Additional Services
Sine Nomine Associates provides engineering and business planning services for existing and evolving systems. Our services include installed mission-critical infrastructure and applications, business transformation applications, comprehensive architecture designs, ongoing support, and long-term operations training. Together, these services create durable, scalable and secure solutions.
Engineering & Development:includes creation of net-new custom code and/or features and/or functionality, plus maintenance, which is comprised of upgrades, defect resolution, compatibility assurance, patch maintenance.
Sine Nomine Associates delivers a comprehensive range of Fortune-500-appropriate IT systems design, integration, internetworking and architecture services for server farms, enterprise infrastructure software, wide-area networks, virtualization, cloud computing, and distributed, highly-scalable file systems. Our experienced engineers specialize in high-availability systems and services, corporate computing design and implementation, and systems management services.
All of our engineering services start with our customer’s business requirements and conclude with the delivery of measurable business value.
Our Capabilities:
- System Implementation and Management
- LAN and WAN Design and Implementation
- Security Audits & Policy Development
- Server Consolidation
- Router Configuration and Installation
- Requirements Analysis
- System Integration
- Grid Computing
- Operating System and Application Support
- Applications Assessment
- File Systems Assessment and Implementation
- Development and support of Andrew File System (OpenAFS)
- Directory Infrastructure Design (LDAP)
- Industrial Automation (PLC and SCADA)
- Protocol Analysis and Engineering
- Systems and Applications Programming in C/C++, REXX, Java, and Other Languages
- IBM S/390, zSeries, pSeries, xSeries, Sun SPARC, HP, Dell, DEC, Tandem, Hitachi, and StorageTek Hardware Specification and Configuration
- Linux (all architectures), SunOS/Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, OS/2, z/OS, z/VM, VMS, and Windows operating systems
- Cisco, Nortel, Lucent, Huawei, and Alcatel Networking Hardware Specification and Configuration Protocol Analysis and Engineering
- Network Performance Benchmarking
- Internetwork Design and Implementation
- Systems Network Architecture (SNA) Network Troubleshooting and Design
- Systems Monitoring Using Nagios
Mission-critical support: entails responses to technical and operations usage questions, planning assistance to address defect, design and development issues; typically includes Service Level Agreements.
Sine Nomine Associates provides 24x7x365 support for an extensive range of platforms and applications such as z/VM, Mono, OpenAFS, and custom Open Source support. You will get access to our engineering team right away. Our experts support the IT infrastructure of many of the largest organizations in the world.
IBM eServer Systems
Sine Nomine Assocaites experts have extensive (15+ years) experience in system design, operations and maintenance with IBM eServer equipment and peripherals, including the latest processors, ESS and integrated peripherals.
- System/390
- zSeries
- pSeries
- xSseries
- z990
Mainframe Operating Systems
- 25 years experience with VM/CMS systems (average engineering experience with VM: 15 years)
- 30 years OS/390 and z/OS system management and systems programming experience
- 18 years VMS experience on VAX and Alpha systems
- 15 years experience with VSE
Legacy and Brand X Plug-Compatible Systems
Sine Nomine Associates engineers have extensive familiarity with design and deployment of Hitachi, Fujitsu, National Semiconductor and Amdahl IBM plugcompatible systems and peripherals
- 7+ years Hitachi experience
- 6 years Fujitsu experience
- 12+ years Amdahl experience
- Sine Nomine Associates is a Development and Testing Partner with StorageTek for advanced hardware and disk management solutions
Andrew File System
Sine Nomine Associates engineers include current maintainers of the OpenAFS Project.
- 10+ years development experience on enterprise Unix and Linux systems
- Significant contributions to the OpenAFS project, and major improvements for OpenAFS on Windows
Enterprise Unix Systems
- Sun Enterprise Technlogy Certification, with 15 years Solaris and SunOS system management and configuration experience
- 15 years AIX system management and configuration experience (PowerPC and AIX/390)
- 15 years Digital Unix and Tru64 system support experience
Nagios
Sine Nomine Associates supports Nagios, an Open Source monitoring toolkit, as a monitoring solution for customers, in deployments ranging from a few dozen hosts to several thousand, with both active and passive service and network availability monitoring.
Websphere
Active participation in a wide range of projects utilizing Websphere Application Server, MQ Series, Portal, and other components.
Training & Education: includes knowledge transfer to our customers’ staff, as well as training and education courses.
Sine Nomine Associates offers a wide variety of training courses. All courses are conducted by experts who have taught this material before and who draw on years of experience developing and deploying the technologies covered in the knowledge transfer. This ensures exceptional value to our customers.
All classes are conducted at the customer’s site. Sine Nomine Associates develops and customizes courses to meet each customer’s specific needs. This tailored approach allows for vivid discussion of the client’s unique situation, as well as for hands-on training on the client’s system.
Selected Course Offerings
Computer Technology Courses — Duration
Introduction to Linux on IBM z — 1 Day
Introduction to z/VM — 1 Day
Advanced Linux on Large Systems — 2 Days
Advanced z/VM — 2 Days
Linux Server Farm Design and Operation — 2 Days
Server Consolidation using Linux on Large Systems — 3 Days
z/VM Seminar — 3 Days
Applications Development using Linux on Large Systems — 3 Days
z/VM and z/Linux Performance Analysis and Tuning — 2 Days
Internet Technology Courses — Duration
Introduction to Mail Services — 1 Day
Managing Enterprise-scale E-Mail Services — 2 Days
DNS Basics — 1 Day
Advanced DNS Configuration — 1 Day
Routing in the Internet — 3 Days
Configuring and Supporting Internet Applications — 2 Days
Internetwork Troubleshooting — 3 Days
Implementing BGP4 on an Internet Backbone — 1 Day
Implementing OSPF on an Internet Backbone — 1 Day
Internet Security and Firewall Selection — 1 Day
Quality of Service Measurement for Internet Service Providers — 2 Days
Directory Infrastructure Design (LDAP) Basics — 1 Day
Advanced Directory Infrastructure (LDAP) Design and Configuration — 2 Days
Network Management Courses — Duration
HP OpenView — 3 Days
CiscoWorks — 2 Days
Managing Internet Security and Firewall Selection — 1 Day
Measuring Quality of Service for Internet Service Providers — 2 Days
OpenAFS Courses — Duration
Introduction to OpenAFS — 2 Days
Advanced OpenAFS Training — 2 Days
OpenAFS Developer Training — 3 Days
Strategic Market Overview Courses — Duration
Introduction to Data Communications — 1 Day
Introduction to Telephony — 1 Day
Internet Sales and Marketing — 1 Day
Strategic Introduction to Internet Services — 1 Day
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Sine Nomine Associates offers consulting services for strategic planning and business design to a wide range of industry partners, such as telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers, technology manufacturers, and financial institutions.
In our expert teams, we combine engineering perspective and expertise with a global view of the technology market and an in-depth understanding of its underlying economic infrastructure in order to provide client-specific consulting services. Industry reports reflect cross-disciplinary views of important issues and services.
Capabilities
- Strategic Planning
- Product/Service Definition
- Infrastructure Review
- Business Planning
- Strategic Alliances/Partnerships
- Placement of Funding
- Competitive Analysis
- Market Intelligence
- Market Analysis
- Information Newsletters
- Profitability Analysis
- Financial Analysis
