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systems administration services
Aeturnum's Systems Administration Services offer a wide range of capabilities needed for hosting applications and to design, implement and maintain the Information Systems infrastructure of a company.
High-Availability Clusters and Load Balancing
HA clusters (aka Failover Clusters) are used primarily to improve the availability of services by reducing the SPOF (Single Point of Failure) and manual intervention requirements by using redundancy and special clustering mechanisms at the hardware and/or software levels.
Load balancing is used to split the load among a set of nodes using hardware or software load balancers. Normally, both HA clustering and the load balancing are implemented together to increase the availability while enabling the applications to take on high load volumes in a concurrent model.
The mechanisms used to implement HA clusters or load balancing vary depending on the technologies used in the respective tier to be clustered.
Examples of Aeturnum’s clustering experience:
- Apache/ Jboss Load Balancing
- Jboss Application level HA clustering
- WebSphere Cluster and Load Balancing
- Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster)
- MySQL Cluster
Production / Live Environment Setup and Maintenance
The following are some of the technologies used by Aeturnum to implement live / production environments.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Novell SuSe Linux Enterprise Server
- FreeBSD
- Sun Solaris
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
- Apache Web Server
- Jboss AS (Application Server)
- BEA WebLogic Application Server
- IBM WebSphere Application Server
- Oracle Database Server
- MySQL Database Server
- PostgreSQL Database Server
- Postfix
- Qmail
- Exim
- Microsoft Exchange Server
- DNS Services
- SVN (Subversion)
- CVS
- FTP Services
Aeturnum has significant experience forecasting and planning for future capacity requirements with respect to application usage and architectural changes. Our team studies and analyzes past data including application usage, resource utilization on live/production environments and the future changes of the application to optimize hardware and software capabilities.
