servers running in case studies
VocaLink makes virtualisation pay
Case Study If the company hadn't pursued virtualisation it estimates that it would now be running around 600 physical servers. With virtualisation we have much better control over servers because... [20 Apr 2009]
Co-op Group kicks "server sprawl" into touch
Case Study The Group - whose businesses include food retailing, funeral parlours and financial services - was struggling with a creaking legacy infrastructure consisting of hundreds of servers, each requiring its own maintenance... [14 Apr 2009]
The Guardian goes Google Apps
Case Study When the Google Mail implementation has been completed in the summer, the IT department will close 15 servers and will save around 4TB of storage. Referring to the benefits for the IT department, Beale said: "It means we... [12 Feb 2009]
Cineworld goes green with virtualisation
Case Study The company has been working with hosting company Carrenza, which is running the new website on virtualised servers. As the website is hosted on virtualised servers, fewer physical ones... [15 Dec 2008]
ITV F1 website gets in the fast lane
Case Study Two Zeus ZXTM load balancers were installed on the ITV.com servers and the F1 content cached on to the in-house hardware. According to White, the tech was up and running just two days later, by the end... [05 Dec 2008]
Online retailer tackles Gok Wan's fashion army
Case Study McGowen told silicon.com that the Introscope tech has also helped support recent site upgrades, such as letting shoppers enter clothing sizes, as well as front page revamps making the site more closely resemble magazine covers.By... [11 Nov 2008]
Bracknell Forest reaps virtual rewards
Case Study The council now has 146 virtual servers on just six physical servers running VMWare technology and has reduced its physical server estate by 60 units. Before the work the council found... [08 Aug 2008]
Olympic tech getting fit for Beijing 2008
Case Study During the event, the infrastructure - which consists of around 1,000 servers and 10,000 PCs - is centrally managed and monitored from the technical operation centre. He likened the process to an athlete... [16 Apr 2008]
AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date
Case Study Global pharmaceutical giant, AstraZeneca, has just completed a huge project to upgrade its ageing email system, helping the company reduce the number of servers it uses and save money. The new system has also seen a 60... [23 Jan 2008]
Rugby club scores with automated backup
Case Study The system automatically copies every file on the club's systems at its city grounds in Franklin Gardens to Datastore 365's servers in Northampton and Berkshire. It backs up 120GB of stored data from three Windows 2003... [21 Jan 2008]
SMS reminders help NHS tackle forgetful patients
Case Study It's a piece of software that sits on one of our servers. He said the system was up and running in "minutes". An SMS service is helping the NHS save time and reduce the number of appointments missed by... [07 Jan 2008]
How Norwich Union computes pay-as-you-drive
Case Study The Teradata box worked at a fraction of the cost of in-house servers running IBM's AIX flavour of Unix. Early suppliers emerged including IBM and Orange, for the telematics software and network coverage... [27 Nov 2007]
TalkTalk Direct gets faster on its feet
Case Study The business process outsourcing division of Carphone Warehouse upgraded to Fujitsu Siemens Primepower servers to run its core systems - including CRM, billing and reporting apps - between August last year and January 2007. [11 Oct 2007]
Cambridge Uni keeps tabs on web traffic
Case Study The network needed to be much more closely managed due to the huge increase in users and so two ZXTM software boxes were deployed in front of two firewalls and a pair of Sun Microsystem V20Z Opteron servers. [05 Oct 2007]
Supercomputer helps cut drug research time
Case Study The supercomputer has been in place for around four months and uses 24 IBM System x3655 servers with AMD dual core processors. Ashton said the synchrotron produces 80Mb of data per second when running at... [18 Sep 2007]
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