Advantage

- Managing reliable data centers since 2006

AMS DataSerfs, Inc. was founded by Andy Hoepfner in 2006 to provide the best data center management services through a highly skilled and motivated team of professionals. AMS personnel’s experience in UNIX and data center management is unsurpassed.

AMS specializes in

- Data center monitoring, reporting and bulk management

- Data center consulting

- Data center migration

- Mission critical environments

- Customizing solutions for specific needs

AMS wants to become your “data center guys”. Our support and consulting services are focused on successful client partnerships. Our goal is to have your data center performing so you can depend upon it. AMS becomes your partner who keeps IT humming, so you don’t notice.

With thorough preparation and planning, AMS DataSerfs keeps your data center running like a clock today as well as preparing for tomorrow's needs. Rest assured your data center is performing reliably. If not, AMS proactively restores your system, in most cases, before you know it. That requires a custom plan and strategy specifically for you. You have enough to worry about achieving your company’s goals. AMS Unix insures your data center isn’t one of those worries.

AMS knows your data center exists to empower and enable you and your staff to achieve. Knowing your business and corporate culture guides AMS Unix towards technical solutions that make sense for you.

By creating an equally nurturing and demanding environment, AMS attracts and selects the highest level data center teams. AMS combines flexibility with performance and knowledge of the world class service it provides. The AMS monitoring system has valuable features our competitors don’t. This comes to you in a single package that lets you sleep well every night.

Management Team

Andy Hoepfner (CISSP) - CEO & Co-founder

Andy Hoepfner has nearly 20 years of business experience in high reliability, mission-critical data center environments. Andy’s Masters in Computer Science and Communication Technology was achieved in Germany prior to joining Nixdorf as a Presales Consultant and Pyramid Technology as Systems Engineer.

Andy moved to California to manage Siemens’ Technical Support in 1996 and implemented the Siemens SBS global Follow-The-Sun Support Line in 2001.He has successfully moved several large data centers and is proficient in project management for businesses of every size. He is astutely knowledgeable of mission critical, customized datacenter environments.

Because of his depth in understanding customer needs, Andy is able to optimize highly technical issues and solutions for every specific customer need.

In his free time Andy enjoys his envolvement in the Corvette community.

Achim Klaus, President and Co-founder

Achim Klaus started as a Systems Programming in Assembler at a time when 1K of RAM was plenty. In 1981, Achim became a UNIX Data Center System Administrator at Technische Universität in Berlin. He developed and taught UNIX classes about programming in C, network programming, and GUI design for database applications in both academic and production environments. These classes were taught at Siemens’ headquarters in Germany and Pyramid Technology in San Jose. Achim began leading his team of System Administrators and IT software developers at a Fortune 100 Company in Mountain View, CA. in 2002.

Achim began designing and building the AMS monitoring, reporting and management system in 2000. He has created a unique set of tools using one web- based, database-driven application using 200,000 lines of Perl and MySQL code.

Achim considers IT consulting, first and foremost, a people business. It’s about getting your data center to consistently perform to your exacting standards. Achim enjoys the diversity it affords.

Achim rides his motorbike to work, and spends his weekends flying remote controlled gliders.