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Case Study Pearson's IT team initially undertook this task but "it was a disaster", Scott said. While high-end videoconferencing can play a role in reducing the costs of corporate travel - financial and environmental - the most notable benefits of the...
[24 Apr 2008]
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]
Case Study The ZXTM boxes are used for load-balancing when demand is high and also play a role in facilitating automated disaster failover. The University of Cambridge is using network management software to help monitor and load-balance a massive increase in...
[05 Oct 2007]
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]
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]
Case Study Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) provides connectivity wherever disaster strikes to co-ordinate aid efforts and link devastated regions to the outside world. TSF uses satellite communications to provide a three minute telephone call to affected...
[11 Jun 2007]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Case Study Events such as 9/11 and the more recent Hurricane Katrina disaster have upped activity across the insurance sector, and in 2004 that Aspen had to find a new gear. Aspen invoked its disaster recovery processes, using the Cable and Wireless network...
[11 Apr 2006]
Case Study And for CA, the storage management win could well open other doors: Wakefield HIS is now considering its products for disaster recovery and potentially security. When Gareth Bridges joined Wakefield Health Informatics Services (HIS) three years ago...
[06 Sep 2005]
Case Study Two police forces have linked their systems to allow them to share intelligence and provide disaster recovery back-up. We've got a good relationship with them, where we both provide disaster contingency to allow information to be exchanged.
[23 Aug 2005]
Case Study The company is part way through a project which will see it slim down from 100 servers running its applications to just six eight-processor servers running all its apps - and disaster recovery as well.
[26 Jul 2005]
Case Study But the vast amounts of money flowing through the company's systems would not be as safe as it is today had the company not changed its network and disaster recovery processes. Voca provides the technology behind the direct debit system in the UK...
[07 Jul 2005]
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