Uniq Advances Pty Ltd

Company Profile

Uniq Advances Pty Ltd (UA) was formed in May 2000 and is wholly owned and financed by the principals. The company is completely independent of any software or hardware vendor, though we do provide training and expertise to a number of vendors. Based in Sydney, Uniq Advances provides consulting and systems administration services to customers across Australia and New Zealand.

Principals

• Glenn Satchell
  Senior Technical Consultant
  glenn@uniq.com.au
  over 20 years consulting experience with Sun, Unix, Networking and High Availability.
• Peter Bestel
  Senior Technical Consultant
  peter@uniq.com.au
  over 18 years consulting experience with Sun, HP, AIX, VERITAS, Unix, Macintosh and Networking.
• Simon Woodhead
  Business Consultant
  simon@uniq.com.au
  over 30 years in the computer industry. Has run his own consulting company for over 10 years.
• Judy Hawksford
  Finance
  judy@uniq.com.au
  over 25 years consulting experience in the accounting industry.

Services

Uniq Advances provides a range of services to meet the needs of small, medium and large organisations. Services can be customised as required and are generally charged on a Time and Materials basis. Rates are negotiable depending on the complexity and duration of the work.

All Uniq Advances consultants are backed by the combined experience of other UA staff whenever required.

Typical services include:

• Internet - experience with implementing a wide range of the "building block" protocols of the Internet: SMTP, sendmail, DNS, POP/IMAP, NTP, SSL/HTTP, SNMP, SSH, FTP, LDAP, DHCP, Web Proxy, VPN; as well as implementing servers and systems for these protocols to work in your environment in a secure and efficient manner.
• Operating Systems - Solaris, RedHat Linux, AIX, HP-UX and MacOS systems are our specialty.
• Veritas - significant experience designing, implementing and debugging VERITAS product solutions in enterprise environments.
• High Availability - from disk mirroring to failover and clustering using UNIQfail and similar tools. Experience with VERITAS HA products, such as Cluster Server (VCS) and SAN-Point Foundation Suite and Control (SPFS/SPC).
• Virtualisation and Consolidation - reduce the number of physical systems using technologies such as Solaris Logical Domains and Zones, VMware.
• Security - site security audits, design and development of firewalls, securing of internet connections, external and internal DMZ hosts, and internal network. Assist with security policy direction.
• Open Source Solutions - implement solutions and tools that make use of the Open Source model, allowing for quick deployment, fast problem resolution and reliability.
• Monitoring - set up network monitoring of systems, information gathering, fault notification, alarms, paging, etc. (eg tools like mon, Nagios, SE Toolkit, Orca, SunNet Manager, Openview).
• Intranets and Wikis - web pages. System information, status, System Administration references, etc.
• System installation - installation and customisation, jumpstart, kickstart, patch installation, implementing backups, integrate new systems with existing network (email, NIS, DNS, DHCP, Web Proxy, printing, etc). Experience with managing configurations for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and MacOS systems.
• Problem Diagnosis - tracking down faults, software misconfigurations, etc.
• Site Review - review systems and networks. Make recommendations regarding efficiency, stability, performance, System Administration practices, security, policies and procedures.
• Project Design and Implementation - define projects for customers and implement if required.
• Project Management - provide project management support for Unix System Administration projects. Assist client to manage a project being implemented by a vendor, ie represent the technical interests of the client.
• Training - training is available customised to the customer's requirements. We have prepared and presented training materials for Sun Microsystems and VERITAS Software, and many other companies.

Contact Details

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