ICT Infrastructure Specialists
CIONICS consultants and associates each have over 20 years of experience across many diverse industries and organisations
EXPERTISE
Design & Validation
Systems Integration
Compliance Audit & Reports
Risk Analysis
& Mitigation
Decision Support for CEOs
Systems Migration
Project Delivery
Site Monitoring
Bid Document Preparation
System
Documentation
CIONICS METHODOLOGY
Design & Validation
CIONICS can work from a business plan to cost your projects and develop the design to deliver fully functional ICT infrastructure systems using your choice of vendors. If required, we will produce RFIs and assist in the vendor qualification and procurement process. The scope of our capabilities includes complete solutions (including small data centres) comprising office systems, laboratory R&D and industrial networks.
Compliance Audits & Reports
CIONICS can provide assistance to companies and organisations to ensure that their own internal standards are applied, maintained and reinforced as necessary. As experienced integrators we can examine your network ecosystem and critical support infrastructures through surveys and audits to deliver independent objective and unbiased reporting with recommendations.
Decision Support for CEOs
Expert knowledge and innovation are vital to maximise return on investment and competitive advantage. Corporate directives, trading pressures and the introduction of new technologies are just three frequent problem areas for CEOs and budget holders. When faced with a choice of technologies, costs and vendors you may need some help. CIONICS can unravel your choices to present a short list of solutions and options
Project Delivery
When engaged as Project Lead or Project Manager our consultants and associates do not spend your time sitting at a desk!
CIONICS extensive industry knowledge and experience has been derived from work in the field. Time is always money.... we like to get things right first time - every time, and we all know that attention to detail is vital for a successful implementation. We will work very hard with all of our work partners to set expectations and deliver your projects on time and on budget.
Bid Documentation Preparation
We know that new initiaves and technological churn can often totally consume your best resources particularly when it comes to preparing bid documentation and requests for information; If this work is not thorough or adequately completed then even more time will be wasted, often with serious consequences. CIONICS can assist with your needs analysis, early project definition and the production of the initial statement of requirements, ready for the generation of the formal invitation for the expression of interest and other bid related processes.
Systems Integration
CIONICS consultants and associates have delivered systems using a variety of technologies to provide robust, fault tolerant and redundant networks across most industry and organisational types. These include remote branch offices, laboratories, factory automation, facilities monitoring (BMS) hybrid cloud, CO-LO, regionalised compute, storage and communications (video, voice and data) systems. Our expertise includes all commercially available data transmission technologies, utilisation and application of security platforms.
Risk Analysis & Mitigation
CIONICS broad experience and industry knowledge can contribute significantly to the recognition of risk and its mitigation across your infrastructure systems. CIONICS provides site visits and periodic reviews for its clients to ensure that standards are maintained. Where standards have eroded, CIONICS will provide detailed Statements of Work together with concise impact statements enabling remedial action.
Systems Migration
CIONICS consultants can arrange, supervise and manage your infrastructure technology upgrades, replacements and maintenance to ensuring continuity of services. The work can range from the management of excavations for ducting, fibre installations, server moves and modifications to site power supplies and upgrading your HVAC and CRAC systems and testing. If you need someone on site, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Site Monitoring
ONCALL FINESTRA has genuinely bridged the information gap between Facilities Management systems and ICT to assist in disaster prevention and service level compliance. CIONICS offers a totally scalable and extremely cost effective method of continuously monitoring the critical facilities infrastructure without the complexity or cost of DCIM systems. ONCALL FINESTRA delivers validated alarms in real-time to both mobile users and Help Desk. It can be deployed to provide a complete coverage of your infrastructure without interference to other management information systems. Its rich database features graphing and trending in real-time and instantaneous reporting on demand. Using a variety of sensor systems and data sources, ONCALL FINESTRA systems can be utilised across a single site or a whole enterprise to notify management of local emerging adverse and recovering conditions. Typical applications include remote monitoring of environmental conditions for computer and associated plant rooms, flood/leak detection, generator control, heating and cooling failures, problems with network actives and power distribution.
Systems Documentation
The production of good systems documentation can be laborious and resource intensive. Whether or not an industry imposes specific requirements, absolute definition of systems architectures, standard operating procedures and documented change management are essential to the safe operation of companies and organisations and should be implemented as a standard practice. They also add value and should be seen as assets. CIONICS consultants have a background in cGMP, cGLP, cGCP, and ISO regulated environments and can develop frameworks to simplify documentation of your infrastructure and operating procedures.
Our experience and approach to assignments is derived from years of
work in highly regulated, non-stop industries in Europe, UK and U.S
Contact us today to discuss your requirements !
Specialists in Project Delivery, Technology Upgrades and the Facilities Critical Infrastructure
ICT Engineering & Consultancy
www.cionics.com
Telephone: +44 (0)844 884 3370
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ABOUT CIONICS
Experience & Expertise
CIONICS consultants and associates have over 20 years of experience and expertise providing technical project management and consultancy for companies and organisations of all sizes and many diverse industries in the UK, US and EMEA regions. Some projects and assignments require very specific, expert skill sets. In such instances CIONICS will use its associates to fulfil those needs as and when they are needed. This is good for our clients and resolves resourcing dependencies for complex projects.
