Support for UNIX Developers on Mixed Platform Environments
If you are developing UNIX or Linux software in an environment that has Microsoft Windows-based processors, PCs, and office productivity products, iPuzzlebiz can provide comprehensive network support outsourcing that frees you to concentrate on your area of high-value know-how while avoiding the continual hassle of maintaining your business network.
Through the use of smart network monitoring and by providing remote and in-person support when your business needs it, iPuzzlebiz represents an affordable solution for maintaining an IT system that provides high reliability, protection, and efficiency.
iPuzzlebiz' developer support services include comprehensive network support outsourcing, virtual server infrastructure, online and in-person service and troubleshooting, network monitoring services, and help desk call center support.
UNIX Integration with Microsoft Windows
If your business computer system mixes UNIX, Linux or Solaris technology with MS Windows, iPuzzlebiz can assist you to integrate your computers into a cohesive environment that allows all your operating systems to run side by side for simple management, seamless dataflow, high availability, enhanced throughput, and strong security.
iPuzzlebiz's UNIX and Windows coexistence assistance services feature network architecture integration and service, consulting for Windows services for UNIX, remote server monitoring and management, online network support and repair, in-person technical support, and help desk call center outsourcing.
CISSP Qualified Corporate Security Consulting
If your business operates a UNIX or Linux environment or a mixed-platform network, iPuzzlebiz's CISM, CISA and CISSP-qualified security specialists can help your whole organization in a broad range of security topics including:
- security management procedures
- security architecture and strategies
- access management systems and methodology
- applications development security
- operations security
- hardware security
- telecommunications
- network and Internet security
- disaster recovery planning
CISM, CISA and ISSAP define the fundamental competencies and worldwide standards of performance that information security managers are required to master.
These accreditations offer IT management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM or CISA certification have the experience and knowledge to offer effective security management and consulting help.
Expertise with UNIX-based Network Monitoring Solutions
Nagios and MRTG are powerful, license-free monitoring utilities that run under the Linux OS and can be used to analyze UNIX environments, MS Windows networks, or multi-platform situations in which UNIX and Microsoft Windows run side by side.
The Nagios monitor allows network support engineers to monitor system services such as SMTP, HTTP, SSH, and PING.
MRTG permits you to graph the traffic through SNMP-enabled network devices such as servers, routers, and switches.
iPuzzlebiz' network integration consultants can assist you to use both these utilities to streamline and repair your system.
Moving from UNIX to Microsoft Windows
iPuzzlebiz can assist your business to plan and execute a smooth transition from a UNIX-based information system to a network based on Microsoft Windows and capable of supporting Microsoft's popular office productivity products, business applications, and software development platforms.
iPuzzlebiz' UNIX, Windows and Cisco consultants and application experts can help you guard your information and minimize productivity discontinuity by developing an effective migration strategy that protects your current investments in UNIX software and technology.
UNIX-to-Windows transition consulting services available from iPuzzlebiz include evaluation of current infrastructure, transition strategy and validation, MS Exchange migration support, data and application transition, and processor and storage transition and economization.
Small businesses move from UNIX to Microsoft Windows in order to derive more competitive advantage from hardware and applications.
The resulting Windows-powered systems simplify management, enhance the productivity of workers and network support staff, minimize information replication, increase information integrity, and allow for smoother rebounds from catastrophic failure.
A Windows system helps businesses create solutions rapidly and demands less time to be expended on writing, deploying, and managing application software.
iPuzzlebiz can assist you to design and carry out a smooth move from a UNIX-powered network to a Microsoft Windows network for running Microsoft's powerful Office suite, commercial applications, and software development tools.
iPuzzlebiz' skilled UNIX, Windows MCSE, and Cisco CCIE consultants and application specialists can help you to keep your data and reduce productivity discontinuity by creating and implementing an effective migration plan that protects your past investments in UNIX software and network equipment.
iPuzzlebiz can also assist to educate your workers and IT staff so your business remains productive.
UNIX-to-Windows migration consulting expertise available from iPuzzlebiz include:
- Analysis of Current Infrastructure
iPuzzlebiz will assist you determine the potential benefits and risks of transitioning an operating system, software application, computer, storage system, or information base. The exercise produces a comprehensive assessment of your IT environment, establishes a basic network inventory, reduces engineering risks, and inevitably leads to a lower cost of migration by conserving time and dodging expensive mistakes.
- Migration Strategy and Validation
iPuzzlebiz will develop a comprehensive transition implementation plan which may include validation installations. iPuzzlebiz uses a phased methodology with specified milestones in order to comply with budgetary, scheduling, and engineering objectives while minimizing productivity disruption. This approach is modeled after the best industry practices outlined in the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF).
- Exchange Migration Services
iPuzzlebiz can create and implement a complete strategy for transitioning from UNIX-powered email to Exchange Server and can assist you to port Lotus Notes or Novell Groupwise applications to a Microsoft SQL application or a SharePoint solution.
iPuzzlebiz' experienced Exchange Server 2007 consultants can evaluate the costs and benefits of migrating to Exchange Server and generate a comprehensive inventory of your current email system. iPuzzlebiz can also manage a test implementation to confirm an MS Exchange migration plan.
iPuzzlebiz will also audit your current messaging protection and recommend polices and tools to guard against threats.
- Data and Application Transition
iPuzzlebiz can develop and carry out an information and software application migration plan that includes definitions of information and applications to be migrated, identification of tools and processes to be utilized for the migration, risk assessment and risk mitigation strategies, detailed project management support, critical path projections of the transition and anticipated network downtime, proof-of-concept processes, and critical back-out plans.
iPuzzlebiz' consultants can ensure the success of your data and software application porting project by providing accredited Microsoft SQL Server experts and data migration consultants who are veterans of major engagements such as Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains migration.
- Processor and Storage Transition and Consolidation
Server and storage migration and economization from UNIX to MS Windows can simplify network administration, improve information integrity and speed system performance.
By eliminating unnecessary equipment and software and by configuring server and storage resources efficiently, you can build an information infrastructure that is extensible, safe, easy to backup and recover, and affordable to administer and maintain.
iPuzzlebiz' server and media migration and economization support features a comprehensive strategy with an assessment of your current server and mass storage environment plus recommendations for hardware, applications, services, education, and support for validation piloting.
iPuzzlebiz can assist you to design and execute a consolidated, fault-tolerant IT infrastructure informed by in-depth performance analysis and capacity modeling and can specify backup and disaster recovery strategies.