Product knowledge

Bitcube have a wide range of product experience. Our core focus areas include:

  • Apache
  • Automatic builds
    • AutoYaST
    • Debconf preseeding
    • Kickstart
    • PXEboot
  • Infrastructure services:
    • Backups
    • DNS (BIND)
    • Email (we tend to prefer postfix)
    • LDAP
    • Security at all levels
  • Linux
    • Centos
    • Debian
    • Red Hat
    • Ubuntu
    • Packaging applications on these platforms
  • Monitoring
    • HIDS (using Osiris)
    • Nagios
    • Opsview
    • SEC (log analysis)
  • Network
    • VPNs (OpenVPN, IPSec)
    • Firewalls (iptables)
  • MySQL
  • Operations
    • Automation (using Puppet)
    • ITIL practices
  • Virtualisation
    • KVM
    • VMware
    • Xen

We also have substantial experience of:

  • AIX, pSeries, systemP
  • Confluence
  • IBM storage (FAStT, ESS, DS4000, some DS6000, DS8000)
  • Java web applications (using Tomcat)
  • JIRA
  • SANs (Brocade in particular)
  • SuSE