Infrastructure Consulting Services

You can leverage the extensive Information Technology experience of ENKI's staff to raise the performance of your IT investments to a new level or solve longstanding problems.  As with all of our services, we offer to jointly explore our ability to meet your needs in the following areas:

• 3Tera AppLogic Application Engineering: ENKI offers a full suite of consulting services for users of 3Tera's AppLogic Grid Operating System.  We have the expertise and connection to 3Tera's labs that allow us to carry your Grid application deployment from concept to cost-effective high performance worry-free operation.  For more information, see our Grid Consulting customer page.
• Virtualization and Cloud Computing consulting: Bring the benefits of server and storage virtualization to your business with in-house or cloud-hosted virtual services.  Leveraging our experience can allow you to save on hardware and energy costs as well as provide a bulletproof business continuance plan for your web or information services. Or, we may jointly decide that ENKI's Computing Utility is the best approach to solving your problems.
• Server/application optimization: With our background in building and operating world-class data centers and application stacks, we have the expertise to optimize your computing infrastructure, including the network, servers, software and infrastructure support for your applications.  Our network monitoring system can be configured to log and report on critical system parameters for your servers, including but not limited to network, memory, CPU, swap, and disk utilization. Our staff know how to use this information to optimize your server resources and reduce peak loads. We have experience with both Microsoft and UNIX/Linux application servers as well as major applications and can use this monitoring information to help tune your applications and overall system performance.
• Network security auditing and hardening: We will draw upon our experience and software tools to test your network both internally and externally for vulnerabilities, providing an action plan or report for addressing them. In addition, we can use our monitoring service to provide periodic network security vulnerability scans to maintain the impregnability of your network.
• Network design services: Benefit from our experience in designing high performance worldwide mission-critical networks for financial transaction processing where reliability, security, and scalability are of paramount importance. Our network engineers apply industry best practices to ensure operational excellence of your network. We can carry your network design project from concept development to production. 
• Infrastructure project management: We have overseen all aspects of Information Technology infrastructure build-out from small workgroup systems to large worldwide hosted application datacenters. We plan, coordinate, and manage your IT vendors, consultants, and staff to meet your project requirements, as well as providing critical technical consulting resources and support to ensure success.