Services

PostgreSQL Training Consultancy (PTC)

Before any course begins, GITC Pro works with your team to design a PostgreSQL training programme that matches your staff's real day-to-day work — drawing on experience training staff at more than 100 organisations across around 20 countries on four continents. The result is example-driven, hands-on training rather than a generic course.

• Fully documented course material, with worked examples for every topic.
• Content built around real-world scenarios your team will actually encounter.
• A dedicated track for software developers, alongside the core DBA curriculum.
• Certification exam sample questions, so staff know what to expect.

See PostgreSQL Training Services below for the course structure and exams.

PostgreSQL Hardware Consultancy (PHC)

The first step to getting the best performance from a PostgreSQL environment. Hardware selection is a crucial part of pre-deployment, and we have experience with HP, IBM, Dell and Fujitsu hardware. Our engineers determine the best hardware by analysing the current environment, application requirements and expected growth. This service also suits customers migrating from other databases to PostgreSQL (see MPC, below).

PostgreSQL Installation Consultancy (PIC)

The next step — installing and configuring PostgreSQL correctly, to avoid future problems. We start with a pre-engagement statement of work agreed with your team, then implement, script and document every step. We review the final installation and hand over the knowledge your staff need to run it.

PostgreSQL Performance Consultancy (PPC)

For new and existing PostgreSQL users alike. As application performance expectations change, we analyse bottlenecks and fix them using a combination of open source and closed source tools, while protecting data integrity. We focus on:

• Analysing the scalability of the database.
• Capacity planning.
• Analysing slow queries.
• Workload analysis.
• Diagnosing the causes of performance degradation.
• Hardware analysis.

PostgreSQL Replication Consultancy (PRC)

We design and implement high availability and replication solutions for PostgreSQL, using open and closed source tools as appropriate. We work closely with your team to analyse workload, then design a solution that spreads queries across multiple nodes.

PostgreSQL Health Check Service (PHCS)

A packaged service that checks the status of an existing PostgreSQL deployment: three days to collect data, plus two days to produce a detailed, well-documented report.

PostgreSQL Monitoring Consultancy (PMC)

Monitoring for new or existing PostgreSQL environments of any size.

Account Management Service (AMS)

Personalised, ongoing service for organisations. Our consultants work closely with your IT team to get the best use out of your PostgreSQL environment, taking a proactive approach to future growth, risk and cost management.

Migration to PostgreSQL Consultancy (MPC)

One of GITC Pro's core objectives is helping customers migrate from proprietary databases to PostgreSQL. MPC starts with a pre-engagement assessment and a detailed report covering objects, estimated costs and migration path, followed by an agreed statement of work. We work with your team throughout the migration and hand over the knowledge needed afterwards.

Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat Virtualization is a complete enterprise virtualisation platform for managing servers and desktops on the same infrastructure, with strong performance and scalability.

Red Hat OpenStack

Many IT organisations are exploring Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) private clouds such as OpenStack to deploy and scale infrastructure more quickly. Red Hat OpenStack Platform is built to meet production-scale performance, scalability and security requirements.

Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure

A fully open source solution that combines a container-based application platform, private-cloud infrastructure, public-cloud interoperability and a common management framework — so developers can ship services faster while IT retains control from one place.

DevOps automation with Ansible and Ansible Tower

A simple, agentless automation platform that improves existing processes, migrates applications more efficiently, and gives DevOps teams a common language across the organisation. Ansible Tower provides a centralised API and graphical interface for Ansible automation.

Other Red Hat Enterprise Linux services

• Red Hat High Availability clusters via Pacemaker.
• Scalable mail systems with effective defences against spam and viruses.
• Monitoring systems for your entire IT infrastructure.
• Red Hat Gluster Storage — an open, software-defined storage platform that scales across physical, virtual and cloud resources without the limits of proprietary, hardware-based storage.
• Red Hat OpenShift — a container application platform bringing Docker and Kubernetes to the enterprise, for building and deploying applications on-premise, in the cloud, or hosted.
• Centralised software and infrastructure management via Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite, keeping Red Hat environments running efficiently, securely and to a consistent standard.
• Cluster file systems and storage design.