Open Source Infrastructure
The effectiveness of your information system is linked to the system and network infrastructure on which it relies: our task is to help you improve this infrastructure whilst reducing its cost. To do this, we recommend using open source tools . Today there are enough advanced solutions to cover every area of an IT infrastructure. For simplicity, we group together different types of solutions into four families:
- Performance management : supervision of the infrastructure and website monitoring;
- Improvement of the infrastructure : performance testing and tuning, virtualisaton and software appliances;
- Access management : Infrastructures with public keys (ICP, PKI, IGC), LDAP and SSO (Single Sign On) directories;
- Migration to open source : re-packaging Linux distribution, emails and groupware, office suites.
To build your solutions, our services include analysis, advice, production and training of your teams. If you would like to produce your own solution, we can help you with project management or even provide you with the support of our expert engineers during all production stages of your project.
Performance management: supervision of the infrastructure and monitoring of the website
You want to manage the performance of your system and network infrastructure over time: we recommend implementing Nagios, a monitoring solution that is well known in the open source world. From project design to using the interface and the installation of "probes", we help you to manage the smooth running of your infrastructure in a simple and effective way. To measure the availability of your website, there exist many monitoring solutions. Following technical innovations, we provide a free monitoring service through the site www.woozweb.com
, a leader in the field.
Improving the infrastructure: performance testing and tuning, virtualisation and software applicances
To improve the design of various components of your infrastructure (database, application server, file system etc.) or in order to anticipate a load increase, we carry out a series of performance tests (load handling, maximum load, stress reaction etc.) You can then finely tune your infrastructure and adapt it to suit your requirements. The improvement of your infrustructure also includes virtualisation, that consists of simulating, using a real server, the existence of multiple partitioned and shared servers. This operation reduces the cost of your materials and maintenance, whilst strengthening the administrating and security of your server inventory. A proven process with a bright future, that is becoming as interesting as advanced and high performance open source tools such as Xen freeing the IT services management from budget and technical constraints. In addition to their inherent advantages (no license fees, scalable, adaptable etc.) open source virtualisation tools make it easier to implement software appliances (or "application packages"), to revolutionise the administration system. By linking each application to a comprehensive and stable base (OS, SGBD, system tools, framework, portal etc.), the management of compatability between each program and its applicaton environment is immediately solved!
Access management: Public Key Infrastructures, LDAP and SSO (Single Sign On) directories
PKI type solutions enables you to secure your electronic relationships by guaranteeing confidentiality, authentication, integrity and non-repudiation, whether through signature certificates (email or web access) or encryption (key encryption). By securing the management of identities, we make it easier to develop transactional activities, either externally (contractual and commercial relationships) or internally (empowering employees.) We can particularly help you to implement OpenSSL, a reliable and reputed tool in the field. To complete the improvement of access management within your infrastructure, LDAP directories are the leading solutions in terms of centralising the management of attributes (characteristics and privileges) of all your users. Thanks to a tool such as OpenLDAP, different components of your information system use one user base. As for SSO (Single Sign On) solutions, they improve the ease of use of all your front end applications, by ensuring that your users do not have to log in many different times - the initial log in automatically inserts log in details into other applicatons. We are experts of the CAS tool in particular. It's quality and legitimacy are well recognised.
Front end software packages: re-packaging Linux distribution, email and groupware
If it is true that open source is developed in deep program layers that are reserved for IT technicians, it is today natural to equip user workstations with free software. In fact, with similar functions, their technical and cost advantages make the difference and difficulties are essentially confined to training users. This is why we include migration advicein our systems and network services offering for software "users" from the world of open source.
