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WWF wild about comms upgrade
Case Study Exton explained that the organisation has placed services that need to be close to the network hub - such as email - in the colo while data that needs to be kept more secure is hosted in its main office. [09 Mar 2009]
The Guardian goes Google Apps
Case Study The organisation moved all of its users onto the internet-hosted software suite, Google Apps Premium Edition, towards the end of last year and is currently working on a Google Mail rollout. The Guardian News and Media... [12 Feb 2009]
Cineworld goes green with virtualisation
Case Study But as the website is hosted on Carrenza's virtualised utility computing service, Cineworld has managed to cut energy use by around 60 per cent. As the website is hosted on virtualised servers, fewer... [15 Dec 2008]
ITV F1 website gets in the fast lane
Case Study The F1 site was being hosted by a third party that only had the ability to cope with 100Mbps of traffic. ITV's F1 web team has been using load balancing software from Zeus Technology during the 2008 Formula One Season to... [05 Dec 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study Staff are now using Google Mail along with the Docs, Calendar and Sites services, all of which is hosted by Google, removing the need to install or maintain the technology on site. The construction division of Taylor... [10 Jul 2008]
Tennis federation rallies web presence
Case Study We recognised we were reaching the limits of a centrally hosted site, so it was clear we had to scale up. The ITF runs the annual Davis Cup tournament, which sees nations battling it out in the biggest annual team... [12 Mar 2008]
AXA cuts out the paper chase
Case Study Using the hosted service means that staff do not have to collect faxes or scan them into its database. AXA Assistance is using a fax-to-email service to process the thousands of pages of information it gets from people... [18 Oct 2006]
Council puts planning applications online
Case Study Developing the new system using infrastructure the council already had in place was "cheaper and better" than going for a hosted offering, Telfer said. Crawley Borough Council is giving the public better visibility of... [08 Feb 2006]
Bogus insurance claims caught by data sifting
Case Study As a hosted system there is also much less impact on MMA's IT systems. Insurer MMA is catching fraudulent claims and cutting its costs by analysing its claims data more effectively. The insurer is using Advance - a... [22 Nov 2005]
Lloyd's Register chooses Microsoft over Linux
Case Study In particular what swung Lloyd's Register towards the Microsoft option were issues such as interoperability and availability of staff - and the organisation's future plans to move to a hosted environment. [04 Jul 2005]
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