Consulting

We have long experience of providing advanced consulting services in Unix, Linux, Network, OpenSource and IT/IS security for different kind of organization and companies. For some example of the competence our consultants have see the competence page.

We can provide your company with resource for different type of consulting services for example:

• On-site consultant: In this case the consultant is working at the customer as a Unix, Network, Database or Security administration often side by side with the customer own IT/IS staff. This consulting service can be used by companies who either need temporary extra resource in the IT/IS group or need to temporary complement their IT/IS staff with a person who have a special competence and experience.
• Remote consultant: The same as on-site consultant but instead of working at the customer site she/he work remotely from our office in a secure and confidential way. This service is for companies and organizations who only need to use our services a few hours every week or months.
• Expert consultant: Our consultant will function as n:th line of support and as a expert resource to the customer ordinary IT/IS staff. This service is for customer who already have a IT/IS staff that can take care of the day-to-day work with their IT/IS infrastructure but may require extra assistance to solve complex problem, deployment of new services, disaster recovery cases and so on.
• Project consultant,: Our consultants perform a specific project for the customer, the project can either be IT/IS infrastructure project like deploying a new services, implementation of a new security systems or a software development project.

We always perform our consulting contract professional and with high quality which mean:

• Documentation: One of the most important task for our consultants is to continuously document the work they do for our customers. Good documentation is a valued resource both for us when we need to come back to the customer and especially for the customer who may need the documentation so their in-house IT/IS staff can take care of the day-to-day work of their IT/IS infrastructure.
• Knowledge transfer: For us a successful knowledge transfer is essential to consider a consulting service to be of high quality. For example can a knowledge transfer ensure that the customer own personal can take care of the day-to-day work with systems as well as master some of the more common administration tasks and disaster recovery scenarios.
• Let the customers fly on their own: Our main goal is that the customer should be able to manage their IT/IS infrastructure on their own and our mission is to help the customer reach that goal, we like to let the birds fly away from the nest we don't like to collect birds in our nest. For us are both good documentation and knowledge transfer import and essential steps in the process of reaching that goal so the birds can fly away on their own. You may ask how can we make money from the customer if we let the customer fly away from us? We firmly believe that we still can make good money from our customer because our customer will always find a new nest (project, system) with new birds in it and they won't us to train them to fly away...
• Security in focus: Security is as we have mention before one of the cornerstones in our business model. This mean that our consultants should always inform our customer about the security status of their IT/IS infrastructure as well as continuously inform our customers about any potential or real security threats or risks that may be a consequences from their actions and decisions.
• Customer confidentiality: We always give our customers complete confidentiality.
• Customer Satisfaction: The main goal for us is to make the customer satisfied with our consulting services.
• Business-value for customer: One of our goal is that our consulting services should have a clear business-value for the customer. We think that all of the points mention above contribute to increase the customer business-value of our consulting services.

Our special consulting area where we have extra high knowledge and experience are listed below, for more information about each area see further down on this webpage. In the most case our customer need help in a combination of different area like OpenSource, Security, Networking and Server Based Computing.

• Networking and Network services
• OpenSource
• Interoperability and integration
• IT/IS Security
• Server Based Computing

Today even the smallest company or organization require a network with some network services and components. A typical network today often consists of one or more switch, router, firewall, web-server, dns-server, file-server, mail-server, authentication-server, internet connection (anything from modem, ISDN, ADSL to fiber) and of course the users desktops.

We at TheLogic Planet have been using network and network services for a really long time and have long experience of providing our customer with high-quality and advanced consulting services in network design, implementation, administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning of both LAN, WAN, WLAN, VLAN, VPN and Internet connections.

Example of network consulting services we can perform for your company are:

• Network design
• Network implementation
• Network administration
• Network troubleshooting and performance tuning

Example of network technology that our consultants master are:

• Router
• Switches
• Ethernet
• TCP/IP
• DNS servers
• Mail servers
• Web servers
• FTP servers
• News servers
• Groupware and Collaborations systems
• Content Management Systems (CMS)
• File-sharing
• Network management systems.

For smaller company can we provide several ready-to-use solutions based on OpenSource and Server Based Computing software for basic network services like Internet, DNS-servers, Web/FTP-servers, Mail-servers, Groupware-servers, file-servers and desktop clients.


Today the OpenSource community is large and OpenSource products have quickly become popular in the last years both for computers geeks but even for non-IT/IS companies and organization. Today more and more companies and organizations have started to use some OpenSource products, like Linux, Apache, MySQL, OpenOffice, PHP, Samba and even more companies and organization are planning or thinking of starting to use OpenSource products in their IT/IS infrastructure. Companies and organization are starting to move to OpenSource products because OpenSource products have a real business-value for the them, OpenSource products can help companies to lower the TCO as well as increase the availability, reliability, support-level and service-grade of their IT/IS infrastructure.

