Intuate Group is a privately owned South African organisation

Established in 2000, Intuate Group is a privately owned South African organisation based in Sandton, with satellite offices in Durban and Cape Town.Intuate Group's approach is holistic to ensure that all processes, technologies and people requirements are harmonised in the architecture of the solution. This ensures successful implementation, deployment and ongoing operation. The company was founded as a professional project management company and today, Intuate Group leverages these skills to ensure that solutions are managed and implemented successfully in a controlled manner.

any downtime is disastrous.

Local technology solutions and people resources integrator, Intuate Group, has formed a strategic partnership with the world leader in uptime assurance for critical business operations, Stratus Computer Technologies, ensuring that a broader dissection of South African businesses have access to “absolute availability” within their data centres, through Stratus Fault Tolerant Servers (ftServers). “In environments such as stock exchanges, air-traffic control, finance, credit card authorisation, public safety, emergency services, healthcare, ATM backbones, process manufacturing and telecommunications, any downtime is disastrous. For this reason, Intuate Group is proud to offer Stratus’ world-class true fault-tolerant solution, meaning there is absolutely no interruption in service,” says Mark Edwards, director of product and services at Intuate Group. According to Pieter van der Merwe, availability solutions architect at Stratus Computer Technologies, high availability, by definition, means a recovery from failure as quickly as possible, which means the customer will invariably experience an outage. “To make matters worse, this outage may result in data loss or corruption. Depending on the complexity and nature of the solution, the recovery time may take a few minutes, or much longer if data corruption occurred. Should this happen, the impact on the bottom-line could be devastating. “With Stratus ftServers, the customer experiences absolute availability. This means that an outage or any data loss or data corruption when a hardware failure does take place is completely avoided. “Time is money,” he adds, “and downtime can cost an exorbitant amount of money. The Stratus solution means that clients are able to protect their most business-critical applications against downtime as well as protecting the integrity of their data.” Intuate Group and Stratus view their partnership as a mutually beneficial relationship. One of the reasons for this is that Intuate Group’s unique call centre offering is the ideal application to be underpinned by Stratus ftServers. “The group’s solution, combined with Stratus’ technologies, can open up an entirely new marketplace for both parties. Another big advantage, for Stratus specifically, is the strong relationships that Intuate Group has with key customers and the way in which Stratus can deliver further value to these businesses,” says Van der Merwe.