From ad hoc troubleshooting to complex architecture design and team leadership, Open Answers provides consultancy services to some of the UK’s largest corporate organisations.
Many of our customers are currently weighing up the pros and cons of open source technologies such as Linux, Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat, and the cross-platform opportunities provided by Sun's Solaris 10 release. With the added complexity created by interactive web site development and the need for high performing, available and scalable technology infrastructures, organisations are turning to Open Answers for advice and support in business critical deployments.
Open Answers personnel have been involved in the architecture design and deployment of several e-commerce sites supporting millions of interactions. This consultancy service has involved team leadership as well as technical evaluation, design and deployment across a broad range of technologies – as well as ongoing support services.
At the application server level, technologies have included BEA WebLogic, IBM Websphere, Sun Java System, Broadvision and Apache Tomcat, with applications and tools written in Java, J2EE, C, C++, Perl, PHP and Shell scripts.
Open Answers has also gained a strong reputation for expertise in both communications – including X.25 – and firewalls/security, with wide experience in F5 BIG-IP traffic management.
One of Open Answers’ primary advantages is a willingness to tackle any Unix related technology – however new. This desire to rapidly solve customer problems has proved itself time and again as organisations have turned to Open Answers having struggled to resolve issues that could apparently be attributed to any one of five or six vendors – an attitude that has resulted in the tag: the Unix fire brigade.
The result is rapid problem solving and a speedy response to business needs – from the deployment of tactical solutions to architecture design for business critical applications.
Specialist areas include:
- System Design
- Technical Architecture
- Performance Tuning
- Network Design
- Network Security
- Web Site Infrastructure
- System Audit
