Services
- project scoping
- technical design
- requirement gathering
- problem solving
- evaluation of software and hardware products
- development time estimates
- project specification
- system architecture
- optimisation
- prototyping
IT Consultancy
We provide IT consultancy to startups and small to medium companies in and around London.
We specialise in solving the tricky technical problems. We:
- work with you to articulate the problem you’re trying to solve
- research and evaluate the feasibility of the project
- produce a comprehensive report on the technical, time, and financial resources required to achieve the objective
- research technical products and make recommendations for off-the-shelf products where available, and any customisation required
- or we’ll produce an initial specification for the custom-built software you’ll require.
Our IT consultancy will give you an expert’s plan of how to overcome the technical challenges to achieve your project.
Access to our servers over the internet is absolutely vital to our business, how do we make sure they’re always available?
An innovative telecoms company, who provide telephony services over the internet, asked us to help them ensure high availability. Their clients cannot tolerate downtime - everyone expects their phone to work first time, every time.
They asked us for expert advice on creating a high-availability network. We evaluated and revised their network set up, ensuring every piece of the network was redundant. Any component can fail, from a cable to a router, and their systems will still be online. When you’re offering high value services, you need to be absolutely confident that it will keep working. Yet it’s a fact of life that equipment fails, and this resilient setup ensures that the service will keep going when the unexpected happens.
We’re now working with them to extend their service over multiple interlinked data centres, to provide even greater resilience for their service.
We’re going to get millions of visitors a day on our social network - how will we cope?
A growing social network came to us and told us that their address was going to be printed on millions of soft drink cans. They were concerned that their web site wouldn’t be able to cope with the traffic.
We helped them optimise and scale out their web service to cope with the extra demand. We analysed their existing infrastructure and application, identified the critical points which needed to scale, and designed a novel system to overcome the challenges.
Through the process of helping them, we designed an innovative distributed database technology. This technology has now been spun out into a new startup company offering a novel approach to web scale databases. Their patent-pending extension to the leading open source database, MySQL, is creating much interest among web developers worldwide.
Talk to us about your IT project
020 7047 1110
hello@ignite-it.co.uk