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Case Studies & Services
Puryear IT delivers a broad range of capabilities that customers leverage to satisfy a number of business-related drivers (e.g., regulatory compliance and risk reduction) and systems management requirements. In Case Studies & Services, we both clarify and exhibit our expertise in designing and implementing Linux integration, identity management, and directory services in mission-critical environments.
Customer:
State Health Information Exchange
Need:
The Health Information Exchange, under a contract by the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the state's Department of Health and Hospitals, is a ground-breaking collaboration of healthcare systems to provide interoperable patient information exchange for Emergency Department use. This critical application requires security, reliability, and strong technical leadership.
Solution:
The Exchange relied on Puryear IT to provide systems design and management for an 18-node Linux cluster running various Oracle applications and services. In addition, Puryear IT provided leadership as the Technical Lead for the Exchange for partners and vendors.
Services:
Linux Architecture
Linux Management
LDAP Directory Services
Identity Management
Technical Leadership
Benefits:
The Exchange was able to fully rely on Puryear IT for its expertise in Linux, mission-critical high-performance clusters, identity management, and vendor management so that they can focus on the goal of helping patients instead of focusing on technology.
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Customer:
Major Louisiana Hospital System
Need:
With several hospitals and clinics in Louisiana offering 40% of all patient beds, this hospital system
has an extremely high business and regulatory requirement to maintain secure and reliable control of its directory services and identity management for over 14,000 users.
Solution:
Puryear IT has worked closely with the hospital system for several years to help architect, implement, and manage their identity management, directory services, and Linux systems. Projects have included the integration of several Active Directory services under a single LDAP directory services umbrella, customization of identity management solutions and connectors, and integration of legacy enterprise applications with LDAP.
Services:
Linux Architecture
Linux Management
LDAP Directory Services
Active Directory Services
Identity Management
Benefits:
The hospital sytem relies on a single identity management solution to provision accounts to various platforms, directories, and applications. By leveraging a consistent identity management and directory architecture, they are able to manage a large number of systems across several campuses easily and cost-effectively.
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Customer:
Watershed
Need:
Watershed developed a web-based application for a national company. The application provided all of the services needed to operate the business, and any downtime resulted in immediate revenue loss.
Solution:
Watershed relied on Puryear IT to provide management and security for a Linux Networx-based High Availability Linux cluster. In addition, Watershed consulted Puryear IT on development and application security concerns based on Puryear IT's broad expertise in Linux, web services, and security.
Services:
Linux Architecture
Linux Management
Identity Management
LDAP Directory Services
Development Consultation
Benefits:
Watershed's client has uptime measuring in the 99.99% percentile, and is able to rely on the web application for their nationwide business activities with confidence that the system is reliable and secure.
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Customer:
Espion International
Need:
Espion provides their clients with a high-performance spam, AV, and content policy appliance. They were preparing to design and implement the second major release of their solution, but needed to streamline their development process and to design and implement their core software to be more flexible.
Solution:
Puryear IT was engaged to help reorganize the software development process, to maximize the performance of the software and underlying FreeBSD-based operating system, and to help design and implement the core routing software used by the appliance.
Services:
FreeBSD Architecture
FreeBSD Tuning
LDAP Directory Services
Development Consultation
Benefits:
Espion was able to release a new version of their appliance which had substantionally increased capabilities, including the ability to route messages based on custom content policies. In addition, throughput was increased to over 30,000 mail/hour. Finally, Espion now had a development process which included version control, documentation systems, increased developer communication, and the ability to better test releases for clients.
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Customer:
Major National Wholesale Distributor
Need:
As the nations largest privately held wholesale distributor of plumbing, heating, and industrial supplies, they required their mail services to be both reliable and fully integrated across platforms.
Solution:
The client consulted Puryear IT to deploy Linux-based mail servers which integrate with Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory. This combination allows them to offer a wide range of collaboration tools to their users while still benefiting from the high uptimes of Linux-based solutions.
Services:
Linux and Windows Integration
LDAP Directory Services
Active Directory Services
Benefits:
The integrated Linux-based mail servers seamlessly blend with existing Exchange and Active Directory services; this allows them to scale their user population easily, reliability, and securely.
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Customer:
Peoplenet
Need:
As a startup developing a computationally-intensive statistical application, Peoplenet needed a Linux cluster which would provide both the required horsepower and reliability to run and host their web-based software.
Solution:
Puryear IT designed and implemented a Linux-based cluster which relied on an LDAP-based directory for management and provisioning.
Services:
Linux Architecture
Linux Management
LDAP Directory Services
Benefits:
The Linux cluster offers Peoplenet a low-cost means to test and deploy their web-based application. The LDAP-based management tools reduce management headache and ensure a single-point-of-management.
