Tech@GridApp
GridApp Clarity™ solves a hard problem. Our software automates complex processes around large database infrastructures. Companies in every industry spend lots of time and money on their database infrastructures – they have a bunch of databases, and need an automated way to manage them.
We write code designed to run complex operations on hundreds of hosts at once. Our software needs to be scalable enough to handle thousands of databases distributed all over the world, yet secure enough to pass muster at some of the biggest banks. It’s not the simplest thing in the world, but it is very interesting.
Have you ever thought about how to take a 3-inch thick run book, with procedures that can take days to follow, and replace it with a series of wizards that can be filled out in minutes? We have. In fact, we’re so good at it, one customer told us it would be “impossible” to automate their product, but when we showed it to them they were completely shocked! It’s what we do – automate the impossible.
Have you ever wanted to play with the toys that big banks have, without having to actually work for one? We have.
Some of our toys include:
- A pile of servers
- Lots of VMWare virtual machines
- We run Linux, Windows, HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris
- Veritas, Microsoft, HP, and Oracle clusters
- Every major storage protocol in use today – Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS
- An overcomplicated network and firewall setup
We do what technology people should be doing – using technology to solve difficult problems. Here are some of the things we have implemented for our products:
- A distributed, multi-platform perl workflow engine
- An AJAX-based database configuration dashboard
- A flexible data collection and reporting framework
And that was just last year. We’d love to tell you more about our technology, our infrastructure, our people, and our secret plans for world domination, so why not email us?