Acurus

When organisations communicate their vision to us, it's an important conversation. This initial dialogue is where the transformation from vision into strategy commences; it is also at this point where our project methodology begins.

Acurus has been converting these visions into high performance, reliable systems for the past seven years. We have delivered every project within budget and on time. More importantly, we have delivered these with quality.

Our project delivery methodology has been formulated from our previous successes. We understand that what we are doing is working, so we have formalised it and incorporated it into our quality management system.

"(Acurus) always delivered on time, and importantly, with quality." Brett Taylor - Horizon Power

We have delivered a wide range of projects including:

• IT Roadmaps
  • Perform organisation wide systems assessment
  • Define strategic IT direction
  • Recommend projects
  • Set Cap-ex > op-ex targets
  • Cloud/hosting/infrastructure or hybrid
  • Provide business cases aimed at identifying business improvements and value
• Complete Infrastructure Refresh Projects
  • Consolidate hardware, software, networking vendors and service providers
  • WAN audit, recommendations and refresh
  • Active Directory audit, recommendations and improvement projects
  • SOE audit, recommendations and deployment
  • BCP audit, recommendations and deployment
• Infrastructure Consolidation Projects (Virtualisation, Co-Lo)
  • Virtualisation architecture design
  • Vendor comparison, then recommendations against requirements and cost
  • VMware design and implementation
  • Microsoft Hyper-V design and implementation
  • Virtualisation based Business Continuity Plans (BCP) including hot and warm DR
  • Co-Location DR replication
  • LOB system, Application, Mail and SQL consolidation and DR
  • Documentation and procedure development
  • Monitoring and management systems
• Business Continuity Projects
  • BCP design and recommendations
  • Business impact analysis
  • Hot and warm DR planning
  • Hot seat facility recommendations
  • Risk management
• WAN design and implementation projects
  • National private network design
  • National private network deployment
  • Network infrastructure redundancy including:
    • Internet automatic failover design
    • Firewall high availability
    • VPN high availability
    • Switching infrastructure high availability
  • 24/7 network monitoring and management
  • Helpdesk process and procedure
  • Change management process and procedure
  • Network maintenance process and procedure
• Hosting/Cloud/Hybrid Projects
  • IT Roadmaps including Infrastructure lifecycle and EOL audit
  • IT Roadmap recommendations (Hosting/Cloud/Infrastructure or Hybrid Model)
  • Cap-ex > Op-ex business cases
  • System design and technology recommendations
  • Proof of concept
  • Migration project