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Consulting Services

We specialize in:

• OpenVMS
• StorageWorks
• Capacity Planning & Performance Management
• Console Management

Our consulting services are especially suited to companies, departments, or projects that require the services of a senior level resource, but only on a part time, short term or intermittent basis. Whether it’s one day, one day a week, or one year contact us today for a competitive quote.

• Operations Support – augment your staff with our services
• Systems Support – fill in or ongoing
• Systems Optimization – tuning or predicting the next bottleneck
• Heuristic Testing / Evaluation – improve your software with our ad-hoc, exploratory testing and evaluation
• Projects – manage or contribute technically
• Product Evaluations / Comparisons – get a personalized independent evaluation
• Benchmarking – will the configuration you’re considering really work for you?
• Configuration Services – from design through post-installation review

Services

Operations Support

• Troubleshoot and Resolve Issues
• Develop SOPs for daily maintenance tasks
• Train system operators, staff and users
• System monitoring
• Operational tasks such as print queue and user management

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Systems Support

• Preventative Maintenance
• Support Application Developers
• Installations and Upgrades

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Systems Optimization

• Performance Charts
• Performance Management
• Capacity Planning
  • What if analysis
  • Identify current or upcoming bottlenecks
  • Always based on a real life baseline from your environment

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Heuristic Software Testing / Evaluation

• Ad-hoc, exploratory testing
• Find bugs
• Suggest additions or changes to improve product
• Evaluate features and functionality

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Projects

• Technical Contributor or Project Manager

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Product Evaluations / Comparisons

• Your criteria
• Independent of the product vendors – no vested interest in the outcome
• Evaluate a single product or compare several in a solutions area
• Identify potential products for comparison
• Realistic assessment of implementation and training effort that will be required

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Benchmarking

• Evaluate existing hardware/software’s ability to handle potential growth
• Evaluate how an upgrade to your hardware and/or software will really work for you
• Evaluate options with your data and current or potential configuration

Examples

• RAID Options - host-based shadowing vs. host-based RAID vs. controller based RAID, etc.
• Different software or hardware

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Configuration Services

• Design
• Physical Layout
• Data Layout
• Review Quotes
• Review Received Order
• Oversee hardware installation
• Label hardware
• Install non-pre installed software
• Custom configuration
• Support Vendors and Application Developers through their installations and customizations
• Document
• Logical View
• Physical Layout
• Data Layout
• Key usernames and their initial passwords
• Post Installation Review

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Areas of Expertise

OpenVMS

• Enterprise Systems Management
• Configuration Design & Documentation
• VAX & Alpha (& Itanium soon!)
• Version 5.x through 7.3-2

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StorageWorks

• Configuration Design & Documentation
• HSJ (CI), HSZ (SCSI), HSG (Fiber Channel), HSV
• Controller program to view I/O rates

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Capacity Planning & Performance Management

• DECps, PolyCenter & Unicenter Performance products
• Compaq ECP
• Workload Characterization
• DECamds / Availability Manager

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Console Management

• PolyCenter & Unicenter Console Manager
• ConsoleWorks

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E-mail us today

• To discuss your needs
• To schedule our services
• Or to set up a support agreement

consulting@popejoy-solutions.biz



Last revised: Wed Jan 12 17:05:02 2005

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