Introduction
Inode is a small IT consultancy & services company based in Dunedin NZ. Inode specialises in Internet-facing Linux & Unix solutions, with strong interests in Open Source, overall business systems architecture and security.
Inode’s director Jim Cheetham has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years, for a range of large global companies and smaller, more personal operations.
Range of projects
Inode’s work covers a wide range of different projects for customers and some just for fun …
- Nagios network/service status monitoring
- Minimising the scope of authentication when performing tasks
- Behaviour Driven Infrastructure monitoring (e.g. cucumber-nagios)
- See Production behaviour testing for more thoughts on this
- Linux system administration (Debian & Ubuntu)
- pfSense firewalls for small office edge devices (VPN, traffic stats, &c)
- See At The Sharp End of a DDoS for more thoughts about network security
- Multiple-Master DNS with auto-publishing based on bazaar hooks
- Trac installations for customer documentation & ticketing
- Silverstripe CMS website hosting & configuration
- Business Analysis for a vendor selection & system implementation project
- Auto-scaling cloud compute clusters communicating via message queues
- Promotion of multicore/parallel programming techniques
- Provisioning subcontractor administration users via Debian Packages
- Multi-domain email hosting systems with webmail, IMAPS, SMTP Auth &c
- Business data domain mapping to configure workflow management software
- Corporate systems architecture to implement solutions around secure file transfer
- Remote offsite backup into Amazon AWS
- Test/development virtual systems that mirror production sites (including IP addressing)
- Special-interest communication group services
- Business Process & Procedures for Data Storage & Security
- Offsite data backup & archival services