Young Indian Futuresruns a number of small-scale charity projects in India, with the aim of giving dignity and independence to young people who are excluded from that ‘booming’ economy.  They come from the marginalised ‘Dalit’ communities, formerly known as ‘Untouchables’, facing a life of brutalising work and minimal education through many generations.

Ben joined Virya Technologies back in 2009 as a freelance contractor, providing support to our IT clients around Suffolk and Essex.  He joined our team on a full-time basis in February 2012 and leads up the IT Support team.  Ben has also been key in moving our business processes towards a completely Open Source setup, and is a frequent contributor to several open source projects.

With many years supporting Linux and Unix servers, our team of friendly experts can provide remote or on-site assistance for all your needs. We have experience with most Unix flavours including:

• Solaris
• AIX
• HP-UX

Emergencies

If you have an emergency requirement for Unix support - for example if your server is down or you have a security breach - please call us at any time on (0845) 003 7235 or +44 7823 770827 which will route to our on-call engineers.

Depending on your location and whether we can remotely access your server, we aim to respond within two hours (usually immediate where travel is not required).

Please note that there is a call-out fee of £50 per issue, with our hourly rate starting at £60 per hour or part thereof.

Ongoing support

Virya Technologies provide round-the-clock monitoring of Unix servers, optimisation, patching and other administrative tasks, taking the stress out of managing your servers and the cost of having an in-house team. We can be as involved as you want us to be - a source to call on when you get problems or fully managing your servers on a day to day basis.

To find out how we can help your business manage your Linux servers, please call us on (0845) 003 7235 or (01473) 722858.

As you are probably aware by now, we were the subject of a distributed denial of service attack which commenced on the evening of Monday, 12th December 2012, targeted against the IP of our server. This article is hopefully an explanation of exactly what happened, a timeline of events, and what we are doing to prevent it happening again. We also hope it answers some questions you might have about the process we went through to recover the sites.

Our company server went down at midnight, we were looking for emergency out of hours support and Virya Technologies was there to help when no one else was answering.  Within 10 minutes an engineer was on the phone sorting it out.

We contacted Virya Technologies after being given 48 hours notice to resolve a spam issue on one of our servers.

Do you need to implement flexible working for your organisation?

Is mobile working becoming more important?

Why not consider moving your business processes to the cloud?  We took the step of moving Virya Technologies' IT infrastructure to the cloud back in June 2011, so we know first hand what it's like before, during and after making such a move.

Virya Technologies are in the process of becoming an approved Google Apps partner, and during this process we have a special offer for businesses wishing to make the move to the cloud.

Most businesses will create and rely on hundreds if not thousands of documents every year. We all recognise the importance of retaining these documents until we can be sure they are no longer required, but what of the other resources we use?

It was a question that we have been pondering for quite some time - how to set up our business processes such that our staff can work as effectively from home as they can from the office - which became even more pressing with the imminent arrival of a baby to one of our core team members, necessitating flexible working arrangements. 

Virya Technologies had always operated our own in-house systems but they were creaking with the increasing demands of using multiple computers, multiple operating systems, and working hundreds of miles away from the office for periods of time.