high performance in case studies
Betfair betting engine goes supersonic
Case Study Matt Carter, Betfair director of architecture and advanced technology, explained to silicon.com customer trends are moving towards a high volume of small-value bets, which, in turn, produce small-value commissions. [15 Nov 2007]
British Airways flying high with storage monitoring
Case Study At present, Smith explained, any drop in SAN performance could go unnoticed, resulting in a loss of service. British Airways is aiming to reduce the risk of downtime on its critical business systems by installing SAN... [03 Oct 2007]
Supercomputer helps cut drug research time
Case Study Scientists at the facility are using an IBM supercomputer - developed and maintained by high performance computing integrator OCF - to dramatically cut analysis time from weeks to minutes.silicon.com... [18 Sep 2007]
Supercomputer boosts brain research
Case Study The Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (Cubric) claims to have the largest high-performance computing cluster in the UK. Researchers at Cardiff University are using their supercomputer to... [14 Jun 2007]
How UCAS made its website a high achiever
Case Study Although the site can cope with up to 7,000 concurrent users and 2,000 staff users, OneSight allows UCAS to monitor the website's key performance indicators of health and availability. The UCAS (University and Colleges... [16 Feb 2007]
Zoo charity discovers benefits of going beyond Outlook
Case Study Looking for an off-the-shelf product to bring order to the operations of the six-man IT staff, Napier chose to roll out Numara Software's Track-It software - and has been so pleased with its performance that he upgraded... [20 Jun 2006]
Newspaper cuts costs with mainframe migration
Case Study The leasing costs were quite high and there were fewer and fewer systems on there. Cohen said: "The old mainframe was our most reliable machine anyway but it only had one or two applications on it - with the migration... [27 Feb 2006]
IT pros help educate London kids
Case Study The school set the goal of raising performance levels to exceed the London average and focus on technology. To do this, the WCIT brought in Cisco Systems, which agreed to supply high-powered routers,... [15 Dec 2005]
Councils gang up to reap rewards of IT outsourcing
Case Study Faced with difficulties recruiting high-calibre IT staff and a mandate to implement new technologies as part of the e-government scheme, Lichfield Council knew it was time to consider outside help to deliver IT services. [14 Oct 2005]
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