Impartiality and Independence
Our contribution and reputation as a trusted advisor completely depends on confidentiality and independence from vendors, manufacturers, and of course your competitors! Inside your organisation, we can be trusted to handle strategic plans and information at the highest levels with total confidence. Common examples include pre-merger/acquisition work, start-ups, moves and business transformations.
Lifecycle Commitment
CIONICS offers lifecycle commitment for your projects from inception to operation. Working independently from your brief or, as a fully integrated part of your project team, we work with your business managers, architects, contractors, vendors and staff, providing team leadership and stakeholder representation as necessary.
Decision Support for CEOs
We bring pragmatism to your projects combined with expert knowledge and innovation to maximise return on investment and competitive advantage. CIONICS will help you realise immediate and ongoing value from your projects, working with you to define strategic plans, business requirements and functional needs, delivering a complete business solution at the pace you require.
Design & Validation
Definition of requirements for the construction of RFIs and the evaluation of vendor returns can be extremely time consuming and is often a daunting experience. CIONICS will work with you to determine the solutions and options you need to deliver performance, stakeholder value and best fit, together with design validation and a sound, strategic perspective. Our associates are fully certified experts in their fields.
Compliance Audits, Service Levels and Operating Procedures
CIONICS consultants have many years of experience in highly regulated, non-stop computing environments across many diverse industries, assisting management to develop and implement better service level compliance and operating procedures. Outcomes result in risk mitigation, correction to ITIL models and frameworks reducing costs and downtime. We can of course just proof read your documents too!
Protection for Co-Lo Assets and the Facilities Critical Infrastructure
Service Level compliance is often difficult to measure, yet it is vital for the protection of systems and services availability. Loss of services, chronic performance issues and /or frequent hardware failure are often the only indicators of underlying problems. Insight into weaknesses and failure in the critical infrastructure through discrete remote monitoring can provide vital information instantaneously preventing service outages. Companies and organisations of all types with remote assets in branch offices and contracted Co-Lo should consider a separate monitoring, alarm and conditional alerting system capability. This should function independently of the service provider to monitor service level compliance and deliver validated emerging adverse operating conditions proactively. CIONICS can deliver highly effective solutions for almost every disaster prevention scenario at reasonable cost.
CONTACT
OUR ADDRESS
CIONICS LIMITED
REPTON HOUSE, BRETBY BUSINESS PARK
BURTON ON TRENT, STAFFORDSHIRE, DE15 0YZ.
UNITED KINGDOM.
Email: enquiries@cionics.com
Tel: +44 (0) 844 884 3370
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TESTIMONIALS
IT Manager, Security (IAM & Directory Services) at Johnson and Johnson
Chris has outstanding consistency and dedication in provision of project services, marked out not only by on-time delivery but also by an attention to detail that ensures high quality results within budget. He has a deep knowledge of the fields in which he has provided services (communications, data-centre implementation, business continuity etc) and an outstanding ability.
Alistair Wilson, Project Lead,
OthoClinical Diagnostics
Chris is a dedicated IT consultant / practitioner who has kept up to date with the fast changing network technologies and standards over the last 20 years.
His value, first to Kodak Clinical Diagnostics UK in the early 1990's, was to apply his expertise in establishing robust and reliable LAN/WAN networks accross our UK sites
Rodrigo Aceituno G.
PMO Project Manager at Transbank, Argentina
I had a very good experience with the service provided by Christopher and his company, in specific for one relevant project in europe some years ago, his technical knowledge, honesty, and proactive attitude are very valuable characteristic, that make me be very confident to do new business with him.
David Laurence
Adaptive Wireless Solutions Ltd
Chris has deep knowledge & experience in the design & operational issues surrounding data centres.
Facility Maintenance Engr. at Saudi ARAMCO
Christopher is very professional in his dealing, he possesses the extensive expertise necessary in addressing all facet of a highly demanding project implementation.
Some client testimonials for founder Chris Knight and CIONICS associates
Technical Lead
Chris' expertise in all matters networking, engineering and project management was clear for all to see. A challenging role of relocating multiple operating companies into a new physical site and installing and configuring the full network, IT and facilities infrastructure whilst appearing seamless to the operation of the business was no mean feat, the highly successful outcome showing that Chris is truly a 'safe pair of hands'. Learnt so much from him too. Great working with you Chris!
Alan Suleiman, London Waste Ltd and Postgraduate Student in Advanced Software Engineering
I have worked with Chris on several significant projects, and later enhancements, in the last few years. His commitment to the customer is noteworthy, paying great attention to detail and managing projects from inception to delivery. Chris's strength lies in his hands-on-approach, which coupled with his impressive knowledge of environmental systems, electronics and infrastructure, allow for him to be an effective consultant. I would not hesitate to recommend Chris for future projects and look forward to working with him again!
IT Director, Medical Emerging Markets / Biosurgery EMEA & Consumer MENAP
Chris and his associates are an extremely professional and technical gifted IT Consultancy company. They are very customer focused, deliver exceptional quality in delivery and support and are a pleasure to work with. Chris has proactively gathered a great knowledge of our business over the years of partnership and has adapted his solutions in line with the focus of our strategic direction enabling a higher business impact for us. He communicates concepts in a meaningful and relevant manner and is well respected within our organisation.