Small shop, big capabilities

Our IT staff may number less than a dozen, but our capabilities are robust enough to stand up to the closest examination.  If you're in marketing, some of the items on this list might not be part of your everyday vocabulary.  But take it to your IT staff, and we think they'll be favorably impressed.  Or just give us a call at 800-821-7892. We'll be glad to discuss what these capabilities mean to you and your project.

Kobie Marketing’s engineering capabilities include:

• Data Warehouse and Analysis
  
• Custom Database Application Development
• Custom Web Site Application Development
• Complete Database integration of all applications above
• Custom Data Transfer
  

Kobie Marketing’s hardware infrastructure includes:

• Segregated Development, QA, and Production environments
• Integrated computing platforms are based on both RISC and Intel chip sets
• All storage (~ 0.5 terabytes) is either mirrored or RAID 5
• Internal  LAN bandwidth is 100 MB through all components
• Backups are saved first to disk, then to tape
• 15KVA Alpha UPS
• Cisco Switches and Routers

Kobie Marketing’s software infrastructure includes:

• Linux and Windows 2000 for operating systems
• Oracle 10g products power our database and Web servers
• Best of Breed security vendors supply a variety of security applications (antivirus, firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems)
• Borland Change Control system
• NetIQ (WebTrends) Web Log Analysis and Reporting Software

Kobie Marketing’s security infrastructure includes:

• Physically isolated Production infrastructure
• Physically isolated DMZ and Database infrastructure
• Firewalls used to logically and physically isolate Office, Administration, and Production environments
• All Kobie infrastructure is behind firewalls and filtering routers
• Security tools include Host-based Intrusion Detection, Network-based Intrusion Detection, Firewall Log analysis, syslog analysis, vulnerability scanners, etc.
• Monthly vulnerability assessment by third party
• Annual on-site security audit by third party
• Continuous availability monitoring with pager notification
• Continuous resource monitoring with pager notification