computer in case studies
College classrooms go high-tech
Case Study But unusually the campus won't have a computer room as the aim is to give every student to have access to a laptop that can use the college network. Oaklands College near St Albans is planning to offer its students the best in high-tech learning... [02 Jul 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study We were getting to the point where the computer room was filling up and things like our UPS, our generator, our air conditioning were all requiring some fairly serious maintenance as well," Carter said. [20 Jun 2008]
Brunel University uses spam filter to fight cyber bullying
Case Study As policy development and quality manager at the university's computer centre, it's Ian Liddell's job to make sure spam is automatically filtered out, without blocking any important correspondence between academics at the college and others... [11 Jan 2008]
TNT speeds data flow with handy hardware
Case Study The Symbol MC9000 mobile computer was then chosen by drivers as a replacement for the 3100. In addition to new on-the-road hardware, TNT is in the process of upgrading the wearable mobile computer technology it uses in its warehouses to a Windows... [16 Nov 2007]
British Airways flying high with storage monitoring
Case Study The company will use tech from Computer Associates (CA) which provides early warning if the functioning of the SAN is under threat. British Airways is aiming to reduce the risk of downtime on its critical business systems by installing SAN... [03 Oct 2007]
American Golf drives expansion with store system
Case Study K3's package had already been implemented in beds retailer Dreams and video games specialist Gamestation, and Gould said: "Dreams does special customers orders for beds and Gamestation resells second-hand computer games, so we knew it could be done. [14 Sep 2007]
Standard Life goes virtual
Case Study The assurance company took the decision to virtualise its computer servers following a strategic review carried out in 2004. Standard Life has found server virtualisation an effective way of improving its IT services while controlling costs. [11 Jul 2007]
Supercomputer boosts brain research
Case Study Previously, images had to be processed consecutively but the new computer can process 100 complete brain images simultaneously in just 16 minutes - 24 times faster than before. Researchers at Cardiff University are using their supercomputer to... [14 Jun 2007]
Tesco.com takes stock with Windows Vista
Case Study Vista will detect if a computer is inactive and automatically switch to sleep mode, saving energy. Online shopping giant Tesco.com has migrated 2,000 desktops to Windows Vista with increased security and energy saving among the key reasons for the... [31 May 2007]
Foster's serves up disaster recovery on the move
Case Study Each mobile worker has an image of their laptop computer - a copy of everything stored on that piece of hardware - stored centrally on the virtual infrastructure with this updated automatically every three hours. [11 Apr 2007]
Isle of Man building for a tech future
Case Study But with the 'Host Man' programme to install two new data centres to support the network and a complete refresh of the desktop computer infrastructure this began to change. The Isle of Man has completed the rollout of an IP network that will form... [28 Mar 2007]
Comic Relief gets IT ready for donation deluge
Case Study The infrastructure is also dealing with even more data as the charity's call centre moves to a computer-based system to register and check pledges. The charity has opened up its back office with 10,000 operators using a computer system to input... [15 Mar 2007]
Police crack down on dodgy data
Case Study Cheat Sheets The Computer Misuse Act ID cards Freedom of Information Act 2000 Humberside Police is cleaning up its crime-fighting information and making it easier to share data with other forces. [09 Nov 2006]
Cities rise to the £7m digital challenge
Case Study For example Sunderland's people-based approach, dubbed 'Where People Matter' focuses on social inclusion, whereas 'Connected Nottingham' is aiming its efforts at an interactive computer game festival called GameCity. [02 Oct 2006]
Driving test examiners give digital pens green light
Case Study This form comes back to a central point at the DSA and is scanned into the agency's computer systems. The Driving Standards Agency (DSA) is trialing digital pen technology which is saving time for test examiners and getting licenses issued faster. [03 Nov 2005]
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