Our Roots

Information Officer finds its roots in the world of Information Technology consulting. Our team of systems, network and application professionals will guide you through the various stages of your project from conception through implementation.

We specialize in assisting Internet based businesses with their various technology needs, including:

The Information Officer consulting team can take a leadership role where we will oversee your project in all respects from end-to-end. Or if you simply need to add manpower or expertise to your existing team, we can provide you with individual contributors with the appropriate skill set. In terms of pricing, we are flexible and can bid a project on a flat-rate or time-and-material basis.

Our experience is broad; with customers ranging from manufacturing and Wall Street to non-profits. Information Officer's consulting team prides itself in being able to help its customers make their ideas a reality in terms of functionality and budget.

Please contact us so that we may advise you on the best strategy for your project and so we may determine how best we can help you.

Technologies We Use

VMWare

Since 2001 VMWare has been leading virtualization of x86 servers. In 2011, with over 20 Million VMs running on VMWare, and 1 million more every 2 months, virtualization is a must do for business looking to improve server utilization and IT performance. Virtual Machines hosted on vSphere 5 can be allocated up to 32 vCPU, 1 TB of RAM and can achieve 36 Gb/s networking, and 1 million IOPS. Even the most demanding workloads can now benefit from VMWare cloud hosting.

Atlassian JIRA

JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development.

Combining a clean, fast interface for capturing and organising issues with customisable workflows, OpenSocial dashboards and a pluggable integration framework, JIRA is the perfect fit at the centre of your development project.

Atlassian Confluence

One place for technical teams to collaborate—create, share, and discuss your ideas, files, minutes, specs, mockups, diagrams, and projects.

A rich editor, deep Microsoft™ Office and JIRA integration, and powerful plugins help teams collaboratively develop technical docs, intranets, and knowledge bases.

Linux

As much as 63%* of the world's server runs Linux for a very simple reason - it is stable, powerful and secure. Information Officer supports various different flavors of Linux such as Red Hat, CentOS and Ubuntu.

* Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Servers

Apache

66%* of the million busiest sites in the world runs the Apache HTTP server. In 2009, it became the first web server software to surpass the 100 million website milestone. Apache is fast, secure and highly customizable.

* Source: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/07/08/july-2011-web-server-survey.html

MySQL

MySQL is one of the word's most popular open source database server. It is extremely fast and versatile, supporting a variety of different database engines designed to suit different operating environments. It is used by large sites such as Flickr, Nokia, YouTube, Wikipedia, Google and Facebook. For Enterprise applications, support is also available from Oracle or third-parties.

PHP

Originally created in 1995, PHP is one of the most widely used web development language today. Free, powerful and quick to learn, PHP is used extensively by Information Officer.

Memcached

Memcached is a free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

ZenOSS Monitoring

Zenoss allows detailed monitoring of your network and servers. Offered in both Community and commercially supported versions. It is a pre-packaged group of popular open source tools/programs which makes ZenOSS monitoring popular for large environments, including Cloud or Virtual Server environments.

SugarCRM

Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM), which often can be customized and extended to help with other customer facing processes – such as Quality Control, and defect management.