After months and months of work, submitting Amicus for third party testing, compiling lists of customer references, conducting satisfaction surveys and generally proving our competency; Neotechnology officially became a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner today.

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Great news!

I've been following with interest the software-as-a-service (SAAS) development that's being fueled by cloud computing these days. My immediate interest is for Point of Sale applications with our product Amicus.

There is a number of issues in the way of developing proper SAAS implementations of POS such as:

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I've been looking into enterprise virtualisation solutions or 'cloud computing' as you might call it. I've taken a particular liking to Amazon's AWS which seems to be by far the industry leader in terms of the key criteria:

1. Price
2. Computing Power
3. Bandwidth
4. Storage

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Now that we have our Amicus POS partner network taking root around Australia, with official signed up, partners in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. We're starting to be inundated with feature requests to enhance Amicus, our Point of Sale (POS) system for Supermarkets, Retail, Wholesale, Hospitality, and Fuel.

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I'm one of those people who likes to live on the bleeding edge of technology, an early adopter if you will. I'm also one of a growing few people who use mac in a windows environment.

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This week Shirly Sareyka and I have been travelling around Melbourne meeting with potential partners for our Point of Sale product, Amicus. So far we've talked to a few very good candidates, most notably Retail Care in Prahran and LivIT in Camberwell so the trip has been worthwhile.

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We have a lot of infrastructure that we’re rather proud of here in our server room at Neotechnology Business Systems. We have our own ‘mini’ SAN in the form of a HP DL380G5 Storage server complete with a P800 controller, an MSA60, Several NC373i NICs and to top it off the Microsoft HP iSCSI Target Software. We also have three virtual hosts, currently two of which are running Hyper-V and the third is running VMWare ESXi, all of which run their virtual machines on iSCSI LUNs hosted on the storage server. Most of the disks in our storage server are SAS disks for speed and reliability however for space considerations we have a few large SATA disks which offer much cheaper $/GB ratios.

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For those of you who have just started reading my blog, don’t worry too much about missing something, this is the first one!

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