IT consultancy, tailored to you
IT of every kind, large or small, calls for specialist knowledge. It also calls for passion and commitment from the engineer who comes to work on your site. Whether it is a small project or a complex challenge, having the right expertise in place is what makes the difference between success and failure. Have a specific question? Experienced IT experts will give you the answer. Whether you need advice, implementation, or help solving a complex problem, we have the knowledge and skills your IT projects call for. We always advise what is best for our client, regardless of brand names and predefined technologies. Whether you run thousands of servers in a data centre or you are a technology startup, we offer a tailored, personal approach. Technology has come first for us for over 30 years. Our expertise covers not only Unix and Linux, but also DevOps, cloud and network technology. We work on automation projects. What we once did by hand to run, configure and update servers is now fully automated using Ansible and Puppet. We also use containerisation, which lets us move applications quickly and without disruption. Our engineers become part of your organisation, because they stay with you for months and sometimes years. They work on your premises to make daily operations easier and more professional. They know your infrastructure inside out and are fully committed to you, our client.
More than an extra pair of hands
USN engineers work for a wide range of companies, including businesses in aerospace, banking, and oil and gas. Deploying an engineer costs money, of course, but at every client we add more value than we cost. Sometimes that is because an engineer reviews a quotation and reports back that the proposed combination of servers and storage systems simply will not work. In one such case, the organisation was able to avoid a €1.2 million loss by sending the supplier back to the drawing board. Our engineers head off missteps like this, and they are equally capable of devising and building smart solutions: no-nonsense, solid and working.
Dedicated engineers, at home and abroad
We have worked with a major Dutch bank for many years, more than twenty in fact. When this client’s payment environment goes down, it costs a great deal of money and damages their brand. At a critical moment the bank brought in three USN engineers, and the problem was resolved quickly. As one team leader put it: “I didn’t need the other 57 IT people in my department. The USN engineers are the only ones I need.”
USN engineers manage one of the most complex IT environments in the world for a major oil company, allowing scientists to process enormous volumes of seismic data. It is complex, it is large, it carries real responsibility, and above all it is genuinely exciting work.
For a well-known Dutch university, we are stabilising the infrastructure across all servers through automation. Work that was done by hand for years, and was therefore prone to error, is reaching a much higher level of maturity as a result.
At an aerospace company, USN engineers have been safeguarding complex scientific systems for 30 years. The software that will later travel into space aboard satellites is written and tested on those systems. Every launch is a moment of real tension, and something we will still be proud to talk about decades from now.
