ConsulNIX customers can achieve the best results possible from their UNIX and Linux technology with the help of our Professional Services organization.   We have deep experience providing a wide range professional consulting services with many industry leading products.

Some of the product ConsulNIX has provided Professional Services with include;

Veritas/Symantec NetBackup: Whether you are a small shop that has outgrown your current software, or a large enterprise backing up multiple petabytes of data, ConsulNIX has the experience needed to take your backup environment to the next level.  Our wide expertise covers the whole suite of NetBackup products.  From a single-server remote office installation, to multiple data centers and robotic controlled libraries, ConsulNIX is there from start to finish while you reap the benefits of our experience.

High-Availability:  It’s no surprise, in today’s environment, when you’re down, your customers will know it.  That’s why companies that don’t want this negative exposure invests in high-availability clustering.   At ConsulNIX, we have expertise with three of the industry leading high-availability solutions: HP ServiceGuard, Veritas Cluster Server, and IBM HACMP.   Let ConsulNIX work with you to plan, design, and implement a highly available, fault tolerant, system that will ensure continual uptime throughout system failures.

Quest Authentication Services for UNIX/Linux/Mac: You probably already have a windows infrastructure providing your directory services for your small business or enterprise.  With the help of ConsulNIX and Quest Authentication Services, add the power to join your UNIX, Linux, and Macintosh environment to Windows Active Directory.  Reap the benefits of Single-Sign-On and eliminate the headaches of maintaining separate user accounts on each of your UNIX or Linux systems.   Also, gain the power of Group Policies and gain the ability to apply GPO’s against your UNIX and Linux systems too!   Whether you just want to make your life easier, or if you are up against Sarbanes-Oxley or PCI compliancy issues, authentication your UNIX and Linux environment against Active Directory is a leap in the right direction.

Virtualization Solutions: Yes, we know — virtualization is a huge buzz word in today’s IT world.  But, for good reason.   It goes much beyond “green” initiatives.   ConsulNIX can help you with a variety of virtualization platforms.  We can help with VMware based server farms, HP Integrity vPar’s and nPar’s, HP Integrity Virtual Machines and Virtual Server Environment (VSE), SUN Solaris Zones and Domains, IBM pSeries Virtual IO (VIO) on AIX, VirtualBox, and many more.    You can leverage our expertise in choosing the right technology that makes sense now, and will grow with you into the future, allowing your ROI to continue.  And you can count on ConsulNIX to assist you with planning, implementation, training, and post-implementation support.

We can also leverage our experience in the following areas:

Patch Management: Many companies have, due to staff shortage problems, increased workloads, etc., neglected their UNIX and Linux patch management, leaving them open to security vulnerabilities.  This is especially true on systems that are used to service requests coming from the Internet, but obviously, you need to worry about all of your systems.   ConsulNIX can help you put together a solution to get your systems patched, and put together a plan to ensure that your systems are patched on a regular basis.  There are many additional reasons to keep your system up to date, and we’ll work with you to ensure that your UNIX and Linux environment is healthy.

Server Consolidation: How many servers do you really need?  How much are you paying for hardware and software support for all those servers?  Let ConsulNIX work with you to accurately measure the utilization of your current UNIX and Linux environment, and make recommendations to allow you consolidate many of your servers into few servers.  Between consolidation, and utilizing Virtualization technologies, you’ll end up with less systems to maintain, use less energy, take up less space, and save a lot of money.  And in today’s economy, we have the need to save every penny.

NAS/SAN Storage: We all need storage, and we needs lots of it. Management of your storage can become a nightmare.  Do you need a SAN?  Do you need NAS?  How about both?    Let us help you make the right decisions with your current, and future, storage needs.  We can help you identify smart solutions that make a lot of sense.  We can help you analyze your needs and get your environment on multiple tiers of storage, so that your not paying for performance where you don’t need it.  Don’t forget about your SAN/NAS backups and replication — we can help you there too.  SAN or NAS, ConsulNIX has the experience to help ensure your storage needs are adequately provided.

System Performance Tuning & Capacity Planning: Are your systems running slow?  Do you really need to buy bigger systems?  More systems?  Does that one, very important application, run sluggish when you need it to be highly efficient?  Don’t always believe your hardware vendor that you just need to throw more hardware at the problem– utilize our experience  in capacity planning and performance tuning, to make sure you’re making the right decision.   Many times some analysis, and a few simple tweaks, could save you hundreds of thousands of dollars of new hardware purchases.   ConsuNIX has expertise in performance tuning all of todays leading Operating Systems such as Linux (RedHat, Centos, etc.), Solaris (Sparc/x86/x64), HPUX (PA/IA), and AIX.