Open Source
The Bunker’s Open Source Hosting
The Bunker provides a range of open source solutions for common business needs based on our extensive knowledge of the open source technologies available, and our skills in integrating these into high performance and secure solutions.
Companies have found the benefits of using open source technologies within their IT function due to
- Lower total cost of ownership
- Better performance
- Tighter security
- Availability of relevant applications
The Bunker’s open source team of systems administrators and architects are on-hand to support and advise you on introducing or increasing your use of open source technologies, to implement and migrate to these systems and to support you 24×7.
In addition to our knowledge of open source systems, we work within a robust system administration and change management processes to support your business with structured processes and systems not typically found in an open source environment
- An approved software list
- Change management reviews all software to be added to the approve list
- A security council to review the security credentials of all software before it is approved
- All systems are documented and our support team trained on them
- We use system and configuration management tools to manage and audit deployments
- We use the ITIL v3 best practices within our support team
- We use a robust service desk management tool
- Our professional service team use PRINCE2 project management to manage and control projects
Solutions
- An ultra secure data centre to house the hardware and network connectivity. This is available as colocation space or a fully managed service depending on your needs and existing server inventory.
- Systems administrators and system architects to design and implement open source solutions and keep them up to date and secure.
- For organisations requiring a low cost, secure and high performance open source environment we can provide the infrastructure stack up to the operating system, the application server or inclusive of the application with optional end user support.
