Cascadeo’s team has decades of experience designing, implementing, and operating mission-critical server infrastructure. Throughout our careers, we have worked on systems serving hundreds of thousands of users and across dozens of industries. We use a combination of academic expertise and real-world experience in designing truly exceptional, cost-effective solutions. Our specific areas of expertise include: Virtualized server and datacenter infrastructure: We are experts on VMware virtualization. We have experience with Xen, Microsoft Virtual Server, and Amazon Web Services. From managing datacenter virtualization projects to building self-scaling systems, Cascadeo is ready to help with projects of any size.

High availability clusters: Having worked in the telco space and hosting industry since its inception, our senior engineers have extensive experience designing fault-tolerant clusters. More importantly, we work with our clients directly to design solutions that meet their availability, scalability, and budgetary needs. Trade-offs are a fact of life in complex systems architecture, and we’re good at helping make them cooperatively and collaboratively.

Open source server applications: We work daily with with MySQL, Postfix, qmail, Request Tracker, MediaWiki, JIRA, Zenoss, BIND, Apache, and are generally big fans of Ubuntu Linux. We host one of the largest MediaWiki and JIRA sites on the Internet, and have lead the effort to scale these applications for our client as their needs grew.

Network management systems: From Nagios to Solar Winds, from OpenView to Big Brother, we’re encountered just about every network monitoring and management system known to humanity. In our opinion, the Zenoss network management system is an excellent option for most customers monitoring dozens to hundreds of elements. We have done large-scale Zenoss deployments for telephone companies, hosting environments, datacenters, and use it ourselves as our core Network Management System.

Amazon Web Services: Cascadeo believes that ownership and operation of datacenter infrastructure will increasingly shift towards companies like Amazon and away from the companies using those resources. In other words, we think Amazon Web Services are fantastic and make use of them whenever we possibly can. From S3 to EC2, from SQS to the new load balancing service, we’re AWS advocates and users. (There are many cases where AWS isn’t a perfect fit, and in those cases, we help clients design in-house alternatives or operate custom infrastructure tailored to the client’s need.)

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