Information Technology Services

Enterprise-wide Data Security

A very important aspect of overall company health is keeping its information readily available but secured. You might be familiar with stories that made it on TV when an employee of a large corporation lost his/her laptop that contained customer data—including social security numbers and credit card information. Each company has something that is as important.

We will work with you on identifying all enterprise-wide information that must be protected and will implement a number of relevant enterprise-wide solutions that will make sure you have clear procedures for accessing and protecting critical information that is not only stored on any kinds of media but also in transit—regardless of whether it is transmitted over public or private channels.

Disaster Recovery Planning

Disasters simply happen. While we would all like to think that they would happen to someone else it is a dangerous assumption to make. Strictly saying, Disaster Recovery Plan must be developed before business is conducted and should be kept up to day when a business infrastructure changes. Sometimes even knowledgeable customers would ask for it and would refuse doing business with a company that does not have it.

IT is a vitally important foundation of every business. Planning for disaster recovery from IT standpoint requires developing a company-wide plan that would cover restoration of all critical components of IT infrastructure in case of something—or everything—would go wrong. This would also involve people to contact, their responsibilities, disaster locations, communication channels, and many more.

Our role is to guide you thorough all the steps of the process while helping you in identifying all relevant pieces and putting in place a thorough plan that would allow your business to run as normal no matter what would happen.

Enterprise Data Backup Strategy

Today we all understand that the cost of losing business data could be not only lost revenues, bad publicity, but also lost customers or even the company gone out of business.

We use system-wide approach in determining the most critical chains in the company business model so we can develop data backup strategy that will allow preserving latest data and restoring it in the shortest time possible as soon as it is needed—whether it was a failed hard drive on a business desktop or an innocent employee mistake.

Long-Term Strategic IT Planning

When we shop for something more or less expensive—a house, for example, we do our home work before we buy. That seems to be reasonable to us. Also, often we would hire a competent realtor as we believe they now area much better, and they understand not only what would be a good buy but also what we should avoid.

If you looked at how many companies plan their information technology you would be surprised to see that many important decisions are made based on limited knowledge and without realizing how company could achieve its long term goals IT wise. It is almost like buying a house one evening and finding out the very next one that a city was going to build a cement factory a few miles from it.

While it is a fact that a busy business owner sometimes does not simply have time to plan for IT we would like to show you a better way.

Regardless of what your long term goal is it is much less expensive to spend time and resources for a good long term IT strategy that would allow you to build right IT infrastructure capable of supporting your business needs for 5-7 years without significant upgrades or additional investments.

We will help you to build such a plan that would maximize your profits and would allow your company to have a competitive edge in your area of expertise.

Custom Software Development

Sometimes a business needs a specific software project or part of the larger project to be completed in shortest time possible. Regardless of whether you already have a team of developers and just need to cover a different IT area in or you do not have your own IT department but need a custom software tailored to your specific business situation we can help.

We provide software development services that cover wide range of IT areas. We develop software in Java with specialization in cryptographic systems, communication, and others. We also develop database software for a number of RDBMS such as Oracle 9i, 10g, MS SQL Server, and MySQL 5.x. We develop web-based software and can design web sites using Java/JSP, Perl, PHP, MySQL, and other technologies.

Whatever your needs are we might be able to build a flexible software solution for you.

Network Design and Installation

Network infrastructure is the foundation of your business. It could provide your business with enough power to handle your business transaction volume today and tomorrow, protect your business from outside threats, and provide you with a convenience and efficiency of a remote access.

Network is a long term investment that—when done right—will run for years with a little maintenance and with almost no additional investments.

We provide network design and installation services that include equipment selection, configuration, and network installation. We will help you select the best equipment that would be right for your budget. If needed, we can run all the necessary network cables and install wall plates. We will setup your routers and firewalls and connect your network to Internet.

Cisco Routers Configuration

Cisco routers are used by many companies for a good reason. It is an excellent equipment that is very reliable and sophisticated enough to let you implement very complex network configuration.

Correctly setting it up could be a challenge though. With thousands of different ways to implement the same solution it is sometimes quite difficult to set it up correctly to achieve desired level of network reliability, availability, and protection.

If you happen to have a Cisco router, or maybe we recommended one for you as part of your new or upgraded network we can take care of its configuration. We have extensive expertise in network design and will make sure that you network will serve you the best way possible.

Secured Wireless Networks

If you are thinking about using a wireless network as the main network for your business, let us clarify one thing first.

Do NOT—if you can.

Wireless networks are inherently not secure and is not the best communication channels to trust it run your business. Even the most secure wireless network can potentially be penetrated, which has already happened multiple times. Have you beeing using WEP encryption? Do you know that it can be broken under one minute? To achieve a decent level of protection you will need to spend many thousands of dollars on wireless equipment, and even then nobody will guarantee you absolute protection.

On this note though, if your business requires a supplemental wireless network or there is simply no other choice and you absolutely must have it, we can help you to build one of the most secured networks it is possible today.

We will also help you to implement a number of measures that would at least make the break-in quite difficult and almost not achievable for a regular hacker.

Assuming you are not involved in military, just keep in mind that there no such a think as 100% secured wireless network. Yes, military gets pretty close. But for rest of us we simply advise you to use a wired network—if you can.

Proprietary Systems Integration

Sometimes a business would have a number of different systems that manage different parts of the business. If you need a custom solution that make different systems talk to each other and exchange data, we can help.

For example, if you are building a custom software that needs orders information from your ERP system, it is possible to interface two systems together and eliminate manual double data entry.

Dell Servers Installation

If you happen to own a Dell server or would like to buy one and need help in selecting the right one, we can help. We could also take care of its configuration and setup it for you to be ready for use.

We mostly work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS operating systems and can provide complete operating system installation and setup service for you.

RHEL/CentOS Linux based Services

If you use Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS operating systems and need a custom solution to be implemented—such as install and configure a DNS server, Apache Web Server, Email Server, or anything else we can provide you with all the assistance you would need.

We can perform most of the tasks that you might need related to Linux configuration.

Security Threats Mitigation

If you use Windows and happen to have a virus or spyware disturbing your normal operations we can help you remove the offensive software.

We can also help you find, install, and configure one of the best total security packages that would prevent most of the network threats reaching your environment in the future.