A powerful information system is a significant investment. The reasons for purchasing one are manifold: improving communications and connectivity, automating repetitive or time consuming tasks and giving a business the administrative capacity to grow. Those are fine reasons in themselves, but bringing them into reality requires much more than unpacking boxes and installing software.

Unless your information system is properly configured, managed and maintained, it is unlikely to give a return on its initial cost, let alone improve the operation of your business. However, if expertly chosen and tended, it will provide outstanding functionality and improvements.

In our years of experience, ish has found systems and developed procedures that deliver the very best potential and outcome for business operations. We can take care of the entire process - defining requirements, sourcing products, installation, configuration, risk management, backup, maintenance and decommissioning.

The products we recommend are of the highest quality; BSD Unix servers, Astaro and Cisco gateways and firewalls, CommuniGate Pro mail servers, along with the most robust and well-supported open source products. The uninterrupted running time for our systems is measured in years. That is the way a computer system should work – improving your productivity and not getting in the way.

We have develop and maintain corporate intranets, sophisticated file storage servers, backup systems with automatic remote storage, mail servers and remote access systems. More than that, we can integrate all these systems together with powerful directory services such as LDAP to make your systems seamless.

Whatever your stability and scale requirements, our technology can adapt to it. Open source software means that license fees are not a factor, and a small or medium size business can have access to the same high performance technology as the largest enterprise.

A properly developed and maintained IT system can revolutionise your business, so that is our business at ish.

Our tools of trade

From network monitoring to backups, from file services to databases, and from scripting to document revision tracking, our tools are the best in the industry. These technologies will give your business the most cost-effective, future-proof computer systems available:

• BSD Unix and GNU/Linux
• CommunniGate Pro
• Nagios
• Apache
• sh and bash
• Bacula
• Asterisk
• LDAP Directory Services
• SAMBA
• Perl
• Drupal
• Subversion
• MySQL
• php