back-up in case studies
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study D is for Dial-up The project is aiming to give digitally excluded families a leg up onto the internet by installing thin client Windows PCs, complete with the MS Office suite, in their homes. But the hope is to turn the pilot into an ad-funded... [17 Jun 2008]
NHS brushes up on Itil
Case Study And we get money back for every course that's sold… We still end up paying some money for the courses but it is significantly reduced. However, getting so much training on the south coast was tricky, as Pavitt said there are no large training... [11 Jun 2008]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study Newham Borough Council and Tube Lines, a public private partnership set up to maintain the infrastructure of the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly underground lines in London are both part-way through their respective Vista upgrades.silicon.com... [30 May 2008]
Why next-gen videoconferencing can mean more travel
Case Study Teliris' system was chosen back in 2001 when there wasn't really a choice of vendors, said Scott. The company's headquarters are in London but - back in 2001 - the US market accounted for 60 per cent of its business which meant ensuring effective... [24 Apr 2008]
VoIP a perfect fit for Gieves and Hawkes
Case Study Bespoke tailor Gieves and Hawkes has moved over to a VoIP link between its two back offices to improve customer services and save on admin staff. The tailor, which has a history dating back to the late 1700s, has 25 outlets in the UK and a flagship... [15 Apr 2008]
Pitney Bowes boosts efficiency with mobile worker app
Case Study Dave Strain, IT business solutions director for Pitney Bowes Europe, explained: "[It] puts a screen on a PDA - a Windows Mobile device - and allows them [engineers] to receive information and record information and send it back into the centre. [08 Apr 2008]
Students get blanketed in wi-fi at Brum uni
Case Study This has the added advantage of meaning there is a back-up option if one network goes down. Students at The University of Birmingham will soon be able to roll out of bed and get onto the internet wherever they happen to have ended up on campus. [18 Mar 2008]
Calor Gas smelling of tech success
Case Study Another major integration project has been the rollout of 22,000 telemetry units on the company's bulk gas tanks, which are helping the company keep up to date on customer gas levels. The drivers record deliveries on the devices with the... [17 Mar 2008]
Police gets to grips with body cameras
Case Study Inspector David Edge, who is coordinating the camera trial, told silicon.com: "Once the officer's finished his tour of duty or taken his prisoner back to the police station he can upload those recordings to a central server.silicon.com's A to Z of... [12 Mar 2008]
Publisher purges thousands of unlicensed fonts
Case Study Sign up for the R&L newsletter today! Roy Smith, information systems manager at Faber, said rogue fonts had built up over time as demand for a wide range of fonts within the design department grew. It also allows Faber to stop unlicensed fonts... [22 Feb 2008]
BA puts faith in IP at Terminal 5
Case Study Speaking to silicon.com, Phil Hawker, communications networks manager for BA said: "We're live and we're up and running. The systems running on the network include passenger check-in, ticketing and departure control information, along with crew... [08 Feb 2008]
Suffolk Councils join up IT to save costs
Case Study Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Council have merged IT departments in a wider initiative to share back-end business processes.silicon.com Public Sector Sign up for the PS newsletter today! [05 Feb 2008]
Scottish Re evaluates risky data
Case Study Sign up for the FS newsletter today! Scottish Re receives anywhere up to 350,000 records per month pertaining to the individuals, or 'lives', being insured. Up to now, this data has been received in a variety of forms and had to be entered... [04 Feb 2008]
Rugby club scores with automated backup
Case Study A world class UK rugby club has turned to an automatic back-up system after data critical to the running of the club was wiped out. It backs up 120GB of stored data from three Windows 2003 servers, including an Active Directory server, a Microsoft... [21 Jan 2008]
PDAs to fight war on hospital wear and tear
Case Study The system replaces the old method of creating three paper dockets per job and bringing job notes back to the office - saving the Bedford Hospital NHS Trust money and time, while also cutting down on lost paperwork.silicon.com Public Sector [18 Jan 2008]
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