server in case studies
Council saves by streamlining PC procurement
Case Study We had just switched our server architecture to a leasing model and we were sure that we could make savings here too. Alongside the refreshed server architecture, the authority was also implementing a CRM system and ERP, supplied by Oracle. [11 May 2007]
St Paul's Cathedral upgrades shopping tech
Case Study Because it runs from a central server, we can access the system remotely. St Paul's Cathedral is one of the icon's of the London skyline and a prime tourist site for the city - its gift store sees 150,000 customers per year, as tourists flock to... [09 May 2007]
Paymaster saves £300k with mainframe move
Case Study Financial services provider Paymaster has saved money and speeded up its operations by modernising its core banking systems and moving to a Windows server environment. Paymaster used Micro Focus application modernisation technology to move its core... [08 May 2007]
Foster's serves up disaster recovery on the move
Case Study He said the virtualisation environment has produced annual cost savings from around £50,000 to £100,000 for the EMEA branch and reduced the amount of time it takes to set up a server from two weeks to 20 minutes. [11 Apr 2007]
Virtualisation helps teachers slash electricity bill
Case Study The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has reduced the number of servers it needs - and slashed the electricity bill for its server room by three-quarters by using virtualisation software. The virtualisation software lets the ATL run... [26 Mar 2007]
Everton FC gets a kick out of IT
Case Study With no need for a server to deal with processing of payments, space has been created in the server room for future IT upgrades. Everton FC has upgraded its entire IT network and fully outsourced its payment processing system. [11 Jan 2007]
New Star beefs up disaster recovery
Case Study If the main server in any of the company's offices has a problem the software will allow the backup server to take over the reins, allowing the email system to return to operation with the minimum of fuss. [15 Dec 2006]
Sports council cuts hassle with blades
Case Study The Sports Council for Wales has replaced ageing server and storage infrastructure and improved its disaster recovery capability to boot. One of the main reasons for looking at blade servers was that we've got a small server room and we wanted... [01 Nov 2006]
Newcastle City Council saves millions from IT overhaul
Case Study The council undertook a four-year IT transformation programme with support from Fujitsu Services which included adopting a new client-server infrastructure based on Fujitsu Prime Power boxes, moving to SAP applications for HR and payroll and... [15 Jun 2006]
Punch Taverns improves performance with BI
Case Study Punch Taverns currently uses a combination of Business Objects software and Microsoft SQL Server technology, which Rowling said is used on a "daily basis" by 80 to 90 per cent of the company's 600 employees. [12 Jun 2006]
What's the deal with BlackBerry-flavoured Coke?
Case Study For example, BlackBerry security applications for "execs [who] lose them like candy" and mobile server administration were among the first to get pushed out to users. With nearly 4,000 BlackBerrys across 75 countries and numerous carriers, Coca... [17 May 2006]
Newspaper cuts costs with mainframe migration
Case Study The publisher used Micro Focus and MSS International to help migrate from proprietary Unisys hardware and software, Cobol and a hierarchical database system to HP/Intel Xeon hardware running Microsoft Windows with Microsoft SQL Server. [27 Feb 2006]
Telemedicine slashes hospitals stays
Case Study These results are sent via a phone line to a secure server where they are saved as an electronic patient record, which can then be accessed by doctors or nurses. A telemedicine project has halved the time patients spend in hospital, by allowing... [11 Jan 2006]
London borough frees up access to its info
Case Study The council decided to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 for the publication scheme and Ciber UK to make it run on the website. The Royal Borough of Kingston has increased the amount of information it is making available to the... [04 Jan 2006]
Alliance & Leicester brings intranet closer to staff
Case Study A&L was going through an upgrade of Microsoft software but decided against using the company for its intranet, moving on from its Site Server software. Alliance & Leicester has had a wide-ranging intranet for more than five years but recently... [11 Nov 2005]
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