Hi and welcome.  You have reached the website of Balius Inc, a small IT company, owned and operated by Chad Stewart.

I have been in the IT industry over 20 years.  I have worked with organizations from many different industries and various sizes: academic, financial, US Federal Government, Internet service providers, health care, and legal, from one person companies to companies with thousands of employees and millions of customers.  I have owned my own business since 2004.

I can help you with the following products and services.

  • Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenVMS
  • Security – Firewalls, Proxies, Remote Access/VPNs, IDS/IPS, Anti-SPAM/Virus
  • High availability/Clusters – Sun Cluster, Veritas Cluster, PF, etc
  • Load Balancers/Proxies – relayd, Squid, Pound, Varnish
  • Disaster Recovery – Helped implement DR for a system supporting 2 million users
  • Virtualization – VMWare ESX, VirtualBox
  • Internet Connectivity – can setup/troubleshoot your connection to your ISP
I currently hold the following certifications: Security+ and GCFW.  I am working on getting my GCIH back, having letting it lapse, with a new goal of getting my GSE within the next 18-24 months.  You can check out my profile on LinkedIn.
You can contact me using the button to the right or directly via email Chad@Balius.com

Anti-SPAM / Virus

Got to much SPAM or viruses in your Inbox? I can show you how you can enjoy email again.

Hacked?

Is a computer on your network compromised? I can help you recover and more importantly make it a lot harder to happen in the future.

Firewalls

I can help you with an existing system or help you install a system from scratch.

Security

I can help you with an IDS/IPS solution, firewalls, or proxies.

Messaging

I can help you with: Oracle's Comms Suite, Postfix, and Sendmail.  I have been involved with email since 1995 so chances are good I've seen it before.