My IT history

Past 20 years I’m primarily Unix, storage, backup, monitoring and automation guy.
But I have to use network, server, security products in many my projects.
I’m fmiliar with these worlds as well.

What distinguish me from most of others is this wide area of understanding “how stuff works”.

Examples what I can offer to you

Low-level stuff

  • I will inspect TCP headers to identify incorrectly configured maximum TCP window causing poor performance of NAS box.
  • I will play with kernel parameters and filesystem options to get best performance for backup software database.
  • I will inspect firewall rules to find out why some NAS protocol is not working properly.

Higher-level stuff

  • Audit your current storage and backup infrastructure
  • Suggest changes and improvements
  • Design your new storage and backup infrastructure
  • Data mining to run capacity and performance reports
  • Help you to define requirements for RFP
  • Help you to evaluate vendors’ proposals
  • Design and implement automation of software deployment and configuration