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Bracknell Forest reaps virtual rewards
Case Study The move has allowed the council to become more flexible, improve business continuity and disaster recovery as well as accelerate the delivery of new applications and services to the public. Other benefits include a quicker test and development... [08 Aug 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study The company also needed to make its disaster recovery system more reliable and up-to-date. Carter explained: "With the traditional disaster recovery service you've got three problems: firstly it's becoming too expensive, secondly you've got no... [20 Jun 2008]
TalkTalk Direct gets faster on its feet
Case Study For disaster recovery, the company installed replica servers at its data centre in Birmingham, which mirror those at its Northampton HQ. Perry said that now the new servers are in place, the company intends to expand its disaster recovery to... [11 Oct 2007]
Standard Life goes virtual
Case Study Gordon said virtualisation has lowered IT costs, improved business continuity and disaster recovery and simplified acquisitions. Standard Life has found server virtualisation an effective way of improving its IT services while controlling costs. [11 Jul 2007]
National Lottery bets on web reporting
Case Study The lottery company had previously worked with reporting tools from Gomez in early 2006 to monitor its disaster recovery site - and was pleased enough with the results to stick with the vendor, according to Pellett. [09 Jul 2007]
RSPB wings it with virtualisation
Case Study The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has buffed up its disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure using virtualisation to increase flexibility and reduce the risk of downtime. These applications are backed up to a central library at a... [04 Jun 2007]
Channel Five switches on to virtualisation
Case Study A further two are being used to support a new disaster recovery system. The broadcaster has been working with virtualisation specialists Equalogic and VMWare to boost capacity, improve use of space and make its servers and data storage more flexible. [22 May 2007]
Linux move reaps dividends for stockbroker
Case Study The new platform has also reduced the time to report trades while supporting an off-site disaster recovery system and upgraded business continuity. Since stockbroker Redmayne-Bentley revamped its IT infrastructure with a move to Linux the business... [18 May 2007]
Foster's serves up disaster recovery on the move
Case Study Drinks company Foster's is using virtualisation to save cash and improve disaster recovery for the company's mobile workers. Half of the 160 staff employed at the EMEA branch of Foster's are mobile workers and the virtualised environment has... [11 Apr 2007]
New Star beefs up disaster recovery
Case Study Fund manager New Star Asset Management has beefed up its disaster recovery system at four international locations to protect its email service. The company is replicating Microsoft Exchange data between its Knightsbridge office and its disaster... [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. The new infrastructure has also boosted disaster recovery so that the council's IT staff can now recover an... [01 Nov 2006]
Home working plan reduces disaster risk for Apacs
Case Study Apacs, the UK's payments association, has signed a contract with outsourced services company Attenda to bolster its disaster recovery plans. Sue Yoe, director of technology and facilities for Apacs, told silicon.com: "The central administration at... [08 Aug 2006]
What's the deal with BlackBerry-flavoured Coke?
Case Study The dependence of Coca-Cola execs on their BlackBerrys means that, when it comes to disaster recovery, the devices are now as important as the company's SAP-based finance system. We put huge effort into disaster recovery, redundancy.then it's 'Does... [17 May 2006]
Staffordshire councils save millions by joining forces
Case Study He added: "Because we invested together it meant that we could afford to have disaster recovery. Ten local government agencies in Staffordshire have teamed up to share their IT services in a bid to cut costs. [04 May 2006]
Insurance firm updates disaster recovery plans
Case Study Aspen invoked its disaster recovery processes, using the Cable and Wireless network on that island, and all went to plan. Events such as 9/11 and the more recent Hurricane Katrina disaster have upped activity across the insurance sector, and in... [11 Apr 2006]
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