Nethence Infrastructures

IT Service & Delivery

Contact: Pierre-Philipp Braun

Location: Innopolis (Russia)

Consulting

• Open Source Infrastructure Architecture
• Cluster farms & horizontal scalability
• High availability & load balancing
• Performance monitoring, benchmarks & stressing
• Security Audit & Best Practices
• SSL/TLS best practices
• Physical data-center re-location
• Physical to Virtual (P2V) & Virtual to Virtual (V2V) conversions
• Designing Coreboot-compatible farms

Deployment Industrialization

• PXE & automated bare-metal system deployments
• Distributed shell configuration management (no need for Ansible/Chef/Puppet/SaltStack)

Convergent Cloud

• Distributed Storage (Ceph Object, Ceph Block, Linux DRBD, FreeBSD HAST)
• IaaS/VPS with XEN
• Containers (CaaS) with Docker Swarm (not k8s)

Outsourcing

• Dedicated/Private Cloud
• Maintenance, helpdesk ticketing and weekly/monthly meetings
• Transparent Supervision & Performance Monitoring

Performance Benchmarks

• Stressing services - applications
• Stressing I/O devices
• Stressing network devices
• Benchmarking proprietary products versus Open Source integration

Networking

• Network architecture design and integration
• Link aggregation on systems and network switches
• Maintaining Cisco, Mikrotik, OpenBSD
• CoS, DSCP, MPLS & VPLS, IPSEC
• IDS/IPS & Port Mirroring

Service Infrastructures

• Directory Services & Identity Management
• SSO and authentication without passwords
• Helpdesk, bug tracking & technical Documentation Management Systems
• Backup policies for systems and databases
• DHCP, DNSSEC
• Samba 4

Groupware

• VoIP Server with Asterisk
• Instant Messaging with MatterMost or NextCloud
• Mail & Calendar with Postfix, Dovecot, Sieve, WebDAV
• Strong Anti-SPAM facing MX gateway with Postfix 3.x, STARTTLS, SPF, DKIM, third-parity blacklists
• End-user Documentation Management System with NextCloud & Collabora

DevOps

• Automated Guests and Containers Deployments
• Versioning Control Systems with GIT & Gogs
• Quality Assurance & Test Suites
• Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery