Specialist IT Consultancy

Primary Star is a specialist IT solution provider that assists clients to design and implement high quality trusted solutions.
A very high level of expertise is applied to ensure a secure, capacity planned and performance tuned deployment is achieved.

• Design
  
  
  • Interpretation of systems analyst and application developer requirements into physical hardware specifications.
  • Integration of business security requirements into solution design.
  • Solutions offered are cost effective over the long term. Consideration is given to the required support capabilities, recognising the major cost component represented by HR.
  
  
• Integration
  
  
  • Server consolidation is now more possible than ever before. Use of techniques to enable true multi-purpose servers to be deployed - such as resource management and logical partitioning - enables thousands of dollars to be saved on hardware and software. Issues regarding interference and security when deploying multiple applications on the one server can now be readily addressed without recourse to more expensive hardware. Database servers, application servers, web servers, email etc may co-exist on single servers but run within their own container.
  • New server and database deployments must be properly integrated into the present information processing environment. This is most efficiently achieved when common functional requirements can be identified and utilised.
  
  
• Deployment
  
  
  • Documentation, Training & Skills Transfer
    Without good quality documentation, what have you really got ?
    We provide a detailed design document containing full hardware and software specifications, a log of the build process undertaken and a disaster recovery plan. Your support personnel will be armed with easy to follow "howto" procedures to ensure a reliable ongoing service.
    Our services do not stop there. We recognise that new designs, new hardware or software upgrades may encorporate features new to support personnel. A training plan can be built into our services and make up a significant component of the implementation.
    
  • High Availability
    We implement disaster recovery tailored to your business requirements. The level of sophistication should be commensurate with your operational targets. Types of disaster recovery implementations available are:
    
    1. Backup and restore filesystems and databases
    2. Manual fail-over to alternate servers
    3. Fully automated fail-over utilising clustering software available for the Sun and Linux platforms.
    4. Oracle RAC implementations
  • A Word On Security
    We don't pretend to be something we're not, so we don't offer what other companies may call a "full site security audit". There are very good companies in the marketplace that offer excellent quality assured audit services.
    We offer solutions that have security designed in from the start. We assist companies looking for advice with policy direction, technical implementations and post audit remediation work. We can install special tools to assist support personnel to maintain the security of servers at effective levels.
    

  • Environment Monitoring
    We have gained experience with many different toolsets that are available for server and database monitoring. Some are available free, others many thousands of dollars. Our experience enables us to provide advice on a suitable solution that is tailored to your business needs.
    
  • Trouble Shooting & Site Assessments are available to:
    
    1. Review existing server and database deployments
    2. Report on suitability for purpose
    3. Recommendations for improvements to operational efficiencies
    4. Security review and post audit remedial actions

   

  Offering design, integration and deployment services to create sustainable solutions.