We already started to use OpenSource products for both our internal systems but even for some of our customers system when the OpenSource movement was quite small and young and only for computers hobbyist and IT companies who like to be on the bleeding-edge in the IT industry. Why did we start to use OpenSource products and to sell OpenSource based solution to our customers when the OpenSource movement was young and few, if any, of the main IT/IS suppliers support OpenSource products such as Linux? The reason was that we early saw that OpenSource products had a real business-value for us and our customers. Especially when it come to advanced network solutions and security solutions like routers, firewalls, webservers, DNS-servers, Access Servers was often the OpenSource alternative more secure, reliable, cost-effective and user-friendly then the commercial alternatives from example MicroSoft?.

We have long experience of providing high-quality and professional consulting service in OpenSource to both small, medium and large-sized companies and organization in different industries. No matter how far your company have come in the use of OpenSource products, we can offer you and your company professional, high-quality and advanced OpenSource consulting services which will have a real business-value for you. Example of services we can provide for you and your company are:

• For companies who like to know more about OpenSource in general and what OpenSource can do for them, can we offer both Workshop in OpenSource and OpenSource products as well as investigate their existing IT/IS infrastructure to see how it can benefit from different OpenSource solutions.
• For companies who have decided to start to use OpenSource we can help with both education of their IT/IS staff as well as taking responsibility of the implementation of OpenSource products in their IT/IS infrastructure.
• For companies who have used OpenSource products for a while can we help with expert knowledge, expert and high-quality consulting services in OpenSource, advanced courses in OpenSource products as well as function as n:th line of support to your own IT/IS staff.

For example of some of our OpenSource competence please see our competence page.

If you are interesting in OpenSource and our OpenSource consulting, hosting services and products please visit our OpenSource page.


Few larger companies or organization today have a true homogeneous IT/IS infrastructure with only one or few IT suppliers, the most companies today run different operating systems like Windows, Unix, Linux and MacOS on clients or/and servers. Many companies and organization who today run different operating systems, application, databases and system from different vendors have no or little integration between the systems which lead to higher TCO, more administration burden for the IT/IS staff, more hassle for the end users and that the companies can't benefit to 100% from their IT/IS investments.

For example a lot of companies who today run both Windows, Unix and Linux clients, servers and systems have double or even triple login and passwords for the users, one for the UNIX-system, other one for the Windows-systems, other for the payroll systems and one for the Web-systems which lead to security problem, hassle for the end-users and the IT/IS staff. Other example can be that Windows and UNIX/Linux-users have problem to share printers, files between them. Yet other example are that some companies run a Groupware solution that don't support Unix or Linux clients which lead to that the company didn't get the benefit for implementing the Groupware as they had expected.

A successful performed interoperability and integration project often mean lower TCO for the IT/IS infrastructure, lower administration burden and less hassle for IT/IS staff as well as increased reliability, availability, serviceability of the customer IT/IS infrastructure. We can help any organization in any aspect of the process of increasing the interoperability and integration in their heterogenous IT/IS infrastructure, example of interoperability and integration project that we can perform for you are but is not limited to:

• Central authentication for both Windows, Unix, Linux and MacOS users.
• Enterprise wide Single-signon on both Windows, Unix, Linux and MacOS users.
• Common file-sharing between Windows, Unix, Linux and MacOS users.
• Common Mail and GroupWare? solution for both Windows, Unix, Linux and MacOS users.
• Common platform for administration, monitoring and management of Windows, Unix, Linux and MacOS systems.

Through the rapid development and spread of Internet and Information Technology (IT) in the last years have IT/IS system such as email, GroupWare?, web, ERP, CRM, e-business system and Internet banking quickly become business critical systems both for small, medium and large organization in any industry. The consequence from this situation are that IT/IS security is something that should interest and concern all individuals, companies and organization no matter how big or small or in which industry they operate in.

Today IT/IS security have become really hot (at least part of IT/IS security) everyone talk about IT/IS security today, even daily newspapers like DN (Dagens Nyheter) in Sweden and Washington Post in US have articles about IT/IS security topics like Virus, hackers, Internet credit cards frauds and sometime information about how to upgrade to the latest Service Pack on Windows XP.

But IT/IS security is much much more than about Virus, hacker, credit cards fraud and how to upgrade the standard desktop OS that newspaper and other information source write about today, for us IT/IS security include everything from backup and disaster recovery to firewall, Spam, Virus, Security Policy to the end users who use the IT/IS systems.

