Andrew Mills has been a member of the Hosting Service Provider industry since early 2001, first joining as a level 1 help desk team member and quickly progressing to Enterprise Support Team Leader and further to Senior Engineering and currently as Senior Infrastructure Engineer at BlueCentral Pty Ltd.Over this period Andrew’s focus has shifted from customer facing day to day support to focussing on tier 1 Infrastructure and Technology implementations and business requirements incorporating world’s best practice. Andrew is closely involved in working with tier 1 vendor’s from a design / proof-of-concept perspective all the way through to implementation and post deployment management and maintenance. With a strong focus on process and solution documentation along with training.Andrew’s technology focus is now on High Availability and scalable solutions. Using vendor validated solutions from tier 1 providers such as Juniper, Foundry, Hitachi (HDS), Dell, EMC, Broadcom, Symantec, VMware, Virtuozzo and Microsoft Windows Server – IIS and SQL application along with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Selecting the appropriate protocols and procedures from this list of vendors provides end-to-end solutions from a client service requests all the way though to application’s located on high value storage in the back end. Andrew has a simple goal, fail-safe computing including scalability and flexibility.Specialties: + Server hardware (Dell, Intel | AMD) + Storage (HDS, DELL|EMC, NAS | SAN | DAS) + Networking (Juniper, Foundry, CISCO) + Security (Juniper, Watchguard, IDP | IDS) + Server OS (Windows, Linux) + Virtualization (VMware, Virtuozzo) + Application services (DNS, email, SQL, Web, FTP) + Application Availability (GSLB, BGP, DNS, NLB, MSCS, VRRP | HSRP | NSRP) + Data Protection (Symantec, Avamar, Disk | Tape) + Resource Availability (AHM, IPMonitor, Orion, SCOM, SNMP, MRTG, Syslog)