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ISA's expertise centers on creating highly available, robust, IT infrastures. provides consulting services on a wide range of high-end enterprise system technologies, including Operating Systems, Storage Area Networking, Storage Arrays, High-End Applications and Databases, and Network-Attached Storage.

Today's IT systems are increasingly complex and are composed of many more individual products than ever before. A typical IS infrastructure will have more than one UNIX operating system, Windows 2000 and/or NT, at least one database (Oracle, DB2, or SQL Server - plus Exchange), storage arrays and switches from different vendors, all tied together with some conglomeration of network and SAN management tools.

Bringing all these pieces together can be a daunting task for the most experienced IT Manager. You need someone who has the experience and depth of knowledge in all these to help you get the job done right, from the beginning, and all the way through to rollout.

Our services include:
  • Enterprise Systems Planning
  • Needs Analysis And Design
  • Installation And Configuration
  • Performance Analysis
  • Security Reviews
  • Documentation Services
  • Disaster Recovery
Our in-depth knowledge covers:
  • Operating Systems: Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX, Windows NT and 2000
    ISA has in-depth experience with SAN interoperability and Clustering on the various flavors of UNIX. We have worked with UNIX clustering services for more than eight years and with Windows Clustering since before the release of Microsoft Cluster Server.
  • Databases: 9i/RAC and 10G, Exchange
    ISA has extensive experience with Oracle databases in the UNIX and SAN environments.
  • Switches: McData and Brocade
  • Storage Arrays: HP (StorageWorks EVA, HSG80, StorageWorks XP), EMC (Symmetrix, Clariion), Hitachi Data Systems (Universal Storage Platform, AMS Series)
  • NAS Arrays - EMC Celerra, Network Appliance Filers
ISA's wide ranging expertise in these high-end applications and operating systems enables us to provide a cohesive strategy and plan to make sure that your IS systems are mapped out according to your needs now and for the future; that they are installed correctly without any problems; that they can run at the peak of performance; and that they are as secure as possible from malicious attacks, as well as hardware failures.

If you would like us to help with your IS needs, please call us at (508) 655-2600 or email us at training@softadv.com.

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