HF8 Global Services Ltd.

Our area of IT System Engineering Support includes:

TOGAF9 IT Architecture HF8 Global Services Ltd. can provide solutions in TOGAF9 conform IT Architecture for a multitude of tasks in virtualized and dedicated environments, using vendor specific solutions or open source, to meet your current and future business requirements. We can provide IBM Series P, VMWare, and KVM Virtualization design, planning, implementation, and functional as well as performance testing. In recent years we were successful in the development and implementation of commodity computing systems.
PRINCE2® Project Management We has in-dept experience in Project Management according to PRINCE2® and other industry and organization specific methodologies, to ensure your IT projects meet and exceed targets with less overhead whilst maintaining business continuity, reliability and resilience.
IT Consulting IT Consulting for any budget: We are an independent IT consultancy, therefore we are able to provide cost effective yet high performing IT systems to our customers. Furthermore, we have experience in the assembly of custom build servers.
Virtualization We can provide IBM Series P, VMWare, Oracle LDOM and KVM Virtualization design, project planning, implementation, and functional as well as performance testing. In recent years we were successful in the development of open source based monitoring plugins customized for the VIO Servers.
Standardization The Standardization and Documentation of IT Infrastructures is the central foundation to reduce planned and unplanned costs of Unix infrastructures and increase disaster recoverability, resilience, and security considerably. Additionally, the productivity and productivity of IT support team's increases substantially. We have a proven record of success in standardizing UNIX systems and setting up or enhancing procedure repositories. NIM server setup and creation of installation images, software repository
Automation The Automation of business processes is a so far not fully explored area of UNIX System Administration. We at HF8 Global Services Ltd. believe this area to be a major factor of growth in the coming years, as it will provide the means for exponential productivity improvement and cost reduction. Interestingly, we found that automation does not require the purchase of COTS software - we can develop tools to automate your BAU, maintenance and project tasks for the benefit of your company.
Procedures HF8 Global Services Ltd. has a proven record of success in Setting Up a Procedure Repository, writing procedures, and procedural structure reorganization. A central, detailed procedure repository supports standardization efforts, reduces costs and is substancial for ISO 9000 certification.
Vendor Independent Design We can offer a broad range of infrastructure solutions that are Oracle/Solaris, EMC, IBM Series P and Linux based, as well as open source implementation and can sell our own developments (Perl and/or indeed Korn shell scripts): we are able to provide end to end solutions, ranging from Backup to SAN storage to UNIX systems to Open Source.
Network Infrastructure Design and optimization of your Network infrastructure in a virtualized and non-virtualized environment.
Disaster Recovery We have a proven record of success in the area of off site, inter site and on site Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions.
Testing We have experience in the functional testing of your IT implementation, high availability failover and performance testing, multi site disaster recovery and network and storage resilience testing. Furthermore we can provide the optimization and hardening of your IT infrastructure and have experience in off site disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
Experience We have 14 years of experience in the IT sector, and have seen IT deployments in many economic cycles and industries, in particular in Banking, Retail, Service Industries and Telecommunications.
Software Development We can develop tools and software for infrastructural tasks using shell scripts, Perl, Java, Javascript, XML, HTML, and Ruby. We had numerous successes in fixing open source implementations, e.g. we developed monitor plugins to alert on SAN storage PPRC/replication inconsistencies, and IBM VIO Server storage mapping comparison within a VIO Server pair.
Other Achievements We had numerous successes in implementing system monitoring solutions, e.g. alerts on SAN storage PPRC/replication inconsistencies or VIO Server storage mapping comparison within a VIO Server pair.