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Shipping company to slash CO2 and power costs

Shipping company to slash CO2 and power costs

Case Study One of our agents on the bridge of a cargo vessel docked in Singapore can use a GPRS-enabled laptop to exchange information in seconds with our UK data centre. A shipping services and cargo company that looks after the US Navy and Shell is hoping...

Tags: port, waas, global, sea

[21 Feb 2008]

AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date

Case Study The new email system was designed by HP Services and Microsoft based on the Exchange 2003 platform. The company worked with HP to move 66,000 email accounts in around 60 countries - HP's biggest ever migration project - onto a new bespoke email...

Tags: astrazeneca, migration, global, email

[23 Jan 2008]

Rugby club scores with automated backup

Case Study It backs up 120GB of stored data from three Windows 2003 servers, including an Active Directory server, a Microsoft Exchange SQL server and a general file server. A world class UK rugby club has turned to an automatic back-up system after data...

Tags: rugby, back-up, asigra, data

[21 Jan 2008]

How Norwich Union computes pay-as-you-drive

Case Study However, with in-car devices and customers now numbering more than 100,000, the kind of serious number crunching that needs to be done is based on software from datawarehousing stalwart Teradata, an independently NYSE- (New York Stock Exchange...

Tags: norwich union, teradata, road pricing, driver

[27 Nov 2007]

Betfair fortifies its software code

Case Study The online betting exchange expects to see a return on investment on the SCA product within the space of three years. Betfair has rolled out a source code analysis tool to free up its developers' time and keep bugs at bay.

Tags: bug, fortify, betfair, tool

[20 Nov 2007]

Betfair betting engine goes supersonic

Case Study Betfair is an online betting exchange - a peer-to-peer gambling site acting as a broker between parties for the placement of bets. The concept is similar to a stock exchange. Even with a traditional betting engine, Betfair processes five million...

Tags: betting, betfair, transaction processing, volume

[15 Nov 2007]

Itil is good medicine for Barts

Case Study These processes were then applied to the pathology communication system, Active Directory and Exchange. Barts and the London NHS Trust is reaping the rewards following the adoption of the Itil model for its IT infrastructure - the result of several...

Tags: itil

[11 Apr 2007]

New Star beefs up disaster recovery

Case Study The company is replicating Microsoft Exchange data between its Knightsbridge office and its disaster recovery site in Docklands, using software from SteelEye Technology. The LifeKeeper for Exchange and Data software has also been put through its...

Tags: asset management, business continuity disaster recovery, disaster recovery

[15 Dec 2006]

Sports council cuts hassle with blades

Case Study The organisation is moving its key applications over to the new infrastructure, including Exchange, Oracle and its HR system. The Sports Council for Wales has replaced ageing server and storage infrastructure and improved its disaster recovery...

Tags: blades

[01 Nov 2006]

Health workers go walkabout

Case Study The software links PDAs and other mobile devices to Microsoft Exchange accounts over an encrypted connection. BlackBerrys were too expensive for the Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority (SHA), so it had to find something cheaper for remote...

Tags: sha, health, blackberry

[23 Sep 2005]

Hasbro sorts its SOX with content management software

Case Study We are a US stock exchange-listed company so that hit us right between the eyes. Toy manufacturer Hasbro has extended the use of its content technology to help it also ensure Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance.

Tags: hasbro, sox, compliance

[16 Sep 2005]

Health trusts cut operating system and storage complexity

Case Study Wakefield HIS has started to share its IT infrastructure - such as its use of Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange - with Mid-Yorks Hospital NHS Trust. When Gareth Bridges joined Wakefield Health Informatics Services (HIS) three years ago the...

Tags: wakefield, case study, health

[06 Sep 2005]

Broadband boosts building society's network

Case Study There were one or two areas where we had to wait a month or two to get ADSL because the exchange had to be upgraded but that was all planned for," he added. Britannia Building Society has upgraded its network to broadband to cope with the increase...

[02 Sep 2005]

Coventry Uni picks Microsoft over Novell's Netware

Case Study The university is migrating from Novell Netware to Windows Active Directory and Exchange 2003, with assistance from Lynx Technology, which is providing the university's IT department with consulting and transition management.

[18 Jul 2005]

Payments giant saves £2.5m with new network

Case Study And with the creation of a wide-area network, it was also able to dump its costly legacy equipment and build a converged IP network that employees could use for free phone calls and data exchange. Voca provides the technology behind the direct...

Tags: case study, voca

[07 Jul 2005]

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