ICT Strategic Planning aligns your IT expenditure with your corporate objectives. Strategic Directions provide tailored solutions to achieve these outcomes.
One of Australia’s leading ICT Strategy and Management specialists being engaged by Federal, State Governments and multinational organisations since 2003.
Your data integrity, functionality, performance and seamless service is critical to business success. Managing the design and planning of your Data Centre is one of the most important commercial decisions you’ll make.
Strategic Directions is one of Australia’s leading data centre designers and planners. Discover how Strategic Directions can optimise your data centre management and performance.
The University of Melbourne is committed to utilising advances in technology to advance scientific research and development across a range of disciplines.
With the rapid advance of technology, it is often forgotten just what goes into providing all of that computing power. That little electron microscope that can view a DNA molecule in three dimensions also has a very hi-tech and costly data centre attached to it that provides the electricity, cooling, storage and backup of every byte of enormous amounts of data and computing power to render that DNA molecule in three dimensions.
The University of Melbourne has anticipated this exponential growth and commissioned a project to expand their existing data centre, but not in physical footprint, but rather in capacity, the capacity to enable high density computing and storage in Petascale quantities.
The project has added a third Diesel Rotary UPS (DRUPS) to the existing pair of DRUPS to increase the maximum ICT load that could be installed in the DC in readiness for the new technologies. During the planning phases, it was noted that in performing this upgrade, the University could also improve the redundancy and resiliency of its older DC and actually eliminate some end-of-life componentry. A bit of a face lift, if you will and it combines both DC’s under one power stream for ease of maintenance and less complexity.
Are you getting Value from your current ICT Services and Investments?
Clearly define your Strategic priorities and roadmap
Deliver ICT services that align to your business needs.
The Strategic Directions Group sole focus is to help you
improve your operational efficiency and maximise the return
on your ICT and Data Centre Investments.
Deliver tangible business results that exceed our customers’ expectations.
Maintain our vendor independence ensuring that we can focus on delivering the best outcome for our customers
Providing innovative solutions for both our organisations and our customers.
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Strategic Directions has extensive experience gained from working on the largest and most complex networks in Australia.
Vendor Independent Data Centre Design specialist Strategic Directions delivers a Data Centre Optimisation Service
Strategic Directions Managed Data Centre Services can provide clients with a fully managed data center
Many Organisations struggle with the mechanics of conducting a Tender Process for the procurement of IT or Telecommunications Goods and Services.
Vibrant, liveable, sustainable cities require more than traditional infrastructure – and are evaluated on more than simply financial return.
Strategic Direction’s External CIO Service allows a client access to skills and experience from multiple disciplines, on a customised retainer basis.
Strategic Directions offers vendor independent, specialist advice for your ICT investments.
This service allows for the development of a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for your organisation
The University of Melbourne thanks Strategic Directions for their detailed technical review and total cost of ownership assistance for its Data Centre Facilities. The University has benefited from the recommendations provided for infrastructure improvements and is in a significantly better position to make key strategic decisions around the on-going operation of its enterprise and leased Data Centre Facilities...
In May 2015 Brisbane City Council commissioned Strategic Directions to review the operational effectiveness of its Data Centre UPS systems to ensure stability and performance of its network. Council engaged Strategic Directions to review vendor reports, Council reports, and UPS logs to provide options for improvements...
Dave Collyer was great to work with and is well respected by the ICT team and rest of Council. He was also very responsive to requests for information and assistance, which was appreciated.
Overview
Chris has over 30 years experience in the IT industry and is the founder and Managing Director of The Strategic Directions Group. Chris specialises in ICT strategy…
Overview
Mike has over 26 years’ experience in the ICT industry, covering strategy, design and management across commercial and government sectors. He is a specialist in…
A self-motivated professional with 28 years’ experience providing specialist telecommunication and IT consultancy focusing on the development, and delivery, of cost effective…
Byron heads up the Strategic Directions Data Centre practice, getting involved in all aspects from design and construction to audits and reviews for both internal rooms and…
David has experienced over 20 years’ leading private, commercial operations and government authorities in best practice ICT Strategies, Business Processes and Project Management…
