network in case studies
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study Mimecast provides email quarantining and, since implementation six months ago, the majority of spam has been blocked before it even enters the law firm's network. Ashurst has been using technology from email management specialist Mimecast to manage... [15 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study Google was an obvious choice as the company had been using Google Search Appliance for more than two years to manage search and retrieve documents on its internal network. Other benefits have included improved wide area network performance and ease... [10 Jul 2008]
College classrooms go high-tech
Case Study Oaklands has worked with IT services company, Computacenter, to form the technology strategy and plan its new IT network. The college network will serve as a platform for e-learning and audio visual tools as well as a high-tech building management... [02 Jul 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study Catherine Doran Network Rail Travis Perkins has carried out a complete overhaul of its IT over the past year and as a result has a much more robust infrastructure with capacity to expand. The project was prompted by the acquisition of DIY retailer... [20 Jun 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study As many of the homes involved in the project don't have landlines installed - instead relying on mobile phones only - Aimes decided to use wireless mesh network technology for last mile connectivity. Meanwhile, in St Helens, the project has... [17 Jun 2008]
How outsourcing saved Zurich's IT
Case Study Today the Swiss insurer outsources nearly half of its IT work, some managed application services are run by Accenture, CSC and Wipro, its network and telephony services by Orange Business Services (OBS) and managed desktop services by IBM. [10 Jun 2008]
Renault goes multilingual
Case Study Car maker Renault has used translation technology to convert its product documents into 23 different languages to support its expanding global car dealership network. Using technology from global information management specialist, SDL, the French... [06 Jun 2008]
Woolworths slashes costs with supply chain tech
Case Study The tech has also ended the need to print individual pick labels for each item that goes through the distribution network, meaning around a billion pick labels per year have been saved. High street retailer Woolworths has streamlined its... [02 Jun 2008]
Leeds completes 'painless' Windows XP upgrade
Case Study Wright said: "It gives us complete visibility of all our IT assets on our network. Leeds City Council has saved taxpayers' money and minimised disruption by using an automated software auditing tool to ease a major Microsoft Windows IT upgrade. [28 Mar 2008]
Students get blanketed in wi-fi at Brum uni
Case Study Chris Lea, senior network specialist at the university, explains: "Instead of seeing a whole number of access points - potential connections for the client - [the client device] just see a single large, access point if you like or a single access... [18 Mar 2008]
Police gets to grips with body cameras
Case Study N is for Network security Police in Staffordshire are trialling video technology to capture and store footage officers have gathered on the beat using cameras worn on the body. The trial is funded from the £3m that the Home Office has set aside for... [12 Mar 2008]
Tennis federation rallies web presence
Case Study To cope with the increase in internet traffic the ITF has been using NTT Europe Online's Smart Content Delivery system which manages large volumes of traffic via a global network of caching servers. The network allows bandwidth load to be spread... [12 Mar 2008]
BA puts faith in IP at Terminal 5
Case Study British Airways (BA) is in the final testing phase of its sophisticated IP network in Heathrow's new Terminal 5 (T5), ahead of its opening on 27 March. The Fast Ethernet Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) - installed by communications partner Affiniti... [08 Feb 2008]
Suffolk Councils join up IT to save costs
Case Study BT's role in the deal was to invest £52m into the councils' infrastructures, paying for replacement network and server infrastructures and implement a business continuity strategy. Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Council have merged... [05 Feb 2008]
Rotherham NHS ups network access security
Case Study Rotherham NHS Primary Care Trust (PCT) has improved network security using integration software to match staff records with systems access.silicon.com Public Sector The trust has now implemented Quest's ActiveRoles Server, which integrates its... [25 Jan 2008]
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