Netarus, LLC provides a family of products that offers a multitude of innovative products and services related to internet-based hosting and distributed systems management. These products and services range from fully managed to customer controlled applications. We pride ourselves in creating useful and easy to use products and services with the highest level of customer service and support.

Netarus, LLC is a software design and development company based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and provides a multitude of innovative products and services related to web-based control and management systems.

Its flagship product, SCInterface® (pronounced S-C-Interface), has been in development since 2003. SCInterface currently functions as two separate products. SCInterface for Sensors integrates disparate sensor networks into a single platform that can be managed over a web interface and mobile devices (http://sensors.scinterface.com). SCInterface for Game Servers is a game server control panel that manages game servers for application and server providers (ASPs), game server providers (GSPs) and large data centers (http://games.scinterface.com). SCInterface can obtain data from nearly any type of application or sensor and distribute this data securely over the Internet. SCInterface allows the sensors to be monitored, managed and controlled from multiple types of interfaces including web browsers, PDAs and voice recognition interfaces.

SCInterface was developed by Netarus to fill a growing need in the young and growing multiplayer game server and M2M (machine-to-machine) markets. "We studied both game server and sensor (M2M) markets and saw how the right system could revolutionize the both worlds in a different way," says Christopher Machut, Netarus' founder and CEO.

The company took its innovative idea to the Hampton Roads Technology Incubator which is a partnership between public, private and academic organizations that provides hands-on management assistance, access to financing, and exposure to critical business or technical support services.

Since 2003, the company's owners worked on SCInterface. "It wasn't an easy process," says Bill Cuffley, Netarus' lead developer. "There's always a lot of trial and error when you're building a revolutionary product, and we developed everything from the ground up while leveraging proven technologies."

With SCInterface ready for the workforce, Netarus left the incubator in mid-2005 and began marketing their new product, with particular emphasis on application service provides, manufacturing, industrial and commercial environments such as military assets and power plants.

The owners decided to open source SCInterface because "there is a need within the application and sensor management markets for a robust open source solution so customers can leverage the ability to control multiple applications and devices within any environment," Machut says. "Open source also helps to accelerate the adoption of new and exciting technologies. Netarus supports the open source initiative 100 percent!"

Netarus’ Professional Services provides comprehensive support, training and integration services for SCInterface.

"We knew we had the right team with the right knowledge to take on this challenge," Machut says. "Our goal has always been to produce next-generation products, and we've accomplished that with SCInterface."

SCInterface for Game Servers - http://games.scinterface.com

SCInterface for Sensors - http://sensors.scinterface.com

Christopher Machut
Chief Executive Officer / Founder

Christopher Machut leads Netarus in all facets of corporate and strategic development. He brings a deep knowledge of interface development and technical and business management for start-up companies. A Computer Engineering and Computer Science graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Christopher led a team of engineers in the development and deployment of new interface technologies for the automobile industry. He was also responsible for introducing companies to these interface design techniques to be incorporated into their existing products.

Christopher was instrumental in managing the performance testing of an online training system for the Army, where his duties included diagnosing and reporting on statistical analysis obtained from the tests. He also was responsible for developing relationships with other companies to incorporate these new technologies into their environments. Christopher brings his business and technical background to Netarus to drive SCInterface into the market.

Bill Cuffley
Lead Developer

Bill Cuffley leads the Netarus software development team which created and implemented SCInterface.

He previously worked for Cisco Systems Co. headquartered in Ontario, Canada, as an Automation and DEVTEST Engineer, and a software developer/engineer. Bill's responsibilities included the development of tools to help in automation of DEVTEST and regression testing, as well as development of scripts (TCL/Expect) to automate test plans. He developed a large code base in C and used his in-depth knowledge of Inter-Process Communications, Multi-Threaded (SIMD) software design, and Multi-computer (MIMD) distributed software architecture to create other programs.

His programming and scripting languages include: C, C++, Java, Pascal, VHDL, SQL, Perl, Php, Tcl, Expect, Bourne Shell, sed, (g)awk, UML, XML.

Bill also works with the unique operating systems of Linux (Redhat, Debian, Suse), Unix (SunOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, AIX4), and the networking and administration systems of Novell Netware 4.11, Unix & Linux (HTTPd, NFS, SMB, Firewalls, NIS). He earned a Bachelor of Applied Sciences, Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa.

Gary Euske
Vice President, Business Development

Gary Euske has more than 28 years of experience in sales, management and strategic marketing. As vice president, Gary directs company-wide marketing strategies and business development, negotiating campaign opportunities, refining sales platforms, and overseeing all aspects of business operations.

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• About Netarus - PDF Version
• Netarus 2005 Press Kit