization (SAN/NAS/local storage)
  • Network configuration and security
  • Server configuration management

Additional Systems Administration Services

Our team of systems administration specialists can help configure and optimize services associated with your environment. On a regular day, we’re called on to not only do server builds, security configuration and performance optimization, but also larger scale projects like setting up web, email and file servers. Our experience also extends to backup and recovery, disaster recovery strategies, network planning and administration.

Supported Server Hardware Platforms

  • Dell
  • Compaq
  • Sun
  • Cisco UCS
  • IBM

Supported OS Platforms

  • All major Linux distributions (e.g., Red Hat, CentOS, SuSE, Debian, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu)
  • Windows Server NT, 2000, 2003, 2008
  • Other Unix OS platforms (e.g., Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, BSD, Tru64)
  • Active Directory planning and roll-out

Supported Applications

  • Mail services such as Microsoft Exchange
  • Groupware services such as Microsoft Sharepoint
  • E-Commerce platforms such as Microsoft Commerce Server
  • Web servers such as Apache and Microsoft IIS
  • Application servers and middleware such as Weblogic, Oracle Application Server / Oracle Fusion, JBoss and Tuxedo

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