machines in case studies
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study Previously, the company was using HP's Open Mail which offered little flexibility especially for clients and contractors who often use other people's machines. The construction division of Taylor Wimpey has embraced... [10 Jul 2008]
How outsourcing saved Zurich's IT
Case Study The five-year-plus managed desktop services contract saw 60,000 devices replaced globally across seven countries, with the aim of getting the same software and hardware running across all machines and transfer of 450 staff. [10 Jun 2008]
Pitney Bowes boosts efficiency with mobile worker app
Case Study The company, which supplies mailroom equipment such as franking machines to offices, has deployed the mobile application to 1,000 field engineers in Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and the UK. [08 Apr 2008]
Publisher purges thousands of unlicensed fonts
Case Study The London publishing house, which has printed classic authors from TS Eliot to WH Auden, found hundreds of thousands of unlicensed fonts on their machines using software from Monotype Imaging. We were totally shocked to... [22 Feb 2008]
Virtualisation powers up council's cost and time savings
Case Study The council has created up to 45 virtual machines, with around 50 traditional servers still running, and is half way through its five-year strategy, which combines server and storage virtualisation. Newcastle-under-Lyme... [05 Jul 2007]
RSPB wings it with virtualisation
Case Study The RSPB is using between 15 and 20 physical VMware ESX servers to run 60 to 70 virtual machines, which hold the charity's applications and databases. The RSPB is using Vizioncore esxRanger Professional to back up its... [04 Jun 2007]
Channel Five switches on to virtualisation
Case Study VMWare is providing Five with server virtualisation technology to allow the IT team to shift virtual machines around the network to match demand without any manual work. Channel Five is revamping its IT infrastructure by... [22 May 2007]
Foster's serves up disaster recovery on the move
Case Study Foster's EMEA originally had 30 servers running within its main European data centre, which it has now reduced to four real boxes and 15 virtualised machines. Drinks company Foster's is using virtualisation to save cash... [11 Apr 2007]
Isle of Man building for a tech future
Case Study A centralised out-of-hours patient record service for GPs is already in the pipeline, along with the possibility of car-park ticket machines operating over the network.silicon.com Public Sector The Isle of Man has... [28 Mar 2007]
Insurer monitors staff use of PCs
Case Study Royal London has so far installed 3ami's Monitoring and Audit System (MAS) on a small number of machines used by the company's security team. Insurer Royal London is testing security software which could allow its IT... [07 Mar 2006]
Bank builds grid out of idle PCs
Case Study At the moment the bank is getting 6,000 computing hours out of 700 machines which would have otherwise stood idle, and hopes to extend the grid further to operations in Hong Kong, New York and Tokyo. French bank BNP... [31 Jan 2006]
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