Enterprise Executive • 2024: EE Issue 5 • Sine Nomine Associates, Inc.

ALMALINUX, ANSIBLE, CONSULTING SERVICES, CONTAINERS, DATA CENTERS, HYBRID CLOUD, MAINFRAME OUTPUT AND PRINT MANAGEMENT, MAINFRAME SUPPORT SOLUTIONS, OPENAFS, OPEN SOURCE, PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT, RED HAT, REMOTE WORK VPN SECURITY, S390 LINUX, Z/TPF TO LINUX MODERNIZATION, Z/VM

Enhancing scalability, reliability, security and affordability on mainframes and beyond is the focus of Sine Nomine Associates.

Sine Nomine Associates is a vendorneutral, woman-owned business, celebrating more than 20 years of customer success. We deliver development, configuration, training, design, and complete 24x7x365 enterprise-level support services for all our global customers. From our world-leading engineers, architects, and scientists to cutting-edge creatives, the technologists at SNA and our partners have the know-how to challenge the status quo, to drive revolutionary change, and to become champions with our customers.

• Looking for more cost effective ways to manage your IBM LinuxONE or Linux on IBM z Systems environments? Our open source solution provides all the best features allowing our customers to realize savings. https://www.sinenomine.net/offerings/linux/LinuxOne.

• You want Cent-OS functionality on System z on a super-tight budget. Our fully supported ClefOS is a prime option while saving on license fees. Watch this space for new expected offerings that are being worked on right now: https://www.sinenomine.net/offerings/linux/ClefOS

• You have wished you could interconnect NJE communication services on unmodified OS/390, VM, z/VM, z/OS, VSE, TPF, with open systems (such as Linux on Intel or Mainframe or Solaris) connected to IPv4 and IPv6 IP networks. Our NJE/IP solution for Open Systems will accomplish this at minimal cost and supports SNMP. https://www.sinenomine.net/offerings/zVM/Products/NJE. When your systems communicate, your business grows in an optimized fashion.

• You seek a clustered, highly available system with data storage services on System z. Our highly acclaimed High Availability Option (HAO) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivers software and support tooling while reducing license fees. https://www.sinenomine.net/offerings/linux/HAO. HAO now supports SCSI hard drives to increase compatibility, too.

• You could use a modernization of z/TPF with the dream of a crazy-good ROI? We can help shift your workloads to z/ Linux, then support it all. https://www.sinenomine.net/offerings/zTPF. Your CFO and share-holders will smile all the way to the bank.

The examples above illustrate our capabilities in the mainframe arena. However, we also offer a host of other non-mainframe development projects and support offerings that may also be of potential interest:

• Are you determined to use one of the most established multi-platform, enterprise, distributed file systems available that has delivered distributed data storage and availability to mission critical operations for over twenty years? The Andrew File System (AFS) could be your answer. https://www. sinenomine.net/offerings/OpenAFS. End-to-end encryption is also available now! We are ready to take on configuration, training, administration, custom feature development, and enterprise support.

• Does your company have legacy controllers running .NET that you want to update to Linux? We can help with Mono. Sponsored by Microsoft, Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework. https://www.sinenomine.net/offerings/Mono. Using the tools and compilers provided in the package, you can design and develop applications that can be deployed on the right platform regardless of development systems or tools. Flexibility will be yours!

• Does your team have an exciting story to tell, wish to optimize or simulate a process before production, our interactive 3D content can make it visible... pure magic! https://www.sinenomine.net/offerings/3D. You can commission Unity design and development, or let us develop creative content for your IT infrastructure; networks; data design, management, and protection; tooling and automation; continuous process improvement and integration with external data sources and applications. Our team’s innovation and creativity can yield solutions preparing you for future challenges, thereby increasing your competitive advantage!

• Are you planning your first Network Operations Center (NOC), Enterprise Operation Center (EOC), data center, edge compute facility… or updating an existing one? Has your company matured to realize the need for a well-designed, high technology workplace to meet their needs? Are governance requirements (ADA, OSHA, LEED, etc.) forcing your company to upgrade their existing work environment? Our team can help make sure you are on target: we offer Healthy Buildings Architectural Interior Consulting Services. https://www.sinenomine.net/offerings/other/healthy-buildings. It pays dividends when you invest in yourself and your health!

• With COVID-19, has remote-work become a necessity? Does this make you concerned about hacked networks? We offer Virtual Private Network (VPN) consultation and implementation, both server and clientside, to serve businesses striving to achieve increased security for a remote workforce. https://www.sinenomine.net/offerings/business/remote-workforce. We have been working remotely for 20 years with great success!

No matter the context, we maximize the value of your systems with our unique open source offerings, products, services, and support programs. The vision of Sine Nomine Associates is the “System after Next.” Our milestones are measured by continual customer success. Our goal is to continue to solve the IT problems that you will encounter tomorrow and the day after tomorrow with a single goal—drive change by constantly searching for better ways of doing things.