Open Source Intelligence

Infrastructures Consulting

• Pre-sales on server hardware (Xeon vs Opteron vs ARM) and custom rackmount builds
• Redundant layer 4, BSD powered firewalls & WAN links (IPSEC)
• Layer 3-4, BSD powered vs Layer 5-7, NGINX load-balancers
• Ceph distributed storage serving shared objects, block devices or file-systems
• Linux KVM + XEN (community) + Docker powered OpenStack
• Docker Swarm
• Strong anti-spam Postfix Mail Exchanger gateways
• BIND+DHCPD+LDAP+CAS for DNS, DHCP and SSO-enabled Directory Server/Service
• Gollum, Redmine Wiki or Moodle for MARKDOWN-compatible while eventually WYSIWYG-capable Documentation Management
• Redmine for R&D bug tracker as well as for IT helpdesk
• XMPP Jabber or Telegram for teams' collaboration

DevOps Consulting

• Helping R&D depts switch to Ceph and Docker
• Helping R&D depts use decent Agile/SCRUM/Kanban tools
• Helping R&D depts use decent code versioning interfaces
• Helping Operations use Ansible and ClusterIt for configuration, operations management and job scheduling
• Grafana vs Kibana performance graphs

Network Service & Datastore Migrations

• MS Exchange to BlueMind or (Postfix + Cadaver/CalDAV + Sieve + Dovecot + Roundcube)
• MS Active Directory to OpenLDAP or Samba v4 or Apache DS + CAS SSO
• Migrating Windows Oracle Database instances to Linux/Oracle or possibly Linux/MariaDB

App & System Migrations

• P2V by any means to get rid of old hardware and possibly migrate the new guest systems to other datacenters with almost-no-downtime
• Or evenentually migrating the old-standing services hosted on obsolete systems to updated systems or containers
• Transporting ok-hardware to other places or getting rid of obsolete-hardware