vermware
vermware is a systems engineering firm specialising in business process optimisation and digital automation techniques with a strong adherence to open standards and technical correctness in its solutions. Our broad in-house expertise allows us to satisfy your business needs without compromise in regard to performance, security and sustainability.
By developing our own systems and infrastructure from the ground up the amount of third parties is reduced to the absolute minimum. You always talk directly to an engineer who knows your unique business needs, your exact situation, the current system layout, and the solutions to the task at hand. No more being passed from pillar to post.
- Complete ICT solutions fully integrated with your systems, allowing you to
work from anywhere with ease.
- Web-based file management, office, email, text chat, audio/video calls, online meetings, calendar and more.
- Granular permission system for both employees and external parties, share only what is strictly needed.
- Migration of any data from existing systems or backup archives. A clear overview in a single place.
- A single point of contact for ICT. For tasks to be done, questions, advice, or
exploring process flow improvements.
- Broad in-house expertise allows us to see the bigger picture and truly work with you. Additional improvement opportunities identified means more resolved pain points, resulting in increased work enjoyment and efficiency.
- A high level of transparency and data portability due to use of
industry-standard open standards and data formats. Never lose your valuable
data to proprietary data formats or expired software licences in the future.
- Solutions maximising source availability with free non-proprietary licensing, ensuring you stay in control of your computing in the long run by avoiding the pitfall of vendor lock-in, with or without us.
As vermware provides tailor-made services instead of loose-fitting packages please email us at contact@vermwa.re, no strings attached. Knowledge of your unique business needs is what drives us to deliver the most optimal solutions.
vermware is also able to assist your team with its expertise. Whether it be analysis, development, infrastructure, networking, security, tooling, automation, backup strategy or general consultancy. Expertises are among the following:
- Authentication schemes, multiple-factor and single sign-on (2FA, TOTP, FIDO U2F, OIDC, OAuth, Bearer).
- Build systems (Make, CMake, Ninja, OpenEmbedded)
- Colour managed workflows with calibration and ICC profiles, common in media design and printing.
- Complex multi-stage digital automation pipelines.
- Continuous integration and deployment (DevOps, DevSecOps, GitLab CICD or equivalent).
- Custom API integrations, also for data and logic glue between systems and components.
- Cybersecurity auditing, architecture and implementation of recommendations.
- DNS zone management and DNS servers (bind9, dnsmasq, authoritative and caching types).
- Data format design, using existing open standards and conventions where possible.
- Database and caching systems (PostgreSQL, Redis).
- Dataset analysis, conversion, migration and deduplication techniques.
- Email systems with custom policies and mappings (Postfix SMTP, Dovecot IMAP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC).
- Geographic data filtering and routing (OpenStreetMap).
- HTTP/TCP/UDP/RTMP web servers and proxies with custom rulesets (nginx).
- High-performance static website generation (Hugo, HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript).
- IPv4 and IPv6 (V)LAN services (DNS, DHCP, DHCPv6, SLAAC, RAs, kea, radvd, dnsmasq).
- Incremental encrypted deduplicating backup solutions.
- Linux early-stage boot modification (initramfs, initrd).
- Linux kernel patches and modules, submission to upstream if desired (DKMS, kbuild).
- Linux system automated security upgrades, reducing exposure time to vulnerabilities.
- Low-latency VoIP solutions (both native software and WebRTC-based).
- Media format encoding and suitability (ffmpeg, av1, hevc, h264, opus, vorbis and more).
- Media streaming servers with encrypted connections and sub-second latency (HTTP, SRT, RTMP).
- Multi-component system architecture design.
- Networking, routing, (V)LANs, and firewalling (Linux-based, iproute2, nftables, bridge-utils).
- OCI/Docker container building and production orchestration (Docker, skopeo, registries).
- Office suites using open formats, also web-based (LibreOffice, OpenDocument, WOPI).
- Open hardware architectures down to firmware, ideal for highly sensitive workloads (PowerPC, ARM).
- OpenPGP encryption and authentication (GnuPG).
- Privacy by design architecture and implementation (exceeding GDPR compliancy).
- Process diagramming, UML, architecture design and data visualisation (PlantUML, Mermaid, Kroki).
- Programming languages, imperative and object-oriented (C, C++, PHP, Python, Java), declarative (SQL, Haskell), configuration (TOML, YAML), UNIX tooling (sh, bash, m4, sed, awk).
- Public key infrastructure (X.509 PKI, private/internal CA with self-generated private key material, OpenSSL).
- Regular expressions (POSIX BRE, POSIX ERE, PCRE).
- Requirement engineering and inventarisation.
- SSH daemon and SSH client integrations (OpenSSH).
- Self-managed SCM systems, in own control and optionally air-gapped (GitLab).
- Software flow and UI/UX design from user’s perspective. For specialists as well as for consumers.
- Software repository management, also for Linux distributions.
- Software-based data redundancy, encryption, authentication and integrity protection (RAID, mdadm, LUKS, dm-integrity).
- Software-based volume management, physical and virtual, of types such as linear, thin, caching, deduplicating and compressing (LVM).
- System monitoring, metric collection and automated alerting (S.M.A.R.T., Prometheus and its exporters).
- TLS certificate automation and integration with services, for zero-downtime rotations (ACME).
- TURN/STUN servers, for traditional use as well as for WebRTC signalling via TURN REST API.
- Technical documentation writing (LaTeX, TikZ, Markdown, reStructuredText and AsciiDoc).
- Thin client and remote work solutions with server-side applications and virtual desktop environments.
- Virtual machine workloads (libvirt KVM/QEMU).
- Virtual private networks (OpenVPN, WireGuard).
- Workplace ergonomics, such as RSI prevention, with both software and hardware solutions.
- Zero trust security model architecture and implementation (secure by design).
Please send your inquiry by email to contact@vermwa.re for additional information. End-to-end encrypted and authenticated email is possible using OpenPGP. Use our public key and attach yours to allow for our reply.