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SURFnet has been hosting the "waterschaps verkiezingen 2008". Govannon has been hired to take care of deploying and monitoring of all servers and processes involved with the elections. Used tools include : - Cobbler for kickstarting RHEL deployments - Puppet for managing software deployment - Zabbix for monitoring the servers and services - GOD for a selfcuring system |
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KPN was in need of a monitoring platform that would inform them of the following things : - Performance monitoring of the infrastructure, network and services. - Disk space / cpu monitoring of critical systems. - Auto correcting common failures and triggering of preventive operations. - Notification on failures. - Providing of the History and trends of data. |
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Govanon wrote the backend for the ringtone provider Tonetastic which provides the following features. - It communicates with the content providers and the SMS providers. - It keeps track of all the customers and the status of their subscriptions. - It takes care of scheduled jobs for providing the customers with their content. - It generates several statistics based on subscriptions and / or keywords  |
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The swedish wood processing company Jarl Timber hired Govannon for the following projects : - Security audits of their network. - Upgrading security sensitive points like the firewall and VPN. - Internal Internet Traffic Monitoring. - Analyzing existing infrastructure and identifying possible bottlenecks. - Converting the existing network to a terminal based one. - Setting up MS Terminal Server 2003 and 25 linux based thin-clients. |
Auryndar.com is an In House project of Govannon. This site focuses on selling Gothic and Fantasy clothing. Within half a year it was placed on page 1 of google searching on the general dutch term "gothic kleding" (Gothic clothing). Strong userbase which on the second month allready had 50 unique visitors a day which has trippeled in the next 3 months . |
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Govannon was hired by Mapper Lithography to help moving their Infrastructure and Serverpark from the university TU-Delft to their own new building. After building a complete new infrastructure at the new location Govannon created a transparent way to move parts of the old network and staff over in such a way that daily work could continue without interference. Once the network was moved to the new location, Govannon started to work on an Intranet Application. This application takes care of Purchase Orders and budgets divided between different departments. Tracking of the orders is an intregal part of the system as well. The users can always find the latest status and history of their orders. Accounting uses the application for guesstimates and propositions towards the shareholders.  |
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Portablog is a In House project of Govannon. What started out as a proof of concept evolved in a full blown multi-media capable blogging site. People are able to blog by creating MMS messages with their mobile phone, and send them to their Portablog accounts. This will give near realtime blogging experiences. Next to using MMS people can also use the regular ways to create blog entries and add videos by using their webcams.  |
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Xoffice provides mobile services to their customers. Govannon was hired to help with the following solutions : - Web 2.0 Webmail - Web 2.0 Customer Relation Management Tool - Integrating GAMS into their existing Xoffice Product Line  |
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Direkt is a company for wich govannon converted the Microsoft Windows based network to a GNU/Linux based one. This included the follwing servers : - Windows NT Primary and Secondary Domain Controllers. - Windows NT based Lotus Notes servers. - Windows 2000 VPN servers - Windows 2000 File Sharing Servers. - Windows 2000 Internet Proxy Server with Superscout. - 70 Intel Pentium Celeron 400 Windows 2000 Workstations All of this has been converted using debian : - Samba Fileserver and PDC/BDC - IPTables Firewall with IpSec VPN - Squid proxy with Squid Guard - SpamAssassin , Mailscanner, Mailwatch. - Tarantella server. - Replaced the workstations with tarantella thin clients. |
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Govannon has been hired by this company to check out the performance of the infrastructure and the general network security. A small summary of what has been changed in the last few months : - Rebuild of the firewall - Realtime server monitoring - Rebuild of the mailserver - Intrusion Detection System - Internet traffic monitoring - Rebuild of webservers |