Discover our IT Managed Services
Hardware upgrade, Migration & maintenance
Like the Operating System, the hardware components and parts need to evolve with the latest technology. They have to evolve because they are no longer supported by the vendors reaching their end of support at dates provided far in advance.
At SPARK, we take care to choose the most appropriate materials and hardware for your servers and workstations. Processors, memory, hard disks, network cards, graphic cards and more are chosen carefully in an appropriate performance/cost balance, based on your needs and vendors recommendations.
OS Upgrade, Migration & maintenance
As far as your servers and workstations go, the Operating Systems life cycle (Linux, IBM z/OS, Windows, Mac) are generally underestimated by most of the IT department. Applications are often seen as the only ones having this kind of cycle.
At SPARK we do not underestimate this specific life cycle and we are keeping your servers up to date, your workstations OS current, and implementing appropriate patches and technologies. We plan in advance, in order to avoid any problems or down time
Databases Upgrade, Migration & maintenance
Your databases are the strategic place where most of your business data are stored. To efficiently access your data based on defined SLA (Service Level Agreement) or response time constraint, your databases must be maintained (Optimization), upgraded to the latest version, or transferred when the use of a new patch, a new technology plate-form is advised.
At SPARK we can intervene on most of the databases commonly used on the market like Oracle, IBM DB2, Oracle MySQL, PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server.
Systems & applications monitoring
Monitoring is an essential activity to follow up on your system (Linux, IBM z/OS, Windows) and application performance. Monitoring must be done in an accurate and granular manner, keeping in mind that too much monitoring can also have a performance impact.
Our SPARK technician and engineer is monitoring your systems and applications in the most efficient, pro-active way with the latest tools and monitor available on the market and provided by the operating system’s vendor
Data backup & recovery processes
How long could your company and your business survive a major loss of data? Depending on your business activity, it could be a few months or days to as little as a few hours. What critical data are you forgetting to backup actually? It is worth calling us now to evaluate the risk you are actually taking. We will review and analyze your actual backup & recovery processes.
At SPARK we consider your data backup & recovery activities and processes as important as any other production process, system and application. Bear in mind that no data means no business.
virtualization technology servers
Did you ever think about reducing the physical space you need for your servers? Less square meters needed, less electricity and less power cooling, reducing many other costs and simplifying your physical IT by running multiple operating system servers in the same physical server.
This is what the so called “virtualization” technology can help you to and at SPARK we can implement this technology. We work with the following vendor and open source software : VMware, Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V and Oracle VirtualBox.