Despite the waste information about IT/IS security in newspapers, TV and other media still a lot of organization today haven't do anything to increase the awareness of IT/IS security in their organization nor have them taken any action to protect them self and their employees from other threats than spam and virus. Other companies and organization may have started to work with IT/IS security but lack both sufficient knowledge and experience and many companies also lack a clear goal and focus of their IT/IS security projects. Other companies may have come even longer and have made huge investment in IT security products like Anti-virus, Anti-spam, firewall, IDS and VPN and feel safe, unfortunately they have only fool them self because it is essential to see IT/IS security not as a one time investment but as a ongoing process. Other companies may focus strictly on one aspect of IT/IS security like Anti-Virus?, Anti-Spam? and firewall but may over lock other aspect of IT/IS security.

We firmly believe and our main security vision is that IT/IS security is an ongoing process and that you can't see IT/IS security as a separate and compulsory part of your IT/IS infrastructure instead your should make security be one of the most import important and natural part of all your IT/IS related work, systems, solutions and products. For example we think that the IT/IS security aspects of a new system or application need to come in to the picture and get the highest priority from the start of the project not in the end of the project or even worse after the implementation of the application, unfortunately the normal situation on the market is still that the security aspect of new product need to wait until the end of the development phase or even to after the implementation of the systems. We think that the IT/IS industry still have much to learn from the Aerospace industry which have take security very seriously for several decades.

We can provide both high-quality consulting services and security hosting services for both small companies without a dedicated IT/IS staff to large-sized companies who only need expert knowledge and advanced security consulting or a third party who review their IT/IS security and security strategy

Example of consulting and services in security that we can provide for you are:

• Anti-Virus? and Anti-Spam?
• Authentication systems
• Backup and disaster recovery.
• Firewall
• IDS
• IPS
• IPSEC
• PKI
• Secure email solutions (GnuPG, PGP, S/MIME)
• Smartcards
• Prevention, security and vulnerability scan and tests.
• VPN

For maximal security and confidentiality between us and you, we urge our existing and potential customer to use either GnuPG, PGP or S/MIME when you send email to us. See our contact page for more information about our public keys for GnuPG/PGP and S/MIME:


One of the biggest problem that IT/IS staff at companies and organization have today and that take the most of their time and resource are due to desktop problem and the support ad administration of the desktops. Companies and organization today often have many hundreds or even ten of thousands of desktops from different vendors like Dell, IBM, HP and even smaller local vendors running different Operating Systems like Windows, Linux, Solaris or MacOS, to complicate it even more the case is often that two desktop with the same Operating System can have two different version of the Operating System, two different desktops can also have different application installed, one desktop have the company ERP client installed other desktop have the company CRM installed as well and yet other desktop have instead PhotoShop? installed and so on. As everybody understand this lead to high administration cost for the companies and organizations.

Medium and large-sized companies who often have more than hundreds of installed desktops need to have dedicated full-time IT/IS staff only working with users and their desktop problems. The problem a user can have with a desktop can be everything from hardware problem like hard drive crash, fan problem, problem with the Operating Systems, problem with application, wrong version of the Operating Systems or wrong version of the application, corrupt data on the hard drive etc etc. When the user can't use his/her desktop the company lose money double or triple, when the user wait to get his/he desktop up and running he/she can't work and in the same time the IT/IS staff need to spend valid time on firefighting with the user desktop.

Other problem that the end user don't notice nor care about is the security aspect of having large deployment of desktops, every desktops need to be managed and administrated, the IT/IS staff need to apply both Operating Systems and application patches to all desktops as soon as the patches have been released from the vendors, Anti-virus filters need to be up-to-date on all desktops, companies who also use Host based IDS and firewalls need to have the signature database and firewall configuration up-to-date on all desktops, today desktop also make it easy for the end user to transfer files to and from work and by accident save files on the desktop instead of on the central servers.

Today it exists different application that try to assist a IT/IS group and to solve some of the problem and drawback with desktops, example of such products are change management systems, configuration management systems, application deployment management systems. Our firmly believe is that the only conclusion you can make from the situation of desktops in today IT/IS infrastructure is that the root problem is actual the desktop and the best way to get ride of the problem is to replace the desktop with something else, but what can we replace the desktop with? Our answer is some sort of Server Based Computing system also called for Thin Clients solution.Today it exists Thin Client solution both for Windows, Unix, Linux both commercial solution as well as OpenSource based solutions.

We see a really great business potential in the combination of security service, OpenSource, network service and Server Based Computing as a away for us to help our customer to lower the TCO and administration overhead for their IT/IS infrastructure as well as increasing the reliability, availability and security of it.

We can provide our customer both with commercial and OpenSource based Server Based Computing solutions. For more information about our Server Based Computing solution please contact us so we can show you what we can do for your company.

We also like to emphasize that even smaller companies and organization can benefit from our OpenSource and/or Server Based Computing solutions.