Evolving technology needs, business strategy shifts, firefighting, new projects, budget constraints:
+ organizations struggle now more than ever with the day-to-day obstacles that can cramp market share and profitability.
+ SILICON Services can help fill in the gaps, leaving business leaders the time and resources needed to focus on strategic initiatives that feed a healthy bottom line.
What is your company's Linux and open source strategy? Linux can provide a highly flexible, secure and available environment for a number of critical business applications. Market leaders Red Hat and Novell have created enterprise-class distributions of Linux that are cost-effective alternatives to proprietary software and improve the portability of many applications. Whether running on small Intel systems or a large mainframe, Linux provides the market opportunity to improve your return on investment and lower overall IT costs.
Linux Offerings
SILICON specializes in the following Linux-based solutions:
+ Business Strategy Consulting
Evaluation and documentation of key opportunities and challenges of Linux implementation for your specific infrastructure and application environment.
Migration of custom or 3rd party applications from Sun/Solaris to Intel environments without source code changes using Transitive QuickTransit. In some cases, custom migration services may also be available by leveraging SILICON's experience with multiple host and destination environments.
+ Linux Virtualization
Leverage virtualization technologies from VMware, Novell, IBM or open source applications to improve system utilization and flexibility.
+ High Performance Computing
Feasibility consulting and impact analysis of leveraging large numbers of Intel servers to provide scalable computing power.
+ Clustering / High Availability
Enabling clustering technologies from Symantec, Oracle, IBM and some open source applications to improve the reliability and protect mission-critical applications and databases.
+ zVM / Linux Provisioning
Mainframe-based Linux server provisioning and enablement.
SILICON can also provide a number of other custom services for your Linux environment including Performance and Tuning, Security Assessment, Linux Desktop and Deployment Services, and Remote Managed Services Offerings upon request.
Supported Enterprise Server Distributions
We build our solutions on the foundation of enterprise-class Linux distributions from Novell (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) and Red Hat (Enterprise Linux) to ensure that strict testing and development guidelines have been followed.
