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Norton Rose reaps rewards of comms upgrade

Case Study Video and audio conferencing are also available on company laptops to improve communication. International law firm Norton Rose has signed a £1.9m contract with Affiniti to upgrade its communications network.

Tags: law, affiniti, communication

[23 Aug 2007]

BlackBerrys juicing up work/life balance

Case Study The company has dished out more than 900 laptops and a further 900 BlackBerrys to staff worldwide. The company has several flexible working methods, such as working from home and hotdesking, where staff in certain areas have no fixed desk or...

Tags: standard life, blackberry, handheld, home working

[13 Jul 2007]

Tesco.com takes stock with Windows Vista

Case Study With company laptops often taken home by staff, Vista's network access protection tools were particularly useful according to Lansley. Online shopping giant Tesco.com has migrated 2,000 desktops to Windows Vista with increased security and energy...

Tags: security, migration, tesco.com, microsoft

[31 May 2007]

Foster's serves up disaster recovery on the move

Case Study Half of the 160 staff employed at the EMEA branch of Foster's are mobile workers and the virtualised environment has enabled the company to buff up its disaster recovery strategy, in particular if something goes wrong with one of the company's 80...

Tags: virtualisation

[11 Apr 2007]

Wireless network boosts college options

Case Study The campus-wide coverage of the network means students with laptops or other wireless devices can enjoy improved mobility, which "enhances their independence and lets them socially connect with their peers", said Meaton.

Tags: vowlan, education, wlan

[04 Jan 2007]

Small and Medium Enterprise Business Communications in the UK

Case Study Most of the investment planning is in line with what is already in use - broadband is pervasive and in many cases will not require further investment, so slips down the chart in comparison with items such as laptops or mobile telephones.

[07 Dec 2006]

Cities rise to the £7m digital challenge

Case Study Sunderland also plans to build on its current e-Champions project, where 95 volunteer workers are armed with laptops and sent out to communities considered difficult to reach, to encourage the take up of ICT.

Tags: challenge, councils, digital, council

[02 Oct 2006]

Unilever scales an Iron Mountain

Unilever scales an Iron Mountain

Case Study Tony Farah, head of global desktop strategy at Unilever, told silicon.com the Iron Mountain service will remotely back up data from the 30,000 laptops across Unilever's IT estate. Consumer packaged goods giant Unilever is rolling out automated back...

Tags: unilever

[21 Aug 2006]

Insurance firm updates disaster recovery plans

Insurance firm updates disaster recovery plans

Case Study Of course, being given a blank sheet of paper and lack of legacy kit and processes has its advantages, but by the time Turner and his team knew what they had to do, they had "three laptops, an overhead projector, a great opportunity - but just...

Tags: aspen, city of london, disaster recovery, colt telecom

[11 Apr 2006]

IT pros help educate London kids

Case Study That paid for electronic whiteboards and laptops for the teachers. Lilian Baylis school in Lambeth, a disadvantaged area of south London, achieved "specialist school status" in technology this year. The turnaround is remarkable - in 2002, just six...

Tags: charity

[15 Dec 2005]

Security company puts BlackBerrys on patrol

Case Study The company, which has 4,000 staff in 1,200 sites in the UK, has rolled out the messaging devices to 130 managers, doing away with the need for them to check their email and file online forms via their laptops.

Tags: securiplan, blackberrys

[19 Oct 2005]

Wireless prescription helps doctors speed up treatment

Case Study Duffy said: "Laptops are too bulky we are looking at smaller devices to do the stuff we want. The Royal Group of Hospitals in Belfast is using a new £150,000 secure wireless network to speed up the treatment of patients and to keep better check on...

Tags: wireless, nhs

[06 Oct 2005]

Health workers go walkabout

Case Study Wright said that the service works with mobile phones and laptops: "We've got a bunch of mobiles. We started using [the software] on laptops with Bluetooth. BlackBerrys were too expensive for the Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority (SHA...

Tags: sha, health, blackberry

[23 Sep 2005]

Insurer tightens security with laptop encryption

Case Study Insurance giant Swiss Re is encrypting the hard disks on 4,500 laptops in a bid to boost security. He told silicon.com: "What we've done is secure our laptops - 4,500 of them - two-thirds of which have already been encrypted.

[16 Jun 2005]